Telling Environmental Histories
Intersections of Memory, Narrative and Environment
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This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history. Oral history offers environmental historians the opportunity to understand the ways people’s perceptions, experiences and beliefs about environments change over time. In turn, the insights of environmental history challenge oral historians to think more critically about the ways an active, more-than-human world shapes experiences and people. The integration of these approaches enables us to more fully and critically understand the ways cultural and individual memory and experience shapes human interactions with the more-than-human world, just as it enables us to identify the ways human memory, identity and experience is moulded by the landscapes and environments in which people live and labour. It includes contributions from Australia, India, the UK, Canada and the USA.
This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history. Oral history offers environmental historians the opportunity to understand the ways people’s perceptions, experiences and beliefs about environments change over time. In turn, the insights of environmental history challenge oral historians to think more critically about the ways an active, more-than-human world shapes experiences and people. The integration of these approaches enables us to more fully and critically understand the ways cultural and individual memory and experience shapes human interactions with the more-than-human world, just as it enables us to identify the ways human memory, identity and experience is moulded by the landscapes and environments in which people live and labour. It includes contributions from Australia, India, the UK, Canada and the USA.
Explores the intersections between two important and complementary fields, which have not, until now, been well integrated or theorised International in scope, recognising the extensive work arising from South Asian scholars and addressing themes of relevance (such as climate change, industrial contamination and de-industrialisation) across the global South as well as the global North Covers a wide range of subjects including memory, industrialisation, contamination, de-industrialisation, and environmental change
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Katie Holmes
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place class gender climate change international Australia India Canada USA UK community spoken word rivers industrialisation de-industrialisation
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“This exciting collection has much to offer both oral historians and environmental historians who seek bold and innovative ways to listen to people in place, and to places over time.” (Ruth A. Morgan, Oral History Australia Journal, Vol. 41, 2019)
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