Humanidades Ambientales
Humanidades Ambientales is a website for three Spanish environmental humanities projects. Most of its content is written in both Spanish and English.
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BASCE: Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment
Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment (BASCE) is an interdisciplinary tri-national platform through which all those who are interested in the relation between art, culture, and environmental issues in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg can be informed about the latest national and international developments.
Ecoartspace
Ecoartspace is a nonprofit platform providing opportunities for artists who address the human/nature relationship in the visual arts.
Boys Will Be Boys (An Art Installation: Staged Wilderness and Male Dreams)
Nicola von Thurn’s statement on her art installation, Staged Wilderness and Male Dreams, based on the RCC workshop “Men and Nature.”
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
ASLE seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts, especially ecocriticism.
On Garbage
By detailing the waste we have discarded, John Scanlan argues that we can learn new things about the building blocks of our culture; he throws new light on the modern condition by examining not what we have kept, but what we have thrown away.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ague: Defining Healthful Airs in Early Modern England
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 12
Lee, Keekok, "Beauty for Ever?"
Keekok Lee examines the National Trust’s decision to restore Yew Tree Tarn in UK’s Lake District, and argues that while aesthetics is important, it cannot form the basis of an adequate environmental philosophy.
Why Do Human Perceptions of Beauty Change? The Construction of the Aesthetic Niche
Portera posits that human niche construction can provide insight into how aesthetic standards develop within human societies and cultures. Standards of beauty tend to evolve through cultural niche construction behavior and biological evolution.
Reflections on Water: Knowing a River
Dudley draws on her experience of researching the Severn River, UK, to reflect on what it means to know a place. The river is constituted through legal documents, maps, regulations, through the lived experience of recreational users, and through imaginative and artistic practices. These multiple ways of knowing a river can inform philosophies of place and space.