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(Under) Grounding Italian Colonialism: Practices of Historical Displacement
Roberta Biasillo traces Italy’s colonial engagements in Africa through a reflection sources uncovered in the Italian archives.
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Suolo e sottosuolo del colonialismo italiano: esperienze di spaesamento storico
Roberta Biasillo propone alcuni spunti di riflessione sul colonialismo italiano in Africa a partire da fotografie e oggetti conservati negli archivi italiani.
Arcadia
Mining and Environmental Destruction in Minas Gerais: A Historical Comparison
Historical documents indicate that the disasters caused by mining in Brazil are a reality since the eighteenth century.
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“The battle of geological experts”: Water Flow and Tunneling within a Welsh Mountain
This article discusses controversy over drainage tunnels in a Welsh lead mining region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Interview with Rocio Gomez, author of Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835–1946
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Rocio Gomez is interviewed on her book, Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835–1946.
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The Struggle for Air: Mining, Dust, and Death on the South African Rand
Underground mining on South Africa’s Rand transformed the air.
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Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement
An enduring legacy of the antinuclear movement is its construction of a narrative connecting human survival to nature’s beneficence.
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Hydroelectric Power and the Ashio Copper Mine
This article explores the history and effects of the (hydro)electrification of the Ashio Copper Mine.
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Dreams of Optimizing the Ocean: The 1970 Deepsea Ventures Mining Test and Artificial Upwelling
In contrast to today’s environmental concerns, the first deep-sea-mining environmental impact assessment, undertaken in the early 1970s, focused on the potential positive side effects.
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“The Value of Fragments: Making a Hotspot in Mount Nimba, Liberia”
Emmanuelle Roth and Gregg Mitman write about how capitalism fragments nature to create value. Such fragments can precipitate biodiversity loss.