This paper examines how natural resources have been an important motive, target, and resource for warfare throughout human history.
This film examines the situation of the Tuareg people, who live across borders and at risk from poverty, environmental disasters, and militant groups.
The Hanford Site in the United States was the home of the first full-scale plutonium reactor in the world. It produced millions of gallons of radioactive waste and is now the site of massive cleanup efforts.
This article analyzes how World War II impacted both the marine and the terrestrial environment of the North Atlantic, triggered major political and economic decisions with profound cultural implications, and eventually induced a change in ocean management.
This film follows a woman who returns to modern, neoliberal Nicaragua to find the Sandinista woman soldier she filmed during the armed rebellion over two decades earlier.
After decades of unmonitored biological weapons testing and discarding of hazardous chemicals into unlined waste disposal pits, the groundwater surrounding Fort Detrick in Maryland was found to contain high levels of toxic waste, including dangerous carcinogens.
During the Gulf War, Iraqi Military dumped oil from tankers and pipelines into the Persian Gulf to ward off United States military landings and operations.
The Hongerwinter was a major famine that occurred in the Netherlands, particularly in the Nazi-occupied western part of the country. Twenty-two thousand people died and 4.5 million were affected by the direct and indirect consequences of the famine.
Literary scholar Hsu Hsuan writes about how monuments affect the way we percieve a landscape and its history. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization.”
This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.
Hsuan Hsu
