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- Bergthaller, Hannes, et al.
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Mapping Common Ground : Ecocriticism, Environmental History, and the Environmental Humanities
- 2014
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Ingår i: Environmental Humanities. - 2201-1919. ; 5, s. 261-276
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 both ecocriticism and environmental history are concerned with practices of environing: each studies the material and symbolic transformations by which “the environment” is configured as a space for human action. Three areas of research are singled out as offering promising models for cooperation between ecocriticism and environmental history: eco-historicism, environmental justice, and new materialism. Bringing the fruits of such efforts to a wider audience will require environmental humanities scholars to experiment with new ways of organizing and disseminating knowledge.
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- Carruthers, J., et al.
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A native at home and abroad : the history, politics, ethics and aesthetics of Acacia
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Ingår i: Diversity & distributions. - : Wiley. - 1366-9516 .- 1472-4642. ; 17:5, s. 810-821
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim Anthropogenic introductions of Australian Acacia spp. that become classed as alien invasive species have consequences besides the physical, spatial and ecological: there are also cultural, ethical and political considerations that demand attention from scholars in the humanities and social sciences. As practitioners in these disciplines, our aim is to reflect upon some of the social and conceptual ideas and attitudes relating to the spread of Australian Acacia spp. around the world. We therefore provide a longer-term historical and philosophical perspective using South Africa as a key example. We explain some of the cultural aspects of Australian acacias, relating them to history, philosophy and societal ideas that were once, or indeed remain, important, either regarding their exportation from Australia or their importation into other countries. Focussing principally on South Africa and Australia but including brief references to other locations, we augment the literature by making connections between acacia introductions and environmental ethics and aesthetics, national and environmental history and symbolic and other discourses. We evaluate a number of the cultural and philosophical dimensions of invasion biology as a societal response and explicate the interesting contradiction of Australian acacia introductions as simultaneously economically valuable and environmentally transformative in South Africa.
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- Robin, Libby
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A history of global ideas about environmental justice
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Ingår i: NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. - : CSIRO PUBLISHING. ; , s. 13-25
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter puts the idea of justice in environmental and natural resource management in a historical context, particularly since the rise of 'the environment' and the global era in the 1940s. It argues that the future is understood by different experts at different times, and that justice cuts across many sectors: prominent in law, history and governance, but also invoked by natural scientists concerned about the environment and resources. Key global ideas in environmental justice include human rights, sustainability and intergenerational equity, and the precautionary principle, all of which became important in global settings, but have specific local and national applications for natural resources such as water, forests and fisheries.
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- Robin, Libby, et al.
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Aliens from the Garden
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the State of Australian Cities Conference.
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- Robin, Libby
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Australia in Global Environmental History
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Ingår i: A Companion to Global Environmental History. - Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. - 9781444335347 ; , s. 182-195
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