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La Muxatena: A Sacred Rock Formation at the Heart of an Indigenous Social Movement for Environmental Rights
Indigenous groups in Nayarit, Mexico, reaffirmed their sacred environmental sites through social movement.
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Le Storie della Storia Ambientale: Esperienze da Germania e Italia
Combinando memoria, esperienza e ricerca d’archivio, questo volume esplora la connessione tra lo storytelling e la storia ambientale in Germania e in Italia.
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Quello che ho trovato sul fondo di un lago
La diga, oltre a essere un’infrastruttura con alto impatto ambientale, è un’infrastruttura con alto potenziale scenografico. Fabian Zimmer passa dal ricordo del proprio stupore infantile a quello dei turisti attratti dai giochi d’acqua messi in scena delle compagnie idroelettriche in Svezia.
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Paesaggi da decifrare: fiumi e dighe dell’Asia centrale
Flora J. Roberts descrive il proprio viaggio accademico e reale nella storia ambientale del fiume Syr Darya nella Valle di Fergana e le conseguenze socio-ecologiche della costruzione di una diga.
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Touching Power: White Womanhood, Colonial Spectacle, and the “Forces of Nature” at the Boulder Power Inaugural
Gender colonization, progress, and nature on display as the first electricity from Hoover Dam arrived in Los Angeles in 1936.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with William Carruthers, author of Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, William Carruthers is interviewed on his recent book, Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology.
Multimedia | journal article
“Beavering”
In a carbon-sequestering wetland on Maine’s Mid-Coast, a quirky human-beaver relationship unfolds each year.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Melinda Laituri on "Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds"
Melinda Laituri, Carson fellow from February to May 2011, talks about her research project, “Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds,” a comparative, historical-geographical analysis of the Danube and the Colorado rivers.