Doing environmental humanities: inter/transdisciplinary research through an underwater 360° video poem

Abstract

Those who write about environmental humanities call on researchers to be interdisciplinary. But what kind of interdisciplinary research is required and how might a researcher actually do this form of research? The article presents one way for doing interdisciplinary research, using ecocritical analysis on Theodore Sturgeon's short story, 'It', and then using that as a basis for developing an alternative narrative for a 360°video poem. To address what makes this research practice environmental humanities and not just ecocriticism, this article puts the histories of ecocriticism and environmental humanities in conversation with their approaches to interdisciplinarity. What seems apparent is that environmental humanities value external and instrumental forms of interdisciplinarity but that it also may be a burgeoning transdisciplinary effort. ARTICLE HISTORY

Postcolonial Civic Identity and Youth (dis)organizing Environment: A Growth into Citizenship Analysis

“…The central 'window' to understanding these aspects, as we argue, lies in an investigation of youth personal narratives that elaborate the dialogic exchanges between youth and their environment, between technology and ecology. These responses to environment, which are often seen in the context of depicting (non)human world(s), are commonly associated with the notion of citizenship (Peterson, 2019;Pettit, 2016). We wish to draw upon this term, citizenship, by specifically borrowing Holma, Kontinen, and Blanken-Webb's (2018) framework of growth into citizenship, to recontextualize and widen its employment to incorporate the observation that nature and technology rarely exist in harmony and that they "can at best form an uneasy alliance" (Sankaran & Nkengasong, 2016, p. 45).…”