1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities
The Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret, and manage nature in several different academic fields.
Employing historical, philosophical, linguistic, literary, and cultural lenses, this handbook explores how the digital environmental humanities (DEH), as an emerging field, recognises its convergence with the environmental humanities. As such, it is empirically, critically, and ethically engaged in exploring digitally mediated, visualised, and parsed framings of past, present, and future environments, landscapes, and cultures. Currently, humanities, geographical, cartographical, informatic, and computing disciplines are finding a common space in the DEH and are bringing the use of digital applications, coding, and software into league with literary and cultural studies and the visual, film, and performing arts. In doing so, the DEH facilitates transdisciplinary encounters between fields as diverse as human cognition, gaming, bioinformatics and linguistics, social media, literature and history, music, painting, philology, philosophy, and the earth and environmental sciences.
This handbook will be essential reading for those interested in the use of digital tools in the study of the environment from a wide range of disciplines and for those working in the environmental humanities more generally.
Introduction: Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities
Charles Travis, Deborah P. Dixon, Luke Bergmann, Robert Legg, and Arlene Crampsie
PART I Overviews
1 Cowboys, Cod, Climate, and Conflict: Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities
Charles Travis, Poul Holm, Francis Ludlow, Conor Kostick, Rhonda McGovern, and John Nicholls
2 The Armchair Traveller’s Guide to Digital Environmental Humanities
Finn Arne Jorgensen
3 Deep Weather
Ursula Biemann
4 Adding Spatial Context to the 17 April 1975 Evacuation of Phnom Penh: How Spatial Video Geonarratives Can Geographically Enrich Genocide Testimony
Andrew Curtis, James Tyner, Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar, Sokvisal Kimsroy, and Mr Kok-Chhay Ly
5 Normalised Alterity: Visualising Black Spatial Humanities
Darius Scott
6 New Machines in the Garden: The Digital Environmental Humanities
Charles Travis
PART II Voicing Indigeneity
7 From Localised Resistance to the Social Distance Powwow: Movements in the World of Indigenous Americans
J. Albert Nungaray
8 Countermapping Plants and Indigenous Lifeways in North America: A Case Study of Tending to Turtle Island
Chris Alen Sula, Mickey Dennis, Kelli Hayes, Claudia Berger, Jiyoung Lee, and Blair Talbot
9 The Double Data Movement towards the Ecological Pluriverse: The Case of the Native Land Information System
Aude K. Chesnais
10 Groundworks: Re-storying Northern California with Emplaced Indigenous Media
Ian Garrett, Desirae Harp, Ras K’Dee, L Frank, Tiśina Parker, Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Bernadette Smith, and Rulan Tangen
11 Datafication, Digitisation, and the Narration of Agriculture in Malawi: From Productivity Measures to Curated Folklore
Dumisani Z. Moyo and Deborah P. Dixon
12 Spatial Video Geonarratives: Digitising Indigenous Folklores in Urban Flooding Lived Experiences
Josephine Zimba
PART III Geopoetics and Performance
13 Exploring Sensible Virtual Immersive Spaces through Digital Georamas
Pablo Mansilla-Quinones, Juan Carlos Jeldes Pontio, and Andres Moreira-Muno
14 The Digital Poetics of Lost Waterscapes in Coimbatore, South India
Shanmugapriya T. Priya and Deborah Sutton
15 Relationality in the Online Literary Journal Spiral Orb
Eric Magrane and Wendy Burk
16 Chemo Creatures in a Digital Ocean!: The Making of a Speculative Ecosystem
Lucy Sabin
17 Innovative and Creative Geographies: The Shifting Boundaries of Inside, Outside, Real, and Imagined Spaces
William J. Mackwood and Gwenyth H. Dobie
18 The Sound of Environmental Crisis: Silence as/and (Eco)Horror in A Quiet Place
Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
PART IV Species, Systems, Sustainability
19 Genotype, Phenotype, Phototype: Digital Photography, Biological Variety, and Excessive Overpopulation of Types
Ana Peraica
20 (Inter)National Connections: Linking Nordic Animals to Biodiversity Observation Networks
Jesse Peterson, Dick Kasperowski, and Rene van der Wal
21 A Shark in Your Pocket, a Bird in Your Hand(Held): The Spectacular and Charismatic Visualisation of Nature in Conservation Apps
Lauren Drakopulos, Eric Nost, Roberta Hawkins, and Jennifer J. Silver
22 Images of Nature through Platforms: Practices and Relationships as a Research Field and an Epistemic Vantage Point of DEH
Paolo Giardullo
23 A Novel Method Suggestion for the Achievement of Environmental Citizenship Behaviour in the Digitising World
Selin Suar Oral, Hasan Volkan Oral, Serhat Yilmaz, Hasan Saygin, and Gizem Naz Gezgin Direksiz
PART V Digital Chronicles of Environment, Literature, Cartography, and Time
24 Online Transcription of Regional Icelandic Manuscripts Initiative
Steven Hartman, Vidar Hreinsson, Gudrun Ingolfsdottir, Astrid E.J. Ogilvie, and Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir
25 "Thick Mapping" for Environmental Justice: EJScreen, ArcGIS, and Contemporary Literature
Parker Krieg and Matt Hannah
26 One Map Closer to the End of the World (As We Know It): Thinking Digital Cartographic Humanities with the Anthropocene
Laura Lo Presti
27 The Deafening Roar of the Digital Environmental Humanities: Case Studies in New Scholarship
William Hansard and Kevin Moskowitz
28 The COVID-19 Testimonies Map: Representing Italian "Pandemic Space" Perceptions with Neogeography Technologies
Francesco De Pascale and Charles Travis
PART VI Algorithmic Landscaping
29 Digital Oil and the Planetary Oilfield
John Kendall
30 Between Digital and Territorial Turns: A Forking Path
Chiara Cavalieri and Elena Cogato Lanza
31 Landscapes in Motion: Cartographies of Connectivity and the Place of Physical Geography in the Environmental and Spatial Humanities
Ryan Horne and Ruth Mostern
32 (Re)Imagining the Ibis: Multispecies Future(s), Smart Urban Governance, and the Digital Environmental Humanities
Hira Sheikh, Marcus Foth, and Peta Mitchell
33 Elemental Computation: From Non-human Media to More-than-Digital Information Systems
Bronislaw Szerszynski and Nigel Clark
Biography
Charles Travis is Associate Professor of Geography and GIS in the Department of History at the University of Texas, Arlington, USA, and Associate Research Fellow at the Trinity Centre for the Environmental Humanities, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Deborah P. Dixon is Professor of Geography at the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Luke Bergmann is Associate Professor of Geography and Canada Research Chair in GIS, Geospatial Big Data and Digital Geohumanities with the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Robert Legg is Professor of Geography with the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences at Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan, USA.
Arlene Crampsie is Assistant Professor of Historical Geography at the School of Geography at University College Dublin, Ireland.
