#bluehumanities — Public Fediverse posts

Find both books here in our catalogue:

Bristol:
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1887649514

London:
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1904029493

(bonus pic of one of our famous Göttingen campus ducks @subugoe !)

#BlueHumanities #EnglishHistory #EconomicHistory #PostcolonialStudies #LondonHistory #MaterialCulture #History #Archaeology

Now off to #London - this large volume, edited by John Schofield & Stephen Freeth, presents archaeological findings from London's waterfront, 1666-1800, making #history & #MaterialCulture come alive in many pictures of maps, houses & objects found

#BlueHumanities #archaeology #EnglishHistory
@subugoe

Fancy a dip? 🌊 Today's books share the refreshing topic of ports in #EnglishHistory

Richard Stone's 2024 monograph on #Bristol & the birth of the Atlantic #economy 1500-1700 analyses #EarlyModern trade in Britain, based on the Bristol Port Books

#History #EconomicHistory #BlueHumanities
@subugoe

Forbes published a nice new review of my latest book: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2025/01/23/new-book-offers-reality-check-on-sea-level-rise/

“In a revelatory new book, Sea Level: A History, author Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, […], deftly chronicles just how difficult it was to come up with a standard method of measuring mean sea level. In the process, Hardenberg gives us a richly detailed yet very accessible history of how over five centuries, the concept of measuring mean sea level was a painstaking process that advanced in fits and starts.”

#envhist #histsci #oceanhist #bluehumanities

OnlineFirst - "The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste" by Lisa Yin Han:

#bluehumanities #STS #AI

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/25148486241304970

Just read Steve Mentz's new "Introduction to the #BlueHumanities" --- a good overview of theoretical approaches in the field and an inspiration for future research. According to Mentz, Blue Humanities "explore the many ways humans engage with #water". It's also interesting to explore when and how a certain #research perspective (like "water-centric thinking") becomes a discipline or an interdisciplinary community of scholars that pursue a shared objective. #AcademicBooks

"Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago" - Pippa Marland's 2023 book explores creative non-fiction on the theme of islands through the lens of the #Anthropocene & #Ecocriticism 🏝️

#IslandStudies #BlueHumanities #WorldEmojiDay #LiteraryStudies

In 1752, John Bond, a doctor in London proposed adopting Polybius' description of a ballista for whaling. He even built a ballista and sent it to the Royal Academy, claiming that it would give Britain an edge over Dutch whalers. He jubilantly wrote that one gun was equal to 100 harpooners, but that these laborers would resist the invention because they had "strong prejudice against all improvements."

#envhist #socialhistory #bluehumanities

"A #bluehumanities "pre-print" essay explores the rise of jellyfish in environmental turmoil and their indifferent behavior, raising questions about humans potentially becoming "human jellyfish" in their responsibility towards #climatechange."

Link:
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202307.0647/v1

This is directly copied from a Twitter post by Mohammed Muharram, @mohamedmuharram

See:
https://twitter.com/mohamedmuharram

Hi All! I'm an English professor at UC Davis who works on 19th-c and early-20th-c literature of the British Empire. This year I'm on sabbatical & on a visiting appt at the University of Granada, Spain. I'm working on my Spanish & am eager to meet new colleagues in Europe. My book Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion came out last fall w Princeton UP. Currently researching the Victorian coal economy in the Indian & Pacific Oceans #energyhumanities #bluehumanities #envhum

Hi everyone, an #introduction. I'm an academic researching in environmental humanities: energy, oceans, and infrastructure studies mostly (but not only) in 19th C US literary studies and visual culture. Book RENDERED OBSOLETE: ENERGY CULTURE AND THE AFTERLIFE OF US WHALING forthcoming in 2023. I also want to talk about shipping, logistics, environmental media, art, Moby-Dick, and the ocean. #envhum #C19studies #victodon #bluehumanities #infrastructure #energy #climatechange #envhist #energyhum

The spectral #Norse mythic 'Ship of the Gods' - Skidbladnir - as a light projection and laser artwork by artists Heinrich & Palmer. We saw it as part of LightUpLancaster Festival.

Ethereal+unnerving+marvellous!

I especially appreciated glimpses of landscape , and the way the ship adapts as it moves through space and time. The work really gave an impression of an ancient, time-spanning entity.

#myth #maritime #bluehumanities #norse