2025/09/25 by Samuel Grinsell · 2 voices
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Water Governance and Infrastructure #Photography and Visual Culture
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0963926825100333
Abstract This survey argues that urban historians should be engaging with the climate crisis as a driver of urgent research and the environmental humanities as a vibrant and growing gathering of different disciplines and approaches. This will enable urban historians to help address the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century. The survey identifies three areas in which urban-environmental historians might go further than existing work in the field: ambitious thinking; radical critique; and engagement with play or experimentation. Each of these is explored through existing scholarship, with reflections on the implications for the practice of urban history.