Multimedia | film profile
Unser America [Our America]
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.
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Multimedia | film profile
A Future Without Oil
This film follows Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa’s plan to avoid exploiting its Amazonian oil fields and convince industrialized countries to help fund this initiative.
Multimedia | book profile
Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants, and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
Disrupted Landscapes focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.
Perspectives Article
Waste Utopias: Lessons from Socialist Europe for the Twenty-First Century
This essay examines practices in socialist Hungary in the 1950s that can be considered a historical antecedent to contemporary zero-waste programs. The experiences and challenges of implementing waste collection and reuse programs can offer lessons for us today.
Arcadia
Managing Tourism and Environmental Protection in Lake Ohrid in the 1970s and 1980s
This article examines the development of lake Ohrid in Macedonia, and the dilemma between environmental protection and the expansion of mass tourism on the lake’s fragile shores.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with John Bellamy Foster, author of The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Bellamy Foster is interviewed on his book, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology.
Multimedia | book profile
The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
Excerpt from The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology by John Bellamy Foster.
Multimedia | journal article
“Regimes of Value: Economic Transformations, Ecological Livelihoods, and Salt Cooperatives on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast”
This article investigates changing regimes of value in the salt flats on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast.
Multimedia | book, full-text
The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology
Full text of Elena Kochetkova’s The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology, a book on the relationship between nature and humans under state socialism.