Humanidades Ambientales
Humanidades Ambientales is a website for three Spanish environmental humanities projects. Most of its content is written in both Spanish and English.
Humanidades Ambientales is a website for three Spanish environmental humanities projects. Most of its content is written in both Spanish and English.
This essay examines environmental thought in China and the West to propose an “ecological history” that offers new ways to think about the human/nature relationship.
In this commentary piece, Tom Greaves responds to J. Baird Callicott, arguing that the historical narrative that Callicott derives from Aristotle regarding the development of philosophical thought from natural philosophy to social and moral concerns, is not the best way to conceive of the project of the Presocratics.
Tabios Hillebrecht examines layers of power involved in human-nature relations, and how they can undermine Rights of Nature.
Mariqueo-Russell highlights the mutually supportive relationship between Rights of Nature and the Precautionary Principal.
Brara relates a story of contemporary India in the process of transition, where legal approaches to Nature are changing.
Berros describes some of the first cases in which Rights of Nature was directly referenced in the courts of Ecuador.
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Thom van Dooren and Deborah Bird Rose attempt to dwell with the kinds of writing and thinking practices that we have been developing in their research in Hawai’i over the past seven years. Their aim is to develop “lively ethographies”: a mode of knowing, engaging, and storytelling that recognizes the meaningful lives of others and that, in so doing, enlivens our capacity to respond to them by singing up their character or ethos.
The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) promotes interdisciplinary environmental studies, especially work in the environmental humanities. The network is supported by NordForsk, and is based in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland.
The aim of the Humanities for the Environment Observatories (HfE) is to identify, explore, and demonstrate the contributions that humanistic and artistic disciplines make to solving global social and environmental challenges.