Biography in environmental history: consolidating the cultural turn

Authors

  • Christian Brannstrom University of Texas, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-1384.2010v7n1p28

Abstract

Recent literature promotes the idea that environmental history could consolidate its “cultural turn” (White 2004) by focusing on individuals who were significant in human-environment interactions.  An approach based on Margadant’s notion of biography is suggested, and recent papers in environmental history using a biographical approach are noted.

Author Biography

Christian Brannstrom, University of Texas, USA

Ph.D. Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998 - M.S. Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992 - A.B. International Relations, University of California, Davis, 1990 - research focuses on nature-Society relations, in particular the historical geography of the environment and resource management in Brazil and Latin America. He also has a keen interest in environmental history and has edited a recent volume Territories, Commodities and Knowledges: Latin American Environmental History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Institute for the Study of the Americas, London). In addition, Dr, Brannstrom is interested in changes in natural resource regimes, particularly the decentralization of policies for water resources, and the impacts of agricultural land uses on the environment in Brazil, particularly western Bahia. An ongoing project, “New Environmental Governance in Brazil”, developed by Dr. Brannstrom, analyzed types of governance regimes, evaluates the influence of state actors and civil society on water governance, and measures environmental outcomes of new governance regimes.

Published

2010-07-20

Issue

Section

Dossiê: "A interdisciplinaridade nos estudos de Sociedade e Meio Ambiente" Orgs: Dras Eunice Nodari e Julia S. Guivant