Arcadia
To Dig a Well (in Siberia)
In 1947, inhabitants of Yakutsk gained access to potable groundwater from below the permafrost layer for the first time.
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Perspectives Article
Liquid Asset: Water in Victorian Gold Mining
Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies discuss the environmental consequences of water-resource infrastructures created during the gold rush in Victoria.
Perspectives Article
Fifty Shades of Shadow Places: A Photographic Essay
A visual essay on the physical sites we often don’t see (or don’t want to see).
Arcadia
Half a Century of Public Participation to Stop Pollution in the Alviela River, from 1957 to Today
This article examines mobilization and resistance against pollution in the Alviela River in the Santarém municipality, Portugal, since the 1950s.
Multimedia | film profile
Soils2Sea: Reducing Nutrient Loadings Into the Baltic Sea
The film highlights the pollution of the Baltic Sea from agricultural run-off and wastewaters, particularly in the Kocinka catchment of Poland. It offers multiple perspectives from the range of stakeholders, and is the outcome of the Soils2Sea project which ran from 2014 to 2017.
Multimedia | journal article
Hatmaker, Susie, "On Mattering: A Coal Ash Flood and the Limits of Environmental Knowledge"
Susie Hatmaker investigates the largest flood of coal ash in United States history in 2008 as an event at once monumental and insignificant.
Arcadia
Abandonment Issues: Producing Industrial Heritage Landscapes at the São Domingos Mine
This piece examines the historical context of industrial heritage tourism of the post-industrial landscape at the São Domingos Mine in southeastern Portugal.
Exhibition chapter
Introduction to the Exhibition | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
This virtual exhibition features, in English translation, short excerpts from German-language literary texts that address human-nature entanglements. The aim is to show how literature can contribute to understanding and problematizing the relation between humans and nonhuman nature. What aspects of human-nature relations are addressed, at what point in literary history, and how are they shaped poetically? For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
Exhibition chapter
Pollution and Waste | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke shows how topics of pollution and waste in German-language writing reach back to the nineteenth century, when the production of industrial waste—and pollution of the air, ground, and water—first began to occur on a massive scale. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
Perspectives Article
Courting Nature: Advances in Indian Jurisprudence
Brara relates a story of contemporary India in the process of transition, where legal approaches to Nature are changing.