Content Type: From the Network
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Food systems are broken. Could treating land as commons help?
Widespread separation from the land combined with deep inequalities may give rise to novel forms of land governance, but with contradictions and contestations.
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What happened to the global land grab?
Ian Scoones discusses the aftermath and legacies of the ‘global land grab’ ahead of a major international conference on the topic.
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Strange Natures: Volatile ecologies and shifting islands
Photo story by Sampurna Das about the shifting river islands of eastern India.
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Strange Natures: Zine – ‘Strange Realism’
A zine by Francis Gene-Rowe about poetry, the self, time, stories and nature.
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Strange Natures: The haunted floodplains of San Felipe
A series of artworks by Jorge Losoya visualise how a community is haunted by past and future floods.
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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: 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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Strange Natures: Clouties – a ghost story
Short film by Andy Thatcher set in Grovely Wood, a registered common and former Norman hunting forest in southern England.
