Revisiting Forgotten Foods: A Case Study from California
This photo essay looks at how a forgotten local food—the berry-producing Manzanita shrub of northern California—has begun to make its way back into the diets of the local community.
This photo essay looks at how a forgotten local food—the berry-producing Manzanita shrub of northern California—has begun to make its way back into the diets of the local community.
Jonathan Clapperton details the importance of whaling to Puget Sound Coast Salish people (Puget Salish) along the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia challenges the idea of indigenous knowledge and cultures as static,and explores multiple facets of ethnoecology and mobility in Amazonia and beyond.
The authors highlight how the Indian state increasingly views adivasis (=indigenous people) as a possible ethno-environmental fix for conservation, and how non-adivasis project their environmental subjectivities to claim that they, too, belong.
A reflection on the use of images in environmental history.
The authors explore the implementation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous knowledge (IK) in mapping efforts, taking cues from previous spatio-temporal visualization work in the Geographic(al) Information System(s)/Science(s) GIS community, and from temporal depictions extant in existing cultural traditions.
Once introduced to promote the fur industry, beavers in Tierra del Fuego are now deemed an invasive population to be eradicated.
This essay explores the paradoxical relationship between extractive activities of the mining company Anaconda and indigenous villages of Atacama, Chile.
In 1955, the Canadian Post Office Department issues a stamp to highlight its effective occupation of the High Arctic.
This study historicises environmental issues at the Chinhoyi Caves that are of contemporaneous resonance with the ecological crisis faced by the modern world. It deals with important themes like water-resource management, indigenous knowledge and its efficacy in the preservation of nature, colonialism and its environmental implications, forest use and deforestation, dislocation and displacement of indigenous people, and the interaction of the local with the global.