Perspectives
Os Limites da História Ambiental: Uma Homenagem a Jane Carruthers
This volume of RCC Perspectives, featuring artwork by Australian artist Mandy Martin, is a tribute to the wonderful career of Jane Carruthers.
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Last Ocean: Paradies am Ende der Welt [The Last Ocean]
This film follows the impacts of fishing on the Ross Sea, a deep bay of Antarctica’s southern ocean.
Multimedia | journal
Earth First! 25, no. 4
Earth First! 25, no. 4 reports on the protests against logging in the wild Siskyou Mountains in Oregon, on jurisdictional consequences for Earth Liberation Front activists, and features an essay on “Stupidity and Critics of the Ecology Movement.”
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Earth First! 26, no. 2
Earth First! 26, no. 2 focuses on articles that discuss the human causes of bird flu pandemic, feautre urban farming and ecology issues, and discuss the indian movement’s new old problems.
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Gyre: Creating Art From a Plastic Ocean
This film follows a team travelling to Alaska to examine how much of our garbage has ended up in the region’s gyre—a rotating ocean current.
Arcadia
Lions, Lords, and Automobiles: Animal Entertainment and Travel Technologies in the Late Twentieth Century
Automobiles fundamentally shifted the ways in which visitors to animal attractions experienced the creatures on display before their eyes.
Arcadia
Wildlife Conservation Causes Deforestation in Colonial Namibia
In this Arcadia article, environmental historian Emmanuel Kreike explores the relationship between conservation and deforestation in twentieth-century Namibia.
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The Man-Eater Sent by God: Unruly Interspecies Intimacies in India’s Central Himalayas
Using accounts of man-eating leopards and changing, ungovernable landscape in India’s Central Himalayas, this paper makes sense of the complex and multiple dimensions of the interspecies companionship at the heart of human-wildlife conflict.
Arcadia
Nuclear Ghosts and the Atomic Landscape of the American South
“Nuclear Ghosts” explores the history of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s failed nuclear power project in rural Tennessee, the enviro-technological controversy the plant generated, and why nuclear power was seen as a threat not only to lives but also a way of life, one intimately connected to the American South’s culture and environment.
Multimedia | film profile
Life Size Memories
Two former photojournalists bring a large format camera to Southeast Asia to portray Asian elephants living in captivity and to record their biographies.