Perspectives Article
“But where the danger lies, also grows the saving power”: Reflections on Exploitation and Sustainability
This article looks at the discovery and storming of the Americas in relation to narratives of sustainability.
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Literature | Risk and Militarization
With examples ranging form poetry to novels, literary scholar Hsu Hsuan presents a selection of literature on militarized landscapes. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization.”
Perspectives Article
Environmental History with an African Edge
With an emphasis on national parks, this article examines the kinds of environmental edges particular to South Africa and to Africa more generally.
Arcadia
The 1969 Flood and Coastal Erosion on Cape Pitsunda
In 1969, the Georgian resort of Pitsunda and its beach were severely damaged by a storm. This was largely due to an ongoing process of coastal erosion caused by anthropogenic influences.
Arcadia
What Would Indigenous Taxonomy Look Like? The Case of Blandowski's Australia
In 1862, Wilhelm von Blandowski produced The Encyclopedia of Australia as a large visual atlas of 142 plates dedicated to a comprehensive representation of the continent Australia.
Exhibition
The City's Currents: A History of Water in 20th-Century Bogotá
This exhibition explores the role of water in the struggle of Colombia's capital to become a modern city. For Bogotá, complying with the standards of sanitary reformers and the governing elite was a social, technological, and environmental control endeavor. The exhibition examines everyday and gendered experiences of water, such as washing clothes or bathing, as well as urban infrastructural interventions including the domestication of rivers for water supply and wastewater disposal systems.
