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The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park
How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.
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"Violent Landscape: Global Explosions and Lao Life-Worlds"
Holly High reflects on how past violence becomes incorporated into contemporary landscapes and associated narratives.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Marianna Dudley on "Experiencing Military Spaces"
Marianna Dudley, Carson Fellow from October 2011 until March 2012, talks about the unusual experiences of researching militarized landscapes.
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Introduction | Risk and Militarization
This is the introductory page of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risks in the Landscapes of US Militarization”—written and curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu.
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Bases | Risk and Militarization
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risks in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” literary scholar Hsuan Hsu discusses the emergence and controversial politics of US military bases on foreign soil.
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Mapping | Risk and Militarization
The cartography of nuclear bombings and nuclear waste can be understood and visualized in different ways depending on who is drawing the map. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization” by literary scholar Hsuan L. Hsu.
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Documentary film | Risk and Militarization
Documentary films can be a means to disclose the elusive long-term effects of nuclear and chemical contamination. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” written and curated by literary scholar Hsu Hsuan.
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The Northwest Passage as a Matter of National Security | The Northwest Passage
Once an environment in which the notion of nations was unheard of, the Arctic region is now a disputed space among superpowers. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources”—written and curated by historian Elena Baldassarri.
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Natural Resources | The Northwest Passage
Apart from a diverse and previously unknown fauna, explorations and receding ice caps have uncovered a sought-after abundance of natural resources in the Arctic region. Historian Elena Baldassarri argues that the exploitation of these resources not only constitutes a threat to the non-human world, but also to the Inuit people. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources.”
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Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment
Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies.