“Citizen Sensing with Soil, and the Intimate Alterity of Narrative Distance”
Full article by Renée Hoogland.
narratives
“Entangled Stories of Life: Narrative Agencies and ‘Ethics of Worlding’ in the Quantum Realm”
Full article by Serpil Oppermann.
“Radical Stories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Emergent Ecologies’ Challenges to Colonial Narratives and Western Epistemologies”
On the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, 1913, and the different stories it conveyed.
Ngarrindjeri Whaling Narratives and Reconciliation at Encounter Bay, South Australia
Adam Paterson and Chris Wilson consider Ngarrindjeri contributions to Southern Australia’s nineteenth-century whaling industry.
Strata and Three Stories
About this issue
This volume addresses our understanding of the Anthropocene and its challenges, and suggests that multidisciplinarity and storytelling play key roles in devising resilient solutions.
Content
Incontri italo-tedeschi: una conversazione su ambiente, storia e politica
Gabriella Corona e Christof Mauch confrontano le tradizioni storiografiche nazionali della propria disciplina, le questioni aperte e le future sfide della storia dell’ambiente in Germania e in Italia.
German-Italian Encounters: A Dialogue on Environment, History, and Politics
Environmental historians Gabriella Corona and Christof Mauch discuss national traditions, current issues, and future challenges in environmental history in Germany and Italy.
Ngarrindjeri Whaling Narratives and Reconciliation at Encounter Bay, South Australia
Adam Paterson and Chris Wilson consider Ngarrindjeri contributions to Southern Australia’s nineteenth-century whaling industry.
"Hounded Out of Time: Black Shuck’s Lesson in the Anthropocene"
Jonathan Woolley borrows the folkloristic, East Anglia figure of Black Shuck, a devilish hound, and connects it to a narrative of the Anthropocene based on the notions of inescapable mortality, deep time, and responsibility.
"Introduction: Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time"
The authors introduce a special section of Environmental Humanities on manifestations of deep time through places, objects, and practices, focusing on three modes through which it is encountered: enchantment, violence, and haunting.