Imagining a new natural history : Latin American cultural production in the Anthropocene / edited by Nicolás Campisi and Lucas Mertehikian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campisi, Nicolás, editor.

Mertehikian, Lucas, 1986- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history in art.

Natural history--Latin America.

Natural history.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.

Nature.

Climatic changes in literature.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Climatic changes--Latin America.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.

Physical Description:

289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions, this volume shows how writers, artists, and curators are rethinking approaches to the discipline that cast humans and nature as separate entities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Imagining a New Natural History / Nicolás Campisi and Lucas Mertehikian

I. The Institutions of Natural History

The Museum of Modernity: Photographic Archive, Patrimonial Collection, and Selk'nam Genocide / Ignacio Pastén López and Ignacio Veraguas Caripan

Árbol Ramón, the Axolotl/Ajolote, and LEGOs: Mexico City's El Papalote Children's Museum / Emily Hind

A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities: Play, Improbability, and the Reinvention of the World in Liliana Porter's El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves / Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos

II. Natural History and Ancestral Knowledge

Reactivating Richard Spruce's Amazonian Biocultural Archive / Luciana Martins

Poetics of an Expanded Humanity / Florencia Garramuño

Telling Natural Histories in Crispín Amador Ramírez's El infierno del paraíso and Kali Fajardo-Anstine's Woman of Light / Matylda Figlerowicz

III. Ecocriticism, New Materialism, Posthumanism

The Necrospace of the Anthropocene: An Anachronistic Archive / Gisela Heffes

The Ecological Novel: Unearthing a Latin American Land-Archive / Carlos Fonseca

Disorder of Time in the Anticolonial Museum / Gabriel Giorgi

Emilio Renart's New Sense of Space / Florencia Malbrín

IV. Human and Nonhuman Histories

Exhibitions in the Face of the Climate Crisis: How is the Anthropocene Shaping Hemispheric Aesthetics? / Valeria Meiller

The Act of Collecting in Latin American Documentary / Antonio Gómez

Marias and Jo'es: Naming in Maria Esther Maciel's Poetic Encyclopedias / Nathaniel Wolfson

Afterword / Joanna Page

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Imagining a new natural history

ISBN:

9781683405559

1683405552

9781683405696

1683405692

OCLC:

1525541322