Article ID: CBB001421435

Rethinking the British Empire through Eco-Cultural Networks: Materialist-Cultural Environmental History, Relational Connections and Agency (2014)

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In this short discussion, we use examples from the British Empire to introduce the concept of eco-cultural networks as a lens for examining interconnected, wide-ranging social and environmental processes. We present three conceptual advances that this framework offers to environmental historians: 1) a rethinking of the divisions between cultural and material approaches to environmental history; 2) an emphasis on relational connections in the making of networks; and, 3) a renewed focus on questions of agency. Each of these developments opens up new questions within environmental history and promotes engagement with work outside the field, especially with the ecological sciences and the environmental humanities. KEYWORDS: Cultural and material environmental history, environmental historiography, environment and theory, transnational history, world environmental history, agency, networks, eco-cultural, environmental humanities, ecology, empire

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Authors & Contributors
Samuel Grinsell
Vicky Albritton
Butler, Christina Rae
Barnard, Timothy P.
Ingram, Darcy
Peterson, Maya Karin
Concepts
Environmental history
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Imperialism
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Nature
Agriculture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Europe
South Carolina (U.S.)
Nile River
Thailand
Institutions
United States. National Park Service
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