Multimedia | film profile
No Man's Zone
This film examines the lives of the people affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
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Multimedia | film profile
Silent Snow. The Invisible Poisoning of the World
This film documents the effect of chemical and pesticide residuals on the Inuit community of Greenland, where they are carried by oceans and snow. It also examines the situations of those around the globe who must use these pesticides to survive.
Multimedia | film profile
Bay of All Saints
This award-winning film examines the realities of urban poverty through the experiences of a community living in Brazil’s palafitas: shacks built over the water and supported by stilts.
Multimedia | film profile
La Mujer y el Agua [Women and Water]
This film examines the role of women in finding water in India, and how pollution impacts their communities.
Arcadia
A Milestone on the Road to Independence? Singapore’s Catastrophic 1954 Floods
The flooding in Singapore in 1954 was one of the most significant floods on the island in the twentieth century.
Arcadia
Treating the “Undesirable”: Venereal Patients in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918
This paper explores how conceptions of Canada as a naturally healthy environment proved false when the ill-health of civilians was revealed during the First World War.
Multimedia | journal article
"Economic Incentives, Perceptions and Compliance with Marine Turtle Egg Harvesting Regulation in Nicaragua"
The authors delve into the social reasons behind illegal turtle egg harvesting in the La Flor Wildlife Refuge in Nicaragua, based on a survey conducted among 180 households living in Ostional, the largest village in the vicinity of the Refuge.
Multimedia | journal article
"Making Live and Letting Die: Cancerous Bodies between Anthropocene Necropolitics and Chthulucene Kinship"
With a focus on global cancer epidemics, Nina Lykke discusses biopolitics in the Anthropocene against the background of a notion of dual governmentality, implying that efforts to make populations live and tendencies to let them die are intertwined.
Multimedia | journal article
“Asbestos: Inside and Outside, Toxic and Haptic”
In this article, Sasha Litvintseva examines the history and materiality of asbestos to theorize toxic embodiment through the mutuality of the haptic sense and the breaching of boundaries of inside and outside. She develops this through an analysis of her own film project Asbestos (2016), shot at the mining town of Asbestos, Quebec.