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NEW PUBILCATION: Enchantment by Patrick Curry

Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life explores the role of enchantment in love, art, religion, and learning. Explores the profound human experience of enchantment, and discusses how it plays out in a wide range of contexts Patrick Curry is a respected author and has been a...

100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder

The MECO Network announce the publication of 100 Atmospheres. 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder is a multi-authored, many-voiced book published by Open Humanities Press in their new Seed Book series. The authors are all members of the MECO Network: Susan Ballard, Louise Boscacci, David...

Philosophy Activism Nature — Issue 14 out now!

PAN14: Variations on a theme Available now: Philosophy Activism Nature issue14, featuring more creative-critical explorations into the world of environmental humanities. PAN14 is the first in a series of 'variations' on core themes established in the journal's first decade; working through Country, mythopoeia, creative practice and storytelling while...

Rod Giblett – new books

Announcing four new own-name books by Rod Giblett, Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University: Psychoanalytic Ecology: The Talking Cure for Environmental Illness and Health Psychoanalytic Ecology applies Freudian concepts, beginning with the uncanny, to environmental issues,...

Transformations announces the release of Issue 32

Transformations announces the release of Issue 32 What Can Moving Images Do? An Ecological Thinking of the Moving Image http://www.transformationsjournal.org/2018-issue-no-32-what-can-moving-images-do/ Issue 32 called for provocations into the human-nature relation through the questioning power of the moving image. In particular, the editors looked for contributions that focused on the...

New Book: The Allure of Fungi

Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links and flows between the terrestrial organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives – those of mycologists and ecologists, foragers and forayers, naturalists and farmers, aesthetes and artists, philosophers...

New Book: Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development

Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development Edited by Anita Kangas, Nancy Duxbury, Christiaan De Beukelaer 2018 – Routledge The concept of sustainable development is commonly divided into environmental, economic, social and cultural dimensions. While a variety of international actors have declared the importance of culture in sustainable development,...

Forest Family – New book in environmental humanities

Forest Family Australian Culture, Art, and Trees Editors: John Charles Ryan and Rod Giblett Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning...

New book in environmental humanities and theologies

Environmental Humanities and Theologies: Ecoculture, Literature and the Bible By Rod Giblett Many ways of thinking about and living with ‘the environment’ have their roots in the Bible and the Christian cultural tradition. Environmental Humanities and Theologies shows that some of these ways are problematic. It also provides...