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La Muxatena: A Sacred Rock Formation at the Heart of an Indigenous Social Movement for Environmental Rights
Indigenous groups in Nayarit, Mexico, reaffirmed their sacred environmental sites through social movement.
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“The Armchair Traveler’s Guide to Digital Environmental Humanities”
Finn Arne Jørgensen brings Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s analysis of the relationship between technology, media, and the perception of landscape into the digital age as a way of examining the spatiality of digital media and the natural world.
Multimedia | film profile
Standing on Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Tourists
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of how two indigenous communities, in Russia’s Republic of Altai and in California, are resisting government mega-projects.
Multimedia | film profile
Standing on Sacred Ground: Profit and Loss
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Papua New Guineans and Canada’s First Nations people against industrial threats on their health, livelihoods and cultural survival.
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Taming the Danube: Floodplain Regulation in the Machland
The history of the Danube regulation in the Austrian Machland during the nineteenth century shows the enormous efforts made to transform a dynamic river landscape into a navigable waterway and a stable floodplain that supports the various human demands.
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Logistical Ecologies: A Singapore Story
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the establishment of Keppel Harbour would lay the foundations for Singapore to become a logistics city.
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Milestones of the Anthropocene | Welcome to the Anthropocene
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
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Subterranean (In)visibilities: Traces, Underground Water, and Thermal Flows in the El Tatio Geyser Field, Atacama, Chile
Describing geothermal exploration traces and explosions at the “El Tatio” geyser field, this article explores the (in)visible trajectories of underground water.
Exhibition chapter
About the Exhibition | Ecopolis München 2019
Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong? What do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?
