Climate Change and the Industrial Revolution: Informing Policy through History, Memory, and Literature
Goodbody examines the literary work Pandaemonium and its role in a research project to promote debate on climate change.
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Remembering and Igniting Fires: Prescribed Burns as Memory Work
Sutherland explores the practice of controlled burning in Canadian national parks.
Feathering the Multispecies Nest: Green Cities, Convivial Spaces
Rigby reimagines green cities from an interdisciplinary environmental humanities perspective to see how they can also be sites of more-than-human prosperity.
"‘Like a Stone’: Ecology, Enargeia, and Ethical Time in Alice Oswald's Memorial"
Through readings of the works of artist/sculptor Ilana Halperin and poet Alice Oswald, David Farrier explores the idea of Anthropocene as marked by haunted time.
"Remembering the Elizabeth Bay Reclamation and the Holocene Sunset in Sydney Harbour"
Denis Byrne explores the 1880s reclamation of the Elizabeth Bay in Sydney Harbour, encountering historical influences such as sandstone wall constructions, buried objects, and colonial narratives. He argues in this article that archaeology has a role to play in bringing reclamations and other aspects of the Anthropocene into view.
"Appropriating the Weather: Olafur Eliasson and Climate Control"
Hornby draws attention to the work of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, whose immersive installations aim to increase environmental awareness, arguing that Eliasson’s environments are fully orchestrated affairs that share the technologies and efforts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’ militarization of climate control.
Nature's Past episode 58: "The Past and Future of Canadian Environmental History"
In episode 58 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj discusses key questions concerning the development of the field of Canadian environmental history with seven environmental historians.
"Introduction: 'Imagining Anew: Challenges of Representing the Anthropocene'"
Greg Garrard, Gary Handwerk, and Sabine Wilke, editors of the special section titled “Imagining Anew: Challenges of Representing the Anthropocene,” introduce this collection of essays from diverse humanities disciplines.
"Beyond Whole Earth: Planetary Mediation and the Anthropocene”
In the special section “Imagining Anew: Challenges of Representing the Anthropocene,” Tobias Boes examines the hermeneutic and poetic operations by which we as human beings turn our very planet into a signifier for our collective existence as a species, a process he refers to as “planetary mediation.”
"Fractal Eaarth: Visualizing the Global Environment in the Anthropocene"
In the special section “Imagining Anew: Challenges of Representing the Anthropocene”, Thomas Lekan offers a postcolonial critique of recent environmentalist literature and exhibitions that frame the Anthropocene using the NASA Apollo mission’s Earthrise (1968) and Blue Marble (1972) photographs from space.