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More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean: Decentring the Human in Environmental History

by Diogo de Carvalho Cabral , André Vasques Vital , Margarita Gascón
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781915249500
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of London Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of London Press
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  • Pages: 250
  • Original Price: GBP 90.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 748 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical Geography

The Latin American and Caribbean regions' historical trajectories have been shaped by complex human-nonhuman interactions. In these histories people are important, even crucial, actors, but not the only ones. Offering a novel approach to the writing of Latin American history, this book brings nine thought-provoking chapters together with a historiographical introduction and critical afterword to centre nonhuman beings and things. The oscillating glare of the sun, the resourcefulness of insects, the tectonic instability of national territories, and the life-giving and intractable impassivity of rivers are some of the other-than-human agents driving history in the volume's chapters. It problematises Latin American(ist) historiography's tendency to frame 'nature' as a separate ontological domain that is only acted upon - conquered, manipulated, devastated - lacking the self-propelled dynamics capable of shaping the course of events. With broad regional and temporal coverage across Latin America and the Caribbean from the pre-colonial period to the present day, the book responds to environmental history's call to write biophysical environments into the human past - a reconsideration of historical agency that, in this era of climate change, is needed now more than ever.

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral is assistant professor in environmental history at Trinity College Dublin. André Vasques Vital is a postdoctoral researcher with PNPD / CAPES scholarship at the Centro Universitário de AnápolisMargarita Gascón is a tenured researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research in Argentina and teaches at undergraduate and graduate levels in Mendoza.

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