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“The Amazon before the Constitutional Court of Ecuador”
A Tuesday Discussion with Lena Köhn.
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Exhibition chapter
The Northwest Passage as a Matter of National Security | The Northwest Passage
Once an environment in which the notion of nations was unheard of, the Arctic region is now a disputed space among superpowers. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources”—written and curated by historian Elena Baldassarri.
Exhibition chapter
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.”
Perspectives Article
Whaling at the Margins: Drift Whales, Ainu Laborers, and the Japanese State on the Nineteenth-Century Okhotsk Coast
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.
Perspectives Article
What is a Whale? Cetacean Value at the Bering Strait, 1848–1900
Bathsheba Demuth looks at the value of whales for indigenous peoples around the Bering Strait.
Perspectives Article
When Environmentalists Crossed the Strait: Subsistence Whalers, Hippies, and the Soviets
Ryan Tucker Jones recounts how environmental activist organizations came into conflict with indigenous groups in the Bering Straight.
Multimedia | Env. blogs & websites
The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas)
The EJAtlas is an interactive online platform coordinated and managed by researchers and activists.
Arcadia
A Complicated Relationship: The Transhumant Pastoralists of Macedonia and the Greek State, 1913–1936
Beginning in 1915, Greek authorities implemented measures against the nomadic shepherds of southern Macedonia.