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Technology and the Environment in History
In Technology and the Environment in History, Sara B. Pritchard and Carl A. Zimring adopt an analytical approach to explore current research at the intersection of environmental history and the history of technology—an emerging field known as envirotech. Technology and the Environment in History They discuss the important topics, historical processes, and scholarly concerns that have emerged from recent work in thinking about envirotech. Each chapter focuses on a different urgent topic:
•Food and Food Systems: How humans have manipulated organisms and ecosystems to produce nutrients for societies throughout history.
•Industrialization: How environmental processes have constrained industrialization and required shifts in the relationships between human and nonhuman nature.
•Discards: What we can learn from the multifaceted forms, complex histories, and unexpected possibilities of waste.
•Disasters: How disaster, which the authors argue is common in the industrialized world, exposes the fallacy of tidy divisions among nature, technology, and society.
•Body: How bodies reveal the porous boundaries among technology, the environment, and the human.
•Sensescapes: How environmental and technological change have reshaped humans' (and potentially nonhumans') sensory experiences over time.
Using five concepts to understand the historical relationships between technology and the environment—porosity, systems, hybridity, biopolitics, and environmental justice—Pritchard and Zimring propose a chronology of key processes, moments, and periodization in the history of technology and the environment. Ultimately, they assert, envirotechnical perspectives help us engage with the surrounding world in ways that are, we hope, more sustainable and just for both humanity and the planet. Aimed at students and scholars new to environmental history, the history of technology, and their nexus, this impressive synthesis looks outward and forward—identifying promising areas in more formative stages of intellectual development and current synergies with related areas that have emerged in the past few years, including environmental anthropology, discard studies, and posthumanism.
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"Pritchard and Zimring demonstrate how technological and environmental history enrich each other, deploying the concepts of permeability, hybridity, and systems to investigate agriculture, industrialization, waste, disasters, and sensescapes. In their brilliant synthesis, human beings are both natural and technological creatures navigating the porous and often perilous boundaries of unstable landscapes."—David E. Nye, University of Southern Denmark, author of American Technological Sublime
"Global in their vision, Pritchard and Zimring abandon geographical and chronological conventions to reveal systems that reshaped environments while placing burdens on marginalized communities. This remarkable book is essential for everyone who wishes to better understand the complex, porous relationship between environment, technology, and society."—Kathleen A. Brosnan, University of Oklahoma, author of Uniting Mountain and Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change along the Front Range
"An excellent and timely addition to the growing literature on envirotech. The book's overview of relevant scholarship at the intersection of the history of technology and environmental history will be useful to scholars and students alike, while its combination of vital and understudied topics makes for provocative reading and study. Here's to Sara Pritchard and Carl Zimring for this fine work."—Martin V. Melosi, Center for Public History, University of Houston, author of Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City
"Sara Pritchard and Carl Zimring have brought together two field—environmental history and the history of technolog—to chart the historiography of envirotech history. They show how both nature and technology have shaped the world we live in and the humans we have become. An excellent and extremely useful synthesis."—Kate Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
"For both students and scholars, this book is a most welcome contribution to the discussion that will dominate the coming century: the relationship between environment and technology. The authors provide a well-grounded yet fresh outlook, adopting a thematic and analytic approach that allows them to tell a story that transcends traditional divides."—Nina Wormbs, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Historical Perspectives on Technology, Society and Culture | |
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