| Title | Frontmatter |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Cymene Howe(editor) |
| Jeff Diamanti (editor) | |
| Amelia Moore (editor) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0404.1.01 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/solarities-elemental-encounters-and-refractions/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Jeff Diamanti, Cymene Howe, Amelia Moore |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2023-11-22 |
| Page range | pp. 1–15 |
| Print length | 15 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Cymene Howe is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University with a longstanding interest in how people and environments co-create one another. Her field research in the Americas (Nicaragua, Mexico, United States) the Arctic (Iceland, Greenland), and coastal cities (Cape Town and Honolulu) illustrates a widening field of human imprint on ecosystems. Her current research focuses on the interconnections between a melting Arctic and sea level rise in global coastal cities, with an attention to how water, transformed by a warming world, establishes novel links between distant places and populations. Her books include Intimate Activism (Duke UP, 2013) and Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2019) as well as two edited collections: Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon (punctum books, 2020) and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory. She co-produced the documentary film Not Ok: A Little Movie about a Small Glacier at the End of the World (2018) and was co-creator of the Okjökull memorial event in Iceland, the world’s first funeral for a glacier fallen to climate change.
Jeff Diamanti is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities (Cultural Analysis & Philosophy) at the University of Amsterdam. In 2016–17 he was the Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellow in Media and the Environment where he co-convened the international colloquium on Climate Realism, the results of which appear in a book collection on Routledge and a double issue of Resilience. His first book, Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes (Bloomsbury 2021), tracks the political and media ecology of fossil fuels across the extractive and logistical spaces that connect remote territories like Greenland to the economies of North America and Western Europe. His new research, Bloom Ecologies, details the return to natural philosophy in the marine and atmospheric sciences studying the interactive dynamics of the cryosphere and hydrosphere in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. He co-directs the ASCA Political Ecologies Seminar with Joost de Bloois, and with Amanda Boetzkes, he co-organizes “At the Moraine,” an ongoing research project on the political ecology of glacial retreat in the Arctic. With Fred Carter, he co-directs the FieldARTS arts and science residency in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Amelia Moore is an Associate Professor of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. She has degrees in Environmental Biology from Columbia University and Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California Berkeley. Her research involves the social role of islands in ecological and environmental knowledge production, and she approaches this topic through the lens of antiracist, anticolonial, feminist science and technology studies and black ecologies.