globalization

This award-winning film examines the experience of ordinary workers as it tracks a canned food product on its journey across the world.

This film examines lessons learnt from fracking in the US state of Colorado as the practice quietly expands to protected areas around the world.

This film follows a court case between Canadian mining companies and author Alain Deneault following his critique of industry practices.

This film criticizes the socioeconomic system of the Washington Consensus as being insufficient for overcoming global poverty, and argues that it is based on centuries of exploitation.

This film depicts the clash that occurs in a small American town when Wal-Mart wants to open a store there.

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.

This film explores the social dimensions of the illegal rhino horn trade in South Africa.

This film examines how a Swiss village profits from a corporation’s majority stake in Zambia’s copper resources, while Zambia remains one of the twenty poorest countries in the world.

This article discusses the need to broaden the debate about land rush by including a few key issues that have been neglected. Control over land is increasingly dictated by global actors and processes, leading to a patchwork of locally disembedded land holdings, not conducive for inclusive and sustainable development at the local level.

National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, Civilizing Nature adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time.