Changing the Paradigm for Better Conservation: Conceptual Proposals from the Environmental Humanities

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-95
Author(s):  
Micheline Cariño-Olvera ◽  
René Moreno-Terrazas-Troyo ◽  
Ananda Monteforte-Cariño
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Humanities

The Work That Plants Do

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Plant Science ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Societal Dynamics

Whether driven by developments in plant science, bio-philosophy, or broader societal dynamics, plants have to respond to a litany of environmental, social, and economic challenges. This collection explores the `work' that plants do in contemporary capitalism, examining how vegetal life is enrolled in processes of value creation, social reproduction, and capital accumulation. Bringing together insights from geography, anthropology, and the environmental humanities, the contributors contend that attention to the diverse capacities and agencies of plants can both enrich understandings of capitalist economies, and also catalyze new forms of resistance to their logics.

scholarly journals Among Forests, Wetlands and Animals: Ecocriticism in the Baltics

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-51
Author(s):  
Kadri Tüür ◽  
Ene-Reet Soovik
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Institutional Representation

      Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania often tend to be grouped together under the label of ’the Baltic countries’, yet they constitute a region characterised by a diversity which also manifests itself in the field of academic research. Still, it may be possible to detect some common elements in the ecocriticism-related activities that have been taking place in these states during the past couple of decades. The article maps the salient tendencies in the environmental humanities (including ecocriticism) of the region that recently gained an institutionalised platform in the form of the Baltic Conferences on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences (BALTEHUMS) that were started in 2018. A survey is given of the three countries’ most significant events and publications that have boasted an ecocritical component, ecocriticism’s institutional representation and inclusion of ecocritical issues in university syllabuses and theory textbooks, as well as some pertinent topics and sub-fields on which the scholars in these countries are currently working. Among these, various aspects of the connections of literature and the ecosystems of the forest (trees) and the mire can be noticed; while also animal studies, literary urban studies, bio- and ecosemiotics and environmental history appear to have entered a fruitful dialogue with ecocritical scholarship currently conducted in the Baltics.

scholarly journals Reading Italian Hours in the Anthropocene

Viatica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric MOREL
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Environmental Humanities

This essay situates Henry James’s Italian Hours within recent conversations about Anthropocene ecotourism. Although ecotourism aspires to educate its participants, scholars have struggled to define and assess the education it occasions. This article opens by offering Henry James’s reflections on reading John Ruskin in Italy to make an environmental humanities contribution to that scholarship. Thereafter, the article considers the Anthropocene ecotourism context in the other direction, drawing from “Siena Early and Late” to develop emergent work in econarratology.

scholarly journals Bird Banding and the Environmental Humanities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Kristoffer Whitney
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Biological Survey ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bureau Of Biological Survey ◽  
Historical Practices ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
And Behavior

Abstract This article tells a history of bird banding—the practice of catching and affixing birds with durable bands with the intent of tracking their movements and behavior—by focusing on the embodied aspects of this method in field ornithology. Going beyond a straightforward, institutional history of bird banding, the article uses the writings of biologists in the US Bureau of Biological Survey and the US Fish and Wildlife Service to describe the historical practices of bird banding and the phenomenological experience of banding, both for the scientists and the birds (via their banding interlocutors). The article then presents the career and research of Margaret Morse Nice as an exemplar of the embodied practice of banding for the purposes of understanding bird behavior. Finally the article uses the example and heritage of Nice as well as banders and scientists like her to discuss a phenomenological approach common to any number of observation-based field biology disciplines (including, especially, ethology) and deep connections between human and animal subjectivities. And these connections, in turn, have implications for the environmental humanities, environmental conservation, and the ethics of knowing the nonhuman world.

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