Tag: Landscapes of Extraction
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ClearCut – The Wages of Dominion
in ExhibitsIn ClearCut – The Wages of Dominion, photographer John Riggs presents a guided meditation about the cultural mindset behind clearcutting.
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Experimental Documentary Captures Oil Midstream
in ExhibitsSteve Rowell’s film Midstream at Twilight uses drone photography to follow the toxic infrastructure of oil pipelines from source to refinery to gift shop.
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Arctic Ecologies, Then and Now: A Conversation with Bathsheba Demuth
in PodcastsBathsheba Demuth discusses her new book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, and Arctic histories of ecological crisis and hope.
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Farm Life on an Energy Frontier
in FieldnotesHow does energy production affect agricultural livelihoods and the fabric of local communities in southwestern North Dakota? As wind turbines, oil rigs, and “man camps” spread across the region, responses from residents vary from resentment to acceptance.
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There’s No Escaping Oil, Even in the Wild Arctic
in CommentaryA renewed push to open the Arctic to oil and gas drilling leads one writer to investigate petromodernity, arguing that oil flows through ideas of the environment as much as it does through the economy.
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Indigenous Art as Creative Resistance: A Conversation with Dylan Miner
in PodcastsHow can we use the arts to decolonize our relations to the land? An artist, activist, and scholar discusses the many forms of creative resistance we can use to imagine and enact new and better worlds.
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A Nation’s Shadow at Bears Ears National Monument
in ExhibitsIn a series of photographs, a scholar and wilderness guide meditates on wild places and the politics of resource extraction in southern Utah.
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Global Environmental Change in Indonesia: A Roundtable
in FieldnotesIndonesian is known both for biodiversity and environmental degradation. This tension resonates with the stories we tell about global environmental change.
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The Ethics of Ceremony at Standing Rock
Activists at Standing Rock bring a sense of ceremony to environmental politics.
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From Yavin’s Moon to the Pit of Carkoon: 7 Ways Space and Place Change How We Watch Star Wars
in ChecklistsWhat do we notice if we watch Star Wars as a space epic?