The book enriches the environmental debate with new conceptual tools and revitalizes thematic and methodological collaborations in the trajectory of ecocriticism. Articulating the significance of humanistic perspectives for our collective social engagement. If the anthropocene usually signifies boosterish technooptimism or dire ecoapocalypse, this book offers the hope, at least, of keener intelligence about what the. Humanity needs better ways to live in and with our environment. Alliances between the humanities and the social and natural sciences are vital in addressing and finding viable solutions to our planetary predicaments. Pages in category environmental humanities the following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. Soul fire farms practical guide to liberation on the land. A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies. The general gist of the eh movement is that there are a variety of fields of study in the humanities that can be of relevance to environmental issues, including literature and other arts, philosophy, history, gender studies. Undergraduate certificates are not awarded prior to the award of an undergraduate degree. This book offers a concise overview of this new multidisciplinary field, presenting concepts, issues, current research, concrete. The wallace stegner prize in environmental humanities. Eh book chat on rob nixons slow violence european society.
A group of australian researchers used the name ecological humanities to describe their work in the 1990s. In response to a growing interest around the world in the many questions that arise in this era of rapid environmental and social change, the journal publishes outstanding scholarship that draws humanities disciplines into conversation with. Join us as we host leah for a book conversation, and to discuss how you can help build a food system based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all. The routledge companion to the environmental humanities 1st. This database abstracts and indexes international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Hannes bergthaller national chung hsing university academia. The 3rd edition of the environmental humanities book chat is devoted to adrian ivakhivs ecologies of the moving image. The environmental humanities are a multidimensional discipline encompassing such fields as anthropology, history, literary and media studies, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, and womens and gender studies. Our vision is an inclusive community whose members are committed to environmental research, education, literature, art and service, environmental justice, and ecological sustainability. Rain bear stands last global indigenous council, coffee chat with rain bear stands last school of forestry and environmental studies, yale ritm, yale environmental humanities.
Rather than assuming that problems such as climate change, species extinction and longterm pollutants are happening in a distant nature, they are seen as closely connected to everyday ways of living. The term environmental humanities is both descriptive and aspirational. The aim of the humanities for the environment observatories hfe is to identify, explore, and demonstrate the contributions that humanistic and artistic disciplines make to solving global social and environmental challenges. Drawing insights from history, literature, cultural studies, politics and social sciences, youll learn ethical approaches to dealing with environmental issues and helping protect the natural world. Global ecologies and the environmental humanities routledge. Thinking through the environment, unsettling the humanities. Want to let others know about an event, job advertisement, call for papers, new book, prize, grant, and more.
Indeed, the field is broad and necessarily interdisciplinary. Environmental humanities and cultural anthropology 184 books. Kimmerers research demonstrates the ethos of the environmental humanities. But this term also marks an effort to see what happens when scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences talk across. Instead, please just add them as a regular news item. The environmental humanities is an interdisciplinary field that explores the social, cultural and political aspects of environmental issues. Far from being a critical introduction to the environmental humanities eh, this book is rather a manifesto for them. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Australian environmental humanities hub job advertisement. The past several weeks have brought into further relief the necessity of building academic infrastructures outside of conventional conference formats. The environmental humanities certificate is available to all asu undergraduate students. It also introduces new concepts to the environmental humanities conversation, such as.
Remaking nature, youll get a broad overview of an emerging area of interdisciplinary research that reframes contemporary environmental challenges using approaches from philosophy, literature, language, history, anthropology, cultural studies and the arts. Environmental humanities center, amsterdam, netherlands. Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor. The wallace stegner prize will be awarded to the best monograph submitted to the press in the broad field of environmental humanities.
In this neat, compact, yet very rich volume robert emmett and david nye demonstrate that the environmental humanities is a crosscutting intellectual adventure that will not only stimulate knowledge and catalyze the humanities but will also affect the transition to sustainable societies. Comparative literature and the environmental humanities. Chinese environmental humanities practices of environing at the. The journal environmental humanities was founded in 2012, indicating a key consolidation of the field. We need to transform the ecology of narratives by which we understand and practice ourselves, our communities, our cultures and politics. Keri lambert yale, wild rubber and the western frontier. Trinity centre for environmental humanities trinity. The book enriches the environmental debate with new conceptual tools and revitalizes thematic and methodological collaborations in the trajectory of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Home environmental humanities libguides at university of. Jul 26, 2015 in the 4th edition of the environmental humanities book chat, catrin gersdorf university of wurzburg and sarah elkind san diego state university join moderator hannes bergthaller to discuss. Producing british subjects and colonial borders in the gold coast and asante, 18801914 yale environmental history 4. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers.
During the 201415 academic year, funding from the mellon foundation allowed us to host the sawyer seminar on the environmental humanities, a series of nine seminars that brought top scholars in environmental history, ecocriticism, environmental philosophy, anthropology, and geography to campus. The routledge companion to the environmental humanities. To perform environmental analysis, a constant stream of relevant information is required to find out the best course of action. Mar, 2018 kimmerers research demonstrates the ethos of the environmental humanities. Back issue volume 32, number 1 novemberdecember 2010 environmental humanities. Environmental humanities is an international, openaccess journal that aims to invigorate current interdisciplinary research on the environment. Strategic planners use the information gathered from the environmental analysis for forecasting trends for future in advance. The humanities that are also regarded as social sciences include technology, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and linguistics. Sep 14, 2014 the 3rd edition of the environmental humanities book chat is devoted to adrian ivakhivs ecologies of the moving image. Remaking nature, youll get a broad overview of an emerging area of interdisciplinary research that reframes contemporary environmental challenges using approaches from philosophy, literature, language, history, anthropology, cultural studies and the. The routledge companion to the environmental humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship.
Extending this work is leahs recent and already widely acclaimed book, farming while black. Subhankar banerjee workshop, environmental writing for public audiences the next big one. This book offers a concise overview of this new multidisciplinary field, presenting concepts, issues, current research. Practices of environing at the margins chinese literature and culture in the world. Environmental humanities this newsletter is the work of the uo environmental humanities collective, associated with the environmental studies program in the college of arts and sciences, the school of architecture and allied arts, and the school of law. Watch the environmental humanities book chat on his book ecologies of the moving image. The interest in interdisciplinary cooperation between humanities, arts and social sciences in the study of environment has been constantly rising all over europe.
Environmental humanities is an international, openaccess journal that aims to. Explore the relationship between nature and culture. So, there is real political power in good writing, heise said. We no longer have a separate page for australian events. The curriculum integrates disciplines from social sciences and the humanities including. To explore such works, heise founded the environmental humanities project, which draws academics and graduate students from across the stanford campus. Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants.
Asle seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Uc san diego extension continuing education uc san. Study environmental humanities edinburgh environmental.
How the environmental humanities can heal our relationship to. The environmental humanities names a set of subfields from different academic disciplines, pulling areas of study such as environmental history and environmental philosophy under the same umbrella. Article pdf available in environmental humanities 51. Beyond eden, civilizations in collapse, precolumbian urbanism and the maya. Elizabeth deloughrey, jill didur, anthony carrigan. Pdf the anthropocene and the environmental humanities. Slow violence and environmentalism of the poor was published by harvard university press in 2011. Deborah coen yale hshm, climate in motion yale arts and humanities book talk series november 15, 2018. The north american observatory and asus environmental humanities initiative host environmental humanities workshop. Students should see an advisor for more information. Toward that end, chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the.
Dec 02, 20 the environmental humanities are invested in much more than an analysis of the role of earth systems in popular films such as grease. He has led worldhistory programs abroad and has offered two dozen environmental humanities seminars in the deserts and mountains of southern california in partnership with ucsds outback adventures. Commentary pieces should be 1,0003,000 words in length. This website provides information about our innovative graduate and undergraduate degree programs, courses, faculty, research, campus events, and much more. From etienne benson assistant professor in environmental humanities the school of arts and sciences at the university of pennsylvania invites applications for a tenuretrack assistant professor appointment in environmental humanities, broadly interpreted to embrace disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches from the humanities, social. The environmental humanities initiative ehi fosters and consolidates the diverse environmental humanities programing that takes place at uc santa barbara ucsb. Bachelor of arts in environmental humanities somas. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle. The third edition of the environmental humanities book chat is devoted to adrian ivakhivs ecologies of the moving image. The third edition of the environmental humanities book chat features a discussion of my ecologies of the moving image. Rather than simply reproducing established forms and methods of disciplinary knowledge, posthumanists confront how changes in society and. Environmental humanities,certificatedegree detailsasu.
Jan 01, 2011 that popular scientific book is widely credited with helping launch todays environmental movement. The commentary section of the journal is a space for informed discussion of key themes in the environmental humanities, especially as the field is taking shape in the published work in this journal. On keywords see raymond williams wellknown book of the same name. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. A student pursuing an undergraduate certificate must be enrolled as a degreeseeking student at asu. Discussants include the royal institute of technologys anna aberg, organizer of the tales from planet earth film festival and conference, seth peabody of harvard university and a rachel carson center fellow, and moderator hannes bergthaller of national chunghsing. Environmental writing, ehm 310k, ehm 314, ehm 331, ehm 386. The eh book chat brings together one scholar with a background in literary criticism and another who studies environmental history to discuss a book with wide relevance to both fields. Top ten recent ecocriticism environmental humanities. Books that frame environmental protection work within a cultural anthropology framework or discuss the role the humanities has played in approaches to. The environmental studies program at the college of the holy cross invites applications for a fulltime, twoyear postdoctoral fellowship 20202022 to begin august 2020. Book series this book is included in the following series.
The journal publishes outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship that draws humanities disciplines into conversation with each other, and with the natural and social sciences, around significant environmental issues. In response to a growing interest around the world in the many questions that arise in this era of rapid environmental and social change, the journal publishes outstanding scholarship that draws humanities disciplines into conversation with each other. Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between wild and built environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the contingency between environments and bodies as a foundation of its scholarship. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. The challenge for the environmental humanities lies in staking out common conceptual and methodological ground between these areas, as well as in how environmental perspectives are articulated differently within the framework of particular disciplines. At present this ecology is fatally biased to the modern human individual, and human separated. Animal infections, spillover, and the threat of pandemic. Eh book chat european society for environmental history. What the environmental humanities need to be seeking to do. Rain bear stands last global indigenous council, coffee. Welcome to humanities for the environment observatories for humanities researchers. The environmental humanities major, leading to a bachelor of arts degree, draws together a range of disciplines to explore human understanding and interpretation of nature. Eh book chat on adrian ivakhivs ecologies of the moving image.
The ehc aims to bring together students, scholars, and members of the general public interested in humanities perspectives on the. How the environmental humanities can heal our relationship. The information can also be used to assess operating environment and set up organizational. The environmental humanities are invested in much more than an analysis of the role of earth systems in popular films such as grease. When we began talking about organizing a nearly carbonneutral ncn symposium on how the humanities can be rethought and repurposed in an age of rapidly worsening ecosocial crises. Herbsts current academic projects focus on the intersections of byzantine, world, and environmental history. Biopolitics, racial mattering, and queer affect, mel chen. Inside is evidence of the wide range of humanities disciplines. As the first collaborative environmental humanities project of this kind, this book brings together sixteen scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, including. The emergence of the environmental humanities as an academic discipline early in the twentyfirst century reflects the growing conviction that environmental problems cannot be solved by science and technology alone. Comparative literature has not pioneered any of these new fields.