Titoqanót Wétes—Nez Percé
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Teresa Sabol Spezio, investigates the Nez Percé language.
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Titoqanót Wétes—Nez Percé
Wilderness Babel: What Does Wilderness Mean in Your Language?
What does wilderness mean in your language? Listen to words for “wilderness” and learn about their political and historical meanings in different regional contexts. “Wilderness Babel” is a collaboration with the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, edited by Marcus Hall and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg. Its international contributions are still growing.
This version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2013 virtual exhibition (view PDF here) and applies the Environment & Society Portal’s responsive layout.
Marcus Hall and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, eds.About the author
"Boreal Forest Prospects and Politics: Paradoxes of First Nations Participation in Multi-sector Conservation"
This article explores the prospects and politics of indigenous participation in multi-sector conservation, using the case of the Boreal Leadership Council (BLC) in Canada. It concludes that multi-sector conservation creates both new possibilities for indigenous empowerment and new forms of marginalization through the reproduction of a (post)colonial geography of exclusion.
"Recognising Land Rights for Conservation? Tenure Reforms in the Northern Sierra Madre, the Philippines"
The authors provide an empirical study of the conservation strategy adopted in the northern Sierra Madre, the Philippines, and criticize the assumptions behind the main legalistic interventions.
Review of In Defense of Public Lands: The Case against Privatization and Transfer by Steven Davis
Megan Youdelis reviews the book In Defense of Public Lands: The Case against Privatization and Transfer by Steven Davis.
Small Farmers, Their Association, and the Transformation of the Australian Sugar Industry
Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 26
“Attitudes Towards Forest Elephant Conservation Around a Protected Area in Northern Congo”
Through a quantitative questionnaire survey conducted in villages around the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in northern Congo, the authors assess local attitudes towards conservation and elephant conservation in particular.
Review of Naturalezas en conflicto [Natures in Conflict] by José A. Cortés Vázquez
Ferran Pons Raga reviews Naturalezas en conflicto [Natures in Conflict] by José A. Cortés Vázquez.
Review of Fractivism by Sara Wylie
Amanda Poole reviews Sara Wylie’s Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds.
Sources & Further Reading in Ecocriticism
Sources & Further Reading in Ecocriticism
Source literature and further reading for Sabine Wilke’s virtual exhibition “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature”. This virtual exhibition is also available in German here.
Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll through a History of Entanglement
This virtual exhibition features, in English translation, short excerpts from German-language literary texts that address human-nature entanglements. The aim is to show how literature can contribute to understanding and problematizing the relation between humans and nonhuman nature. What aspects of human-nature relations are addressed, at what point in literary history, and how are they shaped poetically? This virtual exhibition is also available in German here.
Sabine WilkeAbout the author
