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Louis Warren on “The Ghost Dance Movement.”
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"Environmentalism, a Secular Faith"
This paper argues that a full understanding of environmentalism requires seeing it as a secular faith, movement concerned with ultimate questions of humans’ place and purpose in the world.
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"The Conservation Society: Harbinger of the 1970s Environment Movement in the UK"
The Conservation Society was the first environmental society in the UK. It was founded in 1966 in response to the then widely perceived global threat of over-population…
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"'Rather Active Today than Radioactive Tomorrow!' Environmental Justice and the Anti-Nuclear Movement in 1970s Wyhl, West Germany"
This article applies new understandings of environmental justice theory to a specific local case study. It uses a broader conception of environmental justice theory to further our understanding of the rise of the German anti-nuclear movement.
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"Not Out of the Woods: Preserving the Human in Environmental Architecture"
In this article, Andrew Light and Aurora Wallace highlight several examples of how environmental architecture has combined success and failure at taking a broader view of environmental questions, with a specific focus on one green skyscraper that may be good for the natural environment but not necessarily for the human environment of the city.
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Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
Excerpt from Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice.
Perspectives Article
Mercurial Activity and Subterranean Landscapes: Towards an Environmental History of Mercury Mining in Early Modern Idrija
Hollsten focuses on the mercury mines at Idrija in order to trace the movement of this material and the various ways its history intersects with human history.
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"Tibetan Buddhism, Wetland Transformation, and Environmentalism in Tibetan Pastoral Areas of Western China"
The author investigates the lives of Tibetan pastoralists in alpine wetlands, how they understand wetlands, and how politics, market forces, and religious norms cooperate to produce their relationships with their livestock and their lands.
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Sjölander-Lindqvist, Annelie, "Conflicting Perspectives on Water in a Swedish Railway Tunnel Project"
In her article Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist highlights several examples of how environmental architecture has combined success and failure at taking a broader view of environmental questions.
Perspectives Article
Human-Animal Conflicts in Kerala: Elephants and Ecological Modernity on the Agrarian Frontier in South India
This article argues that in contemporary Wayanad in Kerala, southern India, human-animal relations are embedded in a history of ecological modernity composed of three modes of encounter between agrarian change (capitalist settler agriculture) and forest conservation (state-led and globalizing). It suggests that the notions of “frontier,” “fortress,” and (precarious) “conviviality” best capture the historical and emerging environmental relations in this environment of crisis.