Multimedia | film profile
São Miguel do Gostoso
A small seaside village in Brazil has been found by tourists and is now coveted by real estate developers.
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Multimedia | film profile
Itam Hakim Hopiit
Celebrating the Hopi Tricentennial, Itam Hakim Hopiit is a poetic visualization of Hopi philosophy and prophesy.
Multimedia | film profile
Nuhoniyeh—Our Story
Nuhoniyeh—Our Story provides a view on forced environmental migration.
Multimedia | film profile
Standing Silent Nation
The film deals with the sovereignty of native Americans and their farming community’s right to grow industrial hemp.
Multimedia | film profile
The Last Yoik in Saami Forests?
The Last Yoik in Saami Forests? chronicles the logging damage that has taken place in the forests of Finnish Lapland over the past 50 years.
Multimedia | film profile
Yindabad
Yindabad deals with the flipside of Indian economic development, and how the enormous Narmada Valley Development Project impacts an indigenous population.
Multimedia | film profile
2012—Time for Change
2012—Time for Change sees the Mayan Calendar’s prediction of imminent doom as an opportunity for transformation.
Perspectives Article
Local Effects of Global Forest Conservation Policy: On Zapotec Resistance against a Protected Natural Area
This article looks at the controversial issue of forest conservation in the Southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Perspectives Article
Mapping Biocultural and Economic Diversity … Everywhere
The article shows how the Sami of northern Norway are creating new openings and opportunities for more localized management systems based on local environmental knowledge.
Perspectives Article
The Tropical Andes: Where Multiple Visions of Nature Co-exist
The close coexistence of multiple worldviews, which I identify in their most extreme incarnations as indigenous and mestizo, are key to understanding the environmental history of the Tropical Andes from the nineteenth century.