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Fish Consumption | Neva and Danube Rivers

In this chapter of their virtual exhibition “‘Commanding, Sovereign Stream’: The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers,” the authors discuss how the growing population required a lot of food and fish was significant part of the city dwellers’ diets. Social stratification led to the clear division between fish commodities for the wealthy and those for poor citizens, though some kinds of fish could be popular among all dwellers, regardless of social differences.

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Sushi: The Global Catch

This film questions the sustainability of the four billion dollar global sushi industry, which has put the Blue Fin Tuna at risk of extinction.

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Iron Crows

This film examines life in the Chittagong ship demolition yard, where workers risk their lives for two dollars a day to provide for their families.

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China Blue

This film follows a seventeen-year-old Chinese girl who leaves home in order to work in a Chinese jeans factory.

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Bitter Seeds

This film follows an Indian farmer whose situation becomes a microcosm of the conflict between Monsanto and rural people living in poverty in India.

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The Devil Operation

This film follows Father Marco, a priest who has earned a price on his head because of his opposition to Peru’s powerful mining companies.

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Katanga Business

This film examines a mine that acts as a microcosm for globalization; illegal and legal workers, local and foreign businessmen, and politicians all navigate the new alliances that modern Africa demands.

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