Humanities for the Environment 2018 Report—Ways to Here, Ways Forward

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Abstract:We introduce the Humanities for the Environment (HfE)

Source Criticism as a Technology of Government in the Swedish Psychological Defence: The Impact of Humanistic Knowledge on Contemporary Security Policy

“…In recent years, however, the humanities have become a more obvious part of the policy discussion for responding to contemporary global challenges (Sörlin 2018). The article departs from how responding to pressing contemporary challenges requires a broad scientific base, which should also include the humanities (see Holm and Brennan 2018;Kitch 2017). This clearly deviates from a theme in the history of humanities underscoring a lack of impact or even crisis.…”

“…The significance of human culture, history, language, and beliefs is commonly at the heart of the discussion of the causes as well as the impact of extreme events or crises (Dominey-Howes 2018; Krüger et al 2015;Riede 2015). These aspects of human life constitute core areas of humanities research and education (Bod et al 2016;Holm and Brennan 2018). Research on the expertise and policy devised for coming to terms with contemporary challenges commonly focuses on the social and the natural sciences (Baez Ullberg and Becker 2016; Deverell et al 2015).…”

Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa

“…See Rose et al (2012), Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities; , The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities; , How Can Humanities Interventions Promote Progress in the Environmental Sciences? ; Holm & Brennan (2018), Humanities for the Environment 2018 Report; , Ocean; Merchant (2020), The Anthropocene & the Humanities; , Environmental Humanities; Environmental Humanities is a wide and flexible field that needs to be expanded further. Jørgensen (2022), Isn't All Environmental Humanities 'Environmental Humanities in Practice'?.…”

Shaping Landscapes: Thinking On the Interactions between People and Nature in Inter- and Postdisciplinary Narratives

“…In turn the emergence of the environmental humanities, which connect different fields of human and social sciences in order to address environmental issues and paradigms, is part of the growing willingness to engage with the environment from a new perspective. It represents an effort to enrich environmental research with a broader conceptual vocabulary and to rethink the exceptionalism of the human being (e.g., Rose et al 2012;Iovino et al 2018;Thornber 2016;Little 2017;Holm and Brennan 2018;Roque et al 2020). The environmental humanities, joined with a new landscape approach, will make it possible to go beyond regional and national portraits and consider new transcontinental and global scenarios far beyond westernized categories, at the same time revaluing traditional and indigenous worldviews (Sepie 2017;Emmanouilidou and Toska 2020).…”