This article looks at how the ongoing processes of border-making are experienced and negotiated by the ethnic minorities who live in the Himalayan mountain peripheries.
This article considers the parallels between the community of Lady Selborne, a township near Pretoria, South Africa, and the neighbourhood of Cidade de Deus (City of God) in Rio de Janeiro.
In State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, sixty renowned researchers and practitioners describe how we can harness the world’s leading institutions—education, the media, business, governments, traditions, and social movements—to reorient cultures toward sustainability.
State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet introduces the latest agro-ecological innovations and their global applicability and also gives broader insights into issues including poverty, international politics, and even gender equity.
This Arcadia article by environmental historian Wilko von Hardenberg shows how after almost a century on the brink of extinction, bears are once again roaming the eastern Italian Alps.
In this Arcadia article, Claudia Leal shows how the early history of Colombia’s Tayrona National Park reveals the extent to which it has been shaped by state policies: evictions, restrictions to land use, and a fierce battle against tourism interests.
This film follows the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in the former “exclusion zone” town of Futaba.
This film criticizes the socioeconomic system of the Washington Consensus as being insufficient for overcoming global poverty, and argues that it is based on centuries of exploitation.
This award-winning documentary follows a controversial sugar development scheme in Mali. Some oppose its claims to offer inclusive development, and see it as a neocolonial venture.
This film examines how a Swiss village profits from a corporation’s majority stake in Zambia’s copper resources, while Zambia remains one of the twenty poorest countries in the world.
