Men and Nature: Hegemonic Masculinities and Environmental Change
The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
Jim Fleming gives an overview of the male-dominated state of climate engineering proposals and criticizes the current masculinist nature of climate intervention.
Susanne Leikam explores the extreme weather hero and performed masculinity in contemporary American pop culture through an analysis of the 2013 film Sharknado.
Noémi Gonda explores how the masculine figure of the cattle rancher plays a part in local explorations of climate change adaptation in Nicaragua.
Hornby draws attention to the work of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, whose immersive installations aim to increase environmental awareness, arguing that Eliasson’s environments are fully orchestrated affairs that share the technologies and efforts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’ militarization of climate control.
Chisholm’s article explores how contemporary music cultivates ecological thinking and climate-change awareness. Her essay investigates the music of John Luther Adams and his style of composing with climatic elements and natural forces.
Margret Grebowicz argues that James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), in particular the time-lapse films of glaciers receding, presents a unique example of what Guy Debord calls the ”tautological” nature of spectacle, its capacity to serve as its own evidence at the same time as it becomes a mode of relation among people.
Elizabeth Callaway analyzes scientific literature on climate change, specifically from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to consider how scientific representations structure, articulate, and inform our experience of time.
From an analysis of 1500 articles published from 2005 to 2013, Anshelm and Hansson distill four storylines representing geoengineering advocacy in the public discourse in mass media.
In his article for the special “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities Section,” Mike Hulme goes beyond traditional, institutional definitions to view climate as an idea which mediates between the human experience of ephemeral weather and the cultural ways of living which are animated by this experience.