Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development Edited by Anita Kangas, Nancy Duxbury, Christiaan De Beukelaer 2018 – Routledge The concept of sustainable development is commonly divided into environmental, economic, social and cultural dimensions. While a variety of international actors have declared the importance of culture in sustainable development,...
Forest Family Australian Culture, Art, and Trees Editors: John Charles Ryan and Rod Giblett Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning...
Environmental Humanities and Theologies: Ecoculture, Literature and the Bible By Rod Giblett Many ways of thinking about and living with ‘the environment’ have their roots in the Bible and the Christian cultural tradition. Environmental Humanities and Theologies shows that some of these ways are problematic. It also provides...
ASLEC-ANZ is seeking a new editor for its journal, The Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic candidate to bring creative and scholarly vision to the journal’s future development. This is a transitional time for the journal and we...
PAN13 Country and Mythopoeia Available now: Philosophy Activism Nature issue13, featuring a groundbreaking discussion around the Aboriginal Australian concept of Country and the cross-cultural potential of comparative mythopoeia. PAN 13, titled Country and Mythopoeia, includes a core section on the work of Craig San Roque, who responds to the...
This new book from Routledge Earthscan's Environmental Humanities Series, Humanities for the Environment: Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice (Eds Joni Adamson and Michael Davis) has now been published. Further information available here. Humanities for the Environment showcases how humanists and others across disciplines are...
Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene: More than human encounters is a new book published by the Routledge Environmental Humanities Series. "Storied places and companions infuse this deeply moving book of earthly encounters. This is not travel writing in any conventional sense, but home writing attuned to...
Philosophy Activism Nature 12 has just been released, with lots of interesting articles, poetry, photo-essays and much much more; focused around the theme of 'place' and talking to the Anthropocene, cross-species communication and empathy, PAN12 demonstrates how emotional geographies complement EH practices. Available free online, under 'current issue' here: http://panjournal.net PAN12 offers academic articles by...
Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities is a new edited collection published by Routledge (editors Stephen Siperstein, Shane Hall and Stephanie LeMenager) Climate change is an enormous and increasingly urgent issue. This important book highlights how humanities disciplines can mobilize the creative and critical power of students,...
Series editors: Gillian Overing, Wake Forest University; Heide Estes, University of Cambridge and Monmouth University; Philip Slavin, University of Kent; Steven Mentz, St. John's University This series in environmental humanities, published by Amsterdam University Press, offers approaches to medieval, early modern, and global pre-industrial cultures from...