The emergence of the environmental humanities presents a unique opportunity for scholarship to ta... more The emergence of the environmental humanities presents a unique opportunity for scholarship to tackle the human dimensions of the environmental crisis. It might finally allow such work to attain the critical mass it needs to break out of customary disciplinary confines and reach a wider public, at a time when natural scientists have begun to acknowledge that an understanding of the environmental crisis must include insights from the humanities and social sciences. In order to realize this potential, scholars in the environmental humanities need to map the common ground on which close interdisciplinary cooperation will be possible. This essay takes up this task with regard to two fields that have embraced the environmental humanities with particular fervour, namely ecocriticism and environmental history. After outlining an ideal of slow scholarship which cultivates thinking across different spatiotemporal scales and seeks to sustain meaningful public debate, the essay argues that bot...
Objects that are left behind define the society that made them. What will future archaeologists f... more Objects that are left behind define the society that made them. What will future archaeologists find and what will these Objects of the Anthropocene say about our society? In a joint project with the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (link is external) (CHE), the Environmental Humanities Laboratory (link is external) (KTH), and the Rachel Carson Center (link is external) (RCC), we invited scholars, artists and writers to pitch objects, which they imagine could be part of this Anthropocene Cabinet of Curiosities. These objects represent the interaction between humans and nature. How have they influenced us and the world we live in? What stories do they tell? Future Remains tells these stories. The Environment & Society Portal provides an opportunity to transcend the paper product and presents two multimedia objects for the viewer to enjoy.
The emergence of the environmental humanities presents a unique opportunity for scholarship to ta... more The emergence of the environmental humanities presents a unique opportunity for scholarship to tackle the human dimensions of the environmental crisis. It might finally allow such work to attain the critical mass it needs to break out of customary disciplinary confines and reach a wider public, at a time when natural scientists have begun to acknowledge that an understanding of the environmental crisis must include insights from the humanities and social sciences. In order to realize this potential, scholars in the environmental humanities need to map the common ground on which close interdisciplinary cooperation will be possible. This essay takes up this task with regard to two fields that have embraced the environmental humanities with particular fervour, namely ecocriticism and environmental history. After outlining an ideal of slow scholarship which cultivates thinking across different spatiotemporal scales and seeks to sustain meaningful public debate, the essay argues that bot...
Objects that are left behind define the society that made them. What will future archaeologists f... more Objects that are left behind define the society that made them. What will future archaeologists find and what will these Objects of the Anthropocene say about our society? In a joint project with the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (link is external) (CHE), the Environmental Humanities Laboratory (link is external) (KTH), and the Rachel Carson Center (link is external) (RCC), we invited scholars, artists and writers to pitch objects, which they imagine could be part of this Anthropocene Cabinet of Curiosities. These objects represent the interaction between humans and nature. How have they influenced us and the world we live in? What stories do they tell? Future Remains tells these stories. The Environment & Society Portal provides an opportunity to transcend the paper product and presents two multimedia objects for the viewer to enjoy.
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