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East of the Wind and West of the Rain

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There are places that rest tangibly on the Earth's surface, and places that flourish only in the imagination, and places that site their existence within a moral geography, and a few places, not many, Bor Island among them, that manage to fuse all these settings together. In truth, Bor belongs…

There are places that rest tangibly on the Earth's surface, and places that flourish only in the imagination, and places that site their existence within a moral geography, and a few places, not many, Bor Island among them, that manage to fuse all these settings together. In truth, Bor belongs with that long tradition of island Arcadias that have attracted Western thinkers since well before Thomas More in 1516 gave them the name they now have: Utopia. What makes Bor Island unique is that its informing theme is fire.
ContributorsPyne, Stephen (Author) / College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor)
Created2014-11-30
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Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action

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Human preferences, practices and actions are the main drivers of global environmental change in the 21st century. It is crucial, therefore, to promote pro-environmental behavior. In order to accomplish this, we need to move beyond rational choice and behavioral decision theories, which do not capture the full range of commitments,…

Human preferences, practices and actions are the main drivers of global environmental change in the 21st century. It is crucial, therefore, to promote pro-environmental behavior. In order to accomplish this, we need to move beyond rational choice and behavioral decision theories, which do not capture the full range of commitments, assumptions, imaginaries, and belief systems that drive those preferences and actions. Humanities disciplines, such as philosophy, history, religious studies, gender studies, language and literary studies, psychology, and pedagogics do offer deep insights into human motivations, values, and choices. We believe that the expertise of such fields for transforming human preferences, practices and actions is ignored at society’s peril. We propose an agenda that focuses global humanities research on stepping up to the challenges of planetary environmental change. We have established Environmental Humanities Observatories through which to observe, explore and enact the crucial ways humanistic disciplines may help us understand and engage with global ecological problems by providing insight into human action, perceptions, and motivation. We present this Manifesto as an invitation for others to join the “Humanities for the Environment” open global consortium of humanities observatories as we continue to develop a shared research agenda.
ContributorsHolm, Poul (Author) / Adamson, Joni (Author) / Huang, Hsinya (Author) / Kirdan, Lars (Author) / Kitch, Sally (Author) / McCalman, Iain (Author) / Ogude, James (Author) / Ronan, Marisa (Author) / Scott, Dominic (Author) / Thompson, Kirill Ole (Author) / Travis, Charles (Author) / Wehner, Kirsten (Author) / College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor) / Institute for Humanities Research (Contributor) / School of Social Transformation (Contributor) / Women and Gender Studies (Contributor)
Created2015-12-21
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Big Fire; or, Introducing the Pyrocene

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I present the case for a fire-centric scholarship, and suggest the transition between burning living landscapes and lithic ones (in the form of fossil fuels) would make a good demonstration of what such scholarship might do and what its value could be.

ContributorsPyne, Stephen (Author) / College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor)
Created2017-10-23