Grasping Soil
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 se...
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| author | Browne, Cynthia Bize, Amiel Halevy, Dotan Ibrahim, Basil Jones, Brian Kurek, Paul Lehmann, Johannes Novick, Tamar Porter, Jayson Stoll, Steven Tessua, Lulu Denizen, Seth |
| author_browse | Bize, Amiel Browne, Cynthia Denizen, Seth Halevy, Dotan Ibrahim, Basil Jones, Brian Kurek, Paul Lehmann, Johannes Novick, Tamar Porter, Jayson Stoll, Steven Tessua, Lulu |
| author_facet | Browne, Cynthia Bize, Amiel Halevy, Dotan Ibrahim, Basil Jones, Brian Kurek, Paul Lehmann, Johannes Novick, Tamar Porter, Jayson Stoll, Steven Tessua, Lulu Denizen, Seth |
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| description | 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? 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1759852026-04-20T09:28:38Z Grasping Soil Browne, Cynthia Bize, Amiel Halevy, Dotan Ibrahim, Basil Jones, Brian Kurek, Paul Lehmann, Johannes Novick, Tamar Porter, Jayson Stoll, Steven Tessua, Lulu Denizen, Seth Brownell, Emily Biodiversity Ecosystems Environmental management thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecology::RNCB Biodiversity thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNF Environmental management thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WN Nature and the natural world: general interest::WNW The Earth: natural history: general interest 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? 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. 2026-04-20T09:28:37Z 2026-04-20T09:28:37Z 2026-04-16T13:43:45Z 2026 book ONIX_20260415T184307_9781917813037_8 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112587 9781917813037 9781917813020 9781917813099 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175985 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112587/1/9781917813037.pdf The White Horse Press The White Horse Press 10.63308/63897247289532.book 10.63308/63897247289532.book 01db4a63-594a-49c5-af57-a8ab8ea63c34 9781917813037 9781917813020 9781917813099 The White Horse Press 200 Winwick, Cambs. open access |
| spellingShingle | Biodiversity Ecosystems Environmental management thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecology::RNCB Biodiversity thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNF Environmental management thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WN Nature and the natural world: general interest::WNW The Earth: natural history: general interest Browne, Cynthia Bize, Amiel Halevy, Dotan Ibrahim, Basil Jones, Brian Kurek, Paul Lehmann, Johannes Novick, Tamar Porter, Jayson Stoll, Steven Tessua, Lulu Denizen, Seth Grasping Soil |
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