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Humanities for the Environment: Integrating knowledge, forging new constellations of practice [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 262 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 566 g, 28 Halftones, black and white; 28 Illustrations, black and white
  • Serija: Routledge Environmental Humanities
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Nov-2016
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138188166
  • ISBN-13: 9781138188167
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 262 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 566 g, 28 Halftones, black and white; 28 Illustrations, black and white
  • Serija: Routledge Environmental Humanities
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Nov-2016
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138188166
  • ISBN-13: 9781138188167
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Humanities for the Environment examines how evidence that human impacts on the Earth are causing the planet to transition into a possible new epoch challenges academic disciplinary assumptions not only in the humanities but also in scientific and international policy circles. The collection examines how the term "Anthropocene" is increasingly being used in media reports and other venues outside of academia. Special issues ofThe Economist, Nature, and The Smithsonian have explicated and popularized the term as a powerful explanatory concept for the ways that humans are altering the planet’s carbon and nitrogen cycles, playing a role in increasing rates of extinction, releasing huge amounts of toxins, atomic isotopes, and fossilized plastics into ecosystems everywhere, and changing the pH levels and temperatures of the world’s oceans, as well as engaging in activities causing polar ice to melt, sea levels to rise, and deserts to expand.

The collection will be the first book to reflect not only on the insights of the environmental humanities into the social, cultural, legal, political and environmental impacts of the Anthropocene, but also to make an intervention into the ways that the humanities are currently organized institutionally. It is the first book to focus on new "constellations of practice" emerging out of this networking and the first to explore how the humanities is currently re-organizing to more seamlessly work with social scientists and scientists at the international level on common projects.

This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences interested in interdisciplinary questions of environment and culture

Recenzijos

Humanities for the Environment presents the work of researchers, drawn from the global HfE Observatories network, challenging the parameters of research in the traditional humanities with a view to developing more engaged, more effectively communicative modes of scholarship in response to the overwhelming environmental tumult and tragedies of our time. These are thinkers some Indigenous, many involved in Indigenous collaborations - working at the limits of imagination and passion in an effort to bring modern civilization back from its blind brink to some semblance of ecological maturity, morality and sanity. Freya Matthews, Latrobe University, AU

Humanities for the Environment (HfE): Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice is a vital, necessary, project-building collection enacting the transdisciplinary relevance of the humanities to environmental knowledge and ecological crisis. It is humanist in the deepest planetary and historicist ways, burrowing into multi-sited tactics, indigenous resources, worlding literatures, and networked practices that command imagination and solicit action under the horizon of the Anthropocene as a time when science as such needs to come to terms with dangers, risks, hopes, and damages of being human. Rob Wilson, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA

Drawing upon indigenous cosmologies, environmental pedagogy and grassroots activism, Humanities for the Environment, admirably decolonizes the fraught term, Anthropocene, and compassionately advocates with engaging and critical yet deeply felt narratives for new constellations, or gatherings of lifeways, practices, and disciplines. The aim is to put 'this world back together' for all living beings. We would do well to heed this clarion chorus. Subhankar Banerjee, Lannan Chair and Professor of Art & Ecology, University of New Mexico, USA

List of figures
vii
Acknowledgments ix
List of contributors
xi
1 Introduction: integrating knowledge, forging new constellations of practice in the environmental humanities
1(18)
Joni Adamson
PART I Integrating knowledge, extending the conversation
19(36)
2 Backbone: holding up our future
21(11)
Linda Hogan
3 Country and the gift
32(13)
Deborah Bird Rose
4 Introduction: backbone and country
45(10)
Michael Davis
PART II Backbone
55(108)
5 Twilight islands and environmental crises: re-writing a history of the Caribbean and Pacific regions through the islands existing in their shadows
57(13)
Karen N. Salt
6 Seaweed, soul-ar panels and other entanglements
70(18)
Giovanna Di Chiro
7 Is it colonial deja vu? Indigenous peoples and climate injustice
88(17)
Kyle Powys Whyte
8 Gathering the desert in an urban lab: designing the citizen humanities
105(14)
Joni Adamson
9 Environmental rephotography: visually mapping time, change and experience
119(26)
Mark Klett
Tyrone Martinsson
10 Integral ecology in the Pope's environmental encyclical, implications for environmental humanities
145(18)
Michael E. Zimmerman
PART III Country
163(96)
11 Radiation ecologies, resistance, and survivance on Pacific islands: Albert Wendt's Black Rainbow and Syaman Rapongan's Drifting Dreams and the Ocean
165(16)
Hsinya Huang
Syaman Rapongan
12 Walking together into knowledge: Aboriginal/European collaborative environmental encounters in Australia's north-east, 1847--1850
181(14)
Michael Davis
13 `The lifting of the sky': outside the Anthropocene
195(15)
Tony Birch
14 Literature, ethics and bushfire in the Anthropocene
210(15)
Kate Rigby
15 Placing the nation: curating Landmarks at the National Museum of Australia
225(17)
Kirsten Wehner
16 The oceanic turn: submarine futures of the Anthropocene
242(17)
Elizabeth Deloughrey
Index 259
Joni Adamson is Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English, and Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, USA.



Michael Davis is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, Australia, and a Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.