Abstract

This article continues and extends a conversation between environmental history and the broader environmental humanities, outlining and defining an approach to more-than-human histories. Engaging with more-than-human and multispecies approaches in a range of fields within the broader environmental humanities, we point to a nested set of commitments that shape these research agendas. More-than-human histories as articulated here take on three of these commitments in particular: co-constitution; the presencing of multiple species and multiple voices; and situated politics and ethics. These commitments offer meeting points for environmental history and the broader environmental humanities, which can bring them into closer dialogue with a range of mutual benefits as well as raising some challenges for each. The article concludes with a consideration of the methodological implications of this approach, pointing to ways in which a more-than-human approach might allow environmental historians to uncover new sources and approach familiar ones from new angles.

中文翻译：

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超越人类的历史

摘要

本文继续并扩展了环境历史与更广泛的环境人类之间的对话，概述并定义了一种超越人类历史的方法。我们在更广泛的环境人文科学领域的多个领域中开展了超越人类和多物种的研究，我们指出了一系列嵌套的承诺，这些承诺构成了这些研究议程。这里阐述的超越人类的历史特别承担了其中三项承诺：共同宪法；存在多种物种和多种声音；以及政治和道德环境。这些承诺为环境历史和更广泛的环境人类学提供了契合点，可以使它们与各方进行更密切的对话，并带来一系列的互惠互利，同时也给彼此带来一些挑战。