Adamson / Davis Humanities for the Environment

Integrating knowledge, forging new constellations of practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-28366-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

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 of The 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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adamson, Joni

Davis, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part I Introduction: Islands and Oceans 1. After Hiroshima: Ecological Debt in Albert Wendt’s 'Black Rainbow' and Syaman Rapongan’s 'Drifting Dreams and the Ocean’ 2. The Sea is Rising: Narrating Climate Change in the Pacific Islands 3. Twilight Islands and Environmental Crises: Re-writing a History of the Caribbean Region through the Islands Existing in its Shadows 4. Native Science: Rebuilding Indigenous Knowledge System upon Land and Ocean for Sustainable Island Future in Taiwan Part II Introduction: Country and Coast 5. Cosmopolitics of a Seaweed Sisterhood 6. Journeys into Knowledge: Environmental Knowledge and Place in Aboriginal/European Encounters in Australia’s North-East, 1847-1850 7. Life in the Valley: Regional Sustainability, Indigenous Knowledge and Indigenous Futures 8. The Earth will Remember Acts of Intra-human violence: Outside the Anthropocene 9. Narrative, Ethics, and Bushfire in the Anthropocene 10. Landmarks: Building Attachments to Place at the National Museum of Australia Part III Introduction: Adaption, Resurgence, and Plausible Futures 11. Resilience: Concepts of Justice, Responsibility and Resurgence among Indigenous Peoples 12. Rephotography: Timelines, Visual Maps, and Records of Human Relationships 13. Picturing Time, Telling Storied Matters: What Desert Plants and the Environmental Humanities can Teach Us about Plausible Futures 14. Connecting Past, Present and Future - The Scientific Narrative of the Anthropocene

Über Autor(innen)

Joni Adamson is Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English, and Senior Sustainability Scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.

Michael Davis is an independent historian, consultant and writer, and an Honorary Research Fellow with the Sydney Environment Institute.