Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas and the Icelandic Saga Map

PMLA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Lethbridge ◽  
Steven Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Research Initiative ◽  
Literature History ◽  
New Research ◽  
Diverse Data ◽  
Digital Research ◽  
Research Tools

This essay discusses strategic efforts to develop new digital research tools and approaches as key elements of an inter-disciplinary research initiative in progress, Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM), which aims to study aspects of Icelandic literature, history, archaeology, environment, and geography in order to better understand societal responses to environmental change over the longue durée. The essay showcases a particular digital humanities project, Icelandic Saga Map (ISM), which not only provides an extremely useful tool for helping achieve many of the identified aims and methodological needs of an integrated environmental humanities initiative such as IEM but also is a valuable example of how innovative digital humanities tools can foster new research trajectories and open up new horizons for interdisciplinary engagement and synthesis of knowledge and diverse data.

scholarly journals Quality Assessment for the Sustainable Provision of Software Components and Digital Research Infrastructures for the Arts and Humanities

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Buddenbohm ◽  
Markus Matoni ◽  
Stefan Schmunk ◽  
Carsten Thiel
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Software Components ◽  
Good Scientific Practice ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Research Publications ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Digital Research

AbstractInfrastructure for facilitating access to and reuse of research publications and data is well established nowadays. However, such is not the case for software. In spite of documentation and reusability of software being recognised as good scientific practice, and a growing demand for them, the infrastructure and services necessary for software are still in their infancy. This paper explores how quality assessment may be utilised for evaluating the infrastructure for software, and to ascertain the effort required to archive software and make it available for future use. The paper focuses specifically on digital humanities and related ESFRI projects.

scholarly journals Mobile Worlds: Choice at the Intersection of Demographic and Environmental Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Barnett ◽  
W. Neil Adger
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Size Composition ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Integrate Analysis ◽  
Individual Decisions ◽  
New Research

Research on environmental change has often focused on changes in population as a significant driver of unsustainability and environmental degradation. Demographic pessimism and limited engagement with demographic realities underpin many arguments concerning limits to growth, environmental refugees, and environment-related conflicts. Re-engagement between demographic and environmental sciences has led to greater understanding of the interactions between the size, composition, and distribution of populations and exposure to environmental risks and contributions to environmental burdens. We review the results of this renewed and far more nuanced research frontier, focusing in particular on the way demographic trends affect exposure, sensitivity, and adaptation to environmental change. New research has explained how migration systems interact with environmental challenges in individual decisions and in globally aggregate flows. Here we integrate analysis on demographic and environmental risks that often share a root cause in limited social freedoms and opportunities. We argue for a capabilities approach to promoting sustainable solutions for a more mobile world.

scholarly journals ESD for All: Learnings from the #IndigenousESD Global Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Katrin Kohl ◽  
Charles A. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
First Century ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Research Initiative ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
New Research ◽  
Perceived Outcomes

Abstract Education is recognized a human right for all. Though, Indigenous communities do not yet enjoy their full rights to education and are put at risk of losing their Indigenous culture and identity. A new research initiative, holding dialogues discussing the perceived outcomes of quality education in the eyes of several stakeholders, shows that access and retention in equitable and inclusive quality education as described in SDG 4 are highly valued. The research was jointly developed and carried out by researchers and Indigenous communities in 29 countries. Twenty-first century knowledge and skills are crucial for future Indigenous generations to create their livelihood and successfully engage in both Indigenous community life as well as mainstream society. Learning within formal school systems to understand their Indigenous heritage and keep the connection to their environment despite aspiring modern lifestyles, creates relevance which enhances both learning and retention. Beyond twenty-first century competencies, vital elements of education quality seen as relevant for Indigenous youth are aligned with education for sustainable development and applicable for all learners.

scholarly journals Historical and legal discourse in the context of classical and postclassical legal understanding

2021 ◽  
pp. 106-111
Author(s):  
Tetiana Bondaruk
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Legal Environment ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Legal Space ◽  
New Research ◽  
Legal Understanding ◽  
Research Tools

Іntroduction. Historical and legal science, as well as the science of law in general, is acutely faced with challenges related to the new stage of development of humanities knowledge and the corresponding change of research paradigm that occurs during the struggle between classical and nonclassical (postclassical) types of legal understanding Тhe aim of the article. Тhese processes need to be understood and "adapted" in particular in the historical and legal discourse. In particular, it is proposed to analyze the phenomenon of deformation of the phenomenon of law, and the resulting differentiation of the subject, in particular in historical and legal research, and the coherence of research tools offered within the classical and nonclassical types of legal understanding Results. Modern methodological research is a natural reaction of the domestic legal process to the dominance of the monistic materialist approach to the study of legal phenomena, which actualizes anthropological and axiological approaches. Both anthropologization and axiologization of law cause the deformalization of the phenomenon of law, creating a conceptual In the light of the above, it seems important to consider in relation to the relationship such concepts as legal reality (historical and legal reality), legal life, legal system as central, and legal space, legal field, legal environment as peripheral. At the same time, attention is drawn to the normative nature of the legal system, the ontological nature of legal reality, the inconsistency of legal life as a starting point in the choice of methodological tools. Introduction to the historical and legal discourse of «ontological metaphors»: legal communication, legal event, legal life, legal space, legal field, legal environment, etc., will activate the intersubjective model of knowledge of law as a sociocultural phenomenon, draw attention to the dynamics of law, using an arsenal of non-classical methodology. Conclusions. An overview of some trends that lead to a change in the object and subject of jurisprudence shows a radical change in its methodology, which should form research tools to answer new research questions. This process is part of the process of modern «cultivation» of integrated thinking as opposed to or in addition to analytical and systemic, which is characterized by consideration of reality in mechanistic categories, and, being irreversible, requires appropriate historical and legal reflections

scholarly journals The changing face of the Mediterranean – Land cover, demography and environmental change: Introduction and overview

The Holocene ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 703-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Bevan ◽  
Alessio Palmisano ◽  
Jessie Woodbridge ◽  
Ralph Fyfe ◽  
C Neil Roberts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Research Initiative ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
The Mediterranean

This paper introduces a special issue on The Changing Face of the Mediterranean: Land Cover, Demography, and Environmental Change, which brings together up-to-date regional or thematic perspectives on major long-term trends in Mediterranean human–environment relations. Particularly, important insights are provided by palynology to reconstruct past vegetation and land cover, and archaeology to establish long-term demographic trends, but with further significant input from palaeoclimatology, palaeofire research and geomorphology. Here, we introduce the rationale behind this pan-Mediterranean research initiative, outline its major sources of evidence and method, and describe how individual submissions work to complement one another.

‘Attention, attention, exploring minds acknowledge digital structure!’ The shift to digital humanities has happened, so what should information scientists do in response?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volkmar P Engerer
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Information Behaviour ◽  
Information Gap ◽  
Research Objects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Gap Paradigm ◽  
Digital Research

Abstract This article examines the impact of the digital humanities on information science and information scientists and how information scientists can contribute to digital collaborations in the digital humanities. This article uses three basic concepts—user-researcher, digital information system, and digital research object—as the framework for a description of the digital humanities shift and discusses the consequences of this shift for information science with reference to these concepts. The second part of the article investigates the two pillars of the digital humanities shift, acknowledgement of digital structure and the exploring mind, in more detail. In the case of correspondences, acknowledgement of digital structure involves respecting the ‘thing-like’ properties of letters that cannot be handled (searched, classified, etc.) unless they are translated into digitized metadata; this elevates metadata to genuine digital research objects. These theoretical issues are illustrated by the Prior archive, a collection of digitized letters, manuscript drafts, and other ‘grey’ material bequeathed from the New Zealand logician-philosopher Arthur Norman Prior. The concept of the ‘exploring mind’ is connected to a movement in information science, away from the needful user and information gap paradigm towards more open and exploratory information behaviour in the digital humanities. A concluding literature review examines selected works of information science that deals with non-standard, serendipitous information behaviour and identifies exploratory and serendipitous design features of information systems for the digital humanities. These features are represented in a taxonomy consisting of six design categories.

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