Oral History and the Environment : Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe / edited by Stephen M. Sloan

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cave, Mark, editor.

Series:

Oxford Academic

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental sciences.

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

First Edition

Place of Publication:

New York, NY Oxford University Press 2022

Summary:

As uncontrolled development forces crises in the natural world, deep and long-standing human connections with the Earth are changing. Understanding these shifting relationships is essential to framing our responses to issues of industrial development, population growth, and climate change. The use of oral history methodology in environmental research acknowledges and subjectively defines these human connections to the natural world, enriching our understanding of what the Earth means to us as well as what the Earth needs from us to find balance once again. Oral History and the Environment: Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe is the first book to provide a global perspective on the use of oral history in environmental research. It presents excerpts from interviews with environmental activists, victims of environmental catastrophe, and those whose life experiences give them special insights into the natural world, combined with commentary by oral historians who have been exploring how these commentaries can be used to better understand our relationship with the natural world. In this anthology, oral histories with farmers, wildlife rescue volunteers, activists, environmental disaster survivors, elders, water system managers, indigenous voices, tribal trustees, wilderness rangers, reindeer herders, fishers, and foresters help readers understand a wide range of issues related to our relationship with the environment. These stories and expert analysis touch on a wide range of topics including drought, chemical leaks, oil spills, nuclear disaster, indigenous control of resources, natural resource management, wilderness, and environmental protest.

Contents:

Contents: Acknowledgments - Contributors - Introduction: Querying Environmental and Human Landscapes - Stephen M. Sloan - 1. Grim Humor and Hope: Australian Oral Histories of Drought - Deb Anderson - 2. A Pelican in Her Piety: Perspectives on Wildlife Rescue in Louisiana Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill - Mark Cave - 3. Fragmentary Time: Memory and Politics in the Wake of the Torrey Canyon - Timothy Cooper and Anna Green - 4. The Ghosts of Bhopal: Oral History, Environmental Justice, and the Literature of Protest - Suroopa Mukherjee - 5. Floating Reed Islands: Gendered Stories of Resilience during Ecological Disaster in the Mara Region, Tanzania - Jan Bender Shetler - 6. Fighting through the Fallout: Maternal and Feminist Resistance and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - Heidi Hutner - 7. More than H2O: Exploring the Biophysical and Social Dimensions of Water - Javier Arce Nazario - 8. Environmental Guardians: Learning from Māori Perspectives on Geothermal Fields - Caren Fox - 9. When Little Fish Encounter a Big Dam: Environmental Conflict on the Upper Yangtze - Dai Qing and Kang Xue - 10. The Free Play of Natural Forces: Wild Methods of Oral History in Documenting Wilderness - Debbie Lee - 11. ulture Keepers: Voices of Renewal in the Eurasian Taiga - Tero Mustonen - 12. Who Speaks for the Trees?: Forestry in the Scottish Highlands - K. Jan Oosthoek - Epilogue: The Fall and Rise of Oral Testimony in Environmental History - Christopher Sellers - References - Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-766810-0

0-19-068498-4

0-19-068499-2