Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research

ISBN-13: 9781138956032 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 322 str.

Jocelyn Thorpe; Stephanie Rutherford; L. Anders Sandberg

Opis

This book examines the challenges and possibilities of conducting cultural environmental history research today. Disciplinary commitments certainly influence the questions scholars ask and the ways they seek out answers, but some methodological challenges go beyond the boundaries of any one discipline. The book examines: how to account for the fact that humans are not the only actors in history yet dominate archival records; how to attend to the non-visual senses when traditional sources offer only a two-dimensional, non-sensory version of the past; how to decolonize research in and beyond the archives; and how effectively to use sources and means of communication made available in the digital age.
This book will be a valuable resource for those interested in environmental history and politics, sustainable development and historical geography.

Recenzje

'Overall, the book is a innovative, delightful and thought-provoking piece that will be of interest to any researcher in environmental history. It provides a great starting point for scholars looking to improve on or escape from archival research, and reading it will certainly stir their imagination. I would also argue that the book may be of relevance to the wider community of environmental scholars looking for compelling and engaging methods to teach or communicate environmental research.'
Ricardo Alexio Correia ,Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, University of Oxford, UK, Environment and History journal

O autorze

Jocelyn Thorpe is Associate Professor of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the history and legacies of, as well as challenges to, colonialism in the Canadian context, examining how past discourses and relationships of power influence the present. Stephanie Rutherford is Associate Professor in the School of theEnvironment atTrent University, Canada. Her research inhabits the intersections among political ecology, critical animal studies, biopolitics, and historical geography. L. Anders Sandberg is Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, Canada. His two most recent booksare the co-edited Urban Forests, Trees, and Greenspace: A Political Ecology Perspective (Routledge, 2014) and Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace: An Environmental Justice Perspective (Routledge, 2015).