Unser America [Our America]
This film follows a woman who returns to modern, neoliberal Nicaragua to find the Sandinista woman soldier she filmed during the armed rebellion over two decades earlier.
This film follows a woman who returns to modern, neoliberal Nicaragua to find the Sandinista woman soldier she filmed during the armed rebellion over two decades earlier.
This film examines the situation of the Tuareg people, who live across borders and at risk from poverty, environmental disasters, and militant groups.
Once a benefit to humanity but now a scourge, the environment of the Niger Delta has been transformed into a haven for violence, militancy, and criminality.
Digital tools reveal a geographic logic to the violence of Pontiac’s War.
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.
The Japanese port city Hachinohe plans to reintroduce commercial whaling, but the city’s troubled past challenges the official narrative.
A farmer on the !Garib/Orange river in Namibia uses historical flood markers to challenge eviction in the post-apartheid landscape.
Indigenous groups in Nayarit, Mexico, reaffirmed their sacred environmental sites through social movement.