Environmental humanities scholar and anthropologist Dr. Sophie Chao (University of Sydney) has published a monograph with Duke University Press, titled Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger. The book draws on Chao's ethnographic fieldwork in West Papua and examines how Indigenous Marind communities...
This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of pastoral, a genre that has captured the Western imagination for centuries, across literature, art and music. Combining the practices of literary criticism and creative writing, Decolonising Pastoral develops a new series of tools for the project of the environmental...
RESISTANCE: A Journal of Radical Environmental HumanitiesMarco Armiero, Editor-in-chief From Resilience to Resistance: An Almost New Journal for Environmental HumanitiesResilience: A Journal of Environmental Humanities is entering a new phase in its evolution. Under the leadership of the new editor-in-chief, Marco Armiero, the journal is undergoing...
This manuscript left by the late Dr Deborah Bird Rose has been brought to publication by Dr Darrell Lewis and Dr Margaret Jolly. The launch will be held at the ANU on May 16. For launch and publication information, please follow this link.https://chl.anu.edu.au/event/book-launch-dreaming-ecology-nomadics-and-indigenous-ecological-knowledge-victoria-river ...
Natural history television on the ABC has been one of the public broadcaster’s most popular formats. For many viewers, TV has been an important contact zone for engaging with animals they would never encounter in everyday life. These animals have also played a critical role...
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Book Launch (Sydney): Deborah Bird Rose, Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril Wednesday, 7 December 20225:45 pm – 6:45 pm AEDTThe University of SydneyRD Watt Building, Science Rd, Camperdown, NSW 2006 -- ‘Living with flying-foxes, I came to understand, takes us straight to the heart of...
The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities, edited by Mark Terry and Michael Hewson, provides the latest scholarship on the various methods and approaches being used by environmental humanists to incorporate geomedia into their research and analyses. Chapters in the book examine such...
Posted by Libby Robin. In 2018, I became a creative worker rather than an academic. I left my university position to take my scholarly skills to a wider audience. My interests broadly focus on the ‘environmental humanities’, an emerging response across many disciplines and the cultural...
Jahnne Pasco-White: Kin documents the artist’s pre- and post-pregnancy paintings and drawings, alongside a dozen essayists who interrogate the limits and possibilities of kinship. Edited by N.A.J. Taylor, the book includes original chapters by: Jessica Bridgfoot, Helen Johnson, Maya Hey, Redi Koobak, Umut Ozguc, Amelia Wallin,...