Multimedia | film profile
EHL VideoDictionary: Digital Humanities
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg on digital humanities. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
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Becoming a Virgin Forest: From Remote Sensing to Erasing Environmental History
As virgin forests become carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots, their coproduced history is consigned to oblivion.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Allison Cobb, author of Plastic: An Autobiography
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Allision Cobb is interviewed on her book, Plastic: An Autobiography.
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Subterranean (In)visibilities: Traces, Underground Water, and Thermal Flows in the El Tatio Geyser Field, Atacama, Chile
Describing geothermal exploration traces and explosions at the “El Tatio” geyser field, this article explores the (in)visible trajectories of underground water.
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Rise and Fall of the Baltic Sea Flatfish Fishery in the Interwar Period
On the exploitation of flatfish stocks in the Baltic Sea as a classic example of the “tragedy of the commons.”
Multimedia | book, full-text
Ant Spider Bee: Chronicling digital transformations in environmental humanities
Inspired by Francis Bacon’s ant, spider, and bee as models of collecting, processing, and transforming knowledge, Kimberly Coulter, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, and Finn Arne Jørgensen founded the blog Ant Spider Bee to reflect on ways technology was transforming the epistemologies, methods, and dissemination of environmental humanities research. A kind of time capsule with essays and embedded media by thirty authors, this e-book presents snapshots of transformations in knowledge practices during a period of rapid change.
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Disconnectivity in the Age of Globalization: Coastal Ecology, Telegraphy, and Empire in the Sunda Strait, 1863–1883
This article examines the environmental implications of Dutch nineteenth-century attempts to establish a telegraph connection across the Sunda Strait.
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Touching Power: White Womanhood, Colonial Spectacle, and the “Forces of Nature” at the Boulder Power Inaugural
Gender colonization, progress, and nature on display as the first electricity from Hoover Dam arrived in Los Angeles in 1936.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire
Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire, edited by Martina Martina, Kai Jun Chen, and Dorothy Ko, is available to download in its entirety.
Multimedia | journal
“Historicising Entanglements: Science, Technology and Socio-Ecological Change in the Postcolonial Anthropocene”
This special issue focuses on connected histories of science, technology and socio-ecological change in what the editors call the “postcolonial Anthropocene.”