Anthony Carrigan, Carson Fellow from January to June 2012, talks about his research concerning social disasters such as wars and ongoing chronic poverty that can develop from colonization.
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
This collection brings together leading scholars on the environments of Latin America and the Caribbean to give us new and alternative narratives of the postcolonial history of the continent.
Esta colección reúne a algunos de los académicos más destacados en el estudio de las historias ambientales de América Latina y el Caribe para proponer nuevas perspectivas sobre el desarrollo poscolonial del continente. Estos ensayos narran historias variadas de interacciones complejas entre grupos sociales, estados y sus ambientes, y proveen nuevos ángulos para enriquecer las interpretaciones más conocidas.
In this chapter of the online exhibition “Representing Environmental Risks in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” literary scholar Hsuan L. Hsu writes about the impacts of US nuclear testing.
This article looks at the history of the plant Erythroxylum coca—a natural source of cocaine—which offers one way to trace the interaction between a physiological agent in history and the growth of empires.
This article engages with such questions by focusing on the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary of Kerala in southern India, arguing that a reconceptualization of both “culture” and “nature” will be necessary in order to prevent the concept of biocultural diversity from appearing as just another form of “green neocolonization” or “eco-imperialism.”
The essay suggests that what is absent from the scientific discourse on the Anthropocene is a postcolonial perspective that points out the fact that we are not talking about generalizable social, economic, and cultural structures and belief systems, but that instead we are describing very specific political, economic, and discursive regimes of power.
Literary scholar Hsu Hsuan writes about the relation between the content of monster movies like Godzilla and US military activity in the Pacific. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization.”
The urban experience in Latin America is explained less by the opposition between the countryside and the city, than by the image of a continuum—highlighting the integration of cities into rural economies, extractivist communities, and into the Latin American landscape in general.
