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urn:uuid:2e6a50dc-768c-406c-8c66-9def12160601 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2e6a50dc-768c-406c-8c66-9def12160601 15 9781915249524 06 10.14296/cmpd3083 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode 01 01 More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean Decentring the Human in Environmental History 1 B01 21 0000-0002-2415-4675 Diogo de Carvalho Cabral 2 B01 21 0000-0002-6959-3196 André Vasques Vital 3 B01 21 0000-0003-3448-0260 Margarita Gascón First edition. 01 eng 00 308 03 10 HIS052000 B2 Languages, Cultures and Societies ⇒ Latin American and Caribbean Studies 93 NHK 12 RNA B2 Environmental Humanities 12 HBAH 10 NAT010000 93 RNA 12 1KLS 93 NHAH 10 SCI100000 93 1KL 10 5.0.0.0.0.0.0 01 06 03 00 The Latin American and Caribbean regions’ historical trajectories have been shaped by complex human-nonhuman interactions. In these histories people are important, even crucial, actors, but not the only ones. Offering a novel approach to the writing of Latin American history, this book brings nine thought-provoking chapters together with a historiographical introduction and critical afterword to centre nonhuman beings and things. The oscillating glare of the sun, the resourcefulness of insects, the tectonic instability of national territories, and the life-giving and intractable impassivity of rivers are some of the other-than-human agents driving history in the volume’s chapters. It problematises Latin American(ist) historiography’s tendency to frame ‘nature’ as a separate ontological domain that is only acted upon – conquered, manipulated, devastated – lacking the self-propelled dynamics capable of shaping the course of events. With broad regional and temporal coverage across Latin America and the Caribbean from the pre-colonial period to the present day, the book responds to environmental history’s call to write biophysical environments into the human past – a reconsideration of historical agency that, in this era of climate change, is needed now more than ever. 04 00 <ul> <li> Introduction: Latin America and the Caribbean’s more-than-human pasts Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, André Vasques Vital, and Margarita Gascón </li> <li> 1 Performative objects: Konduri iconography as a window into precolonial Amazonian ontologies Luisa Vidal de Oliveira and Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes </li> <li> 2 Under a weak sun at the Southern rim of South America (1540-1650) Margarita Gascón </li> <li> 3 Extreme weather in New Spain and Guatemala: the Great Drought (1768-1773) Luis Alberto Arrioja Díaz Viruell and María Dolores Ramírez Vega </li> <li> 4 Water labour: urban metabolism, energy, and rivers in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Bruno Capilé and Lise Fernanda Sedrez </li> <li> 5 ‘Forjadores de la nación’: rethinking the role of earthquakes in Chilean history Magdalena Gil </li> <li> 6 Human-insect relations in Northeast Brazil’s twentieth-century sugar industry José Marcelo Marques Ferreira Filho </li> <li> 7 “We are the air, the land, the pampas…”: campesino politics and the other-than-human in highland Bolivia 1970-1990 Olivia Arigho-Stiles </li> <li> 8 Tongues in trees and sermons in stones: Jason Allen-Paisant’s Ecopoetics in Thinking with Trees Hannah Regis </li> <li> 9 Animating the waters, hydrating History: control and contingency in Latin American animations André Vasques Vital </li> <li> Afterword: More complete stories and better explanations for a renewed worldview Claudia Leal </li> </ul> 20 00 Open Access University of London Press 01 University of London Press London, GB 04 01 20240725 2024 06 15 9781915249517 06 15 9781915249500 06 15 9781915249524 06 15 9781915249692 09 University of London Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://uolpress.co.uk/book/more-than-human-histories-of-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/ 99 01 09 University of London Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.uolpress.co.uk/10.14296/cmpd3083.pdf 99 01