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Wild Earth 9, no. 1
Wild Earth 9, no. 1 features essays on wilderness and spirituality. They center around two slogans: “Rewilding Ourselves” and “Rewilding the Land.”
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Perspectives Article
Neoliberal Transformations of the Romanian Agrarian Landscape
This paper explores the unintended local outcomes of the centrally designed land reform in postsocialist Romania, examining two strands of this story in order to understand how land reform was thwarted at a local level.
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Theodolite
When in about 1800 Bavaria urgently needed money, Georg von Reichenbach founded a factory for scientific instruments and started building precision theodilites to precisely survey the state in order to increase the taxes on land and buildings.
Exhibition chapter
Changing land ownership, agricultural, and economic systems | Famines in India
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Famines in Late Nineteenth-Century India: Politics, Culture, and Environmental Justice”—written and curated by sociologist Naresh Chandra Sourabh and economic historian Timo Myllyntaus.
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Yasuni: Two Seconds of Life
This film examines a radical policy implemented by Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa: to leave Yasuni National Park’s oil in the ground and let the industrialized countries make a contribution to the preservation of the planet’s “green lungs.”
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Hempsters: Plant the Seed
This film follows activists campaigning for the legalization of industrial hemp, which they believe has great potential for sustainability.
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Wiebo's War
This film follows a Christian community and its leader as they resist the oil and gas industry and its plans for expansion into their land.
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Standing on Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Tourists
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of how two indigenous communities, in Russia’s Republic of Altai and in California, are resisting government mega-projects.
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Standing on Sacred Ground: Profit and Loss
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Papua New Guineans and Canada’s First Nations people against industrial threats on their health, livelihoods and cultural survival.
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The Future of Food
The Future of Food examines genetically engineered foods, patenting, and the corporatization of food.