Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

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Becca Voelcker, "Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction" (U California Press, 2025)

Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction considers nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advances an understanding of land as a locus of social and environmental responsibility. Diving into little-known archives to explore films that resonate across geographies, Becca ...  Show more

Gods and the State: Environmental Change in the Blang Mountains, China

What happens to the environment when the state enters previously self-governed villages in rural China? We explore this question in the Blang mountains in southwestern China, a region that was incorporated into the nascent people’s republic of China from 1953 onwards, with immens ...  Show more

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Antero Garcia, "All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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