Perspectives
New Histories of Pacific Whaling
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
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Multimedia | journal article
Review of Life in Oil by Michael L. Cepek
Vasundhara Jairath reviews the book Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia by Michael L. Cepek.
Perspectives
New Histories of Pacific Whaling – Revised Edition
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
Arcadia
Stevia as a Genetic Resource: Intellectual Property and Guaraní Strategies for Access-and-Benefit Sharing in Paraguay and Brazil
The Guaraní accused global corporations such as Coca Cola and Cargill of using their traditional knowledge associated with the stevia plant and filed for an access-and-benefit sharing agreement.
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Ice Blink: Navigating Northern Environmental History
Northern Canada’s distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest in the region. This collection extends our understanding of the environmental history of northern Canada—clarifying both its practice and promise, and providing critical perspectives on current public debates.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Gary Martin on "The Adaption of Local Knowledge Societies and Systems to Global Change"
Gary Martin talks about his research, which draws on case studies that he has developed through the Global Diversity Foundation (GDF) over the last decade.
Perspectives Article
Entangled Nature: The Stirling Range National Park
Using the example of the Stirling Range National Park, Andrea Gaynor shows that the dualistic practice of reservation does not necessarily ensure the preservation or conservation of landscapes and ecosystems.
Perspectives Article
Bitumen Exploration and the Southern Re-Inscription of Northeastern Alberta: 1875–1967
Longley traces how geographic and cartographic knowledge of the Athabasca region, Alberta, Canada, colonized the region in the southern imagination long before the oil sands industry began extraction there. The practices of exploration, surveying, and documentation mapped the Athabasca region in terms of its rich bitumen deposits, obscuring the histories of Indigenous people. The south gained political and economic control of the region, although this process is incomplete and contested.
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Nationalparks von Nord bis Süd: Eine transnationale Verflechtungsgeschichte von Naturschutz und Kolonialisierung in Argentinien
How do national parks operate? In Nationalparks von Nord bis Süd, Olaf Kaltmeier explores this question by looking at the park politics of Argentina.
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"Poverty in the Gwai Forest Reserve, Zimbabwe: 1880–1953"
This study examines the role of colonial foresters in introducing new socioeconomic arrangements that resulted in increased poverty among the Tonga, Shona, and Ndebele communities in the Gwai Forest Reserve of North-Western Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.