The environmental humanities places scientific knowledge in dialogue with the key concerns of the humanities. Environmental humanities lecture series begins oct. This series in environmental humanities offers approaches to medieval, early modern, and global preindustrial cultures from interdisciplinary environmental perspectives. The routledge environmental humanities series seeks to engage with contemporary environmental challenges through the various lenses of the humanities and to explore foundational issues in environmental justice, multicultural environmentalism, ecofeminism, environmental psychology, environmental materialities and textualities, traditional ecological knowledge, environmental communication and information management, multispecies relationships, and related topics. Alliances between the humanities and the social and natural sciences are vital in addressing and finding viable solutions to our planetary predicaments. To this end, a series of recent events have focused on the need to develop eh approaches in this area, for example the kth intensive school in public environmental humanities and the unswasukings college london symposium on the participatory environmental humanities, both held in 2017. Apr 03, 2018 the spring 2018 environmental humanities lecture series will bring to campus two leading scholars in the field.
This page invites contributors and readers to rethink these questions by taking a broad stance on what counts as an environmental issue. Environmental humanities is a new research series published by brillrodopi and organized by the nordic network for interdisciplinary environmental studies. The environmental humanities aim to help bridge traditional divides between the sciences and the humanities, as well as between western, eastern, and indigenous ways of relating to the natural world and the place of humans within it. Traditionally, environmental studies programs have emphasized the physical sciences and policy studies. Publishers asle association for the study of literature and. The book enriches the environmental debate with new conceptual tools and revitalizes thematic and methodological collaborations in the trajectory of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Convening conversations already taking place among faculty across nyus campuses and beyond, the environmental humanities interweave the universitys sustainability initiatives with established and emerging academic fields in environmentalism and ecology including the. Amsterdam university press is launching a new book series on environmental humanities and premodern cultures. Dec 30, 2019 the wallace stegner prize in environmental humanities. In this neat, compact, yet very rich volume robert emmett and david nye demonstrate that the environmental humanities is a crosscutting intellectual adventure that will not only stimulate knowledge and catalyze the humanities but will also affect the transition to sustainable societies. Information, emotion, and meaning in a world of data 2015, which provided the original impetus for creating this website, focuses on several key psychological obstacles to awareness and sensitivity regarding mass. Jenkins is tilghman professor of english, journalism, and environmental humanities at the university of delaware. Commentary pieces should be 1,0003,000 words in length.
Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending. During the 201415 academic year, funding from the mellon foundation allowed us to host the sawyer seminar on the environmental humanities, a series of nine seminars that brought top scholars in environmental history, ecocriticism, environmental philosophy. This series in environmental humanities offers approaches to medieval, early modern, and global preindustrial cultures from interdisciplinary environmental. The nyu center for the humanities is pleased to announce a series of events addressing the environmental humanities. At the center of this transformation is human culture, both contributing to the state of the world and responding to. The environmental humanities are a multidimensional discipline encompassing such fields as anthropology, history, literary and media studies, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, and womens and gender studies. The emergence of the environmental humanities as an academic discipline early in the twentyfirst century reflects the growing conviction that environmental problems cannot be solved by science and technology alone. Empire, environment, and borders in the modern middle east, 18581939explores the shadow geography of the arid region known as the jazira and the intricate choreography of humans and animals it structured in the late ottoman empire and after. The wallace stegner prize will be awarded to the best monograph submitted to the press in the broad field of environmental humanities. Yesterday, jadaliyya launched a new environment page, which is a forum for innovative, critical, and incisive analysis and reporting on environmental questions in the middle east. Environmental humanities initiative nyu center for the. The 201718 environmental humanities lecture series will bring to campus four pioneering scholars in the environmental humanities, beginning with heidi hutner stony brook university.
Environmental humanities cogut institute for the humanities. Her talk, mothers, children and nuclear stories on wed. Aup launches new series on environmental humanities amsterdam university press is launching a new book series on environmental humanities and premodern cultures. You can keep up with new issues of the journal by following us on twitter or liking us on facebook. The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. Book series in environmental humanities in premodern cultures. The living lexicon is a series of 1,000word essays on keywords in the environmental humanities that highlight how each term can move the field forward under the dual imperative for critique and action. There are profound intersections between the environmental humanities and the psychological obstacles to compassion.
Environmental humanities and cultural anthropology books that frame environmental protection work within a cultural anthropology framework or discuss the role the humanities has played in approaches to human attitudes toward the natural world. This book offers a concise overview of this new multidisciplinary field, presenting concepts, issues, current research, concrete examples, and case studies. New book series environmental humanities in premodern cultures posted on november 19, 2016 by dolly jorgensen environmental humanities in premodern cultures. Presss read to respond series highlights articles and books that engage with. Although the concepts and ideas underpinning environmental humanities date back centuries, the field consolidated under the name environmental humanities in the 2000s following steady developments of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s in humanities and social science fields such as literature, history, philosophy, gender studies, and anthropology. Her research addresses the production and translation of environmental knowledge and the environmental history of the body. The routledge companion to the environmental humanities 1st.
Asus environmental humanities certificate offers students a humanitiesbased approach that explores the relationship between human culture and the environment and examines the impact of human activities on the planet. The very first environmental humanities speaker series event happened on october 29, 2018. Environmental humanities the arithmetic of compassion. Environmental humanities certificate department of english. Scholars in the environmental humanities ask and seek to answer questions like these. Rather than simply reproducing established forms and methods of disciplinary knowledge, posthumanists confront how changes in society and culture require that. Environmental humanities and cultural anthropology 184 books. Our main aim in this course is to consider and create new narratives about how humans and the environment relate to one another.
Environmental humanities employs humanistic questions about meaning, culture, values, ethics, and responsibilities to address pressing environmental problems. But just as today science is often simply equated with natural science. The journal publishes outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship that draws humanities disciplines into conversation with each other, and with the natural and social sciences, around significant environmental issues. Environmental thought pursues with renewed urgency the grand questions of the humanities. All talks in the series are free and open to the public. Ecocritical theory and practice series mercer university press palgrave macmillan. The routledge companion to the environmental humanities. The environmental humanities series features research that adopts and adapts the methods of the humanities to clarify the cultural meanings associated with environmental debate. Browse ebooks from the environmentalhumanities series to read online or download in epub or pdf format. The myth of the empty environmental arts and humanities series. Rowman and littlefield international intersections.
New book series environmental humanities in premodern. From microplastics in the sea to hypertrends such as global climate change, megaextinction, and widening social disparities and displacement, we live on a planet undergoing tremendous flux and uncertainty. From noted environmental historian carolyn merchant, this book focuses on the original concept of the anthropocene first proposed by paul crutzen and eugene stoermer in their foundational 2000 paper. The environmental humanities series features research that adopts and. Pdf environmental humanities book series brett buchanan. The humanities that are also regarded as social sciences include technology, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and linguistics.
The routledge companion to the environmental humanities routledge literature companions heise, ursula k. The myth of the empty environmental arts and humanities series fox, william l. Nov 06, 2019 the broader book projectentitled locusts of power. Our vision is an inclusive community whose members are committed to environmental research, education, literature, art and service, environmental justice, and ecological sustainability.
Speaker series school of earth and environment rowan. Pdf environmental humanities book series brett buchanan, cheryl lousley, and adrian ivakhiv academia. Environmental humanities in premodern cultures amsterdam. Articulating the significance of humanistic perspectives for our collective social engagement with ecological. Teaching the environmental humanities environmental. The environmental humanities are the traditional humanities such as philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history, language studies, cultural geography conjoined in new interdisciplinary formations inc with the natural and social sciences to address the environmental crisis currently engulfing us its antecedents, current. Designed as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, disability studies and the environmental humanities employs interdisciplinary perspectives to examine such issues as slow violence, imperialism, race, toxicity, ecosickness, the body in environmental justice, ableism, and other topics. The initiative for environmental humanities at brown ehab is the center of a vibrant intellectual community focused on environmental learning and research in the humanities that includes speaker series, workshops, reading groups, and other sites of engagement.
Browse ebooks from the environmental humanities series to read online or download in epub or pdf format. A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies. The routledge companion to the environmental humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship. This book series publishes original monographs and edited volumes in the humanities on issues specific to asia, as well as general issues in the humanities within the context of asia, or issues which were shaped by or can be enlightened by asian perspectives. Browse gift certificates drmfree books my ebooks my account my wishlist sign in create an account gift certificates drmfree books newsletters feedback blog help logout sign in. Book proposals for new humanities list emerald publishing. It undertakes a broad investigation into the ways in which science, technology, and the humanities can create a new and compelling awareness of. Dec 18, 2018 environmental humanities including environmental literature, ecocriticism, environmental history, environmental philosophy and environmental anthropology we are developing new book series in each of these areas and actively commissioning standalone book projects covering research monographs and edited collections, shortform emerald. But unlike most humanities scholarship, it explores these questions by crossing the. Anthropocene and the humanities yale university press.