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Rya Forest Nature Reserve: A Case of Preservation, Conflicts, and Unwanted Rewilding
Rya Forest is a nature reserve in Gothenburg, Sweden, and historically an area of both appreciation and conflict.
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The Beavercene: Eradication and Settler-Colonialism in Tierra del Fuego
Once introduced to promote the fur industry, beavers in Tierra del Fuego are now deemed an invasive population to be eradicated.
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Salvatge, verge, erm, and silvestre—Catalan | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by master’s student Luis Fernández Fernández, highlights different adjectives that are used in Catalan to describe wilderness.
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Huāngyě—Chinese | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by Tina Tin, highlights different words that are used in Chinese to describe wilderness.
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Wildernis and woestenij—Dutch | Wilderness Babel
In this chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, the author Britt Stikvoort states that the Dutch term “wildernis” is today often used for areas that are not visibly and recently touched by people.
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Wilderness—England’s English | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by geographer Bill Adams, looks at the history of modern British interpretations of “wilderness.”
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Wildeornes—Early English | Wilderness Babel
This chapter in the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by Raymond Chipeniuk, shows that in many cultures the idea of wilderness has been borrowed from the English-speaking world.
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Metsik Loodus, Puutumatu Loodus, and Põlisloodus—Estonian | Wilderness Babel
This part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by semiotician Kadri Tüur, describes how terms denoting general categories regarding nature are quite diverse in Estonia—a country where language and culture have been very intimately intertwined with landscapes and their natural conditions.
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The Hub’s Archipelago: The Connected Histories of Boston and Its Harbor Islands
The natural-looking Boston Harbor Islands have been shaped by the city of Boston for centuries, making them into urban islands.
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Water Flows and Topographic Networks of Power: Social Struggles for Water in the Copiapó Valley in the Eighteenth Century
This article rethinks the environmental history of water and power in Copiapó between 1744 and 1801.