memory

This film follows the old farming community of Périgord, a region in southwest France, as it tries to navigate its future in the modern world.

This film focuses on an elderly woman determined to remain in her beloved village, even as demolition begins to make room for urban expansion.

The essay sheds light on the implications of Chernobyl as a national site of memory in Germany, France, and Belarus. The comparative perspective reveals the importance of underlying structures such as national (nuclear) politics, elite and expert culture, environmentalism, and the role of individual agency.

This essay reflects on an incident in 1995, when 300 snow geese died in the flooded Berkeley Pit, a toxic open pit copper mine in the northwestern United States. In his analysis the author draws on new materialist theoretical approaches that reject anthropocentric thinking and instead emphasize the powerful materiality of cultural phenomena.

Ecological Sites of Memory is a RCC project that seeks to look into the historical memories that resonate in our environmental thinking.

Ronald Hepburn explores and critically assesses the concept of the metaphysical imagination and its possible roles as part of aesthetic encounters.

Holly High reflects on how past violence becomes incorporated into contemporary landscapes and associated narratives.

This book investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualize their environments, past and present.

A review of: Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama; Ecological Relations in Historical Times: Human Impact and Adaptation by Robin A. Butlin, and Neil Roberts; and Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths.