- Steven Hartman, Founding Executive Director
BRIDGES Coalition, UNESCO Management of Social Transformations program
BRIDGES Flagship Hub
Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
Rob & Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health
Arizona State University
1151 S Forest Ave
Tempe, AZ 85281
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- Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Human Ecodynamics Research Center, Department MemberUniversity of Iceland, Department of History and Philosophy, Faculty MemberStefansson Arctic Institute, Stofnun Vilhjálms Stefánssonar, Department Memberadd
- Literature, English Literature, English, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, American Literature, and 65 moreCreative Writing, Literary Criticism, Environmental History, Environmental Philosophy, Environmental Archaeology, Environmental Education, History of Science and Technology, Environmental Anthropology, Environmental Ethics, Ecocriticism, Fiction Writing, Contemporary American Literature, Literary History, Contemporary Fiction, Environmental Humanities, Icelandic Family Sagas, Medieval Icelandic Literature, Archaeology of Iceland, History of Iceland, Old Norse Literature, Old Norse literature and culture, Climate Change and Environmental Archaeology, Viking Age Archaeology, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory, Social and Collective Memory, History, Writing and Memory, Historical Ecology, Environmental Geography, Scandinavian Studies, Medieval Scandinavia, Viking Age Scandinavia and the North Atlantic, History of Humanities, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Narratology, Narrative Theory, Reception Studies, 19th-Century American Literature, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, American Transcendentalists, Literature and Politics, Twentieth Century American Poetry, Thoreau, American Romanticism/American Renaissance, Antebellum American Literature, Late 19th/ Early 20th Century American Literature, History, Cultural History, Humanities, Globalization, Folklore, Manuscript Studies, Eco-Literature, 20th Century American Literature, Education for Sustainable Development, Cultural Landscape, Historical Landscape, Heritage, Mapping, Visualization, Environmental Sustainability, Cultural Geography, Literary translation, and Environmental Communicationedit
- I am Founding Executive Director of the BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition in UNESCO’s Management of Social Tra... moreI am Founding Executive Director of the BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition in UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations Programme, based at the BRIDGES Flagship Hub, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University. I am also Visiting Professor in the Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Iceland. A founding member and longtime coordinator of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES), I also convene the Humanities for the Environment Circumpolar Observatory anchored at the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland. I was awarded the PhD from the State University of New York at Albany (“Faces of Thoreau in American Literature,” 2003) and the Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (fiction) from the American University (“Horse on Fire,” 1991). I also earned a BA in English literature from Ithaca College (1987).
I have wide-ranging interests. As a scholar and writer I am what used to be called a 'person of letters' in the tradition of the public intellectual. My career has followed a trajectory that would have been very hard to predict when I began my studies of literature, film, writing and criticism more than three decades ago. As an academic I remain firmly grounded in these disciplines, yet in recent years I have also become engaged in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research that builds on the humanities and the arts, the social and environmental sciences, and vital non-academic knowledge communities. This trajectory defines my background and engagement as an academic leader. The arts of fiction writing, poetry (lyric), literary translation and film continue to be central to my professional interests and identity. From this foundation I have branched out to work in the field of integrated environmental humanities on questions concerning global change.
There is virtually no branch of science in which I am not interested, even if I am not equipped to follow the overwhelming majority of them as a specialist, or even as a knowledgeable generalist. I believe our distinct backgrounds—the wide-ranging histories, lived experiences, stories and reservoirs of knowledge that define us as individuals, and as diverse communities of knowledge and practice—are also our greatest resources, collectively speaking, provided we can find ways to communicate and direct them effectively in shared efforts to address the challenges of surviving, living and thriving on the earth in the 21st century.
My personal goal is to continue learning throughout my life, in partnership with as many others—from as many different backgrounds—as possible. I believe in the force-multiplying power of collaboration and the transformative potential of new intentional communities of purpose to help shape a better future for humanity and for the earth, the home and habitat we share with millions of other species.edit
The June 2020 issue of Bifrost brings together diverse contributions from the Environmental Humanities community in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The special issue features an Open Letter co-authored and signed by many... more
The June 2020 issue of Bifrost brings together diverse contributions from the Environmental Humanities community in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The special issue features an Open Letter co-authored and signed by many leading voices from the Environmental Humanities, as well as some allied social scientists and activists, in response to the challenges of COVID-19.
A number of the Open Letter’s signatories have also contributed short companion essays reflecting on a range of questions raised by the pandemic. Together with a broad selection of open-access media resources curated from many sources, these essays open up a rich conversation concerning the present crisis. The essays also explore how Environmental Humanists can come together effectively in this precarious moment to build a community of purpose capable of promoting meaningful, long-term social-ecological change.
The Bifrost COVID-19 special issue is co-authored and co-edited by Steven Hartman, Serpil Opperman, Joni Adamson and Greta Gaard, with curation of selected media by Lea Rekow. It includes additional essays by Kate Rigby, Scott Slovic, David Pellow, Serenella Iovino, Richard Twine and Laura Wright.
The Open Letter co-authored by 41 Environmental Humanists, after many iterations that built on Greta Gaard's initial draft, can be endorsed by readers who support its commitments and principles. These new signatures can be added online, and will be archived publicly with the letter.
A number of the Open Letter’s signatories have also contributed short companion essays reflecting on a range of questions raised by the pandemic. Together with a broad selection of open-access media resources curated from many sources, these essays open up a rich conversation concerning the present crisis. The essays also explore how Environmental Humanists can come together effectively in this precarious moment to build a community of purpose capable of promoting meaningful, long-term social-ecological change.
The Bifrost COVID-19 special issue is co-authored and co-edited by Steven Hartman, Serpil Opperman, Joni Adamson and Greta Gaard, with curation of selected media by Lea Rekow. It includes additional essays by Kate Rigby, Scott Slovic, David Pellow, Serenella Iovino, Richard Twine and Laura Wright.
The Open Letter co-authored by 41 Environmental Humanists, after many iterations that built on Greta Gaard's initial draft, can be endorsed by readers who support its commitments and principles. These new signatures can be added online, and will be archived publicly with the letter.
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Humanities, Environmental Education, Social Sciences, Climate Change, and 15 moreLiterature, Human Rights, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Sustainable Development, Ecocriticism, Public Health, Biodiversity, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Humanities, Education for Sustainable Development, Philosophy and Sociology of Human/animal Relations, and COVID-19 PANDEMIC
At the European Humanities Conference, on 7 May 2021, Steven Hartman of University of Iceland & the Humanities for the Environment Circumpolar Observatory introduces the humanities-led BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition, now... more
At the European Humanities Conference, on 7 May 2021, Steven Hartman of University of Iceland & the Humanities for the Environment Circumpolar Observatory introduces the humanities-led BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition, now formalized in UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations Programme. BRIDGES is a global sustainability science coalition organized within UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST). As a humanities-led coalition that is not limited to the humanities, BRIDGES works to promote potentially transformative collaborations across the academic domains of the arts, the humanities, the social sciences and natural sciences, as achievable on the ground in a range of regional and international contexts during the United Nations Decade of Action to deliver the SDGs (2021-2030). With its committed member organizations from around the world, BRIDGES breaks vital new ground by placing humanistic and social science disciplines at the center of international efforts to promote sustainability. This is the first public presentation of BRIDGES in advance of the coalition's inaugural General Assembly, May 24-25, and following the approval of the coalition by the UNESCO MOST Intergovernmental Council during its 15th Ordinary Session, March 30-31, 2021. The video can viewed on the BRIDGES Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/qD98Nm9tJRE .
Research Interests: Education, Humanities, Environmental Education, Social Sciences, Science Communication, and 15 moreClimate Change, Cultural Heritage, Higher Education, Community Engagement & Participation, Environmental History, Sustainable Development, Transdisciplinarity, Unesco, Gender, Ecocriticism, Public Health, Biodiversity, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sustainability, and Environmental Humanities
Th e article sketches a brief overview of the American 11a111re-writi11g tradition, with reference to Thomas Lyon's useful taxonomy of 11at11re writing, offering an 11pda1ed contextualization of this tradition 1ha1 takes into account... more
Th e article sketches a brief overview of the American 11a111re-writi11g tradition, with reference to Thomas Lyon's useful taxonomy of 11at11re writing, offering an 11pda1ed contextualization of this tradition 1ha1 takes into account the emergence of modern e11viron111e111alis111 in American cu/Jure. Ecoliterature can be unders tood to encompass no/ 011/y ideologically driven works of literary envi-ro11111entalis111, but also strains of rece111 nature writing !hat in one way or another serve 10 foreground !he no11-h1.1111an environing world and may even explore con-ceptua/izalions of nature and culture (especially 1he 11a1ure-c11/ture i11Je1.face) anywhere along a moderate-to-radical continuum of engagement in environmental ethics or applied principles of ecology. The rise of ecolilerature in /are 20'" cenflll)' American fellers is also discussed in relation to an emergent lradition of environmental literal)' criticism, or ecocriticism, as ii has come lo be more...
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English translation of short story by Swedish author Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) about impoverished children in Depression-Era rural Sweden and the shame of being invisible.
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This paper offers a psychohistorical reading of civilization-building into the Anthropocene, with a special emphasis on the deeply disruptive present era inaugurated by the Great Acceleration. Our discussion takes up and extends Simon... more
This paper offers a psychohistorical reading of civilization-building into the Anthropocene, with a special emphasis on the deeply disruptive present era inaugurated by the Great Acceleration. Our discussion takes up and extends Simon Estok’s concept of ecophobia in an effort to better comprehend why modern societies find themselves stuck in an increasing ecological panic as a more general awareness seems to grow concerning the Earth’s changing conditions in the Anthropocene. We suggest that ecophobia in the present era is giving way to a panphobia that springs from the collapse of the historically constructed, culturally reinforced, and industrially reproduced separation of Nature and Culture, itself a consequence—ironically—of the success of human colonization of nature and the ever-deepening hybridizations of the social and the natural. We suggest that panphobia can be understood as an epidemic madness flowing from the unmistakable ecological awareness underlying the Anthropocenic principle of coexistence and we conclude by questioning whether this very awareness may hold the promise of a way out of catastrophic paralysis.
Research Interests: Psychology, Human Geography, Anthropology, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and 15 moreHistorical Sociology, Humanities, History of Ideas, Environmental Law, Climate Change, Environmental Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Environmental History, Ecology, Ecofeminism, Marxist theory, Ecocriticism, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Humanities, and Marxist Theory
As European countries strive to meet their targets in support of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by UN member states in 2015, the importance of integrating all knowledge... more
As European countries strive to meet their targets in support of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by UN member states in 2015, the importance of integrating all knowledge communities in coordinated responses to sustainability challenges becomes an increasing priority. The creativity and depth of knowledge within philosophical, cultural, aesthetic and historical disciplines of the humanities has been underutilized in coordinated international assessment initiatives that aim to inform policy and facilitate solutions of sustainability governance. The Environmental Humanities (EH) is a field of growing significance internationally. While it can no longer be called an emerging field, EH still holds only the promise of bringing knowledge of social and cultural systems to coordinated international efforts to address the human dimensions of global environmental change. The significant knowledge and expertise on the human dimensions...
Research Interests: Environmental Science, Humanities, Climate Change, Assessment, Interdisciplinarity, and 15 morePolitical Ecology, Environmental Studies, Political Science, Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy and Governance, Ecology, Ecocriticism, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Biodiversity, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Humanities, Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities, Education for Sustainable Development, and Public Policy
The Mývatn area in northeast Iceland has been occupied by farming communities since the arrival of Viking Age settlers in the late ninth century. Despite its inland location and relatively high elevation, this lake basin was affected by... more
The Mývatn area in northeast Iceland has been occupied by farming communities since the arrival of Viking Age settlers in the late ninth century. Despite its inland location and relatively high elevation, this lake basin was affected by continuous human occupation through periods of harsh climate, volcanic eruptions, epidemics, and world system impacts. Mývatn’s residents have practised farming, fishing, egg-collecting, and hunting activities for over a millennium. They managed the landscape and its resources with the use of traditional knowledge, which included the story of the troll woman, Kraka, who lived in a cave in the mountain Blafjall (“Blue Mountain”). The story of Kraka and the river Kraka that bears her name provides a striking metaphor for the landscape history including water resources and environmental changes the agricultural community sustained over time.
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Research Interests: History, Human Ecology, Human Geography, Archaeology, Anthropology, and 15 moreEnvironmental Philosophy, Environmental Education, Climate Change, Literature, Posthumanism, Political Ecology, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Political Science, Ecocriticism, Biodiversity, Environmental Justice, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sustainability, and Environmental Humanities
Research Interests: Economic History, Cultural Studies, Archaeology, Earth Sciences, Comparative Literature, and 15 moreAnthropology, Climate Change, Environmental Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Climate Change Adaptation, Adaptation to Climate Change, Environmental History, Ecology, Ecocriticism, Agricultural History, Archaeology of Iceland, Environmental Humanities, Environmental Change, Climate Change Impacts, and Elsevier
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This essay discusses strategic efforts to develop new digital research tools and approaches as key elements of an inter-disciplinary research initiative in progress, Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM), which aims... more
This essay discusses strategic efforts to develop new digital research tools and approaches as key elements of an inter-disciplinary research initiative in progress, Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM), which aims to study aspects of Icelandic literature, history, archaeology, environment, and geography in order to better understand societal responses to environmental change over the longue durée. The essay showcases a particular digital humanities project, Icelandic Saga Map (ISM), which not only provides an extremely useful tool for helping achieve many of the identified aims and methodological needs of an integrated environmental humanities initiative such as IEM but also is a valuable example of how innovative digital humanities tools can foster new research trajectories and open up new horizons for interdisciplinary engagement and synthesis of knowledge and diverse data.
Research Interests: History, Geography, Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, Humanities, and 15 moreDigital Humanities, Medieval Literature, Literature, Interdisciplinarity, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Linguistics, Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Historical Ecology, Medieval Icelandic Literature, Icelandic Sagas, Literary studies, Language Studies, and Digital Environmental Humanities
In 1951 Swedish writer Stig Dagerman wrote an autobiographical essay titled "Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable." It is a remarkable poetic meditation on the life-and-death stakes of the literary imagination from a writer... more
In 1951 Swedish writer Stig Dagerman wrote an autobiographical essay titled "Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable." It is a remarkable poetic meditation on the life-and-death stakes of the literary imagination from a writer who was likely suffering from an undiagnosed bipolar disorder, fighting for his life through one depressive episode after another. Written when his critical reputation and fame as Sweden’s greatest new literary phenom had been firmly established following a remarkable outpouring of critically acclaimed work in the late 1940s, the essay marked a point in time when the tides had turned for Dagerman, who now struggled with the opposite of this productive streak in the form of a debilitating bout of writer’s block that would eventually contribute to his suicide two years later. "Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable" lays bare the writer’s fragile psyche, not only his faltering ego but his selfless and far from sure-footed ambition to offer something of lasting beauty and meaning to a world indifferent to his very existence. While writing the essay, Dagerman managed to rise temporarily from the depths of his depression and identify the sources of his own consolation and hope in terms that have continued to resonate powerfully with many readers, and fellow writers, over the following 60 years. Originally published in 1952 in the improbable venue of Husmodern (a magazine dedicated to home economics for Swedish housewives, analogous to American magazines like Good Housekeeping or Better Homes and Gardens), the essay was a profound response to a trivial commission from the magazine’s editors, who asked Dagerman to send them “something on the art of living.” The soul- and psyche-searching tour de force that Dagerman composed was not likely what the editors had in mind, but to their credit—and also possibly owing to his celebrity—they published the essay as written. The essay has since been translated into 10 languages and published / reprinted a great many times. This is the first literary translation of the essay into English.
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Literature, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and 15 moreAutobiography, Literary History, Memoir and Autobiography, History of Suicide, Language of suicide, Literary translation, Life Writing, Existentialism, Essays, Essay, Essay Writing, Bipolar, Consolation, Autobiography and life writing studies, and Bipolar Society
The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil... more
The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanities, and bioscience is providing a more complex understanding of long-term human ecodynamics in these northern islands. An ongoing interdisciplinary investigation of the management of domestic pigs and wild bird populations in Faroes and Iceland is presented as an example of sustained resource management using local and traditional knowledge to create structures for successful wild fowl management on the millennial scale.
Research Interests: Human Ecology, Archaeology, Geology, Zooarchaeology, Environmental Archaeology, and 11 moreTraditional Ecological Knowledge, North Atlantic archaeology, Viking Age Archaeology, Coastal and Island Archaeology, Traditional Environmental Knowledge, Environmental Sustainability, Avian Ecology, Vikings in the North Atlantic, Viking Age Scandinavia, Local Ecological Knowledge, and Anthropocene
Research Interests: Geography, Historical Geography, Archaeology, Humanities, Medieval History, and 15 moreArctic Social Science, Environmental History, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Arctic Archaeology, Ecocriticism, Icelandic Family Sagas, History of Iceland, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Humanities, Historical Ecology, Icelandic Sagas, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Early Medieval And Medieval Settlement Archaeology
Research Interests: American Literature, History, Canadian Studies, American Studies, Reception Studies, and 12 moreCanadian Literature, Ecocriticism, Thoreau, American Novel, American Transcendentalists, Historical Analysis of Literary Reception, Nature Writing, Transcendentalism, Literature of the American West, Western American Literature, Henry David Thoreau, and Antebellum American Literature
A semiannual arts journal meant to provide a creative outlet for members of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center community: patients, practitioners, students, residents, faculty, staff, and families. This journal is a forum... more
A semiannual arts journal meant to provide a creative outlet for members of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center community: patients, practitioners, students, residents, faculty, staff, and families. This journal is a forum for the expression of meditation, narrative ...
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My work is writing, and I do not hesitate, though I know that no subject is too trivial for me, tried by ordinary standards; for, ye fools, the theme is nothing At the end of Walden the Thoreau persona speculates on his reasons for... more
My work is writing, and I do not hesitate, though I know that no subject is too trivial for me, tried by ordinary standards; for, ye fools, the theme is nothing At the end of Walden the Thoreau persona speculates on his reasons for choosing to leave the woods at the end of the Walden experiment: "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one" (W 323). It seems unlikely somehow that the writer who penned these lines could have imagined at the time just how many lives he would live, and continues to live, not as a universally understood historical or literary figure, but as an enormously variable icon in the culture that has both inherited and shaped him. From a life less than ordinary yet by no means dramatic we have inherited a figure in Thoreau who is variously heroic (and sometimes villainous), an archetype of the environmental hermit, the conscientious ...
Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM) is a major interdisciplinary research initiative examining environmental memory in the medieval Icelandic sagas. The initiative brings together teams of historians, literary... more
Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM) is a major interdisciplinary research initiative examining environmental memory in the medieval Icelandic sagas. The initiative brings together teams of historians, literary scholars, archaeologists and geographers, as well as specialists in environmental sciences and medieval studies, to investigate long-term human ecodynamics and environmental change from the period of Iceland’s settlement in the Viking Age (AD 874-930) through the so-called Saga Age of the early and late medieval periods, and well into the long period of steady cooling in the Northern hemisphere popularly known as the Little Ice Age (AD 1350-1850). In her 1994 volume inaugurating the field of historical ecology Carole Crumley argued in favor of a “longitudinal” approach to the study of longue duree human ecodynamics. This approach takes a region as the focus for study and examines changing human-landscape-climate interactions through time in that partic...
Research Interests: Archaeology, Comparative Literature, Anthropology, Digital Humanities, Climate Change, and 15 moreCoupled Human and Natural Systems, Cultural Heritage, Climate Change Adaptation, Adaptation to Climate Change, Cultural Landscapes, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Archaeological GIS, Cultural Memory, Collective Memory, Ecocriticism, Archaeology of Iceland, Architectural Heritage, Complex Adaptive Systems, and Ecological Humanities
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Learning through English in Swedish professional education : outline of a research initiative
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Research Interests: American Literature, Canadian Studies, American Studies, Reception Studies, Canadian Literature, and 12 moreEcocriticism, Thoreau, American Novel, American Romanticism/American Renaissance, American Transcendentalists, Nature Writing, Transcendentalism, Literature of the American West, Literary Influence, Western American Literature, Henry David Thoreau, and Antebellum American Literature
Doctoral dissertation supervised by Professor Ronald A. Bosco (co-supervised by Professor Judith Johnson and Professor Judith Fetterley), Department of English, University at Albany, State Universi ...
Research Interests: American Literature, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Literature, Politics and Literature, and 15 moreCountercultural Studies, Narratology, English, Literature and Politics, American Drama, Ecocriticism, Alternative Media, Narrative Theory, Environmental Humanities, American Transcendentalists, Henry David Thoreau, Antebellum American Literature, Counterculture, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, and Anti war
Att avkoda det ekologiska minnet : Vad studier av medeltida litteratur kan beratta om historiska miljoforandringar
Research Interests: Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Archaeology, Comparative Literature, and 15 moreHistorical Anthropology, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Nordic Studies, Cultural Heritage, Literature, Nordic History, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Medieval Archaeology, Ecocriticism, Biodiversity, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Change, and Ekologi
China is distinguished by a prominent monsoonal climate with large variability. Because of the long history of Chinese civilization, there are abundant and well-dated documentary records for climate reconstruction. Here we present the... more
China is distinguished by a prominent monsoonal climate with large variability. Because of the long history of Chinese civilization, there are abundant and well-dated documentary records for climate reconstruction. Here we present the documentarybased reconstructions on the series of temperature and dry-wet index in monsoon China for the past 2000 years. We focus on the data sources, the derivation of proxies and the methodologies for quantifying the descriptive records, especially on the principal approach based on various information recorded in different documentary sources, and the synthesis approaches for assembling several separate data derived from different documentary sources and different periods respectively. This will be helpful for using the reconstructed data in study of climate change and comparison to instrumental data.
Research clusters within the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES), the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) and the Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance (GHEA), in cooperation with partner networks in... more
Research clusters within the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES), the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) and the Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance (GHEA), in cooperation with partner networks in the USA, the UK and the Nordic countries, have undertaken a major interdisciplinary research initiative that aims to examine environmental memory in the medieval Icelandic sagas, with a prominent focus on historical processes of environmental change and adaptation. The medieval Sagas of Icelanders constitute one key corpus, among other literary and documentary corpora, to be investigated in this initiative. Anchored in traditional fields of study (e.g. saga studies and various medieval-studies fields) as well as newer and emerging fields (e.g. integrated history and historical ecology, ecocriticism, digital and environmental humanities, etc.), the initiative brings together literary scholars, anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, geographers, ...
This chapter is an interview with two literary scholars, whose research in Icelandic and North Atlantic environmental history has led to the creation of new digital tools and interdisciplinary research networks. From the Icelandic sagas... more
This chapter is an interview with two literary scholars, whose research in Icelandic and North Atlantic environmental history has led to the creation of new digital tools and interdisciplinary research networks. From the Icelandic sagas and place names, to new discoveries of medieval and early modern life writing, their distinct paths converge on the study of culture as both a repository and medium of environmental knowledge, communication, and cultural memory.
Reception history of Thoreau's Walden in Sweden, the UK and the USA, including original discussion and analysis of the work from multiple critical vantage points.
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Learning through English in Swedish professional education : outline of a research initiative
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Reexamining the American Nature Writing Tradition : a contrastive look at Thomas Lyon's taxonomy of nature writing and Lawrence Buell's paradigm for environmental literature
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Research Interests: American Literature, American Studies, Reception Studies, Literature, Narrative, and 10 moreNarratology, Narrative Methods, Ecocriticism, Thoreau, Narrative Theory, American Romanticism/American Renaissance, American Transcendentalists, Transcendentalism, Henry David Thoreau, and Antebellum American Literature
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The structure and agendas of European research are undergoing a sea change. One example of this shift is the next multi-annual framework for research and innovation in Europe, Horizon 2020, which h ...
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A Lifelong Critique of American Rootlessness : the Centerpiece of Wallace Stegner's Literary Environmentalism
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The Network Approach to Program Building: : Cooperative Curriculum Development and Joint-Program Design among University English Departments in Sweden
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As European countries strive to meet their targets in support of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by UN member states in 2015, the importance of integrating all knowledge communities... more
As European countries strive to meet their targets in support of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by UN member states in 2015, the importance of integrating all knowledge communities in coordinated responses to sustainability challenges becomes an increasing priority. The creativity and depth of knowledge within philosophical, cultural, aesthetic and historical disciplines of the humanities has been underutilized in coordinated international assessment initiatives that aim to inform policy and facilitate solutions of sustainability governance. The environmental humanities (EH) is a field of growing significance internationally. While it can no longer be called an emerging field, EH still holds only the promise of bringing knowledge of social and cultural systems to coordinated international efforts to address the human dimensions of global environmental change. The significant knowledge and expertise on the human dimensions of environmental change available within the EH field should be regarded as an indispensable resource to policymakers and to those on the ground who work to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This essay makes a case for actionable, policy-engaged environmental humanities, an ambition that should certainly extend to the domain of the humanities more generally.
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Sustainable Development Goals, Science-policy-society interface, Knowledge assessment, Global environmental change, Integrated environmental humanities
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Sustainable Development Goals, Science-policy-society interface, Knowledge assessment, Global environmental change, Integrated environmental humanities
Research Interests: Environmental Science, Humanities, Environmental Education, Climate Change, Assessment, and 15 moreInterdisciplinarity, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Sustainable Development, Transdisciplinarity, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy and Governance, Ecocriticism, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Biodiversity, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Humanities, Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities, Education for Sustainable Development, and Public Policy
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This is the introductory essay to the the inaugural issue of the peer-reviewed open-access journal ECOCENE. The journal's first issue is devoted to the theme: “Environmental Humanists Respond to the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.”... more
This is the introductory essay to the the inaugural issue of the peer-reviewed open-access journal ECOCENE. The journal's first issue is devoted to the theme: “Environmental Humanists Respond to the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” This framing essay introduces both the vision and ambitions of the journal and the linked reasons for choosing its inaugural theme. In short, this special issue sets the tone for the journal by engaging a diverse community of scholars and researchers from the environmental humanities and social sciences and the growing field of sustainability science to respond to the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice (Ripple, et al, 2017) and the more recent World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity of a Climate Emergency (Ripple, et al. 2020) spearheaded by the Alliance of World Scientists. The idea is to inaugurate not just the journal but the kind of key bridging dialogues across scientific and scholarly communities that the editors feel are dearly needed now, drawing on the deep reservoir of human knowledge and capacities available to provide as united a front as possible in our efforts to meet the considerable sustainability challenges facing our world. To that end we have pulled together a diverse group of respondents who are leading researchers and scholars in their respective fields to begin a focused integrated dialogue.
The entire first issue of Ecocene can be accessed at: http://ecocene.kapadokya.edu.tr/SonSayi.aspx
The entire first issue of Ecocene can be accessed at: http://ecocene.kapadokya.edu.tr/SonSayi.aspx
Research Interests: History, Human Ecology, Human Geography, Archaeology, Anthropology, and 15 moreEnvironmental Philosophy, Environmental Education, Climate Change, Literature, Posthumanism, Political Ecology, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Sustainable Development, Ecocriticism, Biodiversity, Environmental Justice, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sustainability, and Environmental Humanities
As a concept that helps to “illuminate the entangled, rhizomatic connections between climate change and contagions of various kinds,” the term “syndemic” (a portmanteau combining the ideas of synergy and epidemic coined by medical... more
As a concept that helps to “illuminate the entangled, rhizomatic connections between climate change and contagions of various kinds,” the term “syndemic” (a portmanteau combining the ideas of synergy and epidemic coined by medical anthropologist Merrill Singer) may be an appropriate way to consider the many interlinked human tragedies occurring during the global COVID-19 emergency. Such synergetic factors can exacerbate the effects of poverty and increased food insecurities, with significant feedbacks that ultimately influence malnutrition and other health crises affecting specific groups of people at a particular time and place. Depending on the illnesses that co-align in a particular outbreak, any number of other conditions (depression, hypertension, anxiety — including climate anxiety, stress, environmental toxicity, or even solastalgia) could potentially come into play and significantly exacerbate ill health effects within a syndemic. In their short essay on COVID-19 as a possible syndemic, Joni Adamson and Steven Hartman note that “risks of serious illness and death from COVID-19 are highest in individuals with underlying conditions,” including many that “correlate meaningfully with socio-economic circumstances, education-level and other institutionalized societal factors." In the special issue of Bifrost devoted to environmental humanities responses to the 2020 pandemic, authors Joni Adamson and Steven Hartman note in their short on COVID-19 as a possible syndemic that “risks of serious illness and death from COVID-19 are highest in individuals with underlying conditions,” including many that “correlate meaningfully with socio-economic circumstances, education-level and other institutionalized societal factors." As the authors argue, the syndemic concept buttresses what we have learned about the inextricability of social and environmental factors from the environmental justice movement concerning health, well-being and justice. An expanded understanding of what a ‘global syndemic’ might mean allows us to see the shared social, biological, and historical drivers of pandemics.
Research Interests: Humanities, Social Sciences, Foodways (Anthropology), Literature, Race and Racism, and 15 moreEnvironmental Studies, Environmental History, Anthropology of Food, Sustainable Development, Social Justice, Food and Nutrition, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Ecocriticism, Public Health, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Humanities, Settler Colonial Studies, Social Inequality, and COVID-19 PANDEMIC
This introductory essay to the June 2020 special issue of Bifrost Online provides theoretical context and a general framing for responses from the Environmental Humanities to the COVID-19 pandemic. The issue features an Open Letter... more
This introductory essay to the June 2020 special issue of Bifrost Online provides theoretical context and a general framing for responses from the Environmental Humanities to the COVID-19 pandemic. The issue features an Open Letter co-authored and signed by 40+ environmental humanists, as well as some allied social scientists and activists, expressing a set of principles and commitments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of the letter’s signatories have also contributed essays to accompany the Open Letter, reflecting further on the many challenges of a post-coronavirus world and the opportunities and obligations of the Environmental Humanities as a community of interest and practice. Co-authored by the issue's editors, this essay frames contributions from a number of leading scholars to the current special issue and makes a case for building a "community of purpose" to meet, with greater effect, the critical interlinked challenges of a post-COVID-19 world.
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This manuscript version of the article is identical to the version of the article published online, complete with url hyperlinks to cited references but without the online illustrations. It is provided here in pdf form for downloading and printing.
The originally published version online can be accessed at the following url:
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Research Interests: Infectious disease epidemiology, Critical Animal Studies, Post-Colonialism, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Air Pollution and Health Effects, and 15 moreEcocriticism, Public Health, Biodiversity, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sustainability, Zoonoses, Environmental Humanities, Intersectionality and Social Inequality, Human-Animal Studies, Feminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies, Climate Change Impacts, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, Food Quality and Safety, Veganism, and COVID-19 PANDEMIC
This paper offers a psychohistorical reading of civilization-building into the Anthropocene, with a special emphasis on the deeply disruptive present era inaugurated by the Great Acceleration. Our discussion takes up and extends Simon... more
This paper offers a psychohistorical reading of civilization-building into the Anthropocene, with a special emphasis on the deeply disruptive present era inaugurated by the Great Acceleration. Our discussion takes up and extends Simon Estok’s concept of ecophobia in an effort to better comprehend why modern societies find themselves stuck in an increasing ecological panic as a more general awareness seems to grow concerning the Earth’s changing conditions in the Anthropocene. We suggest that ecophobia in the present era is giving way to a panphobia that springs from the collapse of the historically constructed, culturally reinforced, and industrially reproduced separation of Nature and Culture, itself a consequence—ironically—of the success of human colonization of nature and the ever-deepening hybridizations of the social and the natural. We suggest that panphobia can be understood as an epidemic madness flowing from the unmistakable ecological awareness underlying the Anthropocenic principle of coexistence and we conclude by questioning whether this very awareness may hold the promise of a way out of catastrophic paralysis.
Research Interests: Psychology, Human Geography, Anthropology, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and 15 moreHistorical Sociology, Humanities, History of Ideas, Social Sciences, Environmental Law, Climate Change, Environmental Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Environmental History, Ecology, Ecofeminism, Marxist theory, Ecocriticism, Environmental Sustainability, and Environmental Humanities
THIS ESSAY DISCUSSES STRATEGIC EFFORTS TO DEVELOP NEW DIGITAL RESEARCH TOOLS AND APPROACHES AS KEY ELEMENTS OF AN INTER-disciplinary research initiative in progress, Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM),1 which... more
THIS ESSAY DISCUSSES STRATEGIC EFFORTS TO DEVELOP NEW DIGITAL RESEARCH TOOLS AND APPROACHES AS KEY ELEMENTS OF AN INTER-disciplinary research initiative in progress, Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM),1 which aims to study aspects of Icelandic literature, history, archaeology, environment, and geography in order to better understand societal responses to environmental change over the longue durée. he essay showcases a particular digital humanities project, Icelandic Saga Map (ISM),2 which not only provides an extremely useful tool for helping achieve many of the identiied aims and methodological needs of an integrated environmental humanities initiative such as IEM but also is a valuable example of how innovative digital humanities tools can foster new research trajectories and open up new horizons for interdisciplinary engagement and synthesis of knowledge and diverse data.
In olden days there was a troll woman named Kráka who lived in Bláhvammur by Bláfjall. She lived in a cave the remains of which can still be seen. It is so high up in the crags of Bláhvammur that it is inaccessible to all human beings.... more
In olden days there was a troll woman named Kráka who lived in Bláhvammur by Bláfjall. She lived in a cave the remains of which can still be seen. It is so high up in the crags of Bláhvammur that it is inaccessible to all human beings. Kráka was extremely evil and she constantly attacked the sheep belonging to the people of Mývatn and did great damage in the form of seizing sheep and killing humans (Kráka tröllskessa in Þjóðsagnabókin Sýnisbók íslenzkra þjóðsagnasafna. Sigurður Nordal tók saman. Translation Astrid Ogilvie). Abstract: The Lake Mývatn area in northeast Iceland has been occupied by farming communities since the arrival of Viking Age settlers in the late 9 th century. Despite its inland location and relatively high elevation, this lake basin has seen continuous human occupation through periods of harsh climate, volcanic eruptions, epidemics, and world system impacts. Mývatn residents have conducted farming, fishing, egg collecting, and hunting activities for over a millennium, pooling labour and working to manage landscape change with traditional and local knowledge. The rich folklore tradition of Iceland includes the story of the troll woman, Kráka, who lived in a cave in the mountain Bláfjall ("Blue Mountain") a major feature of the region, and who proved to be a very troublesome neighbour to the Mývatn farmers. When they spurned her dubious "friendship" she sought vengeance in the form of degradation of the landscape. The story tells that she created the river Kráká (á meaning "river" in Icelandic) that subsequently needed constant attention from the inhabitants to prevent damage to the surrounding area by flooding and erosion. The story of Kráka and the river Kráká that bears her name provides a striking metaphor for the story that is told here of the all-important water resources of the Mývatn district, environmental changes through time, the farming community who sought to manage these fragile resources, and also the community of researchers from both Iceland and elsewhere who have shared their interdisciplinary academic knowledge in the best collaborative spirit over several decades to understand the key elements that contribute to successful sustainability of natural resources over time. 1 The Icelandic language contains the letters ð (upper case Ð) pronounced like the "th" in "clothe" and þ (upper case Þ) pronounced like the "th" in "thing". Unless in a quotation or a personal name, the letter "Þ" is transliterated to "Th" here.
The feature from Bifrost Online profiles the groundbreaking lawsuit of Juliana v. United States filed by 21 youth plaintiffs from across the United States and climate scientist James Hansen, former director of the NASA Goddard Space... more
The feature from Bifrost Online profiles the groundbreaking lawsuit of Juliana v. United States filed by 21 youth plaintiffs from across the United States and climate scientist James Hansen, former director of the NASA Goddard Space Center in New York. This lawsuit alleges in effect that the United States has been negligent in preventing harm to present and future generations by ignoring or downplaying the threat of climate change in the face of mounting evidence that it was happening and worsening significantly with each passing year. Beyond this, it alleges that the United States has promoted a fossil-fuel based energy system for more than 50 years, through longstanding subsidies and other economic incentives, despite evidence and awareness of the risks and harms such a course would expose its citizens to by significantly contributing to global warming. Based on interviews with some of the youth plaintiffs and their families, the lead lawyer in the case and the legal theorist who developed the atmospheric trust litigation approach put to the test in this case, this feature offers a case study in the integrated networked actions of communities, government institutions and civil society linking youth and their schools, their parents and neighbors, local activists and non-profit organizations, as well as scientists, legal scholars and practicing lawyers.
Research Interests: Constitutional Law, Environmental Education, Environmental Law, Climate Change, Human Rights, and 15 moreEnvironmental Studies, Climate change policy, Environmental Policy and Governance, Air Pollution and Health Effects, Ecocriticism, Public Health, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Humanities, Climate Change Impacts, Advocacy and Activism, Climate Justice, Fossil Fuels, and Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities
A B S T R A C T This paper contributes to recent studies exploring the longue durée of human impacts on island landscapes, the impacts of climate and other environmental changes on human communities, and the interaction of human societies... more
A B S T R A C T This paper contributes to recent studies exploring the longue durée of human impacts on island landscapes, the impacts of climate and other environmental changes on human communities, and the interaction of human societies and their environments at different spatial and temporal scales. In particular, the paper addresses Iceland during the medieval period (with a secondary, comparative focus on Norse Greenland) and discusses episodes where environmental and climatic changes have appeared to cross key thresholds for agricultural productivity. The paper draws upon international, interdisciplinary research in the North Atlantic region led by the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) and the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) in the Circumpolar Networks program of the Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE). By interlinking analyses of historically grounded literature with archaeological studies and environmental science, valuable new perspectives can emerge on how these past societies may have understood and coped with such impacts. As climate and other environmental changes do not operate in isolation, vulnerabilities created by socioeconomic factors also beg consideration. The paper illustrates the benefits of an integrated environmental-studies approach that draws on data, methodologies and analytical tools of environmental humanities , social sciences, and geosciences to better understand long-term human ecodynamics and changing human-landscape-environment interactions through time. One key goal is to apply previously unused data and concerted expertise to illuminate human responses to past changes; a secondary aim is to consider how lessons derived from these cases may be applicable to environmental threats and socioecological risks in the future, especially as understood in light of the New Human Condition, the concept transposed from Hannah Arendt's influential framing of the human condition that is foregrounded in the present special issue. This conception admits human agency's role in altering the conditions for life on earth, in large measure negatively, while acknowledging the potential of this self-same agency, if effectively harnessed and properly directed, to sustain essential planetary conditions through a salutary transformation of human perception, understanding and remedial action. The paper concludes that more long-term historical analyses of cultures and environments need to be undertaken at various scales. Past cases do not offer perfect analogues for the future, but they can contribute to a better understanding of how resilience and vulnerability occur, as well as how they may be compromised or mitigated.
This is the inaugural blog of the newly launched sustainability and education web portal Bifrost Online.(www.bifrostonline.org) Two years ago 195 nations came together to ensure that our children, and their children after them, could... more
This is the inaugural blog of the newly launched sustainability and education web portal Bifrost Online.(www.bifrostonline.org) Two years ago 195 nations came together to ensure that our children, and their children after them, could continue to live and prosper on the only home we have, the earth. Bifrost Online launched on 12 December 2017 in observance of the two year anniversary of the landmark Paris climate accord. The web portal offers thought-provoking stories, art work, interviews and the wisdom of individuals with knowledge to share, whether in the form of scientific expertise or lived personal experience. The aim is to promote the bridging of knowledge and action to help make a difference in our changing world. Bifrost Online's inaugural blog looks back, and forward, at the meaning of the Paris Agreement, while acknowledging that we live in times of increasing uncertainty. "The glut of white noise inundating social media, amid competing reports of fake news and alternative facts, can easily make the challenges facing the planet seem distant, abstract, overwhelming. We need to face our challenges. But we also need new forms of action, new ways of organizing ourselves, new ways of taking responsibility for the state of the world that we belong to."
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Geography, Humanities, Environmental Education, Social Sciences, and 46 moreScience Communication, Environmental Law, Globalization, Climate Change, Teacher Education, Environmental Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Interdisciplinarity, Political Ecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Environmental Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Adaptation to Climate Change, Climate change policy, Social-Ecological Systems, Environmental History, Sustainable Development, Global Justice, Heritage Conservation, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Policy and Governance, Ecology, Environmental Art, Forced Migration, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Ecocriticism, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Environmental Justice, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sustainability, Impact of climate change on sea level rise, Environmental Humanities, Environmental Activism, Global Environmental Governance, Climate Change Impacts, Sustainability Science, Climate Justice, Global Warming, Public Engagement, Environmental science and policy, Environmental justice, global sustainability, Environmental Politics and Governance, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Education for Sustainable Development, Environmental Sustainability. Global Development and Environmental Protection, Climate change denial, Climate change adaptation measures, Climate Politics, Education for Sustainable Development, and Global (North/South) Environmental Politics
This paper contributes to recent studies exploring the longue durée of human impacts on island landscapes, the impacts of climate and other environmental changes on human communities, and the interaction of human societies and their... more
This paper contributes to recent studies exploring the longue durée of human impacts on island landscapes, the impacts of climate and other environmental changes on human communities, and the interaction of human societies and their environments at different spatial and temporal scales. In particular, the paper addresses Iceland during the medieval period (with a secondary, comparative focus on Norse Greenland) and discusses episodes where environmental and climatic changes have appeared to cross key thresholds for agricultural productivity. The paper draws upon international, interdisciplinary research in the North Atlantic region led by the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) and the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) in the Circumpolar Networks program of the Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE). By interlinking analyses of historically grounded literature with archaeological studies and environmental science, valuable new perspectives can emerge on how these past societies may have understood and coped with such impacts. As climate and other environmental changes do not operate in isolation, vulnerabilities created by socioeconomic factors also beg consideration. The paper illustrates the benefits of an integrated environmental-studies approach that draws on data, methodologies and analytical tools of environmental humanities, social sciences, and geosciences to better understand long-term human ecodynamics and changing human-landscape-environment interactions through time. One key goal is to apply previously unused data and concerted expertise to illuminate human responses to past changes; a secondary aim is to consider how lessons derived from these cases may be applicable to environmental threats and socioecological risks in the future, especially as understood in light of the New Human Condition, the concept transposed from Hannah Arendt's influential framing of the human condition that is foregrounded in the present special issue. This conception admits human agency's role in altering the conditions for life on earth, in large measure negatively, while acknowledging the potential of this self-same agency, if effectively harnessed and properly directed, to sustain essential planetary conditions through a salutary transformation of human perception, understanding and remedial action. The paper concludes that more long-term historical analyses of cultures and environments need to be undertaken at various scales. Past cases do not offer perfect analogues for the future, but they can contribute to a better understanding of how resilience and vulnerability occur, as well as how they may be compromised or mitigated.
Research Interests: History, Economic History, Landscape Ecology, Cultural Studies, Geography, and 59 moreHuman Geography, Historical Geography, Physical Geography, Archaeology, Environmental Science, Comparative Literature, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Environmental Education, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Climate Change, Zooarchaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Literature, Medieval Studies, Political Ecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience, Environmental Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sustainable agriculture, Adaptation to Climate Change, Environmental History, Sustainable Development, Early Medieval Archaeology, Risk and Vulnerability, Environmental Management, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Ecology, Agriculture, Social History, Ecocriticism, History of Iceland, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sustainability, Agricultural History, Archaeology of Iceland, Environmental Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, Vikings in the North Atlantic, Environmental Change, Sea Ice, Historical Ecology, Interdisciplinary research (Social Sciences), Medieval Icelandic Literature, Climate Change Impacts, Icelandic Sagas, Norse Greenland, Historical Climatology, Greenland, Volcanoes, Humanities and Social Sciences, Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture, and Sustainability
The volume CONTESTING ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINARIES: NATURE AND COUNTERNATURE IN A TIME OF GLOBAL CHANGE, edited by Steven Hartman (Mid Sweden University), foregrounds a question central to humanistic environmental studies: How is nature to... more
The volume CONTESTING ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINARIES: NATURE AND COUNTERNATURE IN A TIME OF GLOBAL CHANGE, edited by Steven Hartman (Mid Sweden University), foregrounds a question central to humanistic environmental studies: How is nature to be perceived and understood in a time of global environmental crisis? A challenge was issued to imagine counter natures, past or present, casting nature as a normative concept into productive relief. One ambition was to highlight shifting perspectives on nature and the environment that may help account for the rise of the environmental humanities; another was to invite challenges to orthodoxies, including those that animate this burgeoning field. Contributions emerged from the study areas of Environmental History, Ecocriticism, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Media Studies, and the History of Ideas. This volume draws together the fruits of this thought experiment.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Steven Hartman: "Naturalizing Culture and Countering Nature in Discourses of the Environment"
PART 1: RECONTEXTURALIZING NATURE
Klaus Benesch: "Day and Night: Topography and Renewal in Thoreau’s WALDEN and Douglass’s NARRATIVE"
Tatiani G. Rapatzikou: "James Schuyler’s Flower Poems and the Urban Pastoral Aesthetic"
Øyunn Hestetun: "Palimpsest of Subjugation: Inscriptions of Domination on the Land and the Human Body in Jane Smiley’s A THOUSAND ACRES"
Mark Luccarelli: "Reframing American Naturism? Space, History and the Rise of Environmental Discourse"
PART 2: CHALLENGING NATURE AND ENVISIONING COUNTERNATURES
Lawrence Buell: "Uses and Abuses of Environmental Memory"
Ursula K. Heise: "Environment, Technology and Modernity in Contemporary Japanese Animation"
Torben Huus Larsen: "A Harmony of Murder: Transatlantic Visions of Wilderness in Werner Herzog’s 'Grizzly Man'"
Marcus Nordlund: "Literary Appreciation: A Biocultural View"
PART 3: APPLYING COUNTERNATURES
Henrik Otterberg: "Dark Darwin: (D)evolutionary Theory and the Logic of Vampirism in Bram Stoker’s DRACULA"
Torsten Pettersson: "Why Should We Respect Nature? An Appropriation of Nietzsche"
Karen Lykke Syse: "Histories and Ideologies of Nature in Argyll"
Adriana Méndez Rodenas: "Picturing Eden': Contesting Fredrika Bremer’s Tropics"
Håkan Sandgren: "Life Under Water: Narratives of Deep Sea Counternatures"
David E. Nye: "Superfund Sites as Anti-Landscapes"
INDEX
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Steven Hartman: "Naturalizing Culture and Countering Nature in Discourses of the Environment"
PART 1: RECONTEXTURALIZING NATURE
Klaus Benesch: "Day and Night: Topography and Renewal in Thoreau’s WALDEN and Douglass’s NARRATIVE"
Tatiani G. Rapatzikou: "James Schuyler’s Flower Poems and the Urban Pastoral Aesthetic"
Øyunn Hestetun: "Palimpsest of Subjugation: Inscriptions of Domination on the Land and the Human Body in Jane Smiley’s A THOUSAND ACRES"
Mark Luccarelli: "Reframing American Naturism? Space, History and the Rise of Environmental Discourse"
PART 2: CHALLENGING NATURE AND ENVISIONING COUNTERNATURES
Lawrence Buell: "Uses and Abuses of Environmental Memory"
Ursula K. Heise: "Environment, Technology and Modernity in Contemporary Japanese Animation"
Torben Huus Larsen: "A Harmony of Murder: Transatlantic Visions of Wilderness in Werner Herzog’s 'Grizzly Man'"
Marcus Nordlund: "Literary Appreciation: A Biocultural View"
PART 3: APPLYING COUNTERNATURES
Henrik Otterberg: "Dark Darwin: (D)evolutionary Theory and the Logic of Vampirism in Bram Stoker’s DRACULA"
Torsten Pettersson: "Why Should We Respect Nature? An Appropriation of Nietzsche"
Karen Lykke Syse: "Histories and Ideologies of Nature in Argyll"
Adriana Méndez Rodenas: "Picturing Eden': Contesting Fredrika Bremer’s Tropics"
Håkan Sandgren: "Life Under Water: Narratives of Deep Sea Counternatures"
David E. Nye: "Superfund Sites as Anti-Landscapes"
INDEX
Research Interests: American Literature, American History, History of Science and Technology, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, and 39 moreLatin American Studies, American Studies, Aesthetics, Media and Cultural Studies, History of Ideas, Environmental Education, Latin American and Caribbean History, Film Studies, Literature, Environmental Studies, Poetry, Environmental History, Cuban Studies, Literary Criticism, Caribbean Literature, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Aesthetics, Literary Theory, Caribbean Studies, Friedrich Nietzsche, Latin American literature, Ecocriticism, Environmental Sustainability, Thoreau, Scandinavian Studies, Landscape, Environmental Humanities, Frederick Douglass, Literary Darwinism Or Evolutionary Literary Theory, Literature and Environment, Nature, Bram Stoker, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, Werner Herzog, Ecocriticism, Eco-Aesthetics, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Landscape and Land-use-history, History of Philosophy, and Ecocritical Theory
Vilka lösningar på miljö problemen kan kultur tänkarna ge? I andra delen av vår serie om humanioras lösningar intervjuar vår kultur redaktör litteraturvetaren och engelska-professorn Steven Hartman. Interview (in Swedish) from... more
Vilka lösningar på miljö problemen kan kultur tänkarna ge? I andra delen av vår serie om humanioras lösningar intervjuar vår kultur redaktör litteraturvetaren och engelska-professorn Steven Hartman.
Interview (in Swedish) from Supermiljöbloggen, Wednesday 17 October 2018.
http://supermiljobloggen.se/nyheter/2018/10/steven-hartman-vi-behover-beakta-de-manskliga-dimensionerna
Interview (in Swedish) from Supermiljöbloggen, Wednesday 17 October 2018.
http://supermiljobloggen.se/nyheter/2018/10/steven-hartman-vi-behover-beakta-de-manskliga-dimensionerna
Research Interests: Environmental Education, Climate Change, Literature, Climate Change Adaptation, Environmental Studies, and 12 moreEnvironmental History, Sustainable Development, Ecocriticism, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Humanities, Human Dimensions of environmental issues, Environmental Change, Humaniora, Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hållbarhet, and Hållbar utveckling
From the World Humanities Conference 2017 Facebook media-sharing page: "Steven Hartman, Professor of English literature and Head of Humanities for the Environment Circumpolar Observatory, gives us his own definition of the Humanities,... more
From the World Humanities Conference 2017 Facebook media-sharing page: "Steven Hartman, Professor of English literature and Head of Humanities for the Environment Circumpolar Observatory, gives us his own definition of the Humanities, which has evolved over time."
See linked video url under "Files".
See linked video url under "Files".
Research Interests: History, Cultural Studies, Geography, Human Geography, Archaeology, and 46 moreEnvironmental Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Art History, Humanities, Digital Humanities, Languages and Linguistics, Social Sciences, Globalization, Climate Change, Research Design, Cultural Heritage, Literature, Interdisciplinarity, Political Ecology, Resilience, Environmental Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Social-Ecological Systems, Environmental History, History of Science, Sustainable Development, Transdisciplinarity, English, Risk and Vulnerability, Education Policy, Ecology, Forced Migration, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sustainability, Natural Science, Environmental Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, Risk Assessment & Risk Management, Environmental Change, Multidisciplinary, Global Warming, Research Policy, Interdisciplinary, Interdisciplinary research, Knowledge Communities, Humanities and Social Sciences, IPCC, History of Humanities, Arts and Humanities, and Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities
Guðmundur Hálfdanarson, Dean of the University of Iceland's School of Humanities, interviews Steven Hartman concerning the emerging field of the environmental humanities ("Hvað eru umhverfishugvísindi?") in conjunction with his keynote... more
Guðmundur Hálfdanarson, Dean of the University of Iceland's School of Humanities, interviews Steven Hartman concerning the emerging field of the environmental humanities ("Hvað eru umhverfishugvísindi?") in conjunction with his keynote talk "New Horizons of the Environmental Humanities" opening the 20th anniversary Humanities Conference at the University of Iceland, 11 March 2016.
See linked video url under "Files".
See linked video url under "Files".
Research Interests: Human Ecology, Environmental Philosophy, Humanities, Environmental Archaeology, Literature, and 11 moreInterdisciplinarity, Political Ecology, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Environmental Anthropology, Sustainable Development, Transdisciplinarity, Ecocriticism, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Humanities, and Humanities and Social Sciences
Interview following Steven Hartman's presentation "Integrated environmental humanities and social sciences as 'transformative cornerstones’ of global change research design" at the UNESCO symposium "Broadening the Application of the... more
Interview following Steven Hartman's presentation "Integrated environmental humanities and social sciences as 'transformative cornerstones’ of global change research design" at the UNESCO symposium "Broadening the Application of the Sustainability Science Approach" in Kuala Lumpur 19-21 December 2016. The symposium, hosted by the Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia and organized by UNESCO Paris and UNESCO Japan/MEXT, explored how regional experiences and inputs can help to develop effective policy guidelines on sustainability science and interdisciplinarity in research and education for all UNESCO member states.
See linked video url under "Files".
See linked video url under "Files".
Research Interests: Environmental Science, Education, Humanities, Environmental Education, Social Sciences, and 28 moreResearch Methodology, Research Design, Interdisciplinarity, Higher Education, Environmental policy, Environmental Studies, Sustainable Development, Transdisciplinarity, Applied Transdisciplinarity, Civil Society and the Public Sphere, Education Policy, Ecocriticism, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sustainability, Governance and Civil Society, Environmental Humanities, Higher Education Policy, Multidisciplinary, Sustainability Science, Civil Society, Research Policy, Interdisciplinary, Interdisciplinary research, Humanities and Social Sciences, Multidisciplinary Research, Multidisciplinarity, Transdisciplinary research, and Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities
Delivered in English by Professor Steven Hartman on October 11, 2019 at the Nobel Prize Teacher Summit in Stockholm, Sweden, this 12-min lecture was filmed by UR (Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company), which is part of the Swedish... more
Delivered in English by Professor Steven Hartman on October 11, 2019 at the Nobel Prize Teacher Summit in Stockholm, Sweden, this 12-min lecture was filmed by UR (Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company), which is part of the Swedish public service broadcasting group that includes Swedish Radio (SR) and Swedish Television (SVT). UR’s mandate is to produce and broadcast educational and general knowledge programmes which strengthen, broaden and complement the work of others active in education.
The theme of the 2019 Nobel Prize Teacher Summit was "Climate Change Changes Everything."
The lecture showcases several poignant examples of how stories not only help to shape sustainable values and create communities of purpose, but how they also have truly revolutionary, transformative potential for building sustainable societies. The powerful role of stories and storytelling is illustrated in several different contexts, drawing on literature, art, science, and social movements. The lecture highlights how stories can serve as crucial touchstones (sources of power, inspiration and agency) throughout people’s lives, both in formal and informal contexts of knowledge production, learning and action, with a special emphasis on the iconic youth climate activist Greta Thunberg of Sweden and the global movement "Fridays for Future" inspired by her example.
Steven Hartman is Guest Professor of English at Mälardalen University in Sweden, Adjunct Professor at the Human Ecodynamics Research Center, City University of New York Graduate Center, and Affiliate Senior Scientist at the Stefansson Arctic Institute (SAI) in Iceland. He leads the Humanities for the Environment Circumpolar Observatory group anchored at SAI.
The theme of the 2019 Nobel Prize Teacher Summit was "Climate Change Changes Everything."
The lecture showcases several poignant examples of how stories not only help to shape sustainable values and create communities of purpose, but how they also have truly revolutionary, transformative potential for building sustainable societies. The powerful role of stories and storytelling is illustrated in several different contexts, drawing on literature, art, science, and social movements. The lecture highlights how stories can serve as crucial touchstones (sources of power, inspiration and agency) throughout people’s lives, both in formal and informal contexts of knowledge production, learning and action, with a special emphasis on the iconic youth climate activist Greta Thunberg of Sweden and the global movement "Fridays for Future" inspired by her example.
Steven Hartman is Guest Professor of English at Mälardalen University in Sweden, Adjunct Professor at the Human Ecodynamics Research Center, City University of New York Graduate Center, and Affiliate Senior Scientist at the Stefansson Arctic Institute (SAI) in Iceland. He leads the Humanities for the Environment Circumpolar Observatory group anchored at SAI.
Research Interests: Social Movements, Environmental Education, Climate Change, Teacher Education, Literature, and 15 moreNarrative, Political Ecology, Environmental Studies, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Social Activism, Environmental Policy and Governance, Ecocriticism, Environmental Sustainability, Women's Empowerment, Environmental Humanities, Activism, Global Warming, Social transformation, Students, and Nobel Prize
Lecture on "The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies' project 'Bifrost -- The Future is Now': A response to Orwellian Rebranding of Science in the Age of Trump" at the special Nobel Museum-NIES Teachers Evening 'A... more
Lecture on "The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies' project 'Bifrost -- The Future is Now': A response to Orwellian Rebranding of Science in the Age of Trump" at the special Nobel Museum-NIES Teachers Evening 'A Sustainable Future' (En hållbar framtid), organized in partnership with the Stockholm Act festival, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden 22 Aug 2017.
The talk draws upon a wide range of recent scholarly and journalistic sources to highlight the unprecedented challenges posed by purveyors of junk science working on behalf of vested interests in the fossil fuel industry, who now pose a serious threat to scientific and educational communities, democratic institutions, global citizenry and, above all, the current generation of youth. This remarkable context, it is argued, makes collaborative border-crossing public interventions that link science, education, arts and civil society (such as Bifrost--The Future is Now and other projects/initiatives like it) more necessary than ever before.
The lecture is the basis for a paper in preparation (now being co-written with Lea Rekow) soon to be submitted for an upcoming special issue guest-edited by Poul Holm and Ruth Brennan of the journal HUMANITIES on the theme of "Environmental Humanities in Action."
The talk draws upon a wide range of recent scholarly and journalistic sources to highlight the unprecedented challenges posed by purveyors of junk science working on behalf of vested interests in the fossil fuel industry, who now pose a serious threat to scientific and educational communities, democratic institutions, global citizenry and, above all, the current generation of youth. This remarkable context, it is argued, makes collaborative border-crossing public interventions that link science, education, arts and civil society (such as Bifrost--The Future is Now and other projects/initiatives like it) more necessary than ever before.
The lecture is the basis for a paper in preparation (now being co-written with Lea Rekow) soon to be submitted for an upcoming special issue guest-edited by Poul Holm and Ruth Brennan of the journal HUMANITIES on the theme of "Environmental Humanities in Action."
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Political Sociology, American Studies, Environmental Science, Philosophy of Science, and 55 moreEducation, Humanities, Environmental Education, Social Sciences, Environmental Law, Corporate Social Responsibility, Climate Change, Science Policy, Youth Studies, Teacher Education, Science Education, Human Rights, Renewable Energy, Political Ecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Environmental Studies, Climate change policy, Environmental History, Sustainable Development, Energy, Energy Policy, English, Conspiracy Theories, Public Health Policy, George Orwell, Human Rights Education, Environmental Management, Sociology Of Scientific Knowledge, Environmental Policy and Governance, Education Policy, Media and Democracy, Energy and Environment, Ecocriticism, Democracy, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sustainability, Pseudoscience, Scientific Literacy, Environmental Humanities, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Conspiracy Culture, Lobbying, Global Warming, Think Tanks, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change Skepticism, Humanities and Social Sciences, Disinformation, Climate Science, Democracy and Citizenship Education, Climate Politics, Education for Sustainable Development, Donald Trump, Doublethink, and Doublespeak
Presentation of the research-arts public humanities and societal engagement project Bifrost as a video lecture at the Arctic Horizons workshop in Juneau, Alaska (31 March - 2 April 2016), sponsored by the United States National Science... more
Presentation of the research-arts public humanities and societal engagement project Bifrost as a video lecture at the Arctic Horizons workshop in Juneau, Alaska (31 March - 2 April 2016), sponsored by the United States National Science Foundation and organized by the University of Alaska.
Keywords: Environmental Humanities, Arctic Social Sciences, Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Studies, Research Arts Collaboration, Public Humanities, Societal Engagement, Climate Chane, Global Change,
Presenter: Professor Steven Hartman, Chair of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES), Mid Sweden University
Keywords: Environmental Humanities, Arctic Social Sciences, Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Studies, Research Arts Collaboration, Public Humanities, Societal Engagement, Climate Chane, Global Change,
Presenter: Professor Steven Hartman, Chair of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES), Mid Sweden University
Research Interests: History, Geography, Archaeology, Environmental Science, Anthropology, and 27 morePhilosophy, Indigenous Studies, Humanities, Environmental Education, Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, Climate Change, Literature, Interdisciplinarity, Human Rights, Arctic Social Science, Resilience, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Sustainable Development, Global Justice, Environmental Ethics, Ecology, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Renewable energy resources, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sustainability, Arts-sciences interdisciplinarity, Environmental Humanities, Visual Arts, Education for Sustainable Development, and Alpine and Arctic Research
Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM) is a major interdisciplinary research initiative examining environmental memory in the medieval Icelandic sagas. The initiative brings together teams of historians, literary... more
Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM) is a major interdisciplinary research initiative examining environmental memory in the medieval Icelandic sagas. The initiative brings together teams of historians, literary scholars, archaeologists and geographers, as well as specialists in environmental sciences and medieval studies, to investigate long-term human ecodynamics and environmental change from the period of Iceland’s settlement in the Viking Age (AD 874-930) through the so-called Saga Age of the early and late medieval periods, and well into the long period of steady cooling in the Northern hemisphere popularly known as the Little Ice Age (AD 1350-1850). In her 1994 volume inaugurating the field of historical ecology Carole Crumley argued in favor of a “longitudinal” approach to the study of longue durée human ecodynamics. This approach takes a region as the focus for study and examines changing human-landscape-climate interactions through time in that particular place. IEM involves multiple frames of inquiry that are distinct yet cross-referential. Environmental change in Iceland during the late Iron Age and medieval period is investigated by physical environmental sciences. Just how known processes of environmental change and adaptation may have shaped medieval Icelandic sagas and their socio-environmental preoccupations is of great interest, yet just as interesting are other questions concerning how these sagas may in turn have shaped understandings of the past, cultural foundation narratives, environmental lore, local ecological knowledge etc. Enlisting environmental sciences and humanities scholarship in the common aim of framing and thereby better understanding nature, the IEM initiative excludes nothing as “post- interesting” or “pre-interesting.” Understanding Viking Age first settlement processes informs understanding of 18th century responses to climate change, and 19th century resource use informs understanding of archaeological patterns visible at first settlement a millennium earlier. There is much to gain from looking at pathways (and their divergences) from both ends, and a long millennial scale perspective is one of the key contributions that the study of past “completed experiments in human ecodynamics” can make to attempts to achieve future sustainability. IEM is a case study of the Integrated History and future of People on Earth initiative (IHOPE) led by the international project AIMES (Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System), a core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme; the initiative is co-sponsored by PAGES (Past Global Changes) and IHDP (The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change). This talk brings together two of the main coordinators from IEM’s sponsoring organizations, NIES and NABO, to reflect on the particular challenges, innovations and advances anticipated in this unprecedented undertaking of integrated science and scholarship, a new model for the scientific framing of nature.
Research Interests: Landscape Ecology, Human Geography, Historical Geography, Physical Geography, Archaeology, and 88 moreEnvironmental Science, Comparative Literature, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Humanities, Historical Archaeology, Digital Humanities, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Climate Change, Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Environmental Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Natural Resources, Paleoclimatology, Literature, Interdisciplinarity, Landscape Archaeology, Medieval Studies, Historical GIS, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience, Environmental Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Adaptation to Climate Change, Social-Ecological Systems, Environmental History, Environmental Anthropology, History and Memory, Old Norse Literature, Transdisciplinarity, Cultural Landscapes, Paleoenvironment, Paleoecology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Medieval Archaeology, Palynology, Natural Resource Management, Medieval Scandinavia, Archaeological GIS, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, North Atlantic archaeology, Social Ecological Systems, Collective Memory, Ecocriticism, Environmental GIS, Icelandic Family Sagas, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sustainability, Archaeology of Iceland, Architectural Heritage, Scandinavian Studies, Landscape, Environmental Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, Environmental Change, Multidisciplinary, Complex Adaptive Systems, Historical Ecology, Literature and Environment, Interdisciplinary research (Social Sciences), Medieval Icelandic Literature, Ecological Humanities, Viking Age Scandinavia, Iron Age, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Multidisciplinary Collaboration, Icelandic Sagas, Environment and climate change, Local Ecological Knowledge, palaeoecology, palynology, Quaternary, archaeobotany, Viking Age Scandinavia and the North Atlantic, Interdisciplinary research, Sustainable Resource Management, Material Ecocriticism, Medieval Icelandic society, Humanities and Social Sciences, Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture, Longue durée, Old Norse-Old Icelandic Literature, Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities, Landscape and Land-use-history, Geography and Environment, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
""The Inscribing Environmental Memory Research Initiative" Presented by Steven Hartman Research clusters within the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES), the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization... more
""The Inscribing Environmental Memory Research Initiative"
Presented by Steven Hartman
Research clusters within the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES), the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) and the Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance (GHEA), in cooperation with partner networks in the USA, the UK and the Nordic countries, have undertaken a major interdisciplinary research initiative that aims to examine environmental memory in the medieval Icelandic sagas, with a prominent focus on historical processes of environmental change and adaptation. The medieval Sagas of Icelanders constitute one key corpus, among other literary and documentary corpora, to be investigated in this initiative.
Anchored in traditional fields of study (e.g. saga studies and various medieval-studies fields) as well as newer and emerging fields (e.g. integrated history and historical ecology, ecocriticism, digital and environmental humanities, etc.), the initiative brings together literary scholars, anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, geographers, digital humanities specialists and environmental and life scientists in a coordinated set of sub-projects.
The initiative seeks to foreground evidence of changing environmental conditions in Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia from the late Iron Age through the pre-Industrial period, with a guiding focus on long-term human ecodynamics and the relations among ecological change and adaptation, on the one hand, and resource management, social organization/conflict and resilience on the other.
In response to a call for preliminary abstracts, 28 IEM sub-project proposals were submitted in fall 2012. Not all of the sub-projects proposed will be part of the final IEM program; many will be consolidated into a more manageable number of sub-project nodes and some may not move forward as prioritized focuses of the IEM initiative in the immediate future. We anticipate this will largely be a process of self-selection.
Numerous IEM workshops organized by NIES, NABO, GHEA and various university networks are taking place in 2013 in Sweden, Scotland and Iceland. IEM project development work in 2013 is expected to culminate in several major bids for research funding to be submitted to research financing agencies in various national and international contexts between fall 2013 and summer 2014. This talk briefly sketches how this initiative began and how it has developed over the past year. More importantly, it looks ahead to where we expect IEM to be heading in the next year and beyond."
Presented by Steven Hartman
Research clusters within the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES), the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) and the Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance (GHEA), in cooperation with partner networks in the USA, the UK and the Nordic countries, have undertaken a major interdisciplinary research initiative that aims to examine environmental memory in the medieval Icelandic sagas, with a prominent focus on historical processes of environmental change and adaptation. The medieval Sagas of Icelanders constitute one key corpus, among other literary and documentary corpora, to be investigated in this initiative.
Anchored in traditional fields of study (e.g. saga studies and various medieval-studies fields) as well as newer and emerging fields (e.g. integrated history and historical ecology, ecocriticism, digital and environmental humanities, etc.), the initiative brings together literary scholars, anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, geographers, digital humanities specialists and environmental and life scientists in a coordinated set of sub-projects.
The initiative seeks to foreground evidence of changing environmental conditions in Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia from the late Iron Age through the pre-Industrial period, with a guiding focus on long-term human ecodynamics and the relations among ecological change and adaptation, on the one hand, and resource management, social organization/conflict and resilience on the other.
In response to a call for preliminary abstracts, 28 IEM sub-project proposals were submitted in fall 2012. Not all of the sub-projects proposed will be part of the final IEM program; many will be consolidated into a more manageable number of sub-project nodes and some may not move forward as prioritized focuses of the IEM initiative in the immediate future. We anticipate this will largely be a process of self-selection.
Numerous IEM workshops organized by NIES, NABO, GHEA and various university networks are taking place in 2013 in Sweden, Scotland and Iceland. IEM project development work in 2013 is expected to culminate in several major bids for research funding to be submitted to research financing agencies in various national and international contexts between fall 2013 and summer 2014. This talk briefly sketches how this initiative began and how it has developed over the past year. More importantly, it looks ahead to where we expect IEM to be heading in the next year and beyond."
Research Interests: Ancient History, Landscape Ecology, Human Ecology, Historical Geography, Environmental Geography, and 186 moreArchaeology, Maritime Archaeology, Environmental Science, World Literatures, Economics, Historical Anthropology, Ethics, Communication, Humanities, Historical Archaeology, Web 2.0, Digital Humanities, Medieval Literature, Social Sciences, Remote Sensing, Visualization, Medieval History, Climate Change, Human-Animal Relations, Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Nordic Studies, Environmental Archaeology, Paleoclimatology, Semantics, Literature, Material Culture Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Arctic Social Science, Medieval Studies, Historical GIS, Nordic History, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience, Digital Archaeology, Environmental Studies, Adaptation to Climate Change, Social-Ecological Systems, Environmental History, Environmental Anthropology, Ecological Anthropology, Human-Environment Relations, Disaster risk management, Old Norse Literature, Political Science, Archaeozoology, Text Mining, Landscape History, Cultural Landscapes, Digital Culture, Paleoenvironment, Paleoecology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Landscape History, Risk and Vulnerability, Early Medieval History, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Environmental modeling, Medieval Archaeology, Nordic languages, Participation, Medieval Scandinavia, Urbanism, Arctic Archaeology, Ecology, Humanities Visualization, Archaeological GIS, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Nordic Literatures, Environmental Monitoring, Ecohydrology, Viking Studies, Old Norse Language, Critical Geography, Resilience (Sustainability), Social Ecological Systems, Collective Memory, Viking Age Archaeology, Landscapes in prehistory, Virtual Archaeology, Ecocriticism, Nature Culture, Northern studies, Vulnerability, History, Writing and Memory, Greek Archaeology, Icelandic Family Sagas, Scandinavian history, Sagas of Icelanders, Remote Sensing and GIS Applied to Natural Resources and Population, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sustainability, Indigenous Peoples, Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape Research, memoralization, Environmental Security, Archaeology of Iceland, Scandinavian Studies, Geovisualization, Environmental Humanities, Human Dimensions of environmental issues, Scandinavia (Archaeology), 3D Modelling (Architecture), Interdisciplinary Studies, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Arctic Anthropology, Vikings in the North Atlantic, Environmental Change, Nautical Archaeology, Memory and materiality, Interdisciplinary History, Historical Ecology, Literature and Environment, Nature, Interdisciplinary research (Social Sciences), Medieval Icelandic Literature, Human-Environment Interactions, Viking Age Scandinavia, Iron Age, Heritage, Land Use Change, Identity, Knowledge, Global Warming, Memory, Scandinavian Archaeology, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Critical Cartography, Global change, Information, Icelandic Sagas, Oral History and Memory, Norway, Scandinavian Literature, Landscape Studies, Archeaology, Norse Greenland, Bronze Age, global Climate change, Historical Climatology, Ancient Topography, Viking Age Scandinavia and the North Atlantic, Old Norse literature and culture, Mapping, Cultural Landscape, Norse Archaeology, Human interaction with the environment, Environmental attitudes and behaviour, Environmental education and Environmental Conflict, Vikings, Viking Age, Digital mapping, Topic modeling, Material Ecocriticism, Anglo-Saxons, Nature Conservation, Discourses, Anthropocene, Historical Geography, Historical Cartography, Environmental History, Landscape change, Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture, Integrated Science, Folkloristics, Historical Landscape, Old Norse heroic saga and eddaic literature, Environmental Conflicts, Northern Studies: Circumpolar North, Digital Environmental Humanities, Central Places, Transdisciplinary research, Early Medieval Period, Human vulnerability to natural hazards and environmental change, Enviromental Archaeology, Geodesy and Global Positioning System (GPS) and Their Applications In Earth Sciences, Old Nordic/Germanic Religions, Environmental Systems Analysis, Geo Archeology, Mediterrranean Archaeology, Islands Archaeology, Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality, Bone Tool Studies, Early Medieval Times, Royal Seats, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Ecosystem Functions and Services, Land-use/ Land-cover Change, and Religious and Magical Practices
The presentation traces the recent establishment and development of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES). Having arisen initially out of the kindred, though largely distinct, scholarly discourses of... more
The presentation traces the recent establishment and development of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES). Having arisen initially out of the kindred, though largely distinct, scholarly discourses of ecocriticism and environmental history, the network soon developed a model of cross-cutting research cooperation spanning a wider and more heterogeneous constellation of subject areas, scholarly discourses and scientific domains. Responding to a widely perceived need for a more fully interdisciplinary field of environmental studies in the humanities, NIES has also become a meaningful vehicle for the organization of the environmental humanities in Northern Europe (the Nordic countries in particular). The network offers one noteworthy model for the further development of this emergent field in its emphasis on project-driven and increasingly team-organized collaborative research, as well as in its ambitions to promote the equitable engagement of scholars from the arts and humanities together with scientists from the social sciences and the natural sciences in the production of new knowledge pertaining to environment and society. NIES’s distinctly integrative form of engagement in new initiatives of research, education and public outreach has been described, perhaps most aptly, as a _post-disciplinary_ approach to environmental studies.
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Critical Theory, History, History of Science and Technology, Landscape Ecology, and 217 moreLandscape Ecology, Environmental Sociology, Human Ecology, Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Environmental Geography, Physical Geography, American Studies, Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Communication, Environmental Philosophy, Art History, Media Studies, Humanities, Development Studies, Web 2.0, Environmental Education, Environmental Education, Digital Humanities, Science Communication, Environmental Law, Bioethics, Globalization, Visualization, Climate Change, Human-Animal Relations, Violence, Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Polar Studies, Critical Geopolitics, Ecotourism, Environmental Archaeology, Semantics, Literature, Conservation Biology, Material Culture Studies, International Development, Environmental policy, Landscape Archaeology, Conservation, Digital Media, Ethics & Social Sustainability, Posthumanism, Political Ecology, Landscape Architecture, Animal Studies, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience, Digital Archaeology, Environmental Studies, Climate change policy, Social-Ecological Systems, Environmental History, Environmental Anthropology, Ecological Anthropology, Sustainability in Higher Education, Human-Environment Relations, Ecological Economics, Ecological Economics, Heritage Tourism, Computer Networks, Literary Geography, Sustainable Development, Ecocomposition, Environmental Communication, Energy, Social Justice, Sustainable Urbanism, Landscape History, Cultural Landscapes, Global Justice, Digital Culture, Landscape History, Rural Development, Sustainable Urban Environments, Environmental Ethics, Aesthetics Of Nature, Environmental Aesthetics, Cultural Tourism, Participation, Environment and natural resources conservation, Science Fiction, Corporate Sustainability, Ecological Justice, Medieval Scandinavia, Urbanism, Natural History, Environmental Policy and Governance, Arctic Archaeology, Ecology, Ecology, Built Environment, Ecofeminism, Critical Posthumanism, Environmental Politics, Humanities Visualization, Apocalypticism In Literature, Viking Studies, Viking identities, Viking diaspora, Critical Geography, Resilience (Sustainability), Conflict Resolution, Deep Ecology, Social Ecological Systems, Postcolonial Theory, Energy and Environment, Viking Age Archaeology, Landscapes in prehistory, Virtual Archaeology, Ecological Art, Ecocriticism, Nature Culture, Greek Archaeology, Biodiversity, Landscape Urbanism, Icelandic Family Sagas, History of Iceland, Sagas of Icelanders, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Sustainability, Human-wildlife conflicts, Contemporary Poetry, Ecopoetics, Sustainable Architecture, Sustainable Rural Development, Archaeology of Iceland, Ecolinguistics, Scandinavian Studies, Landscape, Environmental Humanities, Environmental Humanities, 3D Modelling (Architecture), Humanities & Science, Nuclear Energy, Philosophy of Nature, Nature Writing, Law and Humanities, Visual Arts, Ecosemiotics, Databases, Arctic Anthropology, Geocriticism, Nautical Archaeology, Arctic Paleoenvironmental Change, Historical Ecology, Nature, Medieval Icelandic Literature, Viking Age Scandinavia, War, Heritage, Identity, Knowledge, Global Warming, Peace, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Critical Cartography, Information, Icelandic Sagas, Software, Ecology, Sustainability, Climate Change and Biodiversity, Nuclear Disarmament, Viking Age Conflict Archaeology, Ecocriticism, travel writing, popular literature and culture, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, Social Sciences and Humanities, Ancient Topography, Ecocriticism, Eco-Aesthetics, Ecocriticism, Eco-Aesthetics, Viking Age Scandinavia and the North Atlantic, Mapping, Cultural Landscape, Critical Development Studies, Utopian, Dystopian, and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Vikings, Viking Age, Material Culture of the Viking age, WMD proliferation, Arctic Environment and global warming, Ecocriticism, art & environment, Anglo-Saxons, Discourses, Humanities and Social Sciences, Environment and Development, History of Humanities, Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture, Environmental justice, global sustainability, Environmental Politics and Governance, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Education for Sustainable Development, Environmental Sustainability. Global Development and Environmental Protection, Arts and Humanities, Historical Landscape, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Greenhouse Effect, Early Medieval Period, Institutional Sustainability, Sustainability in construction industry, Climate Politics, Education for Sustainable Development, Enviromental Archaeology, Sustainable/Responsible Tourism, Philosophy and Sociology of Human/animal Relations, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Global (North/South) Environmental Politics, Sustainable Water & Sanitation, Waste, Materials and Consumption, Social Aspects of Sustainability, Geo Archeology, Mediterrranean Archaeology, Islands Archaeology, Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality, Religious and Magical Practices, and Science and Technology Studies
Bifrost is an environmental arts-research intervention on climate change led by educators and researchers from the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) working in close collaboration with visual artists and... more
Bifrost is an environmental arts-research intervention on climate change led by educators and researchers from the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) working in close collaboration with visual artists and media designers. It is a not-for-profit project based at several universities in the Nordic countries. Since 2011 these partners have worked to disseminate knowledge on a range of environmental questions at the intersection of nature and culture. The next iteration of the project, Bifrost -- The Future is Now, will launch in autumn 2017. It will bring together citizens from all walks of life to showcase knowledge and demonstrate the capacity for decisive individual, organizational and community engagement in climate-change mitigation and adaptation efforts as we work to realize the world’s commitments as set out in the Paris climate agreement.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Social Movements, Environmental Science, Education, Media Studies, and 43 moreMedia and Cultural Studies, Humanities, Environmental Education, Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, Science Communication, Corporate Social Responsibility, Climate Change, Science Education, Interdisciplinarity, Climate Change Adaptation, Environmental Studies, Community Engagement & Participation, Climate change policy, Environmental History, Sustainable Development, Creative Cities, Sustainable Urban Environments, Civil Society and the Public Sphere, Environmental Art, Energy and Environment, Sustainable Tourism, Ecocriticism, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sustainability, Arts-sciences interdisciplinarity, Environmental Humanities, Environmental Change, Climate Change Impacts, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Art and Activism, Civil Society, Climate Justice, Public Engagement, Cities, Sustainable Cities, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change and Food Security, Arts and science, Climate Change in Developing Countries, Climate Politics, and Education for Sustainable Development
Bifrost is an arts-research intervention that seeks to raise awareness about the realities and risks of climate change in our time through focused discussions, targeted communications, educational activities and participatory art... more
Bifrost is an arts-research intervention that seeks to raise awareness about the realities and risks of climate change in our time through focused discussions, targeted communications, educational activities and participatory art engagements in the public sphere. The booklet available for viewing/download here presents the next iteration in the Bifrost project (2015-2017), which is led by Steven Hartman of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Studies (NIES) and Peter Norrman and Anders Birgersson of the Zoopeople media-arts collective, each based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Environmental Sociology, Social Movements, and 155 moreHuman Geography, Cultural Geography, Urban Geography, Environmental Science, Anthropology, Ethics, Communication, Environmental Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Visual Anthropology, Media Studies, New Media, Media and Cultural Studies, Humanities, Social Anthropology, Environmental Education, Digital Humanities, Art, Social Sciences, Environmental Law, Globalization, Climate Change, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Installation Art, Environmental Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Human Rights Law, Ethnography, Literature, Interdisciplinarity, Human Rights, Environmental policy, Renewable Energy, Transnationalism, Arctic Social Science, Political Ecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience, Public Art, Environmental Studies, Multimedia, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Adaptation to Climate Change, Climate change policy, Social-Ecological Systems, Environmental History, Environmental Anthropology, Ecological Anthropology, Disaster risk management, Crisis communication and management, Cultural Theory, Sustainable Development, Water resources, Environmental Planning and Design, Identity (Culture), International Human Rights Law, Environmental Communication, Energy, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Social Justice, Media Arts, Global Justice, Heritage Conservation, Performance Ethnography, Risk and Vulnerability, Sustainable Urban Environments, Environmental Ethics, Marine Conservation, Civil Society and the Public Sphere, Art and Science, Drought, Multimedia Communications, Social Media, Globalisation and Development, Environmental Policy and Governance, Ecology, Visual Communication, Cultural Memory, Environmental Art, Resilience (Sustainability), Climate, Media, Literature and Visual Arts, Energy and Environment, Desertification, Sustainable Water Resources Management, Forced Migration, Disaster Management, Ecocriticism, Environmental journalism, Transnational migration, Impacts Of Climatic Change On Agriculture, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Renewable energy resources, Environmental Justice, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sustainability, Ethnographic Film, Impact of climate change on sea level rise, Arts-sciences interdisciplinarity, Multimodality, Environmental Security, Environmental Law and Human Rights, Critical Thinking and Creativity, Environmental Humanities, Human Dimensions of environmental issues, Social Ecology, Environmental Activism, Cultural Anthropology, Political Ecology (Anthropology), Activist Ethnography, Visual Arts, International Human Rights Philosophy, Environmental Change, Activist Art, Climate Change and coastal zones, Climate Change Impacts, Food Security, Art and Activism, Environmental Behaviour Change, Fine Arts, Advocacy and Activism, Climate Justice, Global Warming, Biodiversity Conservation, Water Security, Science for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Social and Environmental Issues, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, global Climate change, Human Behavior and the use of Public Space, Social Sciences and Humanities, Ecocriticism, Eco-Aesthetics, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Nexus, Arts and Sciences, Sea-Level Rise, Anthropocene, Humanities and Social Sciences, Climate Change and Its Impact on Food Security and Agriculture, Climate Change and Food Security, Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Change, Environmental justice, global sustainability, Environmental Politics and Governance, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Education for Sustainable Development, Environmental Sustainability. Global Development and Environmental Protection, Arts and Humanities, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Humanities and Social Science, Climate change adaptation measures, Climate Change in Developing Countries, Climate Politics, Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities, Risk and crisis management, Architecture and Public Spaces, Education for Sustainable Development, Culture and the Anthropocene, and Global Warming Mitigation
ECOHUM I / NIES X: "Rethinking Environmental Consciousness" symposium booklet This symposium sought to provide a fruitful series of cross-disciplinary conversations that could help suggest renewed or innovative theorizations of what it... more
ECOHUM I / NIES X: "Rethinking Environmental Consciousness" symposium booklet
This symposium sought to provide a fruitful series of cross-disciplinary conversations that could help suggest renewed or innovative theorizations of what it means to be environmentally conscious in the world today, as well as in our shared pasts and common futures. The symposium "Rethinking Environmental Consciousness" aimed to engage a number of provocative upheavals in and reassessments of the ways we think about ecologies, identities, communities, nationalities, borderlines, interactions, temporalities, spatiality, nostalgia, risks and agencies, to name some of the preoccupations that have driven new waves of scholarship, theory and criticism within the wider field of environmental humanities.
The following three sub-themes provided a structure within which the interdisciplinary contributions to the symposium might be contained and contextualized: the Anthropocene, material ecocriticism, and transnational environmental consciousness.
As the Anthropocene concept has already inspired and necessitated a thorough rethinking of environmental consciousness, this symposium sought to explore many varied and rapidly multiplying iterations of this concept. As Ursula Heise argues, the Anthropocene represents a watershed moment in environmentalism, a time in which we might cease longing for pristine situations of the past to which we hope to return, and instead begin to think about the possible futures of a nature that, for good or ill, will include the human. Other critics are more pessimistically concerned that the very vastness and vagueness of the concept of the Anthropocene may lend it too easily to usurpation into the discourse of the status quo.
The central premise of material ecocriticism – the vibrancy of matter, or matter’s agency – has already inspired several ecocritics to look into underexplored aspects to the interplay between humans and the nonhuman world. Of equal importance is the dawning awareness that there are exchanges of agentic matter washing across the membranes in the cells of human bodies, as succinctly articulated in Stacy Alaimo’s concept of “transcorporeality.” Material ecocritical concepts open up for new ways of approaching issues of environmental justice, of addressing the temporal and spatial complexities of slow violence (to use Rob Nixon's influential metaphor), of understanding our porous bodies in their tactile intra-actions with our immediate and extended environment, of engaging with the particular risk scenarios of the Anthropocene, and, as Alaimo asserts, for rethinking our ethical commitment and orientation in the world in posthuman terms.
In a historical perspective, the long unfolding of environmental consciousness has to a large extent taken place as a transnational exchange. Europe for its part has been home to some of the most influential philosophers inspiring environmental thought, from Heidegger to Arne Næss, whose concept of deep ecology has crossed and recrossed the Atlantic in steadily multiplying iterations and perhaps more than any other philosophical current animated the first wave of ecocritics. However, the transnational (or in these cited cases the trans-Atlantic/Pacific) must also be understood as a site of contestation and division, a space where environmental initiatives break down, and political action is as liable to founder as flourish. In recent years, while exchange of ideas concerning the environment has been substantial and ongoing internationally, so have disagreements and the divergences in environmental consciousness, behavior and policy in all hemispheres of the planet.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
CONFERENCE PLANNERS AND CONVENORS
Steven Hartman, Professor of English, Coordinator of The Eco-Humanities Hub (ECOHUM) and Chair of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES)
Christian Hummelsund Voie, PhD Candidate in English
Anders Olsson, Docent in English
Reinhard Hennig, PhD Researcher in Environmental Humanities, English and ECOHUM
DOCTORAL ASSISTANTS
Michaela Castellanos, PhD Candidate in English
Nuno Marques, PhD Candidate in English
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This symposium sought to provide a fruitful series of cross-disciplinary conversations that could help suggest renewed or innovative theorizations of what it means to be environmentally conscious in the world today, as well as in our shared pasts and common futures. The symposium "Rethinking Environmental Consciousness" aimed to engage a number of provocative upheavals in and reassessments of the ways we think about ecologies, identities, communities, nationalities, borderlines, interactions, temporalities, spatiality, nostalgia, risks and agencies, to name some of the preoccupations that have driven new waves of scholarship, theory and criticism within the wider field of environmental humanities.
The following three sub-themes provided a structure within which the interdisciplinary contributions to the symposium might be contained and contextualized: the Anthropocene, material ecocriticism, and transnational environmental consciousness.
As the Anthropocene concept has already inspired and necessitated a thorough rethinking of environmental consciousness, this symposium sought to explore many varied and rapidly multiplying iterations of this concept. As Ursula Heise argues, the Anthropocene represents a watershed moment in environmentalism, a time in which we might cease longing for pristine situations of the past to which we hope to return, and instead begin to think about the possible futures of a nature that, for good or ill, will include the human. Other critics are more pessimistically concerned that the very vastness and vagueness of the concept of the Anthropocene may lend it too easily to usurpation into the discourse of the status quo.
The central premise of material ecocriticism – the vibrancy of matter, or matter’s agency – has already inspired several ecocritics to look into underexplored aspects to the interplay between humans and the nonhuman world. Of equal importance is the dawning awareness that there are exchanges of agentic matter washing across the membranes in the cells of human bodies, as succinctly articulated in Stacy Alaimo’s concept of “transcorporeality.” Material ecocritical concepts open up for new ways of approaching issues of environmental justice, of addressing the temporal and spatial complexities of slow violence (to use Rob Nixon's influential metaphor), of understanding our porous bodies in their tactile intra-actions with our immediate and extended environment, of engaging with the particular risk scenarios of the Anthropocene, and, as Alaimo asserts, for rethinking our ethical commitment and orientation in the world in posthuman terms.
In a historical perspective, the long unfolding of environmental consciousness has to a large extent taken place as a transnational exchange. Europe for its part has been home to some of the most influential philosophers inspiring environmental thought, from Heidegger to Arne Næss, whose concept of deep ecology has crossed and recrossed the Atlantic in steadily multiplying iterations and perhaps more than any other philosophical current animated the first wave of ecocritics. However, the transnational (or in these cited cases the trans-Atlantic/Pacific) must also be understood as a site of contestation and division, a space where environmental initiatives break down, and political action is as liable to founder as flourish. In recent years, while exchange of ideas concerning the environment has been substantial and ongoing internationally, so have disagreements and the divergences in environmental consciousness, behavior and policy in all hemispheres of the planet.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
CONFERENCE PLANNERS AND CONVENORS
Steven Hartman, Professor of English, Coordinator of The Eco-Humanities Hub (ECOHUM) and Chair of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES)
Christian Hummelsund Voie, PhD Candidate in English
Anders Olsson, Docent in English
Reinhard Hennig, PhD Researcher in Environmental Humanities, English and ECOHUM
DOCTORAL ASSISTANTS
Michaela Castellanos, PhD Candidate in English
Nuno Marques, PhD Candidate in English
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Research Interests: Religion, Cultural Studies, Environmental Sociology, Geography, Latin American Studies, and 38 moreAmerican Studies, Archaeology, Environmental Science, Anthropology, Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, English Literature, Humanities, Environmental Education, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Globalization, Medieval History, Environmental Archaeology, Natural Resources, Literature, Landscape Archaeology, Political Ecology, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, History of Science, Environmental Anthropology, Sustainable Development, English, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Aesthetics, Ecology, Environmental Art, Energy and Environment, Ecocriticism, Environmental Sustainability, Scandinavian Studies, Environmental Humanities, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, Material Ecocriticism, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Ecocritical Theory, and Science and Technology Studies
Program booklet for double conference: NIES Research Symposium V The Environmental Humanities: Cultural Perspectives on Nature and the Environment Sigtuna 14–16 October 2011 & The NIES-organized Nordic Researcher Training... more
Program booklet for double conference:
NIES Research Symposium V
The Environmental Humanities:
Cultural Perspectives on Nature
and the Environment
Sigtuna 14–16 October 2011
&
The NIES-organized
Nordic Researcher Training Course
Advancing Theory and Method
in the Environmental Humanities
Sigtuna 14-19 October 2011
NIES Research Symposium V
The Environmental Humanities:
Cultural Perspectives on Nature
and the Environment
Sigtuna 14–16 October 2011
&
The NIES-organized
Nordic Researcher Training Course
Advancing Theory and Method
in the Environmental Humanities
Sigtuna 14-19 October 2011
Research Interests: American Literature, British Literature, Cultural History, Landscape Ecology, Cultural Studies, and 52 moreEnvironmental Sociology, Human Ecology, Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Area Studies, American Studies, World Literatures, Comparative Literature, Environmental Economics, Environmental Philosophy, English Literature, Art History, Humanities, Environmental Education, Digital Humanities, Environmental Law, Climate Change, Environmental Archaeology, Literature, Landscape Archaeology, Political Ecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Environmental Studies, History of Technology, Environmental History, Environmental Anthropology, Literary Criticism, Ecological Economics, Sustainable Development, Cultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Literary Theory, Ecology, Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Geography, Environmental Art, Ecocriticism, Environmental Sustainability, Scandinavian Studies, Landscape, Environmental Humanities, Human-Animal Studies, Historical Ecology, Literature and Environment, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, Humanities and Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities, Landscape and Land-use-history, and Ecocritical Theory
English translation of short story by Swedish author Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) about impoverished children in Depression-Era rural Sweden and the shame of being invisible.
Research Interests: Fiction Writing, Poverty, Swedish Literature, Rural Poverty, Childhood in Literature, and 12 moreScandinavian Studies, Short story (Literature), Translation, Fiction, Sweden, Literary translation, Scandinavian Literature, European literature, Short story, Short Fiction, Short Stories, and Contemporary Swedish Working class Literature
In 1951 Swedish writer Stig Dagerman wrote an autobiographical essay titled "Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable." It is a remarkable poetic meditation on the life-and-death stakes of the literary imagination from a writer who was... more
In 1951 Swedish writer Stig Dagerman wrote an autobiographical essay titled "Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable." It is a remarkable poetic meditation on the life-and-death stakes of the literary imagination from a writer who was likely suffering from an undiagnosed bipolar disorder, fighting for his life through one depressive episode after another. Written when his critical reputation and fame as Sweden’s greatest new literary phenom had been firmly established following a remarkable outpouring of critically acclaimed work in the late 1940s, the essay marked a point in time when the tides had turned for Dagerman, who now struggled with the opposite of this productive streak in the form of a debilitating bout of writer’s block that would eventually contribute to his suicide two years later. "Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable" lays bare the writer’s fragile psyche, not only his faltering ego but his selfless and far from sure-footed ambition to offer something of lasting beauty and meaning to a world indifferent to his very existence. While writing the essay, Dagerman managed to rise temporarily from the depths of his depression and identify the sources of his own consolation and hope in terms that have continued to resonate powerfully with many readers, and fellow writers, over the following 60 years.
Originally published in 1952 in the improbable venue of Husmodern (a magazine dedicated to home economics for Swedish housewives, analogous to American magazines like Good Housekeeping or Better Homes and Gardens), the essay was a profound response to a trivial commission from the magazine’s editors, who asked Dagerman to send them “something on the art of living.” The soul- and psyche-searching tour de force that Dagerman composed was not likely what the editors had in mind, but to their credit—and also possibly owing to his celebrity—they published the essay as written. The essay has since been translated into 10 languages and published / reprinted a great many times. This is the first literary translation of the essay into English.
Originally published in 1952 in the improbable venue of Husmodern (a magazine dedicated to home economics for Swedish housewives, analogous to American magazines like Good Housekeeping or Better Homes and Gardens), the essay was a profound response to a trivial commission from the magazine’s editors, who asked Dagerman to send them “something on the art of living.” The soul- and psyche-searching tour de force that Dagerman composed was not likely what the editors had in mind, but to their credit—and also possibly owing to his celebrity—they published the essay as written. The essay has since been translated into 10 languages and published / reprinted a great many times. This is the first literary translation of the essay into English.
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Non Fiction Writing, World Literatures, Comparative Literature, and 44 morePhilosophy of Mind, Self and Identity, Literature, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Meaning of Life, Philosophy of Art, Autobiography, Literary Theory, Creative Non-Fiction, Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), Suicide, Swedish Literature, Meaning, Suicide (History), Swedish, Literary History, Memoir and Autobiography, Scandinavian Studies, Suicide in Literature, Autobiographical Self-Representation, Swedish Language, History of Suicide, Language of suicide, Life Writing (Literature), Anxiety, Literary translation, Scandinavian Literature, Art and Death, Life Writing, European literature, The Critical Reflective Essay, Existentialism, Existence, Essays, Essay, Essay Writing, Memento Mori, Bipolar, Personal essay, The Rhetoric of Confession, Autobiography, Self-Portraiture and the Construction of the Self, Autobiography and life writing studies, Culture and death, and Literary Writings
The volume includes 12 Stories, all of them new translations, a number of them never before published in English. This selection of Dagerman's stories is unified by a central theme: the death of innocence. Often narrated from the... more
The volume includes 12 Stories, all of them new translations, a number of them never before published in English. This selection of Dagerman's stories is unified by a central theme: the death of innocence. Often narrated from the perspective of a child, the stories give voice to childhood's tender state of receptiveness and of joy tinged with longing.
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, World Literatures, Translation Studies, Literature, and 10 moreSwedish Literature, Swedish, Scandinavian Studies, Suicide in Literature, Short story (Literature), Fiction, Literary translation, Childhood studies, Blog & Article Writing, Translation, Creative Writing, and Short Fiction
Essay tracing the history of the human fascination with flight in literature and other documentary sources and the desire to achieve human flight through technological experimentation and innovation.
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Critical Theory, History, History of Science and Technology, and 37 moreCultural History, World Literatures, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Art History, History of Ideas, Translation Studies, Medieval History, Literature, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Computer Networks, Alchemy, Early Medieval History, Creative Non-Fiction, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe Studies, Swedish Literature, Aviation History (Transport History), Ecocriticism, Goethe, Contemporary Poetry, Literary History, Scandinavian Studies, Environmental Humanities, Visual Arts, Goethean Science, Databases, Leonardo da Vinci, Literary translation, Scandinavian Literature, Literary studies, Software, Esotericism, Aviation History, Philosophy and Sociology of Human/animal Relations, and Science and Technology Studies
Research Interests:
Short story about fatherhood, the cycles of familial love and abuse, and the prison of masculinity.
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, American Literature, Comparative Literature, Domestic Violence, and 30 moreLiterature, Child abuse and neglect, Poverty, Masculinity Studies, Children and Families, Juvenile Justice, Child Maltreatment, Working-Class Literature, Masculinity, Children's Perceptions, Masculinities, Homophobia, Contemporary Fiction, Studies On Men And Masculinity, Parent Child Relationships, Literature and Trauma, Short story (Literature), American Fiction 1980 - present, Fatherhood, Fatherhood, fathering and fathers, Fiction, Short story, Family Violence, Child Abuse, Short Fiction, Siblings Relationships, Dramatic Monologue, Short Stories, Personal Narratives, and Animal Abuse and Interpersonal Violence
Short story about child abuse and neglect published in _Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art_, Issue 20, pp. 100-114.
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Child abuse and neglect, Child health, Children and Families, and 11 moreChild Development, Child Welfare, Child Maltreatment, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Childhood in Literature, Parent Child Relationships, Short story (Literature), American Fiction 1980 - present, and Stress and Coping, Developmental Psychology, Child Psychopathology, Special Education, Children with Mental Retardation, Parent-Child Interaction
"The Future is Now" / "Framtiden börjar nu" is a Swedish-English triptych film produced by Bifrost and the Nobel Museum in Stockholm for viewing in the museum’s three-screen cinema space as part of a free school program for secondary... more
"The Future is Now" / "Framtiden börjar nu" is a Swedish-English triptych film produced by Bifrost and the Nobel Museum in Stockholm for viewing in the museum’s three-screen cinema space as part of a free school program for secondary school students in 2017. The school program was co-developed by the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Nobel Museum and the Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development to address human-environmental challenges and the need for inclusive cultural change to redress the problems human beings have created on the planet.
The film highlights three very different examples of engaging proactively with the world’s present sustainability challenges. In three chapters it features the case of Our Children’s Trust and the 21 youth from the USA taking on their Federal government in court for inaction on climate change, the powerfully emotive work of artist and filmmaker Chris Jordan on the remote Island of Midway in the Pacific, communing with albatross who are literally choking to death on the plastic garbage flows human beings are filling the oceans with, and the case of the Global High School in Stockholm where students have decided to take the lead in working to make their world sustainable.
The original triptych produced (in three separate video channels) for Nobel Museum’s three-screen cinema space has been modified here for viewing on a single screen, while maintaining a virtual triptych form in some places. The film contains spoken narration, interactions and interviews in both English and Swedish and has been subtitled in both languages throughout.
Bifrost gratefully acknowledges the video contributions of Chris Jordan (from the film project “Albatross”) and Our Children’s Trust to the making of this film.
We also thank Stephanie LeManager, Barbara and Carlisle Moore Distinguished Professor in English and American Literature at University of Oregon, Robert Boschman, Professor of English at Mount Royal University, the Under Western Skies 2016 conference and the leadership of the research network NIES for all their valuable work and support behind the scenes that helped make the interviews excerpted in this video possible. Grateful acknowledgment is also made to Allan Gruber of Mount Royal University’s School of Communications Studies and Torsten Kjellstrand of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, both for providing valuable studio facilities where some of the interviews were filmed.
Complete film available at:
https://bifrostonline.org/a-sustainable-future/
The film highlights three very different examples of engaging proactively with the world’s present sustainability challenges. In three chapters it features the case of Our Children’s Trust and the 21 youth from the USA taking on their Federal government in court for inaction on climate change, the powerfully emotive work of artist and filmmaker Chris Jordan on the remote Island of Midway in the Pacific, communing with albatross who are literally choking to death on the plastic garbage flows human beings are filling the oceans with, and the case of the Global High School in Stockholm where students have decided to take the lead in working to make their world sustainable.
The original triptych produced (in three separate video channels) for Nobel Museum’s three-screen cinema space has been modified here for viewing on a single screen, while maintaining a virtual triptych form in some places. The film contains spoken narration, interactions and interviews in both English and Swedish and has been subtitled in both languages throughout.
Bifrost gratefully acknowledges the video contributions of Chris Jordan (from the film project “Albatross”) and Our Children’s Trust to the making of this film.
We also thank Stephanie LeManager, Barbara and Carlisle Moore Distinguished Professor in English and American Literature at University of Oregon, Robert Boschman, Professor of English at Mount Royal University, the Under Western Skies 2016 conference and the leadership of the research network NIES for all their valuable work and support behind the scenes that helped make the interviews excerpted in this video possible. Grateful acknowledgment is also made to Allan Gruber of Mount Royal University’s School of Communications Studies and Torsten Kjellstrand of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, both for providing valuable studio facilities where some of the interviews were filmed.
Complete film available at:
https://bifrostonline.org/a-sustainable-future/
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Social Movements, Education, Environmental Education, Globalization, and 39 moreClimate Change, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Water, Conservation Biology, Renewable Energy, Political Ecology, Resilience, Environmental Studies, Climate change policy, Social-Ecological Systems, Marine Ecology, Sustainable Development, Civil Society and the Public Sphere, Resilience (Sustainability), Consumer Culture, Energy and Environment, Ecological Art, Ecocriticism, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Biodiversity, Environmental Sustainability, Impact of climate change on sea level rise, Human-wildlife conflicts, Water Pollution, Wildlife Conservation, Environmental Humanities, Environmental Activism, Environmental Pollution, Mass extinctions, Climate Change Impacts, Global Warming, Youth, Youth activism, Biodegradation, Environmental Impact, Arts and Humanities, Education for Sustainable Development, Consumer Behaviour, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Developing the Environmental Humanities" is the pilot documentary in the _Bifrost_ installation series, a creative partnership of artists and researchers. Both the pilot documentary and the wider series are produced by filmmaker/video... more
Developing the Environmental Humanities" is the pilot documentary in the _Bifrost_ installation series, a creative partnership of artists and researchers. Both the pilot documentary and the wider series are produced by filmmaker/video artist Peter Norrman, writer and researcher Steven Hartman (leader of NIES) and Swedish designer/director Anders Birgersson (founder of the Zoo People media collective). _Bifrost_ seeks to explore the environmental humanities as a scholarly domain of growing significance, through case studies, selected interviews with researchers in the field and an innovative blend of narrative and visual presentation techniques.
The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies first exhibited the documentary, in partnership with the Sigtuna Foundation, as an installation at NIES V in Sigtuna, Sweden, 14-19 October 2011. The installation took the form of a spatial triptych rather than as a two dimensional projection as presented online, but the documentary has been made accessible in this alternative single-channel format to make the content accessible to a wider internet audience.
Scholars interviewed for this installation include the following ecocritics and historians of science, technology and environment (in their order of appearance in the film): James Fleming, Ursula Heise, Greg Garrard, Sarah Elkind, David Nye, Donald Worster and Hannes Bergthaller.
See URL for viewing of documentary online.
The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies first exhibited the documentary, in partnership with the Sigtuna Foundation, as an installation at NIES V in Sigtuna, Sweden, 14-19 October 2011. The installation took the form of a spatial triptych rather than as a two dimensional projection as presented online, but the documentary has been made accessible in this alternative single-channel format to make the content accessible to a wider internet audience.
Scholars interviewed for this installation include the following ecocritics and historians of science, technology and environment (in their order of appearance in the film): James Fleming, Ursula Heise, Greg Garrard, Sarah Elkind, David Nye, Donald Worster and Hannes Bergthaller.
See URL for viewing of documentary online.
Research Interests: Creative Nonfiction, Landscape Ecology, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Geography, Environmental Science, and 122 moreEnvironmental Philosophy, New Media, Humanities, Design, Journalism, Environmental Education, Digital Humanities, Art, Science Communication, Directing, Climate Change, Animation, Photography, Web Design, Technoculture, Critical Geopolitics, Installation Art, Environmental Archaeology, Ethnography, Conservation Biology, Digital Media, Documentary (Communication), Political Ecology, Landscape Architecture, Climate Change Adaptation, Documentary (Film Studies), Environmental Studies, Multimedia, Advertising, Climate change policy, Environmental History, Environmental Anthropology, Human-Environment Relations, Video, Computer Networks, Sustainable Development, Environmental Planning and Design, Graphic Design, Video Games, Environmental Communication, Biotechnology, Interior Design, Media Arts, Video Art, Bioremediation, Landscape History, Cultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Media Art, Environmental Ethics, Aesthetics Of Nature, Digital Media & Learning, Art and Science, Environmental Policy and Governance, Ecology, Built Environment, Ecofeminism, Environmental Politics, Humanities Visualization, Environmental Art, Sculpture, Facebook, Postcolonial Theory, Film and Video Art, Ecocriticism, Nature Culture, Online Journalism, Ecopedagogy, Digital Arts, Biodiversity, Landscape Urbanism, Documentary (Visual Studies), Environmental Justice, New Media Art, Environmental Sustainability, Human-wildlife conflicts, Video Installation, Landscape, Environmental Humanities, Documentary Film, Philosophy of Nature, Nature Writing, Visual Arts, Databases, Literature and Environment, Documentary Filmmaking, New Media Studies, Google, Everyday Life, Youtube, Fine Arts, Global Warming, Installation, Software, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, Online Media, Drawings, Science Writing, Ecocriticism, Eco-Aesthetics, Environmental Writing, Critical Development Studies, Memoir, Digital Marketing, Stage Design, Political ecology, NGOs, sustainable development, biodiversity, agroecology, amazonia, brazil, global change, environmental actors, protect areas, nature conservation., Humanities and Social Sciences, Narrative, Mulitmedia editing, Journalism, Photojournalism, Storytelling, Audio and Video editing and digitizing, Television Journalism, Visual Communication, Environmental justice, global sustainability, Environmental Politics and Governance, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Education for Sustainable Development, Environmental Sustainability. Global Development and Environmental Protection, Arts and Humanities, Digital Story Telling, Iphones, Cinema and Television, Climate Politics, Paywalls, Virtual Revolution, Education for Sustainable Development, Digital Imaging Devices, CameraWork, Eco Construction, Global (North/South) Environmental Politics, Microethology, and Science and Technology Studies
Film adaptation of Stig Dagerman's "The Games of Night," directed by Dan Levy Dagerman. Script based on Steven Hartman's English translation of Dagerman's short story "Nattens lekar" (as published in Black Warrior Review 20:2). Full... more
Film adaptation of Stig Dagerman's "The Games of Night," directed by Dan Levy Dagerman. Script based on Steven Hartman's English translation of Dagerman's short story "Nattens lekar" (as published in Black Warrior Review 20:2). Full production details available at .http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1374885/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_2 .
Research Interests:
Film adaptation of Stig Dagerman's "Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable," directed by Dan Levy Dagerman and featuring Stellan Skarsgård. Script based on early draft of "Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable," Steven Hartman's English... more
Film adaptation of Stig Dagerman's "Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable," directed by Dan Levy Dagerman and featuring Stellan Skarsgård. Script based on early draft of "Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable," Steven Hartman's English translation of Dagerman's essay "Vårt behov av tröst är omättlig" (later published in Little Star 5, 2014). Full production details available at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2759318/ . Film available at http://www.amazon.com/Our-Need-Consolation-Stellan-Skarsgard/dp/B00D5TFY90 .
Research Interests: Documentary (Film Studies), Film Adaptation, Film-Philosophy, Creative Non-Fiction, Suicide, and 20 moreSwedish Literature, Suicide (History), Literature and Visual Arts, Contemporary Literature, Scandinavian Studies, Documentary Film, Suicide in Literature, Autobiographical Self-Representation, Short Films, History of Suicide, Film, Scandinavian Literature, Existentialism, Essays, Essay, Existentialism and Literature, Literature and Film, Personal essay, Scandinavian Cinema, and Essay Film
Literary Journalism/Reference: Retrospective treatment of Vonnegut's most celebrated work as a genre-mixing work of war fiction and science fiction escapism. The novel's plausible depictions of trauma-induced psychosis and post-traumatic... more
Literary Journalism/Reference:
Retrospective treatment of Vonnegut's most celebrated work as a genre-mixing work of war fiction and science fiction escapism. The novel's plausible depictions of trauma-induced psychosis and post-traumatic stress allow it to be read both as absurdist space (and time) opera and as a narrative of psychological realism. These readings are not mutually exclusive; in fact, their simultaneous viability reinforces the virtuosic totality of a work that transcends the limits of both genres. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE was the right novel at the right time, just as anti-Vietnam War protests were cresting in the wake of the political chaos of 1968 and alternative approaches to consciousness, experience, memory and expression in art and literature were finding mainstream appreciation among a reading public whose demography, tastes and attitudes toward authority and tradition were radically shifting.
Published in Writers Online Volume 5, Number 2 (Spring 2001).
Available online at
https://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/olv5n2.html#vonnegut
Retrospective treatment of Vonnegut's most celebrated work as a genre-mixing work of war fiction and science fiction escapism. The novel's plausible depictions of trauma-induced psychosis and post-traumatic stress allow it to be read both as absurdist space (and time) opera and as a narrative of psychological realism. These readings are not mutually exclusive; in fact, their simultaneous viability reinforces the virtuosic totality of a work that transcends the limits of both genres. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE was the right novel at the right time, just as anti-Vietnam War protests were cresting in the wake of the political chaos of 1968 and alternative approaches to consciousness, experience, memory and expression in art and literature were finding mainstream appreciation among a reading public whose demography, tastes and attitudes toward authority and tradition were radically shifting.
Published in Writers Online Volume 5, Number 2 (Spring 2001).
Available online at
https://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/olv5n2.html#vonnegut
Research Interests: American Literature, American Studies, Literature, The Novel, 1960s (U.S. history), and 15 moreLiterary Criticism, Countercultural Studies, Science Fiction, Second World War, Humor/Satire, 20th Century American Literature, Psychoanalysis And Literature, Kurt Vonnegut, Literary History, Postmodernism (Literature), War and Literature, Postmodern Literature, Satire & Irony, War trauma and PTSD, and Slaughterhouse-Five
Literary Journalism/Reference:
Retrospective of the literary career of poet Donald Hall published in .Writers Online, fall 1999.
Retrospective of the literary career of poet Donald Hall published in .Writers Online, fall 1999.