Bilingual information for river walk.

Reading the #Landscape - our #rivers and #coast are more than lines on a #map - come join us for this celebration of #Aberystwyth #Ceredigion City of #Literature #UNESCO #Rheidol #RiversOfWales

@hywelgriffiths.bsky.social
@aberuni.bsky.social
#envhistory #Wales #heritage #environment #art #write

Also recommend Prof. Oram's excellent 2024 Rhind Lectures @socantscot.bsky.social on the same theme. #envhistory #envhumanities #climateheritage

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Screenshot of journal article. Title: “That Riddle of a River”: Currents of Colonial Ambivalence in Ernestine Hill's Water Into Gold. Author: Scott Robinson. Abstract: In this article, I conduct a close reading of Ernestine Hill's Water Into Gold (1937) to argue that it reveals Hill's ambivalence about colonial development in her account of the transition of White settler colonialism from an earlier period of mythologised pioneering to one of industrial development. I show how Hill's narration frames the elimination of Aboriginal people at the frontier as inevitable and deploys religious language to sanctify the domination of nature as well as the process of colonisation. This religious aspect of Hill's work has not received previous attention. The article tracks three key features of Hill's text, contributing to three bodies of work. I demonstrate how each of these features provokes Hill's ambivalence. First, I identify how the pioneering travellers in Hill's narrative are stalled by colonial settlement and industrial development. Second, I describe the ways Hill's text paradoxically figures Aboriginal people as disappearing while attesting to their indelible presence. Third, I analyse the way Christian language provides a foundational justification for the domination of nature and White colonial settlement. Connecting these three features, I demonstrate Hill's ambivalence at the loss of mythic origins and their sanctifying role in the colonial development she endorses.

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Robinson's close reading of Ernestine Hill's Water Into Gold reveals the author's ambivalence about White settler colonial development.

#colonialism #EnvHistory #OpenAccess #OzStudies

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Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) - University of Warwick Title: Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent

@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.

Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.

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#history #envhistory #earlymodern

More talks on Ukraine’s sunflower! 🌻

Looking forward to returning to Queen’s University for a public lecture with the Department of History & REES Network.
18 Nov, 5:30 pm | Mac-Corry D214

#QueensUniversity #sunflower #envhistory #econhistory #monoculture #Ukraine

Great piece of industrial history from the Orlu Valley (French Pyrenees) where pictures of miners & workers are displayed on site, on the foundations of the first hydroelectric central. They depict how the water pipes were brought up the mountain & assembled in the early 20th. #EnvHistory

‘Entire neighborhoods will have to move’: growth collides with rising seas in Charleston Residents worry new developments – including a sea wall planned to shield the city’s historic center – could push floodwaters into their communities

#CoastalRetreat : "Some neighborhoods will retreat and others will be protected, and still others – may be left behind."

Charleston, SC was built along confluence of 3 rivers and the Atlantic, on marshland and mud flats.

#floodwaters
#FEMAbuyout
#EnvHistory

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“We are at all a time high in all things cephalopodic.“ - I love puns, even obscure ones like this. A drink on me to the first who can name it up.

@hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhistory

The draining of The Fens was not uncontroversial, with locals rioting, harassing workers, and sabotaging drainage works for around two centuries from the 1600s to 1800s

Here's the story of one successful instance of resistance in Soham

#England #History #Water #EnvHistory #Environment

Can't wait for @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social's new book! Now more than ever we need her uncompromising analysis & her unwavering love for earth & its beings. If you're into #ecology, #extinction, #anticolonial #environmentalism, #envhistory, #envhumanities, #geography it's going to be a must-read

The environmental changes that have occurred on our globe in the last few hundred years affect practically every element of the environment. One of the main elements of this matrix is forest areas. A key aspect of describing the transformation period in forest management is to illustrate the long-term consequences of the environmental changes which humans have caused and continue to cause. The objective of our study is not only to discuss the interactions and changes occurring in the genetic resources of the primary forest-forming species in Polish forests but, more importantly, to demonstrate how past decisions can influence events in the near or distant future. In the context of forest research, it is essential to clarify that the lifespan of a tree has no relation to the lifespan of a human being. This simple fact not only influences the life cycle of individual stands and the mechanisms of timber mass production but, above all, highlights that we are hostage to the decisions (and knowledge) of our ancestors, who managed the forests according to the ideas of the Enlightenment. In this essay, we emphasize an element we believe is underrepresented in the discourse on forest transformations in the 19th and 20th centuries: forest genetic resources, which are fundamental to the resilience and adaptation of managed forests in response to ongoing climate change.

Pinus silvestris from the Holly Cross Mts. Poland

Our leading author Prof. Pawel Przybylski in his laboratory working on the Pinus genes!

Pinus silvestris from the Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland.

Our review on research perspectives in joining genetic analysis and environmental history of Pinus silvestris in Central Europe was published finally in the "Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene" 🌲🌲🌲🔬🧬 online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art... #envhistory #foresthistory

I'm a researcher interested in the politics of #conservation in the #EU working @Wageningen Uni. PI of ERC-funded project #GreenFrontier🔎 #ENVJustice issues in conservation in European peripheries. I use #politicalecology #greencriminology #envhistory approaches to study #wildlifecrime & #rewilding

📢 Postdoc in Amsterdam 📢
🥓in the project "Meat Culture"
🥓for PhD holders in History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
🥓work with @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social, Wilma Waterlander, Else Vogel, Mary Nicolaou, Gaston Franssen, Emilia Quinn & yours truly
#foodstudies #histstm #envhistory

I have a lot of new followers, so let me re-introduce myself.

I am historian 🗃️ of border regions of Latin America, focusing on #EnvHistory 📗 and #SpatialHistory of our relationship to nature.

My first book is now with @uncpress.bsky.social examines nation-making in Patagonia (Chile and Argentina)

Happiness is an hour spent with a chemistry historian/archivist. #envhistory

Spent an hour on the phone with a postcard collector & learned as much #envhistory as an hour spent deep in the archives. #PFOA #Teflon

In the 1980s, DuPont CEO, Edward Jefferson, was a descendent of the US president. See Garfield, Mauve. #envhistory is our history.

Twitterverse: can you help me brainstorm literature that desribes what the Industrial Revolution *sounded* like? #envhistory