Excerpt from Seeds of Power: Explorations in Ottoman Environmental History.
Combinando ricerca storica e lavoro di campo, Noemi Quagliati documenta la distruzione e il recupero dei paesaggi del fronte occidentale della Grande Guerra.
Through a combination of historical research and environmental fieldwork focusing on photographic imagery taken during World War I, Noemi Quagliati documents the environmental recovery of the former Western Front.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver are interviewed on their new book, An Environmental History of the Civil War.
In this part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, historian Emily K. Brock writes about the Tagalog word bundok. The term translates literally as “mountain,” but its larger meaning as wilderness bears the inscription of global forces of war and empire.
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.
Stephan Hochleithner argues that multi-dimensional resistance to Virunga National Park’s conservation strategies ties in with general conflict dynamics in eastern DRC, while at the same time reproducing them within the realm of nature conservation, tightly interwoven with global dynamics.
