geography

In episode 46 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj speaks with the editors of Historical GIS Research in Canada, Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin, as well as a few contributors.

Owain Jones, a Professor of Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University, offers ideas and resources about environmental humanities in this blog.

Gremaud’s article analyses representations of nature as brand and resource in current Icelandic society, through an interdisciplinary approach involving cultural geography and visual methodologies.

Owain Jones raises questions about the relationships between self, time, memory, materiality, and place, using a non-representational creative approach based on image and textual collage.

This 1880 map centered on Chicago displays the early CB&Q railroad route.

The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) promotes interdisciplinary environmental studies, especially work in the environmental humanities. The network is supported by NordForsk, and is based in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland.

In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Vinciane Despret and Michel Meuret discuss how humans and animals are making their own contributions to a new cosmoecology, creating cosmoecological connections and contributing to what Ghassan Hage has called alter-politics.

Northern Canada’s distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest in the region. This collection extends our understanding of the environmental history of northern Canada—clarifying both its practice and promise, and providing critical perspectives on current public debates.

This book brings together case studies of HGIS projects in historical geography, social and cultural history, and environmental history from Canada’s diverse regions.