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.
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Tending the Emperor’s Garden: Modes of Human-Nature Relations in the Cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé Indians of the Lower Amazon
This article considers how the cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé, an indigenous tribe located in the Brazilian Amazon, interacts with the pressures of the modern era.
Perspectives Article
Imagining Indians and Revisiting Reclamation Debates
This article examines how activists on both sides of the debate about the construction of dams along the Colorado River used images of Native Americans to argue their position.
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.
Exhibition chapter
The Northwest Passage as a Voyage to Myth and Adventure | The Northwest Passage
Is the Arctic the last frontier? With text, audio, and video, historian Elena Baldassarri describes the historical struggle to find a passage through the perilous environments of the Far North. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources.”
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The Northwest Passage as a Question of Sovereignty | The Northwest Passage
To whom does the Northwest Passage belong? Historian Elene Baldassarri writes about the politics of the Far North. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources.”
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Natural Resources | The Northwest Passage
Apart from a diverse and previously unknown fauna, explorations and receding ice caps have uncovered a sought-after abundance of natural resources in the Arctic region. Historian Elena Baldassarri argues that the exploitation of these resources not only constitutes a threat to the non-human world, but also to the Inuit people. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources.”
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Colonial Rule versus Indigenous Knowledge in Bengal’s Western Frontier
Explores how the relationship of Adivasis to their surroundings was gradually reshaped under colonial rule in Bengal, leading to increased sedentarization of Adivasis through the extension of cultivation.
Perspectives Article
Invisible Labor: Adivasi Workers in the History of South Indian Forest Conservation
The exploitation of the cheap manual labor provided by Adivasis and the appropriation of their indigenous environmental knowledge has enabled and equally influenced environmental governance at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary since colonial times.
Multimedia | film profile
Milking the Rhino
This film considers wildlife conservation in Africa from the perspective of those who live in close proximity to the animals.