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A Killer Air: Delineating Disaster in Mexico City
A noxious air forces Mexico City to confront its unwavering urbanizing and industrializing mission in the late twentieth century.
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Taconite Mining in Silver Bay: A Tale of Extraction and Accumulation
The Reserve Mining Company discharged taconite tailings directly into Lake Superior for 25 years, creating a massive tailings delta and polluting the waters of the lake. When the EPA took Reserve to court in 1973, the town of Silver Bay was divided between a struggle for economic well-being and public health.
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The Power of Waste | The Life of Waste
This chapter from the virtual exhibition “The Life of Waste” considers the ways in which waste relates to power. It aligns with power structures, can be an empowering feature, or possess power in and of itself.
Multimedia | journal article
“Imagining Planetary Health,Wellbeing and Habitability: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities”
Editorial to “Imagining Planetary Health,Wellbeing and Habitability: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities,” a special issue of Global Environment.
Multimedia | film profile
What is Environmental History?
In this short video, Jan Oosthoek presents the field of environmental history.
Multimedia | journal article
"Introduction: Toxic Embodiment and Feminist Environmental Humanities"
In this introduction to a special section on toxic embodiment, Olga Cielemęcka and Cecilia Åsberg examine variously situated bodies, land- and waterscapes, and their naturalcultural interactions with toxicity.
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.
Perspectives Article
Fifty Shades of Shadow Places: A Photographic Essay
A visual essay on the physical sites we often don’t see (or don’t want to see).
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Plastics in the Peaks: The Hidden Threat to Himalayan Wildlife
As Himalayan wildlife is endangered by improper waste disposal practices, activist groups like Waste Warriors are working to solve this crisis.
Exhibition chapter
Introduction to the Exhibition | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
This virtual exhibition features, in English translation, short excerpts from German-language literary texts that address human-nature entanglements. The aim is to show how literature can contribute to understanding and problematizing the relation between humans and nonhuman nature. What aspects of human-nature relations are addressed, at what point in literary history, and how are they shaped poetically? For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.