Today, the Storm Flood of 1962 forms an integral part of local and national memory culture. Public commemoration events, monuments, and media coverage assure that the disaster is not forgotten.
A review of: Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama; Ecological Relations in Historical Times: Human Impact and Adaptation by Robin A. Butlin, and Neil Roberts; and Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths.
This book investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualize their environments, past and present.
Holly High reflects on how past violence becomes incorporated into contemporary landscapes and associated narratives.
Ronald Hepburn explores and critically assesses the concept of the metaphysical imagination and its possible roles as part of aesthetic encounters.
Ecological Sites of Memory is a RCC project that seeks to look into the historical memories that resonate in our environmental thinking.
This film follows the daily lives of seven “weather prophets” in the Swiss Muota Valley, who predict weather six months in advance based on evidence from animals and plants.
This film is the filmmaker’s whimsically reconstructed story of his francophone grandparents and their dramatic personal lives in a remote Canadian northwoods logging camp.
This award-winning film examines the lives of 5000 people from 42 riverside communities a year after they have been displaced by the construction of the Irapé Dam and hydroelectric power plant in Brazil.
This film follows the old farming community of Périgord, a region in southwest France, as it tries to navigate its future in the modern world.
