Category: Nature & Natural Resources
Ideas and stories that show how people understand, value and struggle over nature and natural resources.
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MINERIA: An animation about mining, energy and justice
Climate change is leading to changing demand for minerals for renewable energy storage, with impacts for people and land in Latin America.
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Strange Natures: Compost
A short series of drawings by Marion Bessol in response to the theme of ‘Strange Natures’.
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Strange Natures: Podcast – Folk horror and English commons
Andy Thatcher discusses how he uses film to appreciate English commons, and the uses of folk horror, the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’ in exploring contested histories.
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Strange Natures: Podcast – Forgotten places and the field of memory
A podcast episode with researcher Cansu Sönmez about the impacts of large infrastructure projects and how people respond to them.
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Strange Natures: PLOT – A film by JT Roane
An experimental film by JT Roane reflecting on the past and present of historic rural Black landscapes.
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Strange Natures: Common Place
Common Place, a film by Andy Thatcher, is a hauntological exploration of access and climate crisis at a common in Devon. Common Place was filmed as part of a series of explorations around the Pebblebed Heaths National Nature Reserve in East Devon. Andy writes: I spent the month around the solstice 2023 filming in the…
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Podcast: Mining and Resistance in Covas do Barroso
Future Natures podcast episode about resistance to lithium mining in Portugal.
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Comic: Map, Territory, Story
The second comic from Future Natures explores the abuses of maps and the myth of the so-called ‘tragedy’ of the commons.
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Recommended podcast: Changing Currents
This podcast from Arts Catalyst brings together artists, growers, community groups and researchers working on different initiatives in South Yorkshire.
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To think, feel and see otherwise: a report and a mini-zine from POLLEN23
Some reflections and a mini-zine from the conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) in June 2023.