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Networking Networks and Constellating New Practices in the Environmental Humanities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Joni Adamson
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Academic institutionalization of the environmental humanities began in the early 1990s, and since 2000 the field has grown rapidly because of infrastructural support and because of funding for curricular innovation and programming. The environmental humanities include historical, philosophical, aesthetic, religious, literary, filmic, and media studies; they are informed by the most recent research in the sciences of nature and the anthropogenic factors that contribute to increasingly extreme weather events—drought, fire, hurricanes, melting glaciers, and warming and rising oceans (see Adamson, “Humanities” 135; Nye et al. 22-28).

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The Changing Profession
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PMLA , Volume 131 , Issue 2 , March 2016 , pp. 347 - 355
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2016

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