Maputo Dancing Dump
This film tells the story of a young man whose hip-hop dance emerged from the context of Maputo’s biggest garbage dump.
This film tells the story of a young man whose hip-hop dance emerged from the context of Maputo’s biggest garbage dump.
When Gustavo Petro, then mayor of Bogotá, attempted to introduce a new zero garbage program that would allow the city’s informal recyclers to receive proper wages, he found himself in the middle of a hygienic crisis that was used by his political opponents to try to remove him from office. Garbage had become a battlefield upon which the struggle against corruption for social reform and justice was carried out.
Vanesa Castán Broto critiques sustainable development agendas that approach green cities as merely engines of economic growth.
The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities; yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on, nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities.
ENHANCE is a four-year innovative training network (ITN) funded by Marie Skłodowska Curie that is dedicated to further establishing the Environmental Humanities as a field of cutting-edge scholarship in Europe and further afield.
Short profiles of university and course syllabi, and collaborative syllabi projects on Environment and Society.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Simone Müller is interviewed on her recent book, The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade.
Introductory chapter to the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.
Chapter 2 of the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.
Chapter 3 of the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.