Applied Environmental History. Digital Tools for the Study of Environmental Injustice. Case Studies and Environmental Digital Humanities Agenda
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https://doi.org/10.32991/2237-2717.2021v11i2.p214-238Keywords:
Environmental Injustice, Environmental Humanities, Digital ToolsAbstract
This research proposal addresses central elements when designing new research practices, both in the epistemological and methodological fields of Environmental History. Two reflective elements and three research challenges are systematically raised. The first element revolves around how the narratives of environmental history have been constructed, legitimizing -by omission- the processes of colonial appropriation of the knowledge of the territories. The second reflective element represents an epistemological challenge when seeking the applicability of environmental history using digital tools for research on environmental conflicts, taking EJOLT and TOXIC BIOS as case studies. Finally, and as a corollary, a proposal for a future agenda is pointed out for the design of Public History projects, focused from Citizen Science that can be useful in its application to the field of socio-environmental studies.
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Camisani PB (2018) “Sri Lanka: a political ecology of socio-environmental conflicts and development projects”. Sustain Sci. https ://doi.org/10.1007/s1162 5-018-0544-7
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Martinez-Alier J, Kallis G, Veuthey S, Walter M, Temper L (2010) Social metabolism, ecological distribution conflicts, and valuation languages. Ecol Econ 70:153–158.
Martínez Alier, J. Temper, L. Del Bene D. And Scheidel, A. (2016) “Is there a global environmental justice movement? Journal of Peasant Studies 43, pp. 731-755
Mignolo, W. (2000) “Border Thinking and the Colonial Difference”. En Local Histories
/Global Desings: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, pp. 49-90 ((2003). Historias locales / diseños globales. Colonialidad, conocimientos subalternos y pensamiento fronterizo. Madrid: Akal).
Mignolo, W. (2000a) “Diferencia colonial y razón post-occidental”. En Santiago Castro- Gómez (ed.). La reestructuración de las ciencias sociales en América Latina. Bogotá: Instituto Pensar, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, pp. 3-28.
Nixon, R. (2011) Slow Violence and the envrionmentalism of the por. Harvard University Press, Cambrdige.
Ortega Santos, A et al (2000) et al. “Bienes Comunes y Conflictos por los recursos en las sociedades rurales, siglos XVIII-XX” in Historia Social nº 38, Valencia, Fundación de Historia Social, págs. 95-116.
Ortega Santos, A. (2002) La Tragedia de los Cerramientos. Desarticulación de la Comunalidad en la Provincia de Granada. Alzira, Centro Francisco Tomás y Valiente/Fundación Instituto de Historia Social.
Ortega Santos, A. (2007) “Where have all the flowers gone? Aprovechamientos forestales y desarticulación de la comunalidad en la provincia de Granada, siglos XIX-XX” en Eduardo Araque Jiménez y José Domingo Sánchez Martínez (eds. 2007) Los montes andaluces y sus aprovechamientos: experiencias históricas y propuestas de futuro, Jaén, Universidad de Jaén, pp. 59-95.
Ortega Santos, A. (2012a) “El comunal imaginado. De la Transición en los Usos de la propiedad comunal en el siglo XX, Güejar Sierra” en Historia Agraria 58, pp. 73-112.
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Ortega Santos, A. (2020) Rethinking Territories from a Biocultural/Bioregional Perspective.Bioregional en Fanfani, D y Mataran, A. (ed. 2020) Planning and Design: Volume II Issues and Practices for a Bioregional Regeneration. Springer Publisher, pp. 250 - 283
Begüm Özkaynak, Cem İskender Aydιn, Pιnar Ertör-Akyazι & Irmak Ertör (2015) The Gezi Park Resistance from an Environmental Justice and Social Metabolism Perspective, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 26:1, 99-114, DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2014.999102
Pellow, D. N Weinberg, A. and Schnaiberg, A. (2002) “The environmental justice movement: equitable allocation of the costs and benefits of environmental management outcomes” in Social Justice Red (14) pp. 423-439.
Peluso, N. Watts, M. (2001) Violent Environments. Cornell University Press Ithaca.
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2010). Descolonizar el saber, reinventar el poder, Uruguay, Trilce Editorial.
Santos, Bovaentura De Sousa y Meneses, María Paula (2014). Epistemologías del Sur (Perspectivas), Madrid, Ed. Akal.
Scheidel A, Temper L, Demaria F, Martinez-Alier J (2017) Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework” Sustain Sci. https ://doi.org/10.1007/ s1162 5-017-0519-0.
Spiric, J. (2017) “Ecological Distribution Conflicts and sustainability: lessons from the post-socialist European Semi-Periphery” en Sustain Sci. https ://doi.org/10.1007/ s1162 5-017-0519-0.
Tarrow, S. (1992) “Mentalities, Political cultures, and colllective action frames: constructing meanings through action” in Fronties in Social Movement Theories, pp. 174-202.
Temper L, Walter M, Rodriguez I, Kothari A, Turhan E (2018) A radical perspective on transformations to sustainability: resistances, movements, alternatives. Sustain Sci. https ://doi.org/10.1007/s1162 5-018-0543-8
Tilly, C. (2002) Stories, Identities and political change. Rowmanand Littlefield Lanham.
Turiel, A. (2020) Petrocalipsis. Crisis Energética Global y como (no) la vamos a solucionar. Madrid, Alfabeto Editorial.
Zwass, Vladimir, Co- Creation: Toward a Taxonomy and an Integrated Research Perspective,International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Volume 15, 2010 - Issue 1, Taylor & Francis Online, http://sl.ugr.es/0a0u.
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Santos, A. O. (2021). Applied Environmental History. Digital Tools for the Study of Environmental Injustice. Case Studies and Environmental Digital Humanities Agenda. Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana Y Caribeña (HALAC) Revista De La Solcha, 11(2), 214–238. https://doi.org/10.32991/2237-2717.2021v11i2.p214-238
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