The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death...
NEW BOOK! Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History. Edited by James Beattie, Edward Melillo, Emily O’Gorman. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Nineteenth-century British imperial expansion has dramatically shaped today‘s globalised world. Imperialism drove mass migrations of people and altered the trajectories of trade. It...
A new report "Developing the Environmental Humanities in Switzerland: An Evaluation of Opportunities, Challenges, and Priorities in Research, Teaching, and Institutional Support" by Christoph Kueffer, Philippe Foret and Marcus Hall, and commissioned by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences is now available (PDF) The...
The latest issue of Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics has just appeared - free online! ...
Aeon Magazine is one of the great outreach initiatives in the Environmental Humanities. I am very pleased to have my latest publication there No island is an island in a cosmopolitan age Libby Robin...
In this new work, Elaine Stratford takes up the call for more work on the politics of mobility, for studies that engage more often and more fully with emotional geographies, and for insights that draw on lived experience. Stratford starts with the idea of the interval....
We're very pleased to announce that volume 5 of Environmental Humanities is now available online. http://environmentalhumanities.org It's a huge volume, including seven papers in the main section, two provocation pieces, a special section on representing the Anthropocene, and the first instalment of our new Living Lexicon for...
Jill Bennett and Saskia Beudel December 2014. ISBN 9781742233352. UNSW Press, 256pp, PB, 250 × 150 mm, RRP AU$49.99 NZ$59.99 What happens when artists, architects, writers, designers and curators take on the planning of a city? In the face of an unprecedented environmental challenge, Curating Sydney proposes a bold new remit for...
The Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE), a research center within the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently launched a new blog titled, Edge Effects. Australian Environmental Humanities researchers will be interested in its content. In the lead up to the Anthropocene Slam: A...
Australian Book Review has just released its first issue devoted to theme of 'the environment'. Highlights include Tom Griffiths' essay 'Coming of age in the great acceleration', Alison Pouliot’s superb photo essay on drought in Australia, Danielle Clode’s long article ‘Seeing the Wood for the...