Multimedia | interviews and talks
“Approaches to Sustainable Happiness”
Greta Gaard on “Approaches to Sustainable Happiness.”
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Multimedia | book, full-text
Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid
A monograph on desert dystopias and the environmental origins of apartheid.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene
In Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene, Joanna Zylinska outlies an ethical framework that could help humans assume responsibility for various occurrences in the universe across different scales. Her goal is not so much to tell us how to live but rather to allow us to rethink “life” and what we can do with it, in whatever time we have left. The book embraces a speculative mode of thinking that is more akin to the artist’s method; it also includes a photographic project by the author.
Perspectives Article
Between Science and the Expertise of the Elders
Brill explores the relationship between “Science” and “the sciences”, and the political potential of the two, in the context of research cooperations involving indigenous groups.
Multimedia | film profile
Occupy Love
This film explores the Occupy protests and similar activist movements and what their vision for the world is.
Multimedia | journal article
"Learning From 'Actually Existing' REDD+: A Synthesis of Ethnographic Findings"
Synthesizing ethnographic case studies from mainland Southeast Asia, the authors critically review the implementation of REDD+, a UN project to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. They argue that REDD+ maps onto local power structures and political economies in its implementation, rendering it blunt as a tool for change.
Multimedia | book, full-text
American Politics and the Environment
Full text of the second edition of American Politics and the Environment.
Arcadia
“Citizens of a Watershed”: The Colorado River Compact and the Exigencies of Drought
The premises of water allocation legislation came under harsh scrutiny in the early 2000s as severe drought plagued the American Southwest.
Multimedia | journal
Earth First! 26, no. 4
Earth First! 26, no. 4 features essays on biodiversity and animal activism and reports on eco-defense in Iceland, protests against mining in Papua, Indonesia, and the resistance against Shell in Nigeria.
Multimedia | journal article
"Blaming It on the Weather: The Role of “Inclement” Rainfall in Society-Nature Relations in Liberal Costa Rica (1860-1940)"
This article seeks to shed light on some of the many possible interactions between changes in rainfall regime, one of the climatic factors with the greatest bearing on the history of human society, and the economic and socio-environmental dynamics of Costa Rica.