Content Type: From the Network
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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.
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Climate uncertainty and the arts
Jo Walton discusses how art, games and other creativity can help to open up alternative futures.
