Welcome to the CEAH blog! A place where we can share our thoughts and ideas on the environmental arts and humanities and to stay in touch about upcoming events and all important meetings in the pub. A good place to start (once marking is out of the way) might be for each of us to say a few words about the meaning, but also issues and problems, of environmental humanities from our own disciplinary and research perspectives. The site is only available to us as a group and is very much intended to be a creative space for exploring ideas and making cross-disciplinary connections. More from me again soon…. Nicola
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First, hooray, it’s working. and thanks to Nicola and Caitlin on this initiative, which I think will be a great point to share ideas and build a common intellectual life. Hopefully, against the tide of neo-liberal philistinism that currently predominates in HE. Indeed, to respond to Nicola’s request for a few words on environmental humanities. My starting point is the current historical context, the existential demands of anthropogenic climate change and the communist question posed by it: are we able to imaging (and more importantly) produce a collective life capable of addressing our future, and that of our children. The work that engages with this question, is therefore necessarily revolutionary in the old fashioned sense, that what is politically necessary today is a absolute historical rupture with old ideas of economy and democracy. The conditions for such a change must start with ideas and learning, and, therefore, with the critique (and transformation) of our current conditions of learning and research. Either environmental humanities is a revolutionary-ethical project, or it is nothing.