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urn:uuid:f4b32b82-db42-4c25-8a81-49e87ea79ac2 03 15 9781912186365 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Anne Frank’s Tree Nature’s Confrontation with Technology, Domination, and the Holocaust 1 A01 Eric Katz Eric Katz (B.A. Philosophy, Yale; Ph.D., Boston University) is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of Nature as Subject: Human Obligation and Natural Community (1997), winner of the CHOICE book award for “Outstanding Academic Books for 1997.” He is the editor of Death by Design: Science, Technology, and Engineering in Nazi Germany (2006). He has co-edited the collections Environmental Pragmatism (1996, with Andrew Light); and Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology (2000, with Andrew Light and David Rothenberg); and the textbook Controlling Technology (2nd edition, 2003, with Andrew Light and William Thompson). He has written over fifty journal articles, book chapters and book reviews. He was the Book Review Editor of Environmental Ethics from 1996 to 2014, and was the founding Vice-President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. From 1991 to 2007 he was the Director of the Science, Technology and Society (STS) programme at NJIT. 01 eng 00 212 03 12 HBQ 10 PHI000000 23 philosophy 10 NAT011000 12 RN 23 technology 23 ecological restoration 12 HBTZ1 10 HIS043000 23 holocaust 01 06 03 00 In this important and original interdisciplinary work, well-known environmental philosopher Eric Katz explores technology’s role in dominating, and thus destroying, both nature and human life and society. <break/>Katz’s argument innovatively connects two distinct areas: the fundamental goal of the Holocaust, including Nazi environmental policy, to heal the degenerate elements of society; and the plan to heal degraded natural systems that informs the contemporary environmental policy of ‘ecological restoration’. In both arenas of ‘healing’, Katz argues that technology drives action, while domination emerges as the prevailing ideology. Katz’s work is a plea for the development of a technology that does not dominate and destroy but instead promotes autonomy and freedom. <break/>Anne Frank, a victim of Nazi ideology and action, saw the titular tree behind her secret annex as a symbol of freedom and moral goodness. In Katz’s argument, the tree represents a free and autonomous nature. 'Anne Frank’s Tree' is rooted in an empirical approach to philosophy, seating complex ethical ideas in a powerful narrative of historical fact and deeply personal lived experience. The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20150501 02 WORLD 06 15 9781874267911 06 15 9781874267850 06 15 9781912186365 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:27d44345-da5e-4cba-94e3-f3e72c0241c7 03 15 9781912186631 00 EB E107 10 01 01 A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness VOLUME 1: The Conventional Economy and the Drivers of Change 1 A01 Timothy J. Killeen 01 eng 00 484 03 23 Amazon 10 NAT011000 10 NAT038000 23 rain forest 23 environmental impact 10 SOC026000 23 natural resources 23 economy 01 06 03 00 In a lucid style backed by encyclopaedic knowledge, Killeen unpicks the extremely complex ecological and socio-political threads that comprise the recent history and the vital future of the Pan Amazon region. The fight to save the Amazon is a fight for sustainability that is emblematic of the entire future of human co-existence with Nature on Earth. Killeen is an authoritative and impassioned guide, eschewing soundbites in favour of a clearsighted and highly nuanced picture of the realities on the ground. Only in understanding present realities and how they came to pass, he argues, can we proceed hopefully into the future. Events of the last ten years are discussed in detail, because future events will have to build upon – or modify – the cultural and economic forces driving events in the Pan Amazon. Nonetheless, the text provides a longer historical perspective to show how policies create legacies that reverberate over decades, long after they have been recognised as being fundamentally flawed.The book does not demonise stakeholder groups or economic actors, but explains the social and economic realities that constrain their decisions and motivates them to act as they do. Likewise, it identifies the policies that have created a foundation for positive change, as well as those that are not delivering the benefits their advocates had hoped to generate.The broad scope and descriptive detail of the narrative will provide the reader with an understanding of the synergies among the multiple complex phenomena that threaten the conservation of the Amazon, as well as an objective analysis of the alternative production models and regulatory reforms that are essential for bending the arc of history and saving an ecosystem on critical importance to the planet Killeen makes no attempt to predict the future via a ‘scenarios analysis’, but he does identify certain phenomena that will most definitely happen (regardless of new policies or market forces), those that might or might not happen (depending on new policies and markets forces), some that should never happen (e.g., extreme climate change), and those that absolutely must happen in order to change the current trajectory of Amazonian development (e.g., revenue transfers that can change human behaviour). The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20220101 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186235 06 15 9781912186631 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:4f2eac27-d84f-47cc-a525-fbaebb3d918f 03 15 9781912186310 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Changing Deserts Integrating People and their Environment 1 A01 Lisa Mol Lisa Mol is a Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University. She is a stone weathering geomorphologist and has conducted research on the weathering of Rock Art in South Africa. She currently researches the effect of armed warfare on fragile immovable heritage in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. 2 B01 Troy Sternberg Troy Sternberg is a researcher at the School of Geography, Oxford University. His research focus is on natural hazards, environmental processes, the effectiveness of traditional nomadic strategies and the comparative ecological impact of livelihoods across the Asian steppe. In Mongolia his interest is in developing rural water access, quantifying drought and degradation and placing Mongolian pastoralism and the Gobi environment in a broader global context. 01 eng 00 346 03 23 deserts 12 HBTP 10 HIS049000 23 drylands 10 NAT045010 12 RGBA 23 environment 10 NAT024000 12 RNK 10 HIS054000 23 history 12 RG 23 cultures 01 06 03 00 Deserts – vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes and life beyond our stereotypes. As well as magnificent Saharan dunes under blazing sun, the desert concept encompasses the intensely cold winters of the Gobi, the snow-covered expanse of Antarctica and the rock-strewn drylands of Pakistan. Deserts are environments in perpetual flux and home to peoples as diverse as their surroundings, peoples who grapple with a broad spectrum of cultural, political and environmental issues as they wrest livelihoods from marginal lands.<break/>The cultures, environments and histories of deserts, while fundamentally entangled, are rarely studied as part of a network. To bring different disciplines together, the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010 brought together a wide range of researchers from backgrounds as varied as physics, history, archaeology anthropology, geology and geography. This volume draws on the diversity of papers presented to give an overview of current research in deserts and drylands. Readers are invited to explore the wide range of desert environments and peoples and the ever-evolving challenges they face. The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20120330 02 WORLD 06 15 9781874267690 06 15 9781912186310 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:21612ce1-1004-4cd4-b9d4-84c02ab16b96 03 15 9781912186792 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Paradise Blues Travels through American Environmental History 1 A01 Christof Mauch Christof Mauch studied at Tübingen University and King’s College London and majored in German literature, theology, philosophy and history. He received his Dr.phil. in German literature from Tübingen and his Dr. phil. habil. in Modern History from the University of Cologne. From 1999 to 2007, Mauch headed the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. He has been Chair of American Cultural History at LMU Munich since 2007; and Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU since 2009. Mauch was the first Chairperson (now: President) of the Board of Directors of the International Consortium for Environmental History Organizations, ICEHO (2009–2011) and he served as Vice President and President of the European Society for Environmental History (2009–2013). In 2013 he was named Honorary Professor and Senior Fellow at the Center for Ecological History of Renmin University in China. Mauch has been a visiting professor at universities in Australia, Austria, Canada, India and Poland. In 2020 he was the Carl Schurz Memorial Professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (USA). He has received numerous international awards for his scholarly contributions and engagement, including the Distinguished Career in Public Environmental History Award from the American Society for Environmental History, the Teaching Innovation Award from the LMU Munich, and the Planetary Award from the Institute for Future Competences. Mauch has authored, edited or co-edited over forty books in the fields of Modern German Literature; US, German and transatlantic history; and the environmental humanities. Paradise Blues is his most personal book, drawing on his travels through the United States over a period of fifteen years. 2 B06 Lucy Jones 01 eng 02 ger 00 298 03 23 America 10 TRV010000 12 WTL 23 environment 10 TRV025000 12 WTHC 12 1KBB 23 travel 10 TRV026020 23 history 01 06 03 00 Paradise Blues is an unconventional history of the United States of America, an unusual travel guide that follows and renders visible the country’s paths of nature, history and civilisation. Christof Mauch is a leading German historian who has spent many years in the US and in this book he attempts, from a European perspective, to grasp the diversity of American culture and the transformation of its environments, combining travel reporting with nature writing, personal observation and philosophical reflection. Mauch seeks the familiar in unfamiliar places and the curious in places that seem common and well-known. <break/>The journey begins in tiny Wiseman, Alaska and the final portrait is of Portland, Oregon, famously America’s most sustainable city. In between, Mauch’s wanderings in space and time, his serendipitous and planned encounters with places and people, bring to light the tension and ambivalence in most Americans’ attitudes towards their often-perilous environment, the intertwining throughout history of valuation, conservation and destruction. Interactions between human beings and the environment have settled like sediment down the centuries and may be read in the present – in the form of landscapes and collective memory, in bodies of water and the earth’s strata, tree rings and human cells. One of Mauch’s dominant themes is that the grand hopes and bitter disappointments of the American paradise are not equally distributed – the blues is the voice of the dispossessed and disadvantaged; and here environmental injustice toward Black, Indigenous and other marginalised people is a recurring and haunting motif.<break/>This is a book of melancholia and hope – Mauch exposes the beauty, the imperilment, at times the wreckage, of the American environment. And he shows us that, more powerfully than abstract ideas, governmental edicts or technological forces, stories reveal the infinite discoveries to be made in humans’ relationship to nature – in beautiful landscapes where danger lurks as well as in visions and behaviours that change the world and ecosystems. Above all, stories demonstrate that where we come from and where we are going are intimately connected and therefore nothing has to remain as it is. The stories told in Paradise Blues demonstrate that vulnerabilities and pressures are almost always political constructions and, for that reason, it must be possible to deconstruct them. 04 00 List of Illustrations and Maps Prologue Wiseman, Alaska Malibu, California Memphis, Tennessee St Thomas, Nevada Dodge City, Kansas Niagara Walt Disney World, Florida Portland, Oregon Afterword Index The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20240115 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186785 06 15 9781912186792 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:62842c74-dd0e-4887-8970-4806cecc1264 03 15 9781912186600 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Pathways Exploring the Routes of a Movement Heritage 1 A01 Daniel Svensson Daniel Svensson has a Ph.D. in history and is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sport Sciences, Malmö University. His research is mainly within the fields of sport history and environmental history, with focus on environmental issues in sport and outdoor recreation. Svensson’s dissertation (awarded the International Ski History Association Ullr Award 2017) focused on the scientisation of training methods in endurance sport and meetings between scientific and experiential knowledge in sport during the twentieth century. Svensson lives in the countryside in West Sweden and is proud father of two daughters with whom he loves to go for a walk. 2 B01 Katarina Saltzmann Katarina Saltzman is associate professor in Conservation at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In her research she has investigated nature/culture relations and heritage making from an ethnological point of view, often in transdisciplinary collaboration. Her research areas include contemporary vernacular practices such as gardening, rural landscape management and recreational walking, with particular focus on the landscapes where these and other activities are taking place. She has carried out field studies in rural, urban and semi-urban environments, including intensively tended private gardens and agricultural landscapes as well as transitory and temporarily leftover places at the urban fringe. 3 B01 Sverker Sörlin Sverker Sörlin is Professor of Environmental History at the Division of History, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, where he was also a co-founder with Nina Wormbs of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory (2011). He has a long-standing career as scholar and writer focusing on the science and politics of natural resource extraction and climate change. He has also published widely on representations of landscape and its significance in the formation of national and other identities. His seminal collection on the history of out of doors in Sweden (Friluftshistoria, with Klas Sandell) had a second edition in 2008. Increasingly working on ‘elemental’ Earth-, Cryo- and Atmospheric narratives and histories, his most recent book is Ice Humanities: Living, Thinking and Working in a Melting World (Manchester 2022, with Klaus Dodds). 01 eng 00 331 03 12 GM 10 HIS049000 23 walking 10 SPO050000 23 trails 12 WSZC 23 heritage 10 SOC015000 23 history 23 environment 01 06 03 00 Trails and paths are pathways to the past – and serve as a physical and cultural infrastructure of human memory. While they lead the way forward for anyone out walking, they also point backwards, towards history. <break/>Walking has been a common denominator for human life everywhere, at all times. While other forms of mobility have grown in importance and changed our societies in dramatic ways, most of us still depend on walking in our daily life. The massive number of human steps throughout history has created a rich and widespread network of trails that cross the globe and connect places. It has also resulted in a vast immaterial heritage through literature, art and music about walking. Paths and trails accommodate both the material and the immaterial, and challenge not only conventional heritage management but also the very essence of the nature/culture divide. <break/>In our current age, the Anthropocene, traces of people’s movements can be regarded as a distinct kind of cultural heritage, a ‘movement heritage’ that is dependent on continuous use or memory work to remain. It also points to historical and current forms of land use that is sustainable in the most basic meaning of the word, i.e. that these activities can be and de facto has been practiced over long periods of time without causing large-scale environmental degradation. Few other forms of human mobility can make similar claims.<break/>So, while traces and remains from different kinds of movement may be small in physical scale, they are monumental in terms of their importance for the understanding of how a landscape has been used historically. Traces of mobility form lines that, with Tim Ingold, tie together the life worlds of the past with those of the present.<break/>Walking tracks, paths, and trails are usually ephemeral and often also neglected traces of humans moving by foot through landscapes in the past and the present. These subtle landscape features seem to be difficult to handle within established heritage management regimes, partly because of their fugitive and timid nature. However, their uses and impacts have often been decisive and important for individuals and communities across spatial and temporal scales.<break/>In this anthology, we will explore possibilities to acknowledge human motion, and traces thereof, as heritage. Today, with the increasing interest in local and sustainable connections, and in bodily and spiritual enhancement, we see a growing use of walking tracks both in landscapes within reach from urban centres and in more remotely located or ‘wild’ areas. The corona pandemic has further propelled these trends. Of course, landscapes that are commonly understood as wilderness or ‘nature’ are in most cases clearly influenced by human actions and movements. While walking trails tend to be regarded as pathways to experience nature and as tools to promote public health, they could also be seen and used as routes to culture and history, indeed as pathways to the past. Based on a Swedish research project with the aim to explore the multiple dimensions of walking, paths and movement we will in this volume engage and discuss the potential effects of such an expansion of the heritage register.<break/>Landscapes of mobility have been shaped by hiking, hunting, outdoor life, tourism, sports, and physical training for centuries. They are historical remains of those activities, while simultaneously being the infrastructure for present-day usages. The demand for places suitable for movement, training and events continue to grow, and hiking trails are a key component in the rise of nature-based tourism, sport events such as trail running and mountain biking, and the increasing interest in outdoor life and hiking. So far, the historical and heritage aspects of these developments have been underarticulated. However, the Norwegian heritage board together with the Norwegian Tourist Association (Den Norske Turistforening, DNT) have initiated a project around historical hiking trails that have been attracting attention over the last couple of years. Similar attempts are now being made in Sweden, England, and elsewhere. There is need for a more explicit discussion about trails as heritage. With this anthology we will contribute with precisely that through gathering leading scholars in Europe and beyond around this subject and engaging them in dialogue. The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20220731 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186556 06 15 9781912186600 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:cae777fc-8739-4940-bac6-09fcb7c9a132 03 15 9781912186624 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania Grazing, Fishing and Farming at the Local–Global Interface 1 A01 Antonio Allegretti Antonio Allegretti (Ph.D. Manchester) is an anthropologist and a Senior Research Associate in the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University. He works at the crossroads of development, academic and policy-oriented research in East Africa (Tanzania and Kenya), having spent many years working with rural communities of pastoralists, fishermen and farmers in the region. He has done academic research on rural livelihoods and economies and contributed to multi-stakeholder policy debates around community-based climate adaptation and resilience, and water management. His current work at Lancaster University focuses on governance of small-scale fisheries and the role of fish for food and nutrition security among vulnerable rural communities of East and West Africa. 01 eng 00 208 03 12 JHM 10 SOC002000 23 Tanzania 12 GTF 23 policy 10 SOC042000 12 1HFGT 23 agriculture 10 BUS092000 23 fishing 23 rural people 01 06 03 00 Who are the rural people of Africa? What does it mean to be part of a ‘rural’ community in contemporary Tanzania? And why is it important to debate questions of African rurality beyond the mere GDP contribution of rural land-based production? This book seeks to address questions like these. Rural people(s) in contemporary Africa are often conceived of in terms of how to efficiently integrate them into international markets and global value chains; this book analyses the question of integration of rural people in Tanzania by delving into how they deal with local-global connections and engage with policy objectives on their own terms, between local forms of associational life and global markets. In so doing, it explores local socio-economic dynamics that find little space in the national and global policy vision of a rural sector geared towards growth – a vision that is peculiar to African states, including Tanzania. <break/>Informed by anthropological theory and de-re-agrarianisation/de-re-peasantisation debates, and grounded in ethnographic evidence, the book eschews ‘orthodox’ approaches that see (rural) people as passive recipients of policies, and policies as instruments of oppression. Instead, it departs from the rural land/place-based practices of grazing, fishing and farming to look at rurality in Tanzania as a blend of old and new meanings, values and practices at the local-global interface, continually reshuffled as rural people encounter different social and economic spheres. As the world rediscovers the urgency of questions connected to neo-colonialism and de-colonisation, this book brings to the forefront the position, worldview and ambitions of African rural peoples intersecting with international policy models, visions and objectives. The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20220401 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186266 06 15 9781912186624 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:7cb361f2-54b2-4ba9-adc6-46b1e1ec1fbf 03 15 9781917813082 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia Pastoralism, Wellbeing and Economic Relations 1 A01 Ariell Ahearn Ariell Ahearn is a departmental lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the spatial politics of development, environmental governance and mobile pastoralism. She works closely with rural pastoralists and human rights NGOs in Mongolia to secure legal safeguards for herders facing forced eviction, destruction of cultural and spiritual sites, and discrimination from mineral extraction. 3 B01 Gantulga Munkherdene Gantulga Munkherdene is a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. He also serves as the Executive Secretary of the Mongolian Anthropological Association. Prior to joining Oxford University, he held the position of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, National University of Mongolia. His research interests encompass the social life of artisanal gold miners, known as ninja miners, as well as nationalism, cultural heritage, globalisation, capitalism, development and mining in Mongolia. Munkherdene has conducted extensive fieldwork in several provinces of Mongolia and China. Based on his participant observation, he has published over twenty book chapters and articles at both the national and international levels. 4 B01 Takahiro Ozaki Takahiro Ozaki is a professor at Kagoshima University, Japan. His majors are cultural anthropology and Inner Asian area studies, mainly using quantitative social research as a methodology. He has been carrying out comparative study of pastoral society in Outer and Inner Mongolia, focusing on changes in pastoral strategies of local pastoralists over the last thirty years. His major work is Pastoral Strategies in Modern Mongolia: Comparative Ethnography of Regime Transformation and Natural Disaster. 01 eng 00 300 03 23 pastoralism 10 SOC002010 23 Central Asia 10 SOC008020 23 resilience 10 SOC057000 01 06 03 00 Focusing on pastoral and rural communities, this volume highlights ongoing transitions in rural Central Asia. Informed by in-depth case studies from Mongolia, Buryatia and Kyrgyzstan, the essays focus on themes in contemporary pastoralism, including the adaptation and resilience of rural pastoralist livelihoods during and after the Covid-19 pandemic; healing, food and wellbeing, including an examination of rural experiences of wellbeing and the re-invention and revival of traditional foods; and economic relations, including changing spatialisation of labour spurred by mineral extraction, the role of digital media and urban-rural dynamics. The volume presents insights into contemporary human geography and anthropology of the Inner Asian region; highlights the ongoing importance of scholarship on rural places; and offers a critical lens on broader processes of change affecting the region. A collaboration between scholars spanning Japan, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, the UK and the USA, the volume showcases work by diverse authors with longstanding engagement in Inner Asia. 04 00 Introduction: Post-Covid Transitions in Inner Asia Ariell Ahearn and Gantulga Munkherdene Part I: Contemporary Pastoralism Chapter 1. On the Trucks and Trailers: Long-Distance Movement and Digital Transformations among Mobile Pastoralists in Post-Pandemic Mongolia Gantulga Munkherdene Chapter 2. Pastoral Society Resilience to Covid-19 Social Disaster in Mongolia’s Bulgan and Sukhbaatar Provinces Takahiro Ozaki Chapter 3. Change and Adaptation as a Way of Life: The Case of Qazaq Pastoralists in Western Mongolia Peter Finke Chapter 4. Women Herders’ Changing Role in Mongolian Pastoralism Troy Sternberg, Bayartogtokh Tserennadmid and Tugsbuyan Bayarbat Part II: Wellbeing and Traditional Foods and Medicine Chapter 5. Sealing the Energy: A Report on Food Practices for Nourishment in Western Mongolia Moe Terao Chapter 6. How Production of Airag (Fermented Mare’s Milk) is Changing in Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralism Yuki Morinaga and Batbuyan Batjav Chapter 7. The Social Significance of Kazakh Chai Feasting in Mongolia Chieko Hirota Chapter 8. Wild Botanicals of Inner Asia in the Times of a Global Health Crisis Sayana Namsaraeva Part III Rural–Urban Dynamics: Networks, Perceptions and Economic Relations Chapter 9. Reconstruction of Pastoral Management and Local Milk Supply in Suburban Areas in Mongolia Takahiro Tomita Chapter 10. Hybridity and Vitality of Culture: Mongolian Traditional Performing Arts During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic Akira Kamimura Chapter 11. Between Khot (City) and Khuduu (Countryside): Negotiating Rural and Urban Identities in Post-Covid Mongolia Daniel J. Murphy, Munkhochir Surenjav, Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo and Bayartogtokh Tserennadmid Chapter 12. Fragile Networks: The Illusion of the Stable Job in Post-pandemic Mongolia Iris Pakulla Chapter 13. The Role of Covid-19 in Kyrgyz Women’s Lives Zalina Enikeeva Chapter 14. Conspiracy Theories and Public Discontent in Central Asia: The Role of Sinophobia in Mobilising Societal Frustrations Kemel Toktomushev The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20260215 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186914 06 15 9781912186921 06 15 9781917813082 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:8d5cc2e8-42fa-4f6b-ba0a-823d82980dc5 03 15 9781912186655 00 EB E107 10 01 01 The Age of the Soybean An Environmental History of Soy During the Great Acceleration 1 A01 Claiton Marcio da Silva Claiton Marcio da Silva is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of the Southern Frontier (UFFS), Santa Catarina, Brazil and a CNPq Productivity Researcher. He began studying the modernisation of Brazilian agriculture in 2002, completing his MA in history at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) with a thesis on rural youth in Southern Brazil. At Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC/Fiocruz), his doctoral dissertation explored the role of Nelson Rockefeller’s American International Association for Economic and Social Development (AIA) in introducing the US extension service model in Latin America. Recently, he has been exploring the global environmental history of soybeans and their impacts on traditional populations in the Global South. 2 B01 Claudio de Majo Claudio de Majo is a doctoral candidate at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich). His research interests include global environmental history, the environmental history of Europe and Latin America, and the relation between the commons and ecology. He is also interested in cutting-edge methodologies such as evolutionary history and neo-materialism. Claudio’s research has received funding from the Andrea von Braun Stiftung for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) and the Amerika-Institut (LMU Munich), where he also works as a lecturer. He is deputy editor of Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History. 01 eng 00 366 03 12 HBT 10 HIS000000 23 soya 23 agriculture 10 NAT011000 12 TV 23 environmental history 10 NAT026000 12 WN 23 global history 12 RNK 10 SOC055000 23 commodities 01 06 03 00 The soybean is far more than just a versatile crop whose derivates serve the protein needs of a meatless diet. One of the world’s most important commodities, soy represents the embodiment of mechanised industrial agriculture and is one of the main actors behind the socioeconomic, political and ecological transformations of industrial farming in several world regions. Despite the crop’s potential as a cheap source of vegetal protein for human consumers, most industrial soybean production has fuelled the global meat industrial complex, as animal feed. Soybean is thus, paradoxically, still a relatively ‘invisible’ crop to the public at large, although its global yields continue to increase at stupendous rates, lining the pockets of agribusiness and to the detriment of traditional agriculture.<break/>The transnational socio-ecological and economic entanglements characterising this versatile legume’s global expansion have prompted scholarly attention as researchers around the world have begun to unveil the main historical drivers behind the rise of the soybean in the global food chain. This book aims to expand the analysis, offering the most significant effort so far at an environmental history of soybeans. Interrogating the socioeconomic and ecological transformations determined by (and determining) the rise of soy in international food chains during the Great Acceleration, the volume gathers contributions from an international cast of researchers, working in numerous geographical contexts, from Japan and China, to India, African nations, the Southern Cone of Latin America, Northern Europe and the United States. Soybean farming, breeding, processing and marketing have bound together the histories of these diverse regions and altered beyond recognition their ecological and socio-economic contexts. The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20221101 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186648 06 15 9781912186655 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:04b66d69-76b9-42ac-9cd8-c35a56ac694f 03 15 9781912186013 00 EB E107 10 01 01 The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682–1865 1 A01 Mark Luccarelli Mark Luccarelli was born in Princeton, NJ and attended schools there. He holds a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Iowa and taught at Rutgers University before receiving an appointment as Senior Lecturer in American Civilisation at the University of Oslo. Author of Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region (1995), he is co-editor of Green Oslo (2012) and Spaces In-between (2015) and principal founding member of the NIES, the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies. 01 eng 00 256 03 23 cities 10 HIS036000 12 RNK 10 HIS036020 23 landscape 12 RNA 12 HBTB 10 HIS036030 23 USA 23 environmental history 12 HBJK 10 HIS036040 12 1KBB 10 NAT011000 12 3JD 12 3JF 12 3JH 01 06 03 00 In "The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space: Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682–1865", Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US. Considering history in terms of the categorical development of space – social, territorial and conceptual – the book examines the forces that drove people to ignore their surroundings by distancing culture from place and by assiduously advancing the dissolution of social bonds. Thus beneath the question of the surround, and the key to its renewal today, is the quest to re-engage the common. The latter is still a part of the approach to space, its arrangement and disposition, and has a necessary environmental dimension. Concepts of urbanism, place identity, picturesque landscape and nature are part of a larger Western intellectual and cultural context but, by examining the imaging of cities and landscape, Luccarelli links particular American geographic settings – as well as the political ideals and practices of the republic – to the application and aesthetic reading of these ideas. The advocates of these various perspectives shared an aesthetic orientation as a means of redefining or recovering the common. The book looks at various American urban and regional contexts, as well as the work of artists, writers and public figures, including painter and engraver William Birch, Thomas Jefferson, engraver John Hill, Henry David Thoreau and Frederick Law Olmsted. Luccarelli embeds his environmental study in the works of these men and in the course of American history between the planting of the city of Philadelphia and the establishment of Olmsted’s major urban parks. The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20161215 02 WORLD 06 15 9781874267942 06 15 9781912186013 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:7f473052-39ca-4f60-85a3-44648950dda6 03 15 9781912186198 00 EB E107 10 01 01 The Environment and the European Public Sphere Perceptions, Actions, Policies 1 A01 Christian Wenkel Christian Wenkel is associate professor of contemporary history at Artois University. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Munich and Sciences Po Paris, he was a senior research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris and at the Laboratoire d’excellence ‘Ecrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe’ at Sorbonne University. His research interests cover the Franco-German relationship, the Cold War, European integration and phenomena of Europeanisation in the long twentieth century. He recently co-edited a special issue of Comparativ on transnational spheres of communication in Europe from 1914 to 1945 (2018). 2 B01 Eric Bussière Eric Bussière is Professor Emeritus at Sorbonne University and Jean Monnet Chair in the history of European integration; and was founding director of the Laboratoire d’excellence ‘Ecrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe’ (2012–2018). A member of several scientific councils, he is also corresponding member of the Academy of History of Portugal. Author and editor of numerous publications on economic history and the history of European integration, he is editor of Histoire, Economie et société (HES) and co-editor of The European Commission – History and Memories of an Institution 1958–2000 (3 vols, 2007–2019). 3 B01 Anahita Grisoni Anahita Grisoni is a French sociologist and urban planner, affiliated to the research unit ‘Environnement, ville, société’ at the University of Lyon. Author of several books about green transition, she currently leads the French think tank ‘La fabrique écologique’. 4 B01 Hélène Miard-Delacroix Hélène Miard-Delacroix is an historian and currently professor at the Department of German Studies at Sorbonne University in Paris. She is a member of the research group SIRICE (Sorbonne - Identités, relations internationales et civilisation de l’Europe). Her research focuses on the history of Germany since 1945, in particular the history of the Franco-German relationship and of the German contribution to the European integration process. Among her various publications is a transnational Franco-German history since 1963 published in French and in German (2011). She is also member of the Academic Committee of the House of European History in Brussels. 01 eng 00 358 03 12 HBJD 23 public policy 10 SOC053000 23 environment 10 NAT011000 12 RNB 12 1D 23 Europe 12 1QFE 23 EU 01 06 03 00 Since the 1970s, environmental issues have become a major concern for European citizens and thus for European politicians. In the same time frame the political sphere in Europe, and in particular within the European Union, has also been undergoing major transformations. Dealing with environmental issues over more than fifty years in a historical perspective enables us to gain a better understanding of these transformations, notably the emergence of a European public sphere and how this is changing decision-making processes. Drawing on recent research results from various disciplines, including history, sociology, law and political sciences, this volume addresses the methodological challenge of a European perspective on a transnational subject – one that is commonly distorted by a national prism. It shows how perceptions of the environment are increasingly converging and how these convergences of views across political or linguistic borders in the long run exert an undeniable influence not only on political debates but also on political decisions across Europe.<break/>Revealing European characteristics of perceptions, debates and policies, this volume contributes to a history of Europeanisation beyond the usual political turning points and limits. 04 00 Contributor Biographies List of Abbreviations Editors’ Introduction Part I. The emergence of a European public sphere on environmental issues Chapter 1. The First International Congress for the Protection of Landscapes: A European Convergence? CHARLES-FRANÇOIS MATHIS Chapter 2. The Historical Roots of the European Culture of Catastrophes FRANÇOIS WALTER Chapter 3. Europe and Chernobyl: Contested Localisations of the Accident’s Environmental, Political, Social and Cultural Impact KARENA KALMBACH Chapter 4. The Western European Public Sphere and the Environment in Eastern Europe during the Cold War: Between Model, Utilisation and Denunciation MICHEL DUPUY Part II. The shaping and use of the European public sphere on environmental issues: About the influence of transnational activists and movements Chapter 5. The Impact of East German Nature Conservationists on the European Environmental Consciousness in the 20th Century ASTRID MIGNON KIRCHHOF Chapter 6. Wetlands of Protest. Seeking Transnational Trajectories in Hungary’s Environmental Movement DANIELA NEUBACHER Chapter 7. Towards a ‘Europe of Struggles’? Three Visions of Europe in the Early Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement 1975–79 ANDREW TOMPKINS Chapter 8. Entering the European Political Arena, Adapting to Europe: Greenpeace International 1987–93 LIESBETH VAN DE GRIFT, HANS RODENBURG, GUUS WIEMAN Part III. From a public to a political sphere: The role of green parties and parliamentary activity in setting an environmental agenda Chapter 9. The Development of Green Parties in Europe: Obstacles and Opportunities 1970–2015 EMILIE VAN HAUTE Chapter 10. Will Europe Ever Become ‘Green’? The Green Parties’ Pro-European and Federalist Turning Point since the 1990s GIORGIO GRIMALDI Chapter 11. A Touch of Green Amid the Grey. Europe During the Formative Phase of the German Greens from the 1970s to the 1980s: Between Rejection and Reformulation SILKE MENDE Chapter 12. Energy and the Environment in Parliamentary Debates in the Federal Republic of Germany, United Kingdom and France from the 1970s to the 1990s EVA OBERLOSKAMP Part IV. Europeanising environmental policies from below? Chapter 13. Responding to the European Public? Public Debates, Societal Actors and the Emergence of a European Environmental Policy JAN-HENRIK MEYER Chapter 14. The Major Stages in the Construction of European Environmental Law SOPHIE BAZIADOLY Chapter 15. Multi-Level Learning: How the European Union Draws Lessons from Water Management at the River Basin Level MARJOLEIN VAN EERD , DUNCAN LIEFFERINK Chapter 16. Environmental Protection and the Evolution of the French and German Energy Systems from 1973 to the 2000s CHRISTOPHER FABRE Chapter 17. Trajectories of European Environmental Governance over Time ANTHONY ZITO Index The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20200915 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186143 06 15 9781912186198 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:5baa9887-b6ad-451a-b0e9-0387f1ccb0c5 03 15 9781917813013 00 EB E107 10 01 01 The Piruzai of Afghanistan A Visual Ethnography 1 A01 Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper 2 A01 Richard Tapper 01 eng 00 394 03 23 Piruzai 10 SOC002010 23 Afghanistan 10 PHO004000 23 Pastoralism 23 Photography 01 06 03 00 In the early 1970s Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper and Richard Tapper spent a year living with the Piruzai, pastoralists and farmers in northern Afghanistan. They joined the Piruzai in the spring pastures, trekked with Piruzai families, their camels, horses, sheep, goats and dogs, to the high mountains of the Hazarajat in the summer and returned with them to their farmlands in the autumn. And they took hundreds of photographs. <break/>This book reproduces 380 of those photos, most in colour. It is a visual ethnography of the beauty of the people they met and the landscape in which they lived and travelled. The pictures are an evocation of a time of peace before the country was engulfed in nearly fifty years of war, and an historical record of the lives of people who have since had to cope with great tragedy and whose relatives and descendants have been major actors in more recent events. <break/>This book is also a work of art. The landscapes are simply spectacular. But equally striking are the pictures of family groups, of people working and the intimate portraits of women and men and children. All too often Afghans have been stereotyped for other people’s political purposes, but here you meet warm, clear-sighted individuals who can laugh at themselves and are kind, curious and wise about others. <break/>This book is published by the authors in association with The White Horse Press. The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20250630 02 WORLD 06 15 9781917813006 06 15 9781917813013 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:b1eb909b-d863-4655-917f-25bba6e3a0f7 03 15 9781912186730 00 EB E107 10 01 01 The Return of Malthus Environmentalism and Post-war Population–Resource Crises 1 A01 Björn-Ola Linnér Björn-Ola Linnér is a Swedish climate policy scholar and professor at Linköping University. He is program director of Mistra Geopolitics, a research programme that critically examines and explores the interplay between the dynamics of geopolitics, human security, and global environmental change. 2 A23 Donald Worster 01 eng 00 324 03 12 JHBD 23 Malthus 10 TEC010000 12 HBT 23 population 10 SCI026000 10 BUS054000 23 fear of scarcity 12 RNA 23 food supply 12 HB 23 environmental history 01 06 03 00 The Return of Malthus is the first comprehensive analysis of the post-war fear of scarcity. Linnér traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, Fairfield Osborn and Georg Börgström, labelled ‘neo-Malthusians’ for their emphasis on an impending clash between population growth and resource limits, after the manner of the nineteenth-century father of scarcity economics. The book analyses the role of science and technology in securing food supply, the transmutation of older ideas about preserving nature into a new conservation ideology based on sustainable use, and the preoccupation of the industrialised nations with forestalling communism and controlling power relations.First published by The White Horse Press in 2003. Even more relevant today, this revised edition charts perceptions of and prescriptions for crises of population growth and resource shortage, which have had profound influence on agricultural, population and security policies from the Second World War to the present. The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20230417 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186747 06 15 9781874267515 06 15 9781912186730 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:0ad5cd8b-bc43-4dea-9364-528be357748b 03 15 9781917813242 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands 1 A01 Milica Prokic Milica Prokić is an environmental historian and knowledge exchange scholar. The focus of her historical research is the interrelationships between landscapes, bodies, politics and power. She obtained her Ph.D. in history from the University of Bristol in 2017 with a thesis on Goli Otok (Barren Island). She has held fellowships at the European University Institute, the Rachel Carson Center (LMU Munich), and the Kunsthistorisches Institut Max Planck. Milica currently works at the One Ocean Hub (University of Strathclyde), and has previously worked at the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow. She also holds degrees from the Faculty of Visual Arts (University of the Arts, Belgrade) and Central Saint Martins College (University of the Arts, London). 2 B01 Pavla Šimková Pavla Šimková is an environmental historian based at the Collegium Carolinum in Munich, Germany. She has held positions at both the Collegium Carolinum and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU Munich where she received her doctorate in 2019. Her research interests include East Central European and American environmental history as well as urban history. She is currently one of the editors of the journal WerkstattGeschichte. Her first book, Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands, was published in 2021. 01 eng 00 367 03 12 HBG 10 HIS037000 23 islands 23 environmental history 12 HBTB 10 HIS054000 12 HBTM 10 HIS057000 01 06 03 00 The study of islands is booming. Small wonder: islands have played a key role in the history of continents, have been crucial locales of state-making, have served dictatorships as sites of prison systems and have acted as frontiers and stepping stones of empires. However, the role that island environments have played in creating and shaping these histories has so far received little attention. To understand why an island became a penal colony, an atomic test site or a tourist destination we need to take a close look at its environmental peculiarities: its physical shape, its geology, its climate, its flora and fauna, and its position vis-à-vis other places. And to more deeply comprehend an island’s place in history we must consider the changing ways in which it was perceived, used, valued or dismissed, protected or mistreated over time.<break/>Through fourteen stories of islands and archipelagos from around the globe Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands showcases islands as dynamic entities that both shape history and are shaped by it. Covering time periods from antiquity to the present day, Entire of Itself? attempts a group portrait of this exceptional category of places in the context of environmental history. Exploring the intertwined temporal, material and identity layers of island environments, and their transformations in response to human endeavours of conservation, exploitation and experimentation, the contributions in this volume challenge the traditional center-periphery perspective, and instead take an island-centred approach, delving into both the islands’ own stories and their role in larger historical developments. The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20240315 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186839 06 15 9781912186846 06 15 9781912186822 06 15 9781917813242 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:03ecb260-44bb-4fb2-8d31-001d7da919eb 03 15 9781912186334 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Environmental and Social Justice in the City Historical Perspectives 1 A01 Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud is Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, where she holds a chair in Environmental History. Her last book, Histoire de la pollution industrielle, France 1789-1914, was published in 2010 (Paris: EHESS). She is currently completing, with Stephen Mosley, a book entitled Common Ground: Integrating the Social and Environmental in History (forthcoming, Newcastle: CSP). Since 2007 she has been the president of the European Society for Environmental History. In France, she initiated the RUCHE (Scholarly Network of Researchers in Environmental History). At the beginning of 2010 she was appointed by the Humanities and Social Sciences Institute and the Ecology and Environment Institute of the CNRS to lead their common interdisciplinary research network in Environmental History. 2 B01 Richard Rodger Richard Rodger is Professor of Economic and Social History at Edinburgh University. He has published widely on the economic, business and urban history of Britain since 1800, was editor of Urban History from 1987-2007, and joint editor for a series of forty books under the title of ‘Historical Urban Studies’, published by Ashgate. His book The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century was awarded the Frank Watson Prize for works on Scottish history. Ongoing research includes a project on the development of public and environmental health in Victorian Scotland. In recognition of his contributions to the study of economic and social history, Rodger was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2004. 01 eng 00 302 03 23 environmental injustice 10 HIS010000 12 TQ 12 HBTB 10 HIS049000 23 history 23 cities 12 HBG 10 SOC041000 23 Europe 23 discrimination 01 06 03 00 The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities, yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on; nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities. In this innovative collection of historical essays the contributors consider a range of past environmental injustices, spanning seven northern and western European countries and with several chapters adding a North American perspective. In addition to an introductory chapter that surveys approaches to this area of environmental history, individual chapters address inequalities in the city as regards water supply, air pollution, waste disposal, factory conditions, industrial effluents, fuel poverty and the administrative and legal arrangements that discriminated against segments of society. The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20110131 02 WORLD 06 15 9781874267614 06 15 9781912186334 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:0838519e-4963-49c3-8902-ee814c501c75 03 15 9781917813099 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Grasping Soil A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities 1 B01 Emily Brownell Emily Brownell is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental History at the University of Edinburgh. Her current project, Stories from the Substrate, considers twentieth-century East African history through a variety of interventions with, and extractions from, the soil. 2 A01 Cynthia Browne Cynthia Browne is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, where she currently leads the working group ‘Troubling Exposure’. The group, as well as Browne’s research, examines exposure as a documentary practice that has been foundational to certain forms of environmental knowledge, as well as integral to counter-documentary practices that work to disclose how trajectories of environmental exposure intersect with legacies and infrastructures of colonialism and racial privilege. 3 A01 Amiel Bize Amiel Bize is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University whose research focuses on social and economic transformations at capitalist margins. Her current book project, The Post-Agrarian Question, considers how people make value, in material and meaningful ways, in rural East Africa. She has also published on practices of ‘gleaning’ (claiming the right to leftovers) and is beginning new research on green finance. 4 A01 Seth Denizen Seth Denizen is a researcher and design practitioner trained in landscape architecture, evolutionary biology, and human geography. His published work is multidisciplinary, addressing art and design, soil science, urban geography and agriculture. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts and his book with Montserrat Bonvehi-Rosich, Thinking through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley came out with Harvard Design Press in the spring of 2025. 5 A01 Dotan Halevy Dotan Halevy is an environmental historian of the modern Middle East and a senior lecturer at the department of Middle Eastern and African history at Tel Aviv University. His current research project, Settling Sands: Commodification, Displacement, and the Modern Coastline 1900–1970, explores how the Eastern Mediterranean coastal plain, sparsely populated for centuries, emerged in the modern period as an aggressive frontier of economic and political expansion. 6 A01 Basil Ibrahim Basil Ibrahim is an independent researcher and writer based in Ithaca, New York. His research explores the political life of voluntary associations, in particular the mobilisa- tion and sustenance of collectives as a mechanism for social and economic insurance. He works historically and ethnographically and has collaborated with Amiel Bize on several projects on urban and rural life in East Africa. 7 A01 Brian Jones Brian Jones is a historian and web developer who has worked on a broad array of digi- tal projects including The Public Domain Review, The Appendix, and history of local music in Austin, Texas. You can find out more about his work at https://brianjon.es/. 8 A01 Paul Kurek Paul Kurek is a Postdoc in the Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor of Ger- man at the University of Michigan. His current book project, Heavy Load-Bearing Modernity: A Cultural Geology of Albert Speer’s Berlin/Germania, unpacks the intellectual and material history of the so-called heavy load-bearing cylinder, arguably history’s heaviest memorial. 9 A01 Johannes Lehmann Johannes Lehmann is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry at Cornell University. His research focuses on nano-scale investigations of soil organic matter, the biogeochemistry of pyrogenic carbon, sustainable soil management, climate change, biochar systems and the circular economy. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), and serves as Associate Editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 10 A01 Tamar Novick Tamar Novick is Assistant Professor of the History of Technology at the Technical University of Munich. Her research lies at the intersection of the history of technology, environmental history and Middle East studies. She is the author of Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land (MIT Press, 2023), and her current research focuses on meanings and uses of bodily waste. 11 A01 Jayson Maurice Porter Jayson Maurice Porter is an assistant professor of history at the University of Mary- land, College Park where he teaches environmental histories of Mexico, the African Diaspora, oilseed crops, and agrochemicals. He serves as a Black and Indigenous Cli- mate Faculty Fellow at UMD’s Indigenous Futures Lab, a board member of Rutgers University’s Black Ecologies Lab, and a co-designer of the Chicago Teachers Union’s Environmental Justice Freedom School. 12 A01 Steven Stoll Steven Stoll is Professor of History at Fordham University. He is the author of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia (2017). He is writing A Word For Land: How We Relate in the Spaces We Create, to be published by Yale University Press. 13 A01 Lulu Tessua Lulu Tessua is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the University of Nairobi. Her current research is on the afterlives of Ndungu Agricultural Project in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, with a major focus on pesticide use and its effects on health and environment. 14 A12 Natasha Russell Natasha Russell is an artist and illustrator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work is usually developed in collaboration with communities, researchers or organisations in order to visualise their ideas and to explore connections between people and their sur- rounding environments. Often, these projects are developed in response to a particular location or environment and take the form of murals, ink drawings and linocuts. You can see her work at https://www.natasharussell.com/ 01 eng 00 200 03 12 RNCB 10 SCI088000 10 NAT045000 12 RNF 10 NAT038000 01 06 03 00 Soil is a nearly ubiquitous presence in our lives, regardless of whether we spend much time noticing it. Soil holds worlds within itself and also builds other worlds; it devours and remakes things; it sustains life and gives cover to the dead. Grasping Soil is a collectively-authored syllabus and series of essays, all examining, with different inflections, the fundamental question: what comes into view when we ‘grasp’ soil as a vessel of human history and point of view for inquiry?Part I is an interdisciplinary syllabus that traces the contours of a growing body of work in the humanities that uses soil as a bridge between human and more-than-human histories. The syllabus offers a template of readings, discussion questions and assignments with an accompanying website for easy access to the supporting materials. The essays that follow in Part 2 explore particular moments and locations in which communities have modified, depleted or remade soil to suit a particular need. In examining these engagements with soil, each essay provides a particular view on the social, political or economic conditions that they reflect and create. The essays range from mountain top mining in Appalachia to the construction of a load-bearing monolith in Nazi-era Berlin, and the layered, residual histories of agricultural projects in Tanzania. As these essays make clear, soil is a lively presence not an inert recipient of human desires and actions. It is a living and not always governable community with ever-changing stories to tell. 04 00 Introduction PART I: SYLLABUS Soil as Substrate Cynthia Browne, Johannes Lehmann Soil as Archive Amiel Bize, Seth Denizen, Jayson Maurice Porter Soil as Health Emily Brownell, Tamar Novick, Lulu Tessua Soil as Belonging Dotan Halevy, Basil Ibrahim, Paul Kurek, Steven Stoll Syllabus bibliography PART II: ESSAYS Soil’s Metabolisms Under the electron microscope, Lehmann Lab, Cornell University, New York: Behaviour instead of Identity: Functional Complexity of Organic Matter as an Organising Principle in Soil Ecosystems Johannes Lehmann British Mandate Palestine: “The Fertility of the Soil is in Your Hand”: On Manure and the Colonial Roots and Branches of the Organic Movement Tamar Novick Kwale District, Kenya: Building Roads, Counting Worms: Soil as a Medium for Parasitic Relations Emily Brownell Residual Histories The Ring of Fire, Americas: Arsenic Cycles through Racism and Empire Jayson Maurice Porter Appalachia, USA: Mountains Become Wasteland Steven Stoll Ndungu, Tanzania: Knowing Soil as a Living Thing, Treating it as a Non-Living Body: Contradictory forms of Care Lulu Tessua Lusatia, Germany: Punkt Null (Point Zero): An Ecological Substrate Begins Anew Cynthia Browne Substrates and Belonging Berlin, the Cosmos: Blood over Soil? Albert Speer’s Heavy Load-Bearing Cylinder, Glacial Till, and Racial Terra Forming Paul Kurek The Gaza Strip, Palestine: Cultivating an Ancient Soil: Sub-dune Histories and Ecologies Dotan Halevy The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20260301 02 WORLD 06 15 9781917813020 06 15 9781917813037 06 15 9781917813099 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:7b590835-ce80-4b96-901f-4eddce9e36ca 03 15 9781912186778 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Green Development or Greenwashing? Environmental Histories of Finland 1 A01 Viktor Pál Viktor Pál is a Hungarian environmental historian, an associate professor at the University of Tampere and the University of Ostrava, and a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Technology and the Environment in State-socialist Hungary: An Economic History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and with Stephen Brain has co-edited the collection of essays, Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes. Myth, Propaganda, Reality (Routledge, 2019). 2 B01 Tuomas Räsänen Tuomas Räsänen works as an associate professor of environmental history at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include the history of human-wild animal relationship, the history of Finnish environmentalism and the Baltic Sea marine environmental history. 3 B01 Mikko Saikku Mikko Saikku is the McDonnell Douglas Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki. He is the author or editor of several internationally noted academic articles, collections and books, including This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, 2005) and An Unfamiliar America: Essays in American Studies (Routledge, 2021). He serves as Director of the Helsinki Environmental Humanities Hub. 01 eng 00 239 03 23 Greenwashing 12 HBJD 10 HIS044000 23 Finland 10 NAT011000 12 RNF 23 Conservation 23 Scandinavia 01 06 03 00 Finland has often been labelled a ‘green superpower’, lauded as one of the world’s cleanest and greenest countries. Nordic countries in general have tended to be idealised as ‘pristine and green’, in contrast to the rest of the rapidly contaminating world where the race for markets and profits has enormously accelerated consumption, imposing on the environment an alarming level of extraction and commerce, and a wide array of new and old forms of pollution. <break/>Environmental historians, however, can perceive that the reputed ‘greenness’ of the Nordic countries is partly an illusion. Authors in this volume argue that Finland, similarly to Denmark, Norway and Sweden, has evolved into a green superpower at the cost of considerable environmental problems. Ironically, Finland’s current leading position in sustainable development has been built on the heavy use of natural resources and by sacrificing ecosystem health. <break/>This volume thus seeks to acquaint the reader with many stories of long-lasting negative environmental impacts in and around Finland: old-growth forests have been replaced by intensive forest farming for lumber and pulp industries; most wetlands have been drained for agriculture, forest cultivation and peat extraction; wild animal populations have been decimated; and Finland today is confined to the south and west by arguably the most polluted sea in the world.<break/>There are lessons for the future to be learnt from Finland’s tendency to rest on the laurels of a positive environmental reputation built at least in part on myth. In the twenty-first century, the world badly needs less greenwashing and a truer commitment to green-ness. 04 00 Contributor Biographies Chapter 1. Introduction to the Environmental Histories of Finland Viktor Pál, Tuomas Räsänen, Mikko Saikku Section 1. Ideas and the Human Construction of the Environment Chapter 2. Knowledge on Trees and Forests – Finnish Forest Research from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century Jaana Laine Chapter 3. ‘Reaching Maturity’ or ‘Selling Out’? The Idea of Green Growth in Finnish Green Party Environmental Discourses 1988–1995 Risto-Matti Matero Chapter 4. The Changing Status of Birch Trees in the Finnish Forests. From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century Seija A. Niemi Chapter 5. Trash Food? Fish as Food in Finnish Society between the 1870s and the 1990s Matti Hannikainen Section 2. Contested and Colonised Spaces Chapter 6. Cultural Nature in Mid-Lappish Reindeer Herding Communities Maria Lähteenmäki, Oona Ilmolahti, Outi Manninen and Sari Stark Chapter 7. Sami Frames in the Planning and Management of Nature Protection Areas in Historical Perspective – Environmental Non-conflict in Inari Jukka Nyyssönen Chapter 8. Wolves and the Finnish Wilderness: Changing Forests and the Proper Place for Wolves in Twentieth Century Finland Heta Lähdesmäki Chapter 9. All Quiet on the Eastern Front? The Finnish Army and Wildlife during WWII Mauri Soikkanen and Simo Laakkonen Section 3. Altering the Environment Chapter 10. From Stale Air to Toxic: Concerns About Urban Air in Finland Janne Mäkiranta Chapter 11. From Eradication Campaigns to Care Protection: Finnish Endangered Animals in the Twentieth Century Tuomas Räsänen The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20231001 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186761 06 15 9781912186778 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:1f505df7-5d2d-4e6c-be45-c167f02576f6 03 15 9781912186877 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Heritage at War Plan and Prepare 1 A01 Mark Dunkley Mark Dunkley is a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and an Associate of the Security Institute. A Field Officer in the British Army Reserve, he has published widely on the relationship between culture and warfare and is co-editor of Cultural Heritage in Modern Conflict (2023). 2 B01 Lisa Mol Lisa Mol is an expert in heritage stone deterioration, in particular that associated with active combat, at the University of the West of England. She leads funded projects, including ‘Heritage in the Crossfire’ and ‘Partnership for Heritage’, and supports initiatives and colleagues in conflict zones in the documentation and remediation of damage to built heritage. 3 B01 Anna Tulliach Anna Tulliach is a Research Fellow in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She has published extensively on the safekeeping of museum collections during conflict, art looting and vandalism in World War II, and the museological practices adopted between the two World Wars (1921–44). 01 eng 00 238 03 10 ART059000 23 Heritage 10 POL034000 23 War 23 Conflict 10 HIS027000 10 POL012000 01 06 03 00 The right of access to, and enjoyment of, cultural heritage is enshrined in human rights norms and the devastating effects of armed conflict on cultural heritage are well documented, with the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage having been an integral part of warfare throughout history. Culture now, once again, finds itself on war’s frontline.<break/>Marking the 70th anniversary of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, and in the current context of devastating conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan, among others, Heritage at War – Plan and Prepare brings together military, academic,and heritage practitioners’ voices from across the Euro-Atlantic, North Africa and the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific to explore how lessons learned from past experiences of conflict can inform approaches to the safeguarding of cultural heritage today. Emerging from and building upon an international conference held at the V&A Museum in February 2023, the book addresses how the military, the heritage sector and other stakeholders in Human Security can, and must, collaborate to give primacy to people and protect tangible and intangible cultural heritage under attack. <break/>The volume’s case studies highlight interdisciplinary efforts to protect heritage in conflict zones, drawing out guidance for those working in the Heritage Sector in these contexts, with specific relevance to those engaged in cultural heritage protection and those working in related interdisciplinary fields. Reviewing the historic relationship between heritage and armed conflict, and offering lessons for present-day practitioners, Heritage at War shows how, in different contexts, heritage can be a catalyst and target of conflict, an obstacle to stabilisation, and yet also a potential vector of peace-building and the return to normality. 04 00 Foreword Tristram Hunt, Director – Victoria and Albert Museum Introduction: Heritage at War – Plan and Prepare Mark Dunkley, Anna Tulliach and Lisa Mol Part I: Learning from the Past 1. Rome and the Second Temple: Early Imperial Roman Attitudes Toward Cultural Heritage During Armed Conflict Kevin Malmquist 2. Lessons from the Past: Land Warfare and Cultural Heritage in World War II Italy: The Role of the MFAA Carlotta Coccoli 3. Cultural Property Protection Issues Past and Present: Current UK Approach and Delivery Roger Curtis and Mark Dunkley 4. Challenges and Practices for Protecting Cultural Property in Armed Conflict: A Case Study of Korea Chang-hun Yang 5. From Scientific iIvestigation to Evidence: Investigating Armed Conflict Damage to Immovable Heritage Lisa Mol Part II: Preparing for the Present 6. The Hague Convention and Beyond: Cultural Property Protection in the Netherlands Ankie Petersen 7. Peace-time Preparations for a Museum Near the Occupation Line: NGO-led Efforts Manana Tevzadze 8. On the Art Frontline: The Experience of French Conservation Officers in Protecting Cultural Property on Operations Tim Le Berre 9. The Role of NGOs in Rescuing and Promoting Recovery for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Bearers in Times of Crisis and War Amira Sadik Aly 10. Culture in Crisis – Supporting the World’s Cultural Heritage and Communities that Suffer Cultural Loss through Conflict Vernon Rapley The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20241015 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186860 06 15 9781912186877 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:2786894e-899d-4572-a820-3ed787f4f3de 03 15 9781912186723 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Mount Sacred A Brief Global History of Holy Mountains Since 1500 1 A01 Jon Mathieu Jon Mathieu is professor of history at the University of Lucerne and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He was the founding director of the Instituto di Storia delle Alpi at the Università della Svizzera italiana and has organized several international conferences about the history of mountains. In 2008 he received the King Albert I Mountain Award for his research. 01 eng 02 ger 00 157 03 12 HR 23 mountains 10 REL000000 23 religion 12 RN 10 SCI026000 23 environmental history 12 HBG 10 HIS037000 23 geography 23 cultural history 01 06 03 00 Mount Kailash in Asia, the Black Hills in North America, Uluru in Australia: around the globe there are numerous mountains that have been and continue to be attributed sacredness. Worship of these mountains involves prayer, meditation and pilgrimage. Christianity, which for a long time showed little interest in nature, provides a foil to these practices and was one factor in the tensions that arose in the age of colonialism. Decolonisation and the 'ecological turn' changed the religious power of interpretation and gave discourses about sacred mountains new meaning. Globally, however, they remain an outstanding example of cultural diversity, also touching on issues of gender justice and environmental protection. A translation from the original German. The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20230515 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186716 06 15 9781912186723 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:d6df9aac-1808-4206-81fe-720835586c83 03 15 9781912186976 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Moving Deserts Interrogating Development and Resilience in the Pastoral Drylands of Northern Kenya 1 A01 Greta Semplici Greta Semplici is a postdoctoral fellow at the Social Science department at the University of Campobasso, Molise, Italy. Previously she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the department of Culture, Politics and Society at the University of Turin, and a Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute. Greta was affiliated to the Pastoralism Uncertainty and Resilience (PASTRES) programme as post-doctoral researcher. She earned a Ph.D. from the Oxford Department of International Development with a critical study of pastoralism and development in the arid lands of northern Kenya. In her research, with the support of visuals like photographs and creative writing, she aims to bring a people, a place and a culture to life in the eyes and hearts of those who have not been there. 01 eng 00 316 03 10 SOC026000 10 SOC008010 10 SOC042000 01 06 03 00 Moving Deserts re-examines the concept of resilience, as applied in the development sector. It gives central stage to the voices, experiences, memories and everyday lives of the people whose resilience is the subject of much international attention and financial aid flows. Building a bridge between the perspectives of practitioners and local communities, Moving Deserts reveals a story about life, struggle and hope among Turkana herders, a story woven by following the movements and relations of the author's hosts and interlocutors during fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork. The volume argues that it is in their very mobility that the meaning of resilience resides: mobility as physical movements to reach ephemeral and unevenly spread resources; mobility as social connections to weave a social fabric that also works as safety net; mobility as fluid identities, never static but plastic, capable of taking on new shapes and adapting to changes. The drylands and their inhabitants, largely pastoral populations, are the spine of the book. Drylands often fall in the imaginary of the remote, the deserted, the unproductive, a powerful imaginary rooted in romantic narratives, as well as in political and economic interests. At a time of rising alarm about climate change, mass migrations and energy requirements, drylands are returning to the international stage with a focus on building resilience. This book asks what we can learn about ‘pastoral development’, currently discussed in the international development regime under the label of resilience, by switching perspective and following pastoralists’ lived experiences? 04 00 Introduction Chapter 1 – The Resilience Agenda Chapter 2 – The nomadism of space. An experiential journey through the variability of drylands Chapter 3 – The nomadism of settlements: aid like rain Chapter 4 – Practices of mobility Chapter 5 – On food and no-food: the mobility of identities Afterword – Mobility, Change, Resilience The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20251015 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186969 06 15 9781912186976 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:4cc9e4e8-9bcd-4b55-9acf-2a42b65b1816 03 15 9781912186945 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods 1 A01 Andrea Petitt Andrea Petitt is currently working as a researcher at Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle (LASC) at Université de Liège, Belgium, and is affiliated with the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. Andrea has worked on long-term multispecies ethnography research projects based on fieldwork in Botswana, Sweden and Colorado, with shorter stints in Nepal, Canada, Ethiopia and Tanzania. Increasingly, Andrea has worked with, and developed, artistic and ‘artful’ research methods for data collection, analysis and dissemination and has given a number of workshops on the subject for Ph.D. students and Faculty across Sweden and internationally. In 2022 Andrea instigated and co-founded together with Véronique Servais, Anke Tonnaer and Catrien Notermans the international MEAM network for Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methods. She led and co-organised with the same team an online MEAM workshop in 2022 as well as the hybrid inaugural MEAM conference in July Liège 2023. 2 B01 Anke Tonnaer Anke Tonnaer is an anthropologist and assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Her research interests developed from long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Indigenous Australia, studying the intersection of nature and culture in tourism, to rewilding initiatives and the challenges of multispecies cohabitation and conservation practices in north-west Europe, especially the Netherlands. Her desire to narrate the more-than-human world in alternative ways alongside the rational dominant ways in ecology has brought her to exploring art-based methodology and sensory ethnography. In 2023, Anke worked with Catrien Notermans in an Arts-Science collaboration called TASC (The Art of Science) to design a post-anthropocentric future for the city of Nijmegen. 3 B01 Véronique Servais Véronique Servais is Professor in Anthropology of Communication at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Liège, Belgium. She is interested in the profound bio-social relationships that exists between human beings and animals (and other living beings). She conducted research in the field of ‘animal assisted therapies’ and ‘enchanted encounters’ between human beings and animals. She also studied visitor-primates interactions at a zoological park and dolphin-trainers’ affective communication at a Seaquarium. More recently, she has been doing research on the experience of encountering the forest, using microphenomenological interviews. She is co-founder, with Andrea Petitt, Anke Tonnaer and Catrien Notermans, of the MEAM network and co-organiser of the 2022 and 2023 MEAM conferences. 4 B01 Catrien Notermans Catrien Notermans is an anthropologist and associate professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Her research line is on social relatedness with and beyond the human and focuses on the intersection of kinship, gender and religion in India, West Africa and Europe. Her most recent projects are on interspecies communication in women’s economic and religious activities in Rajasthan (India); and on storying human-river relatedness in the Netherlands. Her projects are based on visual, sensory and arts-based ethnography which are the methodologies she also teaches at the Anthropology Department. In 2022, Notermans co-founded together with Andrea Petitt, Véronique Servais, and Anke Tonnaer the international MEAM network for Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methods. In 2023, Notermans worked together with Anke Tonnaer in an Arts-Science collaboration called TASC (The Art of Science) to design a post-anthropocentric future for the city of Nijmegen. 5 B01 Natasha Fijn Natasha Fijn is Director of the Australian National University’s Mongolia Institute. She has been awarded a mid-career ARC Future Fellowship to conduct research on ‘A Multi-species Anthropological Approach to Influenza’ (2022–2026). Natasha wrote a seminal multispecies ethnography based in Mongolia, Living with Herds: Human-animal Coexistence in Mongolia (2011). She has co-edited five books and several journal volumes, including three special issues oriented toward visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking, and three engaging with multispecies and sensory anthropology in the journals Inner Asia (2020), The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2020) and Anthropology Today (2023). She recently (2023) published a co-edited book with Routledge, Nurturing Alternative Futures: Living with Diversity in a More-than-human World. 01 eng 00 207 03 10 SOC002010 10 ART078000 10 NAT001000 01 06 03 00 Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods explores the potential of multimodal art practices in doing qualitative research beyond the human. Through artful endeavours such as creative writing, photography, filmmaking, drawing and poetry, the volume aims to overcome the shortcomings of conventional, anthropocentric and logocentric methods in multispecies research. To move beyond the limitations of language and linguistic communication, the contributors build on the long tradition of visual and sensory anthropology while also engaging in and consciously reflecting on innovative, creative and artistic methods. Taking a multispecies and more-than-human perspective – ranging from snow and trees to animals and an AI oracle – the volume investigates ways to touch, speak, listen, feel, walk with and reach across different species.This book and accompanying multimedia website advance the frontier of publishing artful expressions of academic research by highlighting how creative practices can be the very core of data collection, analysis and the communication of research. As such, the artful pieces are not ‘just’ illustrations of textual representations, but are practised as part of an iterative process of data collection and analysis. The contributions by well-established scholars, early career researchers and postgraduates who carry out new, cutting-edge research offer an engaging range of analytical, methodological and empiric orientations, while conversing at the intersection of multispecies ethnography and artful methods. 04 00 INTRODUCTION Andrea Petitt, Anke Tonnaer, Véronique Servais, Catrien Notermans and Natasha Fijn 1. WRITING A SONG FOR AIIA. SPECULATIVE FICTION IN AN ART-SCIENCE COLLABORATION Text: Catrien Notermans and Anke Tonnaer Visuals: Marcel van Brakel [essay, poetry and AI visuals] 2. EARTH SWIMMERS / ON CAPTURE: A PRACTICE-BASED ETHNOGRAPHY OF MOLE CATCHING AND FILM MAKING IN NORTH YORKSHIRE. Hermione Spriggs in collaboration with mole catcher Nigel Stock [essay and film] 3. THE SOUNDS OF SNOW: AN EXPLORATION OF HUMAN-SNOW RELATIONS IN ILULISSAT, KALAALLIT NUNAAT Nanna Sandager Kisby [essay, photos and sound] 4. THE ENDURING PRESENCE OF THE EUCALYPTUS TREE: A PHOTO ESSAY Natasha Fijn [photo essay] 5. ARTISTIC CO-DISCOVERY IN MULTISPECIES COLLABORATION Bartram+Deigaard [essay and image composites] 6. ATTENDING TO FIREBUGS: ARTISTIC INVESTIGATIONS FOR RESPECTFUL CORRESPONDENCES Charlotte Dorn [photo essay] 7. FARMING COWS AND WORMS Simone de Boer and Hanna Charlotta Wernersson [essay and multimedia montage] 8. TO TOUCH LIGHTLY IN PASSING Merlijn Huntjens, Nina Willems and Leonie Cornips [essay, photos, sketches and poetry] 9. FREAKS OF NATURE: USING DEEP REFLEXIVITY TO UNDERSTAND TRANSGENICS Lisa Jean Moore [essay and photos] 10. ETHNOGRAPHY OF WORKING COWHORSES: RHYMING SENSORY METHODS Andrea Petitt [essay and poetry] AFTERWORD Karin Bolender The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20250701 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186938 06 15 9781912186945 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01 urn:uuid:312a7996-c412-4a03-bb41-f2c89ed44836 03 15 9781912186990 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Nordic Climate Histories Impacts, Pathways, Narratives 1 A01 Dominik Collet Dominik Collet is Professor of Climate and Environmental History at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the PI of ClimateCultures – Socionatural entanglement in Little Ice Age Norway (1500–1800) as well as the thematic research group Nordic Climate History. He also leads the project The Nordic Little Ice Age (1300–1900) Lessons from Past Climate Change (NORLIA) at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. His research focuses on the historical entanglements of climate and culture both in their material and mental configurations. 2 B01 Ingar Mørkestøl Gundersen Ingar Mørkestøl Gundersen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History at the University of Oslo. He has published on a range of topics on climate history and the Scandinavian Iron Age. Gundersen received his Ph.D. in 2022 with the thesis ‘Iron Age Vulnerability’, which investigated the archaeological evidence for a sixth-century climate crisis in eastern Norway. His doctoral research was part of the VIKINGS project (Volcanic Eruptions and their Impacts on Climate, Environment, and Viking Society in 500–1250 ce). Together with Dr Manon Bajard, he received the Inter Circle U. prize 2022 for outstanding examples of cross-disciplinary research. He is currently part of two research projects on the Nordic Little Ice Age (ClimateCultures, University of Oslo and The Nordic Little Ice Age (1300–1900) Lessons from Past Climate Change (NORLIA) at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. 3 B01 Heli Huhtamaa Heli Huhtamaa is a climate and environmental historian. Her research interests include human consequences of the Little Ice Age and pre-industrial Nordic history. She focuses on interdisciplinary approaches concerning both historical and climate sciences. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland, where she leads a research project on volcanic impacts on climate, environment and society. 4 B01 Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist is Professor of History, in particular Historical Geography, at Stockholm University, Sweden. He also holds the title of Associate Professor of Physical Geography at the same university. Ljungqvist was in 2022 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities awarded the Rettig Prize for “interdisciplinary works concerning climate and diseases in a long-term perspective”. He was a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study from 2019 to 2024 and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, Lanzhou University, University of Bern, and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). 5 B01 Astrid Ogilvie Astrid Ogilvie is a Research Professor at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado and a Senior Associate Scientist at the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland. Her research focuses on the broader issues of climatic change and contemporary Arctic issues, as well as the environmental humanities. Her interdisciplinary, international projects have included leadership of the NordForsk Nordic Centre of Excellence project: Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Resilient, Sustainable Societies (ARCPATH); and The Natural World in Literary and Historical Sources from Iceland ca. AD 800 to 1800 (ICECHANGE). She is currently a Fellow of the project The Nordic Little Ice Age (1300–1900) Lessons from Past Climate Change (NORLIA) at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. She is the author of some 100 scientific papers and has three edited books to her credit. 6 B01 Sam White Sam White is Professor of Political History at the University of Helsinki, author of A Cold Welcome (Harvard University Press, 2017) and editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Climate History (Palgrave, 2018). 01 eng 00 360 03 10 HIS035000 10 SCI092000 10 SCI042000 01 06 03 00 Down the centuries, the people of the Nordic countries have confronted challenges from climatic variability and change and sought ways to survive and adapt. In a time of accelerating global warming, these climate histories take on new contemporary significance. Drawing on tools from the natural and historical sciences, the innovative scholarship in this volume addresses questions such as: How did Nordic societies cope with past climatic hazards? What was the historical significance of the ‘Little Ice Age’ or the ‘Medieval Climate Anomaly’ for Nordic countries? And how do we study, narrate and learn from these past experiences?<break/> <break/>This volume is the first to collect climate histories from across all the Nordic countries. It combines research from climatologists, historians, archaeologists and museologists to explore how climate and culture interacted in the past and what we might learn from these interactions today.<break/> <break/>The chapters range from in-depth case studies to reflexive meta-histories; cover periods from the Bronze Age to the present; and draw on sources from tree rings to material culture to poetry. They also discuss how these histories can be communicated today, including how museums and literature can bring them into conversation with a current audience looking for lived experiences of climate adaptation.<break/> <break/>The volume was conceived during an international conference at the University of Oslo in May 2024. This interdisciplinary forum connected leading scholars in the field with practitioners and stakeholders. The essays presented here engage a rapidly growing field of intense public and political concern in the Nordics and beyond.<break/> <break/>The book speaks to various academic communities (climatology, history, literature) and stakeholders (museum practitioners, climate communicators and advocates). It includes the growing research and student community invested in this topic across several disciplines, practitioners and communicators in the field and the wider public interested in the vibrant debates about climate adaptation and experience. 04 00 Introduction: Integrating, Connecting and Narrating Nordic Climate Histories Dominik Collet, Ingar Mørkestøl Gundersen, Heli Huhtamaa, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Astrid E.J. Ogilvie and Sam White Chapter 1. The Development of Meteorological Institutions and Early Instrumental Climate Data in the Nordic Countries Elin Lundstad, Stefan Norrgård and A.E.J. Ogilvie ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL CLIMATE Chapter 2. Cold or Culture? Effects of Mid-Holocene Temperatures on Forager and Early Farmer Demographics in Southern Norway Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen Chapter 3. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Two Central Norwegian Settlements Facing the Climatic Downturn after ad536–540 Ingrid Ystgaard and Raymond Sauvage Chapter 4. Volcanic Vulnerability in Medieval Iceland Carina Damm Chapter 5. The Moving Manors and Adaptation in Sixteenth Century Denmark Sarah Kerr Chapter 6. Architectural Climate Change Adaptions in Little Ice Age Norway c. 1300–1550 Kristian Reinfjord LITTLE ICE AGE CLIMATE Chapter 7. The Impact of Wildfire and Climate on the Resilience and Vulnerability of Peasant Communities in Seventeenth-Century Finland Jakob Starlander Chapter 8. Northern Iceland Temperature Variations and Sea-Ice Incidence c. ad 1600–1850 A.E.J. Ogilvie and M.W. Miles Chapter 9. Integrating Agricultural Vulnerability and Climate Extremes. Eighteenth-century Norway through the Works of Jacob Nicolaj Wilse (1735–1801) Ingar Mørkestøl Gundersen Chapter 10. An Ice Breakup as in the Good Old Days’. Ice Jams in the Aura River, Turku, Southwest Finland, 1739–2024 Stefan Norrgård NARRATING CLIMATE HISTORIES Chapter 11. Climate Narratives in Norwegian Public Histories Eivind Heldaas Seland Chapter 12. Glacier Poetry in Norwegian Literary Historiography Kristine Kleveland Chapter 13. Through a Mirror, Darkly: Bringing Deep Environmental History into the Museum Felix Riede Chapter 14. Back to the Future: Weaving Climate History into Nordic National Museum Narratives Natália Melo, Bergsveinn Þórsson, Felix Riede and Stefan Norrgård The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 04 01 20250815 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912186983 06 15 9781912186990 WORLD 09 The White Horse Press 20 01