Hydroelectric Power and the Ashio Copper Mine
Arcadia, Summer 2023, no. 17
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Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement
Arcadia, Summer 2023, no. 9
The Struggle for Air: Mining, Dust, and Death on the South African Rand
Arcadia, Spring 2023, no. 6
Interview with Rocio Gomez, author of Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835–1946
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Rocio Gomez is interviewed on her book, Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835–1946.
“The battle of geological experts”: Water Flow and Tunneling within a Welsh Mountain
Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 14
Mining and Environmental Destruction in Minas Gerais: A Historical Comparison
Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 6
Suolo e sottosuolo del colonialismo italiano: esperienze di spaesamento storico
Roberta Biasillo propone alcuni spunti di riflessione sul colonialismo italiano in Africa a partire da fotografie e oggetti conservati negli archivi italiani.
(Under) Grounding Italian Colonialism: Practices of Historical Displacement
Roberta Biasillo traces Italy’s colonial engagements in Africa through a reflection sources uncovered in the Italian archives.
Water Flows and Topographic Networks of Power: Social Struggles for Water in the Copiapó Valley in the Eighteenth Century
"Itineraries of Conflict in Arundhati Roy’s Walking with the Comrades"
Alok Amatya studies the depiction of indigenous struggles against the grab of minerals, crude oil, and other natural resources by private and government corporations in works such as Arundhati Roy’s travel essay Walking with the Comrades (2010). He suggests that narratives of conflict over the extraction of natural resources can be studied as the corpus of “resource conflict literature,” thus generating a global comparative framework for the study of contemporary indigenous struggles.