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Dschungelburger—Hackfleischordnung International [Jungleburgers]
Jungleburgers is a documentary about the rainforest in Costa Rica being destroyed for the sake of low-cost beef for the US hamburger market.
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Asikel—Die Reise [Asikel—The Journey]
Asikel tells of the journey of Tuareg men who, after a great drought, seek work in the city to support their families.
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Most—Nachruf auf eine Alte Stadt [Most—An Old Town's Obituary]
The film tells the story of the town Most in Northern Bohemia, destroyed in the quest for coal.
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You've been Trumped
In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on celebrity tycoon Donald Trump as he buys up one of Scotland’s last wilderness areas to build a golf resort.
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Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1
This film reveals how the United States—after having dropped 67 nuclear bombs on the Marshall Islands during the Cold War—studied the effects of nuclear fallout on the native population.
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The Road
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, The Road portrays a father and son struggling to survive in a post-apocalytic world turned savage.
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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.
Perspectives
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Politics and Culture of Waste
Waste is never completely or permanently “out of sight.” Once discarded, it undergoes transformations, often reappearing elsewhere in new forms. In this volume of RCC Perspectives, scholars from different disciplines—from history and art history, urban geography, environmental studies, and anthropology—investigate the traces waste leaves behind in the course of its travels.
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Fresh Kills: The Making and Unmaking of a Wastescape
Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island, New York, was the subject of a struggle over where to dispose of the waste of a city strapped for space. While the landfill was closed in 2001, the events of 9/11 and the need to clear the large amounts of rubble and human remains from the site of the Twin Towers attack turned Fresh Kills into hallowed ground, which posed new questions about the future of the site.
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Forget About It: Purposeful Ignorance (of Waste) in a City Nature Preserve
Kleinstuck Marsh in Michigan is not the pristine, untouched landscape it might at first seem. Once a peat bog, the property was drained for a botanical garden and later sold as an unwanted piece of property and embedded with sewage pipes for a neighboring housing development, before becoming a nature preserve.