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urn:uuid:0838519e-4963-49c3-8902-ee814c501c75 03 01 01 urn:uuid:0838519e-4963-49c3-8902-ee814c501c75 15 9781917813037 06 10.63308/63897247289532.book 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Grasping Soil A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities 1 B01 21 0000-0001-8539-8270 Emily Brownell 2 A01 Cynthia Browne 3 A01 Amiel Bize 4 A01 21 0000-0003-4587-8629 Seth Denizen 5 A01 Dotan Halevy 6 A01 Basil Ibrahim 7 A01 Brian Jones 8 A01 Paul Kurek 9 A01 Johannes Lehmann 10 A01 Tamar Novick 11 A01 Jayson Porter 12 A01 Steven Stoll 13 A01 Lulu Tessua 14 Z01 Natasha Russell 01 eng 00 200 03 20 Biodiversity 12 RNCB 93 RNCB 10 SCI088000 20 Ecosystems 10 NAT045000 93 RNF 12 RNF 20 Environmental management 10 NAT038000 01 06 03 00 <p>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?</p><p>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.</p> 01 00 03 02 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63897247289532.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press 16 UK Research and Innovation Winwick, Cambs. 04 19 2026 06 15 9781917813020 06 15 9781917813037 06 15 9781917813099 09 The White Horse Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63897247289532.book.pdf 99 04 09 The White Horse Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/11/05/graspingsoil/ 99 04