The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Amber Abrams, Victoria Bates, and Rocío Gomez

PART I: CONCEPTS

Defining the Subject

01. WELLBEING

Wellbeing and boggy knowledge in more-than-human worlds

Joshua Cohen, Laura Harrington, Fiona MacDonald, and Jenny Sharman

02. NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A conceptual overview

Lorina Buhr

03. CONVERSATION: BODIES

Traversing and conversing across borders

Lydia Tuan, Joel Olea-Calixto, and Rocío Gomez

Framing Concepts

04. SPACE AND PLACE

Where culture, capital, and wellbeing collide

Emily McGiffin

05. EQUITY AND JUSTICE

Indigenous environmental knowledge

Meg Parsons and Leane Makey

06. DISABILITY

Why we need disability studies: A disability-based approach to environmental humanities

Wei Yu Wayne Tan

07. TIME AND TEMPORALITY

Relating through crisis and terminality

Yianna Liatsos

08. PROGRESS

Progress: False friend and real hope

Vanessa Heggie

PART II: METHODS

Material methods

09. ARCHIVES

Archival sources in health and environmental humanities research

Maria Teresa Marangoni

10. OBJECTS

Objects: A planet of things

Alice Would

11. REMAINS

Methods for studying remains

Sarah A. Kennedy, Deborah Neidich, and Jennifer Farquhar

Arts-based Methods

12. CREATIVE AND ARTS-BASED METHODS

Drama, collages, and games: Reimagining antimicrobial resistance through creative methods

Enrique Castro-Sánchez

13. NARRATOLOGY

Malvina Reynolds, environmental human stressors, and the medical narratology of music

Nathan Fleshner

14. PERFORMANCE

Embodying the apocalypse: Spectral strategies for creating performance at the end of the world

Anna Thompson and Taylor Knight

15. VISUAL CULTURE

Filmmaking in participatory research and knowledge translation at the intersections of health and the environment

Sarah Van Borek

Collaborative Methods

16. CONVERSATION

Co-production and collaboration: A dialogue on partnership between institutional and community researchers

Gillian F. Black, Chevon Smith, Bulelwa Somlota, and Amber Abrams

17. PARTICIPATORY METHODS AND COLLABORATION

Unsettling participatory ideals: Critical reflections on collaborative research in health and environmental studies

Shelda-Jane Smith, Rosie Knowles, and Bryony Ella

18. COLLABORATING BEYOND HUMANITIES

Of culture, parasites and ethnographers: The place of anthropology in global health research

Lisa Dikomitis, Brianne Wenning, and Helen Price

Embodied Methods

19. CONVERSATION: PHENOMENOLOGY

Phenomenology of health and environmental art activism

Havi Carel and Sari Carel

20. PROVOCATION: ETHNOGRAPHY

Reproducing worlds: Ethnographic approaches in environmental health research

Tessa Moll

21. CONVERSATION: DECOLONIAL AND FEMINIST RESEARCH

Unpacking exposure and accountability: A dialogue on decolonial and feminist research across the Americas

M. Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, Sofía Zaragocín, and Rocío Gomez

22. MOVING METHODS

Moving research: Walking and other mobile methods

Abbi Flint and Clare Hickman

PART III: CASE STUDIES

Elements

23. AIR

The environing air and health-environmental crisis

Tatiana Konrad

24. PROVOCATION: WATER

Water qualities: Thinking through intersections of health and environmental humanities

Marianna Dudley

25. EARTH

The long-term effects of extractive industries

Sarah A. Kennedy, Karen Durand Cáceres, Sarah J. Kelloway, and Sophie Baggett

26. FIRE

After the fire: Wonder, ecological grief and place-based interdisciplinary research in the Anthropocene

Vincent J. Miller, David Paul Bayles, and Frederick J. Swanson

Bodies

27. MICROBES

Intimate strangers and invisible enemies: Microbe-human-environment relationships

James Stark

28. INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Tuberculosis in the Philippines (1970-1990s): A historical analysis of environmental determinants and health policy challenges

Arnab Chakraborty

29. FUNGI

Fungal bodies: A short guide

Katja Garson

30. INSECTS

Histories of integrated pest management in the FAO and WHO

Erinn E. Campbell and Timothy Sim

31. SKIN

When the skin speaks in the tropics: Peering into environmental toxicity through touch, symptoms, and metaphors in HIV

Purbita Das

32. SENSES

Sonic siege: Noise pollution and the embodied existence

Ayşegül Yıldırm

33. TRUNKS

Rethinking Scoliosis through art, nature, and embodied experience

Catherine Baker and Nina J. Morris

34. ANIMALS

How do monkeys make toast? Animal health and history in the environmental humanities

Oliver Pritchard Moore

35. PROVOCATION: BODIES IN SPACE

Health, environment, and the making of astronauts

Jordan Bimm

Places

36. OCEANS

Oceanic Empatheatre: Sculpting empathy with and for ocean communities, towards a more inclusive and empathetic ocean governance

Dylan McGarry, Neil Coppen, and Mpume Mthombeni

37. WETLANDS

Reflections on the swirling currents of co-production

Will Freeman

38. PROVOCATION: SHORELINE

Fishing for wellbeing

Marieke Norton

39. TOXIC PLACES

Health literacy within narrating nuclear toxic legacy: Karen Hesse’s Phoenix Rising

Inna Sukhenko

40. CONVERSATION: BUILDINGS

Cross-cultural perspectives on architectural history, healthcare architecture, and environmental humanities

Uğurgül Tunç, Joana Balsa de Pinho, and Lucienne Thys-Şenocak

41. CITIES

Cities, hazards and their hinterlands

Keir Waddington

42. PROVOCATION: SMART CITIES

Will smart cities have trees?

Amy K. McLennan and Thomas Biedermann

43. PROVOCATION: DIGITAL SPACES

Confronting industry hype: Why health and environmental humanities need to pay attention to AI

Mél Hogan and Jacqueline Jenkins

Index

Biography

Amber Abrams is Senior Research Officer at the Future Water research institute at the University of Cape Town. Abrams has over 25 years of experience working in academia, for government and the private sector in the fields of public health, research science at the intersection of humans and environment, and in social sciences and social engagement translating research science for publics.

Victoria Bates is Associate Professor at the University of Bristol. She has led or collaborated on several health-and-environment projects, including the "MedEnv" network and the project "A Sense of Place: Exploring nature and wellbeing through the non-visual senses". She had a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for "Sensing Spaces of Healthcare: Rethinking the NHS Hospital".

Rocío Gomez is Associate Professor and Greer Chair of Latin American History at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first book, Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835–1946 (2020) received the Melville Prize for Best Book in Latin American Environmental History from CLAH.