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An Unnatural History of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado
Exploring the cultural and environmental transformation of Rocky Flats from military industrial complex to protected habitat.
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"'Hungry Dragons': Expanding the Horizons of Chinese Environmental History—Cantonese Gold-miners in Colonial New Zealand, 1860s–1920s "
This article examines the environmental impacts of Cantonese gold-miners in New Zealand and situates its research in both Chinese environmental history and comparative global environmental history.
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.
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Transformation of Landscapes | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke discusses texts that register transformations of landscapes or take a position on their causes. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
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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.
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“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany
In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.
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"About a Stone: Some Notes on Geologic Conviviality"
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Hugo Reinert places multispecies studies in conversation with the geological turn by examining the place of a particular sacrifice stone in the ambit of a coastal mining development in northern Norway.
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Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory
This collection examines historical and contemporary social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining on Aboriginal communities in northern Canada. Combining oral history research with intensive archival study, this work juxtaposes the perspectives of government and industry with the perspectives of local communities.
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Umweltverschmutzung und Abfall | Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur
In this chapter of the German-language version of her virtual exhibition, “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur (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 English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
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Landschaftsveränderungen | Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur
In this chapter of the German-language version of her virtual exhibition “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur (Human-Nature Relations in German Literature),” Sabine Wilke discusses texts that register transformations of landscapes or take a position on their causes. For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.