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Water, Firewood, and Disease in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
This article looks at extreme droughts in Istanbul to understand the nineteenth-century changes in the Ottoman State.
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Interview with Stephen J. Pyne, author of The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Stephen J. Pyne is interviewed on his recent book, The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next.
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The Sierra Nevada Still in Peril
Introduces a short-lived Forest Service framework for landscape-based land management and wildland fire management in California’s Sierra Nevada from the 1990s.
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Episode 1: “In the Burn Zone”
In this first episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins discusses the fallout of a devastating wildfire in a village in Lytton, British Columbia, in 2021 and interviews member of the community on the big questions that inspire and inflect the event.
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Episode 2: “Salvage”
In this first episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins follows one of the many stories of salvage and recovery after the devastating 2021 wildfire in Lytton, Canada—the story of the Lytton Chinese History Museum and its founder.
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Episode 3: “The Place of Objects”
The third episode of Archival Ecologies centers around Nlaka’pamux knowledge keeper John Haugen, who describes the meaning and the making of baskets in his community and the recovery of them after the wildfire.
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Episode 4: “Weaving Community Knowledge: Nlaka’pamux Basketmaking”
The fourth episode of continues the Nlaka’pamux’ story of basket making through a discussion of the craft with basket makers Judy Hanna and Peter Sam, and their hopes for the continuation of basketry traditions in their community.
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Episode 5: “Enchanted Objects”
In the fifth episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins meets Richard Forrest, steward of the Lytton Museum and Archives, to talk about the devastating losses sustained by the municipal repository through the Lytton fire and to contemplate the futures of collections in digitized records and photographs, and 3-D printed copies of objects.
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“Frank Vorhies: Integrating Conservation and Economic Development”
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, Dr. Frank Vorhies explores the economic aspects of conservation initatives, focusing on how different views of conservation and biodiversity influence contributing activities and quantification methods.
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“Stew of the Earth”
The Azorean archipelago is a lesson not only in geography and geology but also in cooking stew.