Dans l’un des derniers bilans de l’historiographie états-unienne, Paul Sutter reprenait une chronologie américano-centrée pour évoquer la genèse d’une « troisième génération » de l’histoire environnementale. Dans cette réflexion, la première génération désigne celle des auteurs qui imposèrent la question environnementale dans les programmes de rech...
This reflexive article combines recent as well as established insights from various anthropological subfields and beyond to address a world that is increasingly on the move, and this in ways that we do not fully understand, let alone manage or control. As such, the text involves a critical thinking exercise that focuses on the importance of process...
Published in Journal of evolutionary biology
Hybridization is an evolutionary process with wide-ranging potential outcomes, from providing populations with important genetic variation for adaptation to being a substantial fitness cost leading to extinction. Here, we focussed on putative hybridization between two morphologically distinct species of New Zealand grasshopper. We collected Phaulac...
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In preparation for a panel dealing with the intersection of colonial/postcolonial literatures and affect theory, due to take place at the next GAPS conference, CEREP member Delphine Munos will be organizing a workshop on Monday 28 March 2022 (5-7pm) at ULiège in Salle de l’Horloge. The workshop will offer an informal venue for exchanging ideas abou...
Introduced as an aesthetic and rhetorical concept by Longinus in ancient thought, the notion of the sublime has a venerable history in arts and culture. From Thomas Burnett and Joseph Addison to Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant and the romantic poets, theorists of the “natural sublime” have described a fraught relationship between humans and a natural w...
Published in Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
Infrastructure systems must change to match the growing complexity of the environments they operate in. Yet the models of governance and the core technologies they rely on are structured around models of relative long-term stability that appear increasingly insufficient and even problematic. As the environments in which infrastructure function beco...
Published in Open Cultural Studies
In recent years, there has been a pronounced (re-)turn to questions of ontology, matter, and realism in the humanities and social sciences. What all these theoretical formations have in common is their profound challenge to human exceptionalism. Taken together, these approaches have productively been described as constituting a “nonhuman turn.” Thi...
Published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Dans cet article, il s’agit d’interroger le potentiel ouvert par la connaissance des spatialités et du rapport au monde des élèves, pour renouveler les recherches en didactique et l’enseignement de la géographie. Le contexte d’une rupture majeure introduite par les transitions environnementale, sociétale et économique et les événements sanitaires o...
