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Small Farmers, Their Association, and the Transformation of the Australian Sugar Industry
This article shows how rural collective action in tropical Australia transformed plantations into small farms in the late nineteenth century.
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An Environmental History of Tobacco Pests and Diseases in Southern Rhodesia, 1893–1940
A historical examination of the occurrence of pests and diseases in tobacco farming and the environmental impact in Southern Rhodesia.
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"(Com)Post-Capitalism Cultivating a More-than-Human Economy in the Appalachian Anthropocene"
Bradley M. Jones explores the cultivation of life in ruins, through a multi-species ecological ethic revealed in the life and labor of a permaculture farmer in the Appalachian foothills.
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"Restoring Eden in the Amish Anthropocene"
Through an ethnographic account about the use of an electromagnetic water system in the Amish community, Nicole Welk-Joerger explores the conceptual meeting ground between sacred and secular worldviews in efforts that address the Anthropocene.
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"Introduction: Toxic Embodiment and Feminist Environmental Humanities"
In this introduction to a special section on toxic embodiment, Olga Cielemęcka and Cecilia Åsberg examine variously situated bodies, land- and waterscapes, and their naturalcultural interactions with toxicity.
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“Yanqui Cotton Patch”: US Development Aid and Pesticide Use in Nicaragua
This article explores the impact of extensive pesticide use in Nicaragua after World War Two.
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A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
This collection of studies provides valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing Latin America.
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Ecopolis Catalog | 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 and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?
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Yuyos
This film is an audio-visual ethnographic project lived together with the peasant family Franco Gauto, in Colonia Luz Bella, rural Paraguay.
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Werksviertel-Mitte | Ecopolis München 2019
Werksviertel-Mitte: A Showcase for Nature in the Ostbahnhof Neighborhood? In the Werksviertel the urban future of Munich is being reinvented. The development of the former industrial district is based on a social vision: inclusion and bringing together diverse elements. The Werksviertel has a rich history, and the plans for the future are ambitious. Is it possible to find a successful balance between past and future, between city and nature?