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Title: Cowboys, Cod, Climate, and Conflict
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Publication Year: 2023
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Abstract: The digital engages five broad research strands emerging in the humanities: firstly, the creation of web-based collections, archives, and text-encoding initiatives; secondly, the reading and analysis of electronic hypertexts; thirdly, the application of geospatial and discursive mapping and coding technologies; fourthly, approaches deploying gaming and 3D immersive visualisations; and fifthly, the explosive growth of big data, social computing, crowdsourcing, and networking opportunities (Holm, Jarrick, and Scott 2015). Digitally enabled syntheses between old (books, archives, maps, paintings, film, etc.) and new types of media (qualitative analysis software, geographic information systems [GIS], social media, gaming and virtual reality platforms, etc.) are becoming increasingly salient to the study of human-environmental relations. In turn, research and teaching initiatives coalescing under the umbrella of the DEH are beginning to address three interrelated phenomena characteristic of the 21st century: the digital revolution, global warming, and sociopolitical agency related to environmental change (Travis 2018). In this milieu, the “new human condition,” to crib a phrase from the political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1961, 59), finds that “the world we have come to live in . . . is much more determined by [humans] acting into nature, creating natural processes and directing them into the human artifice and the realm of human affairs.”
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Authors: Travis, Charles; Holm, Poul; Ludlow, Francis; Kostick, Conor; McGovern, Rhonda; Nicholls, John
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Pages: 17-39
Volume Title: Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities
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Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Natural Resource Management, Population Data Science
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