In this introduction to the special issue on Multispecies Studies, Thom van Dooren, Eben Kirksey, and Ursula Münster provide an overview of the emerging field of multispecies studies. Unsettling given notions of species, the article explores a broad terrain of possible modes of classifying, categorizing, and paying attention to the diverse ways of life that constitute worlds.
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Cary Wolfe and Maria Whiteman discuss the changing notions of landscape and nature at work in the video installation Mountain Pine Beetle and explores some of the forces that eventuated in the devastated landscapes of the Rocky Mountain West brought on by the infestation of the mountain pine beetle beginning in the early 2000s—an infestation caused, in no small part, by what some scientists have called a perfect storm of circumstances created by global warming.
Carter et al. translate key themes from scenario narratives into spatial representations using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). They apply this technique to a Tasmanian case study exploring future scenarios for biodiversity in a predominantly privately-owned agricultural landscape, enabling land managers to explore outcomes from potential interventions and identify strategies that might mitigate the impact of future issues of environmental concern.
The Environmental Humanities Lab at the University of Gothenburg (GUEHL) is a cross-disciplinary platform for scholars and scientists interested in humanities perspectives on human-environment interaction.
Longley traces how geographic and cartographic knowledge of the Athabasca region, Alberta, Canada, colonized the region in the southern imagination long before the oil sands industry began extraction there. The practices of exploration, surveying, and documentation mapped the Athabasca region in terms of its rich bitumen deposits, obscuring the histories of Indigenous people. The south gained political and economic control of the region, although this process is incomplete and contested.
This film follows two friends as they travel the full length of the sacred Ganges River in India.
The paper proposes to differently outline modernity, by adopting a heterogeneous geography standpoint and post-modern hybrid networks theory in order to overcome the problematic political consequences of the classic approach of environmental politics.
Los mapas son representaciones más políticas que objetivas sobre un lugar. Al seleccionar y codificar algunas piezas de información, mientras se silencian otras, los mapas funcionan como discursos políticos y son usados como “órdenes de marcha” para construir geografías.
Esta exposición explora el rol del agua en la lucha de Bogotá, capital de Colombia, por convertirse en una ciudad moderna. Para Bogotá, cumplir con los estándares de los higienistas y la élite gobernante fue una tarea de control social, tecnológico y ambiental. Esta exposición examina experiencias cotidianas del agua como el lavado de la ropa o la limpieza del cuerpo, al mismo tiempo que estudia intervenciones de infraestructura urbana que incluyeron la domesticación de los ríos para el abastecimiento de agua potable y la evacuación de aguas residuales.
Stefania Gallini, Laura Felacio, Angélica Agredo y Stephanie Garcés
Wild Earth 10, no. 2 is dedicated to US national parks and protected areas. It also features articles by John Muir on anthropocentrism and James Morton Turner on early American environmentalism.
