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- Explores the intersections between two important and complementary fields, which have not, until now, been well integrated or theorised
- International in scope, recognising the extensive work arising from South Asian scholars and addressing themes of relevance (such as climate change, industrial contamination and de-industrialisation) across the global South as well as the global North
- Covers a wide range of subjects including memory, industrialisation, contamination, de-industrialisation, and environmental change
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History (PSWEH)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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De/Industrialisation
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Living with Environmental Change
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About this book
This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history. Oral history offers environmental historians the opportunity to understand the ways people’s perceptions, experiences and beliefs about environments change over time. In turn, the insights of environmental history challenge oral historians to think more critically about the ways an active, more-than-human world shapes experiences and people. The integration of these approaches enables us to more fully and critically understand the ways cultural and individual memory and experience shapes human interactions with the more-than-human world, just as it enables us to identify the ways human memory, identity and experience is moulded by the landscapes and environments in which people live and labour. It includes contributions from Australia, India, the UK, Canada and the USA.
Reviews
“This exciting collection has much to offer both oral historians and environmental historians who seek bold and innovative ways to listen to people in place, and to places over time.” (Ruth A. Morgan, Oral History Australia Journal, Vol. 41, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
Katie Holmes
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School of Communications, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, Australia
Heather Goodall
About the editors
Katie Holmes is Director of the Centre for the Study of the Inland, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Her work in oral and environmental history seeks to understand the experience of Australian settlement, and integrates gender history, cultural history and literary studies. She is the author of Spaces in Her Day: Australian women’s diaries of the 1920s and 1930s (1995) and Between the Leaves: Stories of Australian women, writing and gardens (2011) and co-author of Reading the Garden: the settlement of Australia (2008), as well as numerous edited collections.
Heather Goodall is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She has published on Indigenous histories and environmental history in Australia and on colonialism and decolonisation in the 20th century in the eastern Indian Ocean. She has worked in collaborative projects with Indigenous people, published as Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics, (1996), and the co-authored Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal People on Sydney’s Georges River, (with Allison Cadzow, 2009); Isabel Flick: the many lives of an extraordinary Aboriginal woman, (with Isabel Flick, 2005); and Making Change Happen (with Kevin Cook, 2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Telling Environmental Histories
Book Subtitle: Intersections of Memory, Narrative and Environment
Editors: Katie Holmes, Heather Goodall
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63772-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63771-6Published: 19 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87631-3Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63772-3Published: 12 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2730-9746
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 326
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oral History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Memory Studies, History of Science