2012/05/01 by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew +3 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature #Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
paper · pdf · doi:10.1215/22011919-3609940
openalex publication_date 2012/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Welcome to the first volume of this new, international, open-access journal. Environmental Humanities aims to support and further a wide range of conversations on environmental issues in this time of growing awareness of the ecological and social challenges facing all life on earth. The field of environmental humanities is growing rapidly, both in research and teaching. In just the past few years, a number of research centres and undergraduate and postgraduate programs have emerged at universities all around the world: in the USA, the UK, Scandinavia, Taiwan and Australia, to name just a few places. In each area, this broad domain of scholarship is being taken up and developed in a distinct way. 1 In general, however, the environmental humanities can be understood to be a wide ranging response to the environmental challenges of our time. Drawing on humanities and social science disciplines that have brought qualitative analysis to bear on environmental issues, the environmental humanities engages with fundamental questions of meaning, value, responsibility and purpose in a time of rapid, and escalating, change.