2014/09/15 by James Beattie, Edward Dallam Melillo, Emily O’Gorman · 1 citation
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Indigenous Studies and Ecology #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
paper · doi:10.3197/096734014x14091313617406
openalex publication_date 2014/09/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Abstract In this short discussion, we use examples from the British Empire to introduce the concept of eco-cultural networks as a lens for examining interconnected, wide-ranging social and environmental processes. We present three conceptual advances that this framework offers to environmental historians: 1) a rethinking of the divisions between cultural and material approaches to environmental history; 2) an emphasis on relational connections in the making of networks; and, 3) a renewed focus on questions of agency. Each of these developments opens up new questions within environmental history and promotes engagement with work outside the field, especially with the ecological sciences and the environmental humanities.