Arcadia
The Kauri Case—Native Nature and National Identity in Titirangi, New Zealand
The article discusses the role of native trees as representatives of national identity and belonging.
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Live Wild or Die! no. 8
Live Wild or Die! no. 8 shows the progressively radical vision of the magazine and the increasingly large chasm separating it from the mainstream of Earth First! It features musings about industrial society collapse, essays by John Zerzan and Ted Kaczynski, and reports on ELF actions and GMOs.
Perspectives
Environmental Knowledge, Environmental Politics: Case Studies from Canada and Western Europe
These essays showcase examples from Canada and Western Europe, offering insights into how different forms of environmental knowledge and environmental politics come to be seen as legitimate or illegitimate.
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Pollution, Local Activism, and the Politics of Development in the Canadian North
Sandlos and Keeling explore Indigenous resistance to arsenic pollution. Indigenous communities mobilized knowledge around environmental pollution and its health impacts. The authors show how this resistance to environmental racism is connected to other Indigenous struggles over industrial development and to issues such as land claims, sovereignty, and colonial dispossession.
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Seeds of Knowledge: From Back-to-the-Land to Urban Gardening
Janovicek’s article studies the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s. By learning, preserving, and sharing traditional agricultural skills and knowledge, back-to-the-landers contributed to the revitalization of local food economies. The links they made connected them to others in their communities and to other generations of activists.
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Environment and Citizenship in Latin America: Natures, Subjects and Struggles
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America reveals the strong connections between environmentalism, citizenship, national identity, political participation and resources in Latin America.
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Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany: Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany narrates the rise and adaptation of the German environmental movement, as well as its dilemmas and strategies to adjust to changing sociopolitical policies and contexts.
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Nature of the Miracle Years: Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975
Nature of the Miracle Years traces the gradual development of the German conservation movement through the democratization perido of postwar German society.
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Entmoot! The Washington Earth First! Newsletter, Spring 1994
This Spring 1994 issue of Entmoot! encourages environmental activists to take direct action about issues such as the eradication of wild salmon and the reintroduction of wolves.
Arcadia
The Sidoarjo Mudflow and the Muddiness of an Environmental Disaster
This article describes an ongoing environmental disaster in Indonesia, where a mud volcano has been inundating an ever-increasing area.