Animal Rights vs. Bullfights: The Horns of an Indian Dilemma
Arcadia, Spring 2016, no. 5
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Fishing for Empire: Settlement and Maritime Conflict in the Russian Far East
Arcadia, Autumn 2015, no. 20
The Man-Eater Sent by God: Unruly Interspecies Intimacies in India’s Central Himalayas
Using accounts of man-eating leopards and changing, ungovernable landscape in India’s Central Himalayas, this paper makes sense of the complex and multiple dimensions of the interspecies companionship at the heart of human-wildlife conflict.
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.
More Than a “Paper Park”: Tayrona, a Caribbean Paradise
Arcadia, 2015, no. 6
The Dutch Hunger Winter 1944-45
The Hongerwinter was a major famine that occurred in the Netherlands, particularly in the Nazi-occupied western part of the country. Twenty-two thousand people died and 4.5 million were affected by the direct and indirect consequences of the famine.
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Africa’s Mountains: Collecting and Interpreting the Past
This essay addresses the challenges of collecting and interpreting data for environmental history in East Africa’s highlands.
"Realms of Value: Conflicting Natural Resource Values and Incommensurability"
Divergent values are often at the heart of natural resource conflict. Sarah Fleisher Trainor analyses those using the case study of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, USA.
"Gender, Values and Power in Local Environmental Conflicts: The Case of Grassroots Organisations in North Catalonia"
In this article, Mercè Agüera-Cabo presents the case of grassroots organizations in North Catalonia in the context of gender, values, and power in local environmental conflicts.