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
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risks in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” literary scholar Hsuan Hsu discusses the emergence and controversial politics of US military bases on foreign soil.
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 The article considers the example of dummy tanks used to deceive the enemy during WWII, the false expectations of the Allied forces that led them to believe that Franco’s fascist regime would fall long before it did, and the therapeutic promises offered by messianic leaders of totalitarian regimes.
Of the many factors that shaped energy transitions in the twentieth century, the World Wars are rarely considered. Yet the dramatic effects of war mobilization on energy systems and the restructuring of supply lines through new geographies of military action and alliance suggest the importance of war as an external shock or crisis with the power to reshape the political economy of energy systems profoundly. Hydroelectricity in Canada during World War II provides one example of this process. The War consolidated and propelled a transition to hydroelectricity, yet the transition was not simple or linear.
The article links this battlefield to the historical accounts of the “Battle of Teutoberg Forest” in the year 9 AD, in which three Roman legions suffered a devastating defeat at the hands of Germanic troops.
Blood in the Mobile is the story about how our phones are connected to illegal mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
