Review of Fractivism by Sara Wylie
Amanda Poole reviews Sara Wylie’s Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds.
land use
“Challenges and Opportunities in Scaling Up Ecosystem Restoration”
Katharine Suding, plant ecologist and professor at the University of Michigan, outlines the scaling of ecosystem restoration and how scaling is affecting the very notion of restoration in this presentation at the Latsis Symposium 2018.
Out of the Mountains: Changing Landscapes in Rural China
About this issue
Zhen Wang’s photo essay explores in detail how nearly 40 years of urbanization and rapid economic development have transformed the past, present, and future of the Yi population and of China’s rural and cultural landscapes.
Content
Plastic China
A woman and her family live next to a recycling plant in China, in mountains of plastic waste from Asia, Europe, and the U.S.This documentary reveals the lives of those on the fringes of global capitalist realities, a far cry from the communist dream.
Nature's Past episode 48: "Ecotones and Saskatchewan History"
In episode 48 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj speaks with Merle Massie about her book Forest Prairie Edge: Place History in Saskatchewan.
Nature's Past episode 53: "The Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour"
In episode 53 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj invites Nancy Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank to discuss their new book, The People and the Bay, and ways of thinking about social and environmental history.
Making the “European Yellowstone”—Unintended Consequences or Unrealistic Intentions?
Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 10
"Rangeland Use Rights Privatisation Based on the Tragedy of the Commons: A Case Study from Tibet"
Yonten Nyima Yundannima provides an empirical analysis of rangeland use rights privatization through an empirical case study from Pelgon county in the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. She criticizes the applicability of the tragedy of the commons model to Tibetan pastoralism, arguing that this has led to a disruption of the essence of pastoralism in the region.
"Vacating the Floodplain: Urban Property, Engineering, and Floods in Brisbane (1974-2011)"
Margaret Cook exposes the dominant socio-economic and political values that shaped flood management between 1974 and 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Austin Earth First!, "End Corporate Dominance!," 1996
This Austin Earth First! publication titled “End Corporate Dominance!” features topics like the menace of the Endangered Species Act, the global gathering of indigenous people fighting the oil industry, Mexican Zapatismo, Austin’s transportation and land use infrastructure, Freeport McMoran mining in West Papua, Indonesia, and the children’s march to save Sierra Blanca.