Arcadia
Water Flows and Topographic Networks of Power: Social Struggles for Water in the Copiapó Valley in the Eighteenth Century
This article rethinks the environmental history of water and power in Copiapó between 1744 and 1801.
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Perspectives Article
Transitions in the Niger Delta: Oil, Poverty, and Environmental Degradation
Helbert raises the issue of justice in energy transitions by looking at the discrimination faced by women in oil regions of Nigeria.
Arcadia
Flood Levels and Borderlines: Livestock Farming and Evictions Resistance at the !Garib/Orange River in Southern Africa
A farmer on the !Garib/Orange river in Namibia uses historical flood markers to challenge eviction in the post-apartheid landscape.
Perspectives Article
Il senso dell’acqua: una ricerca personale nella storia dell’irrigazione
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg percorre a ritroso i paesaggi della sua infanzia e riflette sulle politiche di gestione delle acque durante gli anni del regime fascista in Italia.
Exhibition chapter
Lily’s Letters | American Land Rush
A selection of letters by Lily B. Stearns. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition American Land Rush by Sara Gregg.
Perspectives Article
Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Paikea: Whale People in the Modern Whaling Era
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
Multimedia | book, full-text
“Constructing Legitimacy? Agroecology within and beyond the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)”
Full text of Claire Lagier’s dissertation, “Constructing Legitimacy? Agroecology within and beyond the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST).”
Multimedia | film profile
EHL VideoDictionary: Water
Astrida Neimanis on water. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
Multimedia | journal article
“Gender and the Commons: Water Management in Trans-Himalayan Spiti Valley, India”
In this article, Ranjini Murali, Ajay Bijoor, and Charudutt Mishra highlight the role of women in the governance of the commons and point to the nuanced and variable roles found within this gender group.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Gonzalo Lizarralde, author of Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Gonzalo Lizarralde is interviewed on his recent book, Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed.