The 1969 Flood and Coastal Erosion on Cape Pitsunda
Arcadia, 2014, no. 13
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Zolotitsa: How Diamond Mining Threatens the Ecological Conditions of a River Region
The St. Petersburg Flood of 1824
Arcadia, 2014, no. 7
The First Cholera Epidemic in St. Petersburg
Arcadia, 2014, no. 6
Dammed Water: Water as a National Commodity
A cultural and historical analysis of the recent past of the Nile Valley shows how interpretations and perceptions of territory, space, and nature are not necessarily indisputably “true” and definitive principles. On the contrary, they are constructed and, therefore, changeable.
Rising Waters: Submersion and Survival in Yung Chang’s Up the Yangtze
Using Yung Chang’s 2007 documentary film Up the Yangtze, Weik von Mossner unravels the power struggles accompanying the construction of the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant—the Three Gorges Dam in China.
Abschalten—Apaga y Vámonos [Switch off]
One of the world’s largest dams, Ralco, on the river Biobío in Chile, opened in 2004 after numerous clashes with the Mapuche people. The land of this ancient indigenous community has been flooded by Endesa, the Spanish multinational company.
Munich and Its Isar River: A Rafting Port on an Alpine River
Arcadia, 2013, no. 18
Montreal and Its Waters: An Entangled History
This article highlights how Montreal’s relationship to its water sources has always been experienced and mediated through two intersecting processes: the actual state and presence of water in the landscape, and current representations of water and the ways in which water manifests itself in everyday life.
Learning to Drive the Yukon River: Western Cartography and Athapaskan Story Maps
This paper introduces the current conversations about the environment taking place between aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples in the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada