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Crossposting this thread about #hope and #pessimism because the excerpts from Mara van der Lugt “Hopeful Pessimism” are gold https://bsky.app/profile/daeganmiller.bsky.social/post/3lrgscmuj3c2g #envhum #climate

we've just announced an open call for collaborative junior research teams at the Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities (OCEH), deadline September 1.

#EnvHum

https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/projects/oslo-center-for-environmental-humanities/OCEH%20Open%20Call:%20Collaborative%20Junior%20Research%20Teams

Am heutigen #TagDesMeeres der UN geht es v.a. auch um #Meeresschutz – daher unser Lesetipp:
➡ Sven Bergmann/Philipp Grassel, #Mikroplastik und #TNT. Unterschiedliche Regime der Problematisierung von #Meeresmüll, #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-85-sven-bergmann-und-philipp-grassel/

@envhist @envhum @histodons @historikerinnen

#Meer #Ocean #histodons #WorldOceansDay #Umweltgeschichte #envhist #envhum #envhumanities #Müll #Abfall #waste #garbage #pollution #oceanpollution #MarinePollution

Our special issue in the Journal of Literature and Science, the project’s main output, is now out in open access: https://www.literatureandscience.org/volume-17-number-2-2024/ #envhist #envhum #literature #soundstudies

Mit der Großen #Halligflut begann heute vor 200 Jahren eine der schwersten #Flutkatastrophen an der #Nordseeküste.
Wir erinnern daher an eine Sammelbesprechung zur historischen Naturkatastrophenforschung:

▶ Uwe Lübken, Zwischen Alltag und Ausnahmezustand. Ein Überblick über die historiographische Auseinandersetzung mit Naturkatastrophen, #WerkstattGeschichte 38/2004, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/antisemitismus

@histodons @historikerinnen @envhist @envhum

#Umweltgeschichte #envhist #envhum #histodons #Nordsee

The paper also attempts to popularize(?) the term "slothwashing", coined in a Twitter discussion of #California oil lobbyist behavior!

Out now in Communication, Culture & Critique 🔓🛢️🦥
#MediaStudies #Petrocultures #EnvHum (?)
@commodon

That link ⬆️ is open access right now but I don't know if it's limited in how many clicks, etc. If it's not working & you want to see the paper, lmk!

"Beaches and ports are among the twentieth century’s most significant and polyvalent cultural geographies. The fates of these spaces sharply diverge, however, as the rise and consolidation of the leisure beach coincides with the cultural forgetting of ports."

https://read.dukeupress.edu/comparative-literature/article/73/2/131/173462/Beaches-and-Ports

#Ports #EnvHum #EnvHist

Bathing in oil? Hard to think of something that better fits the definition of a "petroculture." #envhist #envhum https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/world/europe/cop29-azerbaijan-oil-baths.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20241122&instance_id=140332&nl=the-morning&regi_id=69402200&segment_id=183860&user_id=2b602167ebc3bcf4c1fabc1d2e3bdd5b

New Polyculture Podcast episode!!
Lena and I are talking about ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE, looking into the ways energy systems in Ireland, Vermont, and beyond shape our lives and the possibilities for zero-carbon energy.

Take a listen: https://linktr.ee/polyculture

#podcast #climate #envhum #envhist #histodons #dublin #vermont #energy #fossilfuel

Podcast cover art featuring pixelated tile of greyscale flowers against a bright orange backdrop. Text in the top right corner reads "POLYCULTURE PODCAST"

NEW ESEH DEADLINE: 15 November!

Submit a proposal for a panel, paper, roundtable, or why not our new format, a "Different World" session? Next year's conference will take place in beautiful Uppsala, Sweden, and we hope to see you there!

http://eseh.org/cfp-13th-biennial-european-society-for-environmental-history-eseh-conference/

#ESEH2025 #EnvHist #EnvHum 📗

We have a new blogpost! An account of our project’s participation in #WCEH2024, this year’s World Congress of Environmental History in Oulu, Finland (with a musical intermission) http://www.soundofnature.eu/2024/09/23/son-project-at-the-wceh-2024/ #envhist #soundhistory #envhum

Sadly hilarious satire of how it feels to try to make energy-conscious decisions when you’re just one person. #energy #envhum https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-department-of-energy-wants-you-to-know-your-conservation-efforts-are-making-a-difference

It's our Anniversary Week!

EHN is an independent, volunteer-run platform that features the voices of graduate students and ECR who identify as women, trans, and/or non-binary!

If you’d like to support our efforts —please donate! ✍️ 📝 ☕️ #envhist #envhum

https://ko-fi.com/envhistnow

areas where the strength and continuity of the sun's rays guarantee that the machine will run for as long as possible, but also, as indicated, with excellent economic benefits. - What distant vistas open up to the inventive spirit of the future!

#envhistsaar #envhist #envhum #solarpunk #environmentalhistory

The city of shades (with Santiago Orrego)

This issue of Tarde proposes an ethnographic program for the study of urban shades, and proposes a preliminary set of devices for studying them as crucial elements for urban habitability in times of climate mutation

https://tarde.info/the-city-of-shades/

#anthropology #sts #envhum #heat #shade #ethnography

Heute vor 55 Jahren landete ein Sack #Müll auf dem #Mond! Und ein Foto davon, die erste Aufnahme Neil Armstrongs von der Mondoberfläche, landete auf dem Cover von #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022 mit dem Thementeil "müll", hg. von Wiebke Kolbe & Monika Sigmund:

▶️ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/muell/

@histodons @historikerinnen @envhist @envhum @politicalscience @sts

#Umweltgeschichte #Abfall #waste #garbage #histodons #envhist #envhum #Recycling #Müllkolonialismus #Mikroplastik #Militärmüll

Cover #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022 mit Ausschnitt eines Fotos: Weißer, gefüllter Müllsack auf graufarbigem Mondboden wirft langen Schatten; im Hintergrund Gestell der Mondlandefähre Eagle. Erstes Foto, das Neil Armstrong bei der Raumfahrtmission Apollo 11 von der Mondoberfläche aufnahm; 20.7.1969, AS11-40-5850 (OF300) © NASA

Inhaltsverzeichnis #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022 "müll" (Auszug)

📖 In a paper published in the Journal of Ethnobiology, Marta Macedo examines "how cannabis was part and parcel of the lives of peoples from Angola recruited to São Tomé and, consequently, of the island's plantation worlds in the late nineteenth century." 🇸🇹

🔓#OpenAccess:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02780771231222335

@histodons
@envhum

#Histodons #EnvHum #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvironmentalHumanities #Ethnobiology #AgrarianHistory #HistóriaAmbiental #Angola #SãoTomé #Cannabis #Plantations #HistóriaAgrária