The Australia Day Floods, January 1974
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 15
Aliases:
Development Assistance
development
Visions of Australia: Environments in History
About this issue
The contributions in this volume explore the way that Australasian environments have been envisioned, worked, and changed in the past, and how ideas about places inform the present and future of the continent.
Content
The Cattle Guard
Etienne Benson considers the role that material interventions into the vernacular landscape play in solidifying our understandings of bodily difference across species.
Sustainable Development: An Appraisal from the Gulf Region
Sillitoe, Paul, ed. Sustainable Development: An Appraisal from the Gulf Region. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.
The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe
The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe highlights creative solutions being implemented in Central and East Central Europe to overcome environmental problems and ensure sustainable development.
"We Are as Gods": The Green Technical Fix
Trim’s article focuses on “countercultural environmentalists” and an alternative development program in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The project’s history raises questions about the consequences of treating environmental issues as technical problems to be solved with innovation and new technology. This approach both depoliticizes environmental issues and embeds them into new political structures.
The Fen River in Taiyuan, China: Ecology, Revitalization, and Urban Culture
Arcadia, Autumn 2016, no. 17
When China Met Africa
This film captures the rise of China’s influence in Africa and in Zambia in particular, through the lives of three individuals: a Chinese entrepreneur, a project manager for a Chinese multinational and the Zambian Minister for Commerce, Trade and Industry.
Why Poverty? Solar Mamas
This film follows a diverse group of women from around the world as they attend the Barefoot College in India. The college teaches them solar engineering skills to allow them to contribute to their communities and improve their daily lives, but societal and familial pressure proves challenging.
Why Poverty? Land Rush
This award-winning documentary follows a controversial sugar development scheme in Mali. Some oppose its claims to offer inclusive development, and see it as a neocolonial venture.