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Author Thorpe, Jocelyn

Title Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (375 pages)
Series Routledge Environmental Humanities
Routledge environmental humanities.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Methodological challenges; PART I Nonhuman actors; 2 Do glaciers speak? The political aesthetics of vo/ice; 3 Experiencing Earth art; Or, Lessons from reading the landscape; 4 A resounding success? Howling as a source of environmental history; 5 Animals as historical actors? Southwest China's wild elephants and coming to know the worlds they shape; 6 Dawns Ysbrydion 09.02.63/Ghost Dance 09.02.63: Performance as the instantaneous precipitation of traces; PART II Decolonizing research
7 Co-becoming time/s: Time/s-as-telling-as-time/s8 Dibaajimowinan as method: Environmental history, Indigenous scholarship, and balancing sources; 9 Giving and receiving life from Anishinaabe nibi inaakonigewin (our water law) research; 10 Decolonizing intellectual traditions: Conducting research and telling our stories in a 'Mi'gmaq Way'; 11 It matters where you begin: A (continuing) journey toward decolonizing research; PART III Senses and affect; 12 On narrative, affect and threatened ecologies of tidal landscapes; 13 Eat your primary sources! Researching and teaching the taste of history
14 Political effluvia: Smells, revelations, and the politicization of daily experience in Naples, Italy15 Minuet as method: Embodied performance in the research process; 16 'To know the story is to love it:' Scientific mythmaking and the longing for cosmic connection; 17 The cycling historian: Exploring environmental history on two wheels; PART IV Digital research; 18 Online digital communication, networking, and environmental history; 19 A new place for stories: Blogging as an environmental history research tool
20 Cultivating the spirit of the commons in environmental history: Digital communities and collections21 Remote sensing: Digital data at a distance; 22 Walking with GPS: An object lesson; 23 "But where am I?" Reflections on digital activism promoting Indigenous peoples' presence in a Canadian heritage village; Index
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Subject Human ecology -- Research -- Methodology
Natural history -- Research -- Methodology
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Research -- Methodology
Human ecology -- Research -- Methodology
Natural history -- Research -- Methodology
Form Electronic book
Author Rutherford, Stephanie
Sandberg, L. Anders
ISBN 9781317353560
1317353560