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Methodological challenges in nature-culture and environmental history research / edited by Jocelyn Thorpe, Stephanie Rutherford and L. Anders Sandberg.

Van Pelt Library GF26 .M46 2017
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Thorpe, Jocelyn, editor.
Rutherford, Stephanie, editor.
Sandberg, L. Anders, 1953- editor.
Series:
Routledge environmental humanities
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Human ecology--Research--Methodology.
Human ecology.
Natural history--Research--Methodology.
Natural history.
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Research--Methodology.
Nature.
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Research.
Methodology.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Human ecology--Research.
Physical Description:
xix, 321 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Summary:
This book examines the challenges and possibilities of conducting cultural environmental history research today. Disciplinary commitments certainly influence the questions scholars ask and the ways they seek out answers, but some methodological challenges go beyond the boundaries of any one discipline. The book examines: how to account for the fact that humans are not the only actors in history yet dominate archival records; how to attend to the non-visual senses when traditional sources offer only a two-dimensional, non-sensory version of the past; how to decolonize research in and beyond the archives; and how effectively to use sources and means of communication made available in the digital age. This book will be a valuable resource for those interested in environmental history and politics, sustainable development and historical geography. Book jacket.
Contents:
Methodological Challenges / Stephanie Rutherford, Jocelyn Thorpe and L. Anders Sandberg
Do Glaciers Speak? : The Political Aesthetics of Voice / Sverker Sörlin
Experiencing Earth Art; or, Lessons from Reading the Landscape / Marsha Weisiger
A Resounding Success? : Howling as a Source of Environmental History / Stephanie Rutherford
Animals as Historical Actors? : Southwest China's Wild Elephants and Coming to Know the Worlds they Shape / Michael Hathaway
Dawns Ysbrydion 09.02.63/ Ghost Dance 09.02.63 : Performance as the Instantaneous Precipitation of Traces / Roger Owen
Co-becoming Time/s : Time/s-as-Telling-as-Time/s / Bawaka Country
Dibaajimowinan as Method : Environmental History, Indigenous Scholarship, and Balancing Sources / Lianne Leddy
Giving and Receiving Life from Anishinaabe Nibi Inaakonigewin (Our Water Law) Research / Aimée Craft
Decolonizing Intellectual Traditions : Conducting Research and Telling our Stories in a Mi'gmaq Way / Fred Metallic
It Matters Where You Begin : A (Continuing) Journey Toward Decolonizing Research / Jocelyn Thorpe
On Narrative, Affect and Threatened Ecologies of Tidal Landscapes / Owain Jones and Katherine Jones
Eat Your Primary Sources! : Researching and Teaching the Taste of History / Ian Mosby
Political Effluvia : Smells, Revelations, and the Politicization of Daily Experience in Naples, Italy / Marco Armiero and Salvatore Paolo De Rosa
Minuet as Method : Embodied Performance in the Research Process / Sonja Boon
"To Know the Story is To Love It" : Scientific Mythmaking and the Longing for Cosmic Connection / Lisa Sideris
The Cycling Historian : Exploring Environmental History on Two Wheels / Stephen Bocking
Online Digital Communication, Networking, and Environmental History / Sean Kheraj and K. Jan Oosthoek
A New Place for Stories : Blogging as an Environmental History Research Tool / Dolly Jørgensen
Cultivating the Spirit of the Commons in Environmental History : Digital Communities and Collections / Kimberly Coulter and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
Remote Sensing : Digital Data at a Distance / Sabine Höhler and Nina Wormbs
Walking with GPS : An Object Lesson / Finn Arne Jørgensen
But Where Am I? : Reflections on Digital Activism Promoting First Peoples' Presence in a Canadian Heritage Village / L. Anders Sandberg, Martha Stiegman and Jesse Thistle.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781138956032
1138956031
OCLC:
912378012
Publisher Number:
99970225194

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