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Perspectives Issue 2020/2

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.

Interview with Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver, authors of An Environmental History of the Civil War

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.

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Bundok—Filipino

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.

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

Brock, Emily K.

University of South Carolina, USA

Emily Brock is assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina.

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The Origins of Ecocide: Revisiting the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the Vietnam War

by Pamela McElwee

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Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 20

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New York Harbor and the Vicious Circle of the Winter of 1917–1918

by Gerard Fitzgerald

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Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 17

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"Beyond Contesting Limits: Land, Access, and Resistance at the Virunga National Park"

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.