Arcadia
The Founding of the Danish Environmental Movement NOAH
In 1969, the Danish environmental organization NOAH is established, following a spectacular happening at the University of Copenhagen.
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Multimedia | podcast
Crosscurrents episode 2: “The Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)”
The second episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on how the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) approaches issues of social justice and equity in their research.
Exhibition chapter
Building Cinque Terre: A Grapevine Viewpoint (Italy) | A 360º Visual Journey
In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Sarah Elizabeth Yoho’s 360° video captures the process of constructing a dry stone wall in Italy’s Cinque Terre. In cooperation with community organization Tu Quoque Vernazza, it was filmed over nine days and is shown in time-lapse. The camera captures the grapevine’s point of view of Cinque Terre life.
Exhibition chapter
Agroecology as a Way of Life (Brazil) | A 360º Visual Journey
In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Claire Lagier’s 360º video shows six-year-old agroforestry projects in a land reform settlement in the state of Paraná, Brazil. Her research focuses on agroecological rural social movements in this region.
Multimedia | book profile
Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene
Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene argues that the current climate crisis calls for new ways of thinking and producing knowledge, suggesting that our collective inclination has been to go on in an experimental and exploratory mode, in which we refuse to foreclose on options or jump too quickly to “solutions.”
Multimedia | book profile
Inhuman Nature
This collection of essays maps the heterogeneous and asymmetrical ecologies within which we are enmeshed, a material world that makes the human possible but also offers difficulties and resistance.
Arcadia
A Story of Two Parks: Historical Roots of Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes in Twenty-First Century Europe
This article analyzes the recent controversial environmental history of urban parks in Istanbul, Turkey, and Budapest, Hungary, under authoritarian regimes.
Multimedia | journal article
"Itineraries of Conflict in Arundhati Roy’s Walking with the Comrades"
Alok Amatya studies the depiction of indigenous struggles against the grab of minerals, crude oil, and other natural resources by private and government corporations in works such as Arundhati Roy’s travel essay Walking with the Comrades (2010). He suggests that narratives of conflict over the extraction of natural resources can be studied as the corpus of “resource conflict literature,” thus generating a global comparative framework for the study of contemporary indigenous struggles.
Perspectives
The Reverse of the Sublime: Dilemmas (and Resources) of the Anthropocene Garden
Serenella Iovino uses the garden as a lens to analyze the impacts of old and new forms of aestheticizing nature on the geology of our planet.
Exhibition chapter
Introduction | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Overview of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll. This exhibition presents the global reception and impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.