More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean
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 t...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1436032024-12-10T05:37:31Z More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean Diogo de Carvalho Cabral Vasques Vital, André Gascón, Margarita ecology south america latin america environmental humanities Caribbean historiography non-human climate change biophysical history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNA Environmentalist thought and ideology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography 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. 2024-09-06T04:13:04Z 2024-09-06T04:13:04Z 2024-09-05T11:30:25Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92999 9781915249500 9781915249517 9781915249531 9781915249692 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/143603 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92999/1/9781915249524.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92999/1/9781915249524.pdf University of London Press 10.14296/cmpd3083 10.14296/cmpd3083 3fae60e1-9f6a-42ab-a7ee-73df8c57b4f2 9781915249500 9781915249517 9781915249531 9781915249692 308 London open access |
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| topic | ecology south america latin america environmental humanities Caribbean historiography non-human climate change biophysical history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNA Environmentalist thought and ideology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography |
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