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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"Down to Earth: Geosocialities and Geopolitics"
Palsson and Swanson’s article explores the relationship between geology and social life in the Anthropocene, using the notion of “geosocialities.”
"Notes on Mineral Evolution: Life, Sentience, and the Anthropocene"
Paul Gillen explores the role of conscious human agency leading up to the Anthropocene, suggesting that the development of sentience in the Phanerozoic eon exerted an influence on the interaction of minerals and life.
"Rot"
Lorimer’s article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities section discusses rot as a natural process avoided by modern humans, focusing particularly on processes of urbanization in contrast to the nurturing of rot that takes place among natural scientists and managers.
A Question of Origins: Skeletal Evidence in the History of Venereal Syphilis
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 27
“The Love of the Chase Is an Inherent Delight in Man”: Hunting and Masculine Emotions in the Victorian Zoologist’s Travel Memoir
Through a reading of two Victorian travel memoirs, Will Abberley demonstrates the contradictions in Victorian attitudes towards masculinity, nature, and emotions.
Excuse Us, While We Fix the Sky: WEIRD Supermen and Climate Engineering
Jim Fleming gives an overview of the male-dominated state of climate engineering proposals and criticizes the current masculinist nature of climate intervention.
Prevention or Poisoning? Dilemmas in Urban Rat Control
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 24
The Mystery of the Merganser
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 22
The Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory
The Seed Box is an international collaboratory for the environmental humanities.