In the special section “Provocations,” Noel Castree reviews the growing stream of publications authored by humanists about the Holocene’s proclaimed end. He argues that these publications evidence environmental humanists as playing two roles with respect to the geoscientific claims they are reacting to: the roles of “inventor-discloser” or “deconstructor-critic.”
In this review essay, Jennifer Hamilton responds to Michael Marder’s book, Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (2013), exploring three of Marder’s concepts, plant “nourishment,” “desire” and “language,” through readings of Gabrielle de Vietri’s installation The Garden of Bad Flowers (2014), the story of Daphne from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE) and Alice’s encounter with talking flowers in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).
The authors of this volume explore the potential value and challenges of the Rights of Nature concept by examining legal theory, politics, and recent case studies.
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In this commentary, Rich Hutchings outlines his personal vision for the Environmental Humanities.
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.
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The Seed Box is an international collaboratory for the environmental humanities.
The Environmental Humanities Lab at the University of Gothenburg (GUEHL) is a cross-disciplinary platform for scholars and scientists interested in humanities perspectives on human-environment interaction.
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.
This volume explores some of the diverse niches created by humans in different times and places. The essays span the globe, from Texas to China, from Scandinavia to Papua New Guinea, exploring agricultural spaces and indoor biomes, human aesthetics, and Anthropocentric perspectives.
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Thom van Dooren draws on his current research on people’s shifting relationships with crows around the world to outline some of the core questions and approaches of “field philosophy.”
