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.

About the exhibition
About the author
Introduction
Bases
Nuclear colonialism
Aftermaths
Mapping
Monuments
Photography
Literature
Documentary film
Monster movies
Reclamations
Text by Hsuan Hsu (2014) under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license. This refers only to the text and does not include any image rights; images are licensed individually. For copyright information on the above images, please click here.

Hsu, Hsuan. “Representing environmental risk in the landscapes of US militarization.” Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions 2014, no. 1. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6058.

ISSN 2198-7696 Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions

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