The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abrams, Amber.

Series:

Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (613 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

This innovative handbook is a state-of-the-art of the intersection of health and environmental humanities, capturing its multidisciplinary creative spirit in showcasing key concepts and tools, on-the-ground innovations, and conversation pieces between established and emerging scholars.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

How We Got Here

Background

Commissioning

Comprehensive Coverage?

Chapters: From Wellbeing to Artificial Intelligence

Connecting Themes: Chapters

Extractivism

More-than-human

Embodiment

Equity and Justice

Change and Time

Why Now?

A Brief Health and Environmental History

The Anthropocene

One Health

Beyond the Body

Looking Forward

Notes

References

Part I Concepts

Defining the Subject

1 Wellbeing: Wellbeing and Boggy Knowledge in More-Than-Human Worlds

What Is Wellbeing?

Towards Better Human Living

Human Wellbeing and Experiences of Nature

Towards Reckoning Wellbeing Beyond the Human

More-than-human Planetary Wellbeing

Of Ants, Peatlands, Artistic Practice, and More-Than-Human Wellbeing

Upstream Consciousness

Boggy Thinking

Tenderbog

Concluding Thoughts

Funding

Related Chapters

2 Nature and the Environment: A Conceptual Overview

Two Basic Conceptions of Nature: Totality and Essence

Explanatory

Epistemic

Division and Opposition

Normative

Social and Political

Aesthetic

Nature and Environment

Nature, the Planet, and Health

Conclusions

3 Conversation: Bodies: Traversing and Conversing Across Borders

Framing Concepts

4 Space and Place: Where Culture, Capital, and Wellbeing Collide

Theorising Space and Place

Capitalism, Race, and Uneven Development

Space and Place in the Arts

From the Local to the Global and Back Again

Space, Place, Environment, and Human Health.

Solastalgia and Climate Anxiety

Cuerpos-territorios and Extractivismo

Colonialism, Decolonisation, and Beyond

5 Equity and Justice: Indigenous Environmental Knowledge

Foundations of IEJ

Colonialism, Environmental Injustices, and Health Impacts

Case Studies of IEJ

The Whanganui River: Legal Personhood in Aotearoa

Clayoquot Sound: Indigenous-Led Environmental Governance

Buen Vivir: Redefining Environmental Justice in Latin America

The Dakota Access Pipeline: Colonialism, Resistance, and Justice

6 Disability: Why We Need Disability Studies: A Disability-Based Approach to Environmental Humanities

Envisioning the Environment

Interrogating Vulnerability and Responsibility

Conclusions: Remaking Inclusive Spaces

7 Time and Temporality: Relating Through Crisis and Terminality

8 Progress: False Friend and Real Hope

Progress as Theory

Progress as Harm

Progress as Unequal

Hope and Futures

Part II Methods

Material Methods

9 Archives: Archival Sources in Health and Environmental Humanities Research

Introduction: Health and Environment in Historical Research

Archival Sources in Histories of Environment and Health

Research Focused On Specific National and Institutional Archives

Ad Hoc Sources From Multiple Archives

Finding Environment in Health Governance Research

How to Use Archival Sources for Environmental and Health Humanities Research

Method Guide

Archives Guide Example

Physical Archives

Vercelli

Novara

Online Archives

Regional

National

Cultural Associations

Conclusions.

Related Chapters

10 Objects: A Planet of Things

An Introduction to Objects

Case Study: Textual Sources and Animal Objects

Working With Objects

11 Remains: Methods for Studying Remains

What Are "Remains"?

Current Research With Remains

Methods for Studying Remains

Archaeology Basics

Pedestrian Survey

Mapping and Photography

Excavation

Mineral and Soil Methods

Coring

GIS and Landscape Analysis

Radiocarbon Dating

Remote Sensing

Soil Chemistry

Health Methods

Genetics

Epidemiology

Human Remains

Osteoarchaeological Methods

Isotopic Analysis

Paleopathology

Forensics

Plants and Animals

Paleoethnobotany

Zooarchaeology Methods

Method Guide: Spotlight On Archaeology

What Is Archaeology?

When and Where Would You Do It?

Individual Or Group Activity?

How Long Does It Take?

What Equipment Do You Need?

What Are the Ethical Considerations?

Case Studies

Example 1: You Encountered Skeletal Remains. Now What?

Case Study 1: Human Remains

Example 2: You Encountered Heavy Metals. Now What?

Case Study 2: Heavy Metals

Ethics Statement

Arts-Based Methods

12 Creative and Arts-Based Methods: Drama, Collages, and Games: Reimagining Antimicrobial Resistance Through Creative Methods

Environmental Health: Harnessing Creative and Arts-Based Methods for Awareness and Action

Applying Creative and Arts-Based Methods to Antibiotic Resistance

What Is Antibiotic Resistance?

A Complex and "Wicked" Issue

Why Would Creative Arts Contribute to Efforts Addressing Antibiotic Resistance?

Potential Weaknesses and Considerations About Creative Methods and Antibiotic Resistance.

Serious Games - "On Call: Antibiotics" and Others

Re-envisaging Infection Practice Ecologies in Nursing Through Arts and Humanities

Things to Consider When Using Creative and Arts-Based Methods in Public, Global Health

13 Narratology: Malvina Reynolds, Environmental Human Stressors, and the Medical Narratology of Music

What Is Medical Narratology?

Why Would You Use It?

When Would You Use It for Musical Analysis?

What Materials Do You Need?

Instructions: Step-By-Step

Malvina Reynolds Sings the Truth: Case Studies of Psychological Distress Directly Related to the Environment

"Little Boxes"

"God Bless the Grass"

"What Have They Done to the Rain?"

14 Performance: Embodying the Apocalypse: Spectral Strategies for Creating Performance at the End of the World

Ethical Considerations in (This) Performance

Body as a Site of Change

Storm Stories

On Time

Audience-ing as a Verb

Horizontal Process Mechanisms

Future Imagining

The End: Concluding Reflections and Method Guide

15 Visual Culture: Filmmaking in Participatory Research and Knowledge Translation at the Intersections of Health and the Environment

Introduction: Filmmaking in Research

Case Study 1: Video-Mapping and Music Video in Vancouver

Film-based Research Method: Video-Mapping

Film-based Knowledge Translation

Case Study 2: Documentary as a Method of Inquiry and Dialogue in Cape Town

Film-based Research Method

Case Study 3: Documentary as a Method of Participatory Knowledge Translation in Kenya.

Film-based Research Method

Discussion

Ethical Considerations

Participation Benefits and Limitations

Methods Guide: Lessons Learned

Audiovisual Methods Allow for a Wider Range of Knowledges to Be Shared

Generating Material That Can Be Incorporated Into Knowledge Translation (KT)

KT Tools Can Be Used in Subsequent Research Phases And/or as Advocacy Tools

Appendix I

Appendix II

Note

Collaborative Methods

16 Conversation: Co-Production and Collaboration: A Dialogue On Partnership Between Institutional and Community Researchers

Method and Discussion

Learning About the Methodology

Learning About Using a Collaborative Partnership Approach for Policy Engagement

Co-researchers Learning About Health and the Environment

Learning About Benefits of the Approach for Co-Researchers

Ethical Considerations of this Type of Approach

Learning to Share With Young Aspiring Researchers

17 Participatory Methods and Collaboration: Unsettling Participatory Ideals: Critical Reflections On Collaborative Research in Health and Environmental Studies

The Rise of Participatory Research: Between Impact Agendas and Critical Engagement

The Expansion of Participatory and Collaborative Research

The Participatory Turn: Historical and Institutional Context

The Power and Politics of Knowledge Co-Production

Navigating Friction: Realities of Participatory and Collaborative Research Practice

Reflection 1: Truth and Resistance - Refusal as Participation

What Gets Written: Nullius in Verba

Broader Implications for Participatory Research.

Reflection 2: Ethics and Adaptation - Creative Participation With Vulnerable Communities.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-048923-0

1-003-40486-3

1-04-072838-3

9781003404866

Publisher Number:

CIPO000336387