Robert Boschman (editor) - On Active Grounds: Agency and Time in the Environmental Humanities

On Active
Grounds

Environmental Humanities Series

Environmental thought pursues with renewed urgency the grand concerns of the humanities: who we think we are, how we relate to others, and how we live in the world. Scholarship in the environmental humanities explores these questions by crossing the lines that separate human from animal, social from material, and objects and bodies from techno-ecological networks. Humanistic accounts of political representation and ethical recognition are re-examined in consideration of other species. Social identities are studied in relation to conceptions of the natural, the animal, the bodily, place, space, landscape, risk, and technology, and in relation to the material distribution and contestation of environmental hazards and pleasures.

The Environmental Humanities Series features research that adopts and adapts the methods of the humanities to clarify the cultural meanings associated with environmental debate. The scope of the series is broad. Film, literature, television, Web-based media, visual art, and physical landscapeall are crucial sites for exploring how ecological relationships and identities are lived and imagined. The Environmental Humanities Series publishes scholarly monographs and essay collections in environmental cultural studies, including popular culture, film, media, and visual cultures; environmental literary criticism; cultural geography; environmental philosophy, ethics, and religious studies; and other cross-disciplinary research that probes what it means to be human, animal, and technological in an ecological world.

Gathering research and writing in environmental philosophy, ethics, cultural studies, and literature under a single umbrella, the series aims to make visible the contributions of humanities research to environmental studies, and to foster discussion that challenges and reconceptualizes the humanities.

Series Editor:
Cheryl Lousley, English and Interdisciplinary Studies, Lakehead University

Editorial Committee:
Brett Buchanan, Philosophy, Laurentian University Adrian J. Ivakhiv, Environmental Studies, University of Vermont Cate Sandilands, Environmental Studies, York University Susie OBrien, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University Rob Shields, Henry Marshall Tory Chair and Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta

Agency and
Time in the
Environmental Humanities

Robert Boschman
and Mario Trono,
editors

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. This work was supported by the Research Support Fund.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

On active grounds : agency and time in the environmental humanities / Robert Boschman and Mario Trono, editors.

(Environmental humanities)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77112-339-6 (softcover).ISBN 978-1-77112-341-9 (EPUB).
ISBN 978-1-77112-340-2 (PDF)

1. Environmental sciencesPhilosophy. 2. HumanitiesPhilosophy. I. Boschman, Robert Wayne, 1961, editor II. Trono, Mario, [date], editor III. Series: Environmental humanities

GE40.O5 2019 179.1 C2018-904626-0
C2018-904627-9

Cover photo courtesy of Robert Boschman. Cover design by Sandra Friesen. Interior design by Angela Booth Malleau, designbooth.ca

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Mario Trono and Robert Boschman

Chapter 1
The clocks wound up: Critical Reading Practices in the Time of Social Acceleration and Ecological Collapse

Paul Huebener

Chapter 2
A Better Distribution Deal: Ecocinematic Viewing and Montagist Reply

Mario Trono

Chapter 3
All, ici la terre: Agency in Ecological Music Composition, Performance, and Listening

Sabine Feisst

Chapter 4
The Environmental Vampire: Terror, Time, and Territory after 9/11

Robert Boschman

Chapter 5
We are key players : Creating Indigenous Engagement and Community Control at Blackfoot Heritage Sites in Time

Genevive Susemihl

Chapter 6
Mapping the Mining Legacy of Navajo Nation

Lea Rekow

PHOTO ESSAY
Agency and Time on Active Grounds: A Memoir of Bruno Latour and Gaa Global Circus

Robert Boschman

Chapter 7
The Gaze of Predators and the Redefinition of the Human

Karla Armbruster

Chapter 8
Anim-oils: Wild Animals in Petro-Cultural Landscapes

Pamela Banting

Chapter 9
Reacting to Wolves: The Historical Construction of Identity and Value

Morgan Zedalis and Sean Gould

Chapter 10
Declarations of Interdependence: Unexpected HumanAnimal Conflict and Bhutanese Non-Linear Policy

Randy Schroeder and Kent Schroeder

Chapter 11
Effective Environmental Action in Canada: The German Energiewende as a Model of Public Agency

Mishka Lysack

Chapter 12
Culture as Vector: (Re)Locating Agency in Social-Ecological Systems Change

Nancy C. Doubleday

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Chapter 4

Chapter 6

Photo Essay

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