environmental humanities
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The negotiation inside historical upheaval and domestic space
Linnaea Rose Weld Donald Snow L Mcdermott Environmental Humanities
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Body writing the search for an embodied ecopoetics
s humankind out of its environment and depraves the female as meaningless. Winterson is a demonstrably feminist author and self identified lesbian. Her books both privilege and disparage the body in a radical reclamation of the traditional philosophical female position. As bodies come to wield power over words (reversing the patriarchal hegemonic power of language in Western Civilization) the archetypal female designation overtakes the male oppressor in an upsurge of distinctly material strength. By Winterson's feminist ecopoetics, the phenomenological comes to re assert its crucial position in the epistemological. In other words, Written on the Body is a successful example of a test "descended." Winterson's resistance to the patriarchal and materialist traditions of literature becomes clearer when her fiction works are viewed together. In concert, her books form a kind of ecofeminist discourse all their own. Many of her books take Art and Lies for example feature characters, events, or at the least names that lampoon Western Civilization's traditional discourse in one way or another. The characters of Art and Lies are named Sappho, Handel, and Napoleon to name a few. Written on the Body, and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit are both replete with biblical imagery and/or explicit discussion of religion that always denigrates and teases. In this way, what I am calling Winterson's ecopoetic tendencies is also what many others have called her feminism: the collective scrutiny and up ending of stodgy old white patriarchy and its cultural achievements. It is important for us to distinguish here between the language and the "discourse" that Manes mentions. The language is the collected units of meaning we use in various arrangements to communicate. The discourse, in a linguistic sense, is what Winterson
Sierra Dickey Emily Jones Environmental Humanities
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Teaching the Environmental Humanities
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH) It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critical engagement with some of the key challenges and opportunities that are emerging in EH teaching, centering on how the field is being defined, shared concepts and ideas, interdisciplinary pedagogies, and the centrality of experimental and public facing approaches to teaching. The final part of the article offers six brief summaries of experimental pedagogies from our authorship team that aim to give a concrete sense of EH teaching in practice.
Environmental Humanities
Emily O'Gorman Tom J M Van Dooren Ursula Munster Joni Adamson Christof Mauch Sverker Sorlin Marco Armiero Kati Lindstrom Donna Houston Jose Augusto Padua Kate Rigby Owain Jones J P Michael Motion Stephen Muecke Chia-Ju Chang Shuyuan Lu Christopher Frederick Jones Lesley Green Frank Matose Hedley Twidle Matthew Schneider-Mayerson Bethany Wiggin Dolly Jorgensen
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Doing environmental humanities: inter/transdisciplinary research through an underwater 360deg video poem
ABSTRACT Those who write about environmental humanities call on researchers to be interdisciplinary. But what kind of interdisciplinary research is required and how might a researcher actually do this form of research? The article presents one way for doing interdisciplinary research, using ecocritical analysis on Theodore Sturgeon's short story, 'It' and then using that as a basis for developing an alternative narrative for a 360deg video poem. To address what makes this research practice environmental humanities and not just ecocriticism, this article puts the histories of ecocriticism and environmental humanities in conversation with their approaches to interdisciplinarity. What seems apparent is that environmental humanities value external and instrumental forms of interdisciplinarity but that it also may be a burgeoning transdisciplinary effort.
Jesse Don Peterson
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The Emergent Environmental Humanities: Engineering the Social Imaginary
The Environmental Humanities (EH) matter, and scientific consensus now stresses the need for a fundamental shift within the humanities towards more interdisciplinary investigation of environmental issues. In recent years, a need has emerged for the interdisciplinary field of the EH to address the complexity of societal relationships with the natural and built environments (see Braidotti et al. 506) This complex context requires a fluid understanding of the interaction between nature and culture, thus challenging the artificial disciplinary separations between the human, social, and natural sciences all of which has profound consequences for the future of literary studies as well. The field of the EH questions the basic concepts of reference in the shared understanding of human conditions, their place in the planetary history, and the disturbing potentials for anthropogenic depletion of the entire ecosystem. However, humanistic study of environmental matters is nothing new. Tens of thousands of years before the development of the scientific method, humans attempted to understand their connections to the natural world through culture. Humanistic fields have recently coalesced around the issue of the environment, and the EH have developed incredibly sophisticated, deep, and diverse approaches and theoretical methodologies to examine the human dimensions of the relationship to the environment. While the natural sciences have worked on environmental issues for some time, in the wider context literary, philosophical, and historical study of the environment is underrepresented. Thus what is needed now, more than
Chad Weidner R Braidotti Goda Klumbyte
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Toxic Bios: Toxic Autobiographies A Public Environmental Humanities Project
Abstract In this article, we present Toxic Bios, a public environmental humanities (EH) project that aims to coproduce, gather, and make visible stories of contamination and resistance. To explain
Environmental Justice
Ruiz CauyelaSergio Di PierriMarica Fernandes de Oliveira Ilenia Iengo SariAyse Ceren
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Weaving the environmental humanities: Australian strands, configurations, and provocations
ABSTRACT This article contributes an Australian perspective to this special issue's exploration of the parameters of the emerging cross disciplinary field of the environmental humanities, and its relationship to ecocriticism. Whereas in the US, and to some extent also in the UK, environmental humanities are seen to be closely associated with literary studies, in Australia, the project of the 'ecological humanities' inaugurated at the Australian National University in the late 1990s, was more firmly located in environmental history, ecophilosophy and ethnography (especially Aboriginal Studies) Crossing the divides between the natural and social sciences and the arts and humanities, as well as between western and other (especially, Aboriginal) ways of knowing, this project also had an expressly decolonial agenda. In reflecting on the Australian experience from my current vantage point in England, I hope to give impetus to the further development of the environmental humanities in the UK and Ireland as a richly inter and transdisciplinary field, in which ecocritics might be drawn into new kinds of collaboration and forms of knowledge.
Catherine Elizabeth Rigby
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Toxic Embodiment and Feminist Environmental Humanities Introduction
Olga Cielemecka Cecilia Asberg
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Environmental humanities: voices from the Anthropocene
others of the productivity of scholarly environmentalism. And indeed, the task is met: Emmett and Scanlan's is a timely and well written introduction that not only identifies relevant fields of research and provides helpful entries into debates and secondary literature. The volume also identifies crucial points of debate and possible conflict even and especially when it glosses over some of the problems of joint research on environmental change as well as in those sections that directly address 'internal conflicts' (170) and interdisciplinarity.
Adrian Tait
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The Routledge companion to the environmental humanities
Adrian Tait