Occupy Love
This film explores the Occupy protests and similar activist movements and what their vision for the world is.
Latitude:
27.00
Longitude:
30.00
GeoNames ID:
357 994
Egypt
Rifts or Bridges? Ruptures and Continuities in Human-Environment Interactions
The focus on human-environment relations from the perspective of climate change alone is too narrow. Often, society experiences climate change through political and technical decisions, rather than as an environmental crisis.
Whose Anthropocene? Revisiting Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “Four Theses”
About this issue
In “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” Dipesh Chakrabarty examined the idea of the Anthropocene—the dawn of a new geological period dominated by human activities—in the context of history and philosophy, raising fundamental questions about how we think historically in an era when human and geological timescales are colliding.This volume of RCC Perspectives offers critiques of these “Four Theses” by scholars of environmental history, political philosophy, religious studies, literary criticism, environmental planning, geography, law, biology, and geology.
Content
Life in Ancient Egypt: Akhentanen, the Armarna Period, and Tutankhamun
In the study, Albert Zink and his group identify and interpret nuclear DNA in a number of different Egyptian royal mummies and put the existing hypotheses about their identities to the test.
Dammed Water: Water as a National Commodity
A cultural and historical analysis of the recent past of the Nile Valley shows how interpretations and perceptions of territory, space, and nature are not necessarily indisputably “true” and definitive principles. On the contrary, they are constructed and, therefore, changeable.
Sickness, Hunger, War, and Religion: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
About this issue
Disease, hunger, war, and religion have shaped human existence over many centuries. This volume of RCC Perspectives presents exciting syntheses between research in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and history.
Content
Alan Mikhail on his book Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
Interview with the author of one of the first environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire.
SEKEM: Aus der Kraft der Sonne [SEKEM: Born of the Sun]
The film discusses how biodynamic agricultural methods transformed an area of desert 60 kilometers northeast of Cairo, and a leading agro-industrial corporation was founded.
Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
This environmental history of ancient civilizations seeks to demonstrate that environmental degradation is not exclusively a problem of the modern world.
Arabic Treatises On Environmental Pollution Up To The End Of The Thirteenth Century
Studying the contents of each work shows which authors were merely copying the Greek theory of humours and miasma, and which made genuine contributions to the field.