The Routledge handbook of environmental history / edited by Emily O'Gorman, William San Martín, Mark Carey and Sandra Swart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Gorman, Emily, editor.

San Martín, William, editor.

Carey, Mark (Mark P.), editor.

Swart, Sandra, editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--History--Cross-cultural studies.

Human ecology.

Environmental policy--Cross-cultural studies.

Environmental policy.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 455 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Emily O'Gorman is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research is situated within environmental history and the interdisciplinary environmental humanities, and is primarily concerned with contested knowledges within broader cultural framings of authority, expertise, and landscapes. William San Martín is Assistant Professor of Global Environmental Science, Technology, and Governance at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, and a Research Fellow at the Earth System Governance Project at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His work examines power disparities across environmental knowledge, technologies, and governance regimes. Mark Carey is Professor of Environmental Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon, USA. He runs the Glacier Lab for the Study of Ice and Society, collaborating with students and scientists to study environmental history, ice humanities, and climate justice. Sandra Swart is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She studies African socio-environmental history, focusing on human-animal relations.

Summary:

"The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-term shifts in the field, and charts potential new directions for study. It focuses on five key areas: Theories and concepts related to changing considerations of social justice, including postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist approaches, and the field's growing emphasis on multiple human voices and agencies. The roles of non-humans and the more-than-human in the telling of environmental histories, from animals and plants to insects as vectors of disease and the influences of water and ice, the changing theoretical approaches and the influence of concepts in related areas such as animal and discard studies. How changes in theories and concepts are shaping methods in environmental history and shifting approaches to traditional sources like archives and oral histories as well as experiments by practitioners with new methods and sources. Responses to a range of current complex problems, such as climate change, and how environmental historians can best help mitigate and resolve these problems. Diverse ways in which environmental historians disseminate their research within and beyond academia, including new modes of research dissemination, teaching, and engagements with stakeholders and the policy arena. This is an important resource for environmental historians, researchers and students in the related fields of political ecology, environmental studies, natural resources management and environmental planning"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Framing environmental history today and for the future / Emily O'Gorman, Mark Carey, William San Martín, and Sandra Swart

Part I. New methods, innovative approaches

1. Ethics, justice, and environmental histories / Heather Goodall, Meera Anna Oommen, and Madhuri Mondal

2. Oral and environmental history : time, place, decolonisation and the more-than human world / Katie Holmes and Aet Annist

3. Sounding environments / Hedley Twidle and Aragorn Eloff

4. Geographical information system, remote sensing and spatial data infrastructure / Marina Miraglia and Kairo da Silva Santos

Part II. Non-human agencies

5. The tangled bank / Harriet Ritvo and Rebecca Woods

6. Multispecies cultures and environmental change : the animal (agency) turn / Diogo de Carvalho Cabral and Heta Lähdesmäki

7. Animal and vector-borne diseases, zoonoses, and one health / Lyle Fearnley and Melissa Salm

8. The non-human in agriculture : technologies of agriculture and non-human aspects of farming / Veronika Settele and Claiton Marcio da Silva

9. (Inter)national and (trans)regional agents : the coastal sand dunes of Mozambique / Joana Gaspar de Freitas, Inês Macamo Raimundo, Ignacio García Pereda, and Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Ruwan Sampath

10. Actor-networks, conservation treaties, and international environmental history: Reassembling conventions / Raf de Bont and Simone Schleper

11. Hazards and disasters : locusts, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, droughts / Katrin Kleemann and Admire Mseba

Part III. Engaging with the planetary and the anthropocene

12. Planetary boundaries, climate change and the Anthropocene / Ruth Morgan and Cristián Simonetti

13. Extinction in environmental history : historizing problems of classification and intentionality / Dolly Jørgensen and Miles Powell

14. Temporality and environmental history in the Anthropocene : timing climates, modeling futures / Emil Flatø and Erik Isberg

15. Fossil fuels from extraction to emissions / Antoine Acker, Elizabeth Chatterjee, Lukas Becker, Matthew Shutzer, and Nathalia Capellini

Part IV. Power, flows, and knowledges

16. Global histories of environment and labour in Asia and Africa / Mattin Biglari and Olisa Godson Muojama

17. Toxicity, racial capitalism and colonial mining : lessons from cyanide and gold mining in Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) / Elijah Doro and Marco Armiero

18. Local fishermen knowledge and scientific expertise in Eastern Europe and West Africa: Assessing the unseen / Stefan Dorondel, Veronica Mitroi-Tisseyre, and Youssoupha Tall

19. Historical memory and technocratic failures in environmental impact assessments / Javiera Barandiarán and Ricardo Oyarzún

20. Cities, food, water, and environmental history in China, the USA and India: Making bubbles / Shen Hou and David Biggs

21. Urban environmental governance: Historical and political ecological perspectives from South Asia / Jenia Mukherjee and René Véron

Part V. Practices and actions for current socio-ecological crises

22. Pedagogy for the depressed : empowerment and hope in the face of the apocalypse / Michelle K. Berry and Emily Wakild

23. Activist environmental history : on war machines and guerrilla strategies / Regina Horta Duarte, Bruna Luiza Costa Pessoa, and Lucas Erichsen

24. Communicating environmental history : reaching diverse audiences through online forums / Jonatan Palmblad and Jessica M. DeWitt

25. Environmental history in museums : past practice and future opportunities / Luke Keogh, Liisi Jääts, Nina Möllers, and Libby Robin

26. Environmental historians, policy, and governance / Alessandro Antonello and Margaret Cook

27. Future directions in environmental history / Cintia Velázquez-Marroni, Jessica Urwin, Nicolo Paolo Ludovice, Bryan Umaru Kauma, Sangay Tamang, and Jayson Maurice Porter

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge handbook of environmental history.

ISBN:

9781003189350

1003189350

9781003800552

1003800556

1003801951

9781003801955

OCLC:

1410120961

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