This handbook explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret and manage nature in several different academic fields. Essential reading for those interested in the use of digital tools in study of the environment from a wide range of disciplines, and for those working in the 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; PART I Overviews 1 Cowboys, Cod, Climate, and Conflict:
Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities; 2 The Armchair
Travellers Guide to Digital Environmental Humanities; 3 Deep Weather; 4
Adding Spatial Context to the 17 April 1975 Evacuation of Phnom Penh: How
Spatial Video Geonarratives Can Geographically Enrich Genocide Testimony; 5
Normalised Alterity: Visualising Black Spatial Humanities; 6 New Machines in
the Garden: The Digital Environmental Humanities; PART II Voicing Indigeneity
7 From Localised Resistance to the Social Distance Powwow: Movements in the
World of Indigenous Americans; 8 Countermapping Plants and Indigenous
Lifeways in North America: A Case Study of Tending to Turtle Island; 9 The
Double Data Movement towards the Ecological Pluriverse: The Case of the
Native Land Information System; 10 Groundworks: Re-storying Northern
California with Emplaced Indigenous Media; 11 Datafication, Digitisation, and
the Narration of Agriculture in Malawi: From Productivity Measures to Curated
Folklore; 12 Spatial Video Geonarratives: Digitising Indigenous Folklores in
Urban Flooding Lived Experiences; PART III Geopoetics and Performance 13
Exploring Sensible Virtual Immersive Spaces through Digital Georamas; 14 The
Digital Poetics of Lost Waterscapes in Coimbatore, South India; 15
Relationality in the Online Literary Journal Spiral Orb; 16 Chemo Creatures
in a Digital Ocean!: The Making of a Speculative Ecosystem; 17 Innovative and
Creative Geographies: The Shifting Boundaries of Inside, Outside, Real, and
Imagined Spaces; 18 The Sound of Environmental Crisis: Silence as/and
(Eco)Horror in A Quiet Place; PART IV Species, Systems, Sustainability 19
Genotype, Phenotype, Phototype: Digital Photography, Biological Variety, and
Excessive Overpopulation of Types; 20 (Inter)National Connections: Linking
Nordic Animals to Biodiversity Observation Networks; 21 A Shark in Your
Pocket, a Bird in Your Hand(Held): The Spectacular and Charismatic
Visualisation of Nature in Conservation Apps; 22 Images of Nature through
Platforms: Practices and Relationships as a Research Field and an Epistemic
Vantage Point of DEH; 23 A Novel Method Suggestion for the Achievement of
Environmental Citizenship Behaviour in the Digitising World; PART V Digital
Chronicles of Environment, Literature, Cartography, and Time 24 Online
Transcription of Regional Icelandic Manuscripts Initiative; 25 "Thick
Mapping" for Environmental Justice: EJScreen, ArcGIS, and Contemporary
Literature; 26 One Map Closer to the End of the World (As We Know It):
Thinking Digital Cartographic Humanities with the Anthropocene; 27 The
Deafening Roar of the Digital Environmental Humanities: Case Studies in New
Scholarship; 28 The COVID-19 Testimonies Map: Representing Italian "Pandemic
Space" Perceptions with Neogeography Technologies; PART VI Algorithmic
Landscaping 29 Digital Oil and the Planetary Oilfield; 30 Between Digital and
Territorial Turns: A Forking Path; 31 Landscapes in Motion: Cartographies of
Connectivity and the Place of Physical Geography in the Environmental and
Spatial Humanities; 32 (Re)Imagining the Ibis: Multispecies Future(s), Smart
Urban Governance, and the Digital Environmental Humanities; 33 Elemental
Computation: From Non-human Media to More-than-Digital Information Systems
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.
