Conservation Humanities Readings

A list of recommended readings to dive into the conservation humanities – some are written by network members, others are not. This list is not exhaustive and will change and expand in the future!!

  • Benson, Etienne. Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
  • Carruthers-Jones, Jonathan, Andrew Gregory, and Adrien Guetté. “Cores and Corridors: Natural Landscape Linkages to Rewild Protected Areas and Wildlife Refuges.” In Routledge Handbook of Rewilding, edited by Sally Hawkins, Ian Convery, Steve Carver, and Rene Beyers, 81-91. London: Routledge, 2023.
  • Eckert, Astrid M., and Pavla Šimková. “Transcending the Cold War: Borders, Nature, and the European Green Belt Conservation Project along the Former Iron Curtain.” In Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook, edited by Patrick Kupper and Anna-Katharina Wöbse, 129-153. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
  • Fall, Juliet. Drawing the Line: Nature, Hybridity and Politics in Transboundary Spaces. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
  • Felcht, Frederike. “Biodiversität und Naturschutz in Nils Holgerssons wunderbare Reise durch Schweden (1906/1907).” Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (2022): 63-76.
  • Gissibl, Bernhard, Sabine Höhler, and Patrick Kupper (eds.). Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective. New York: Berghahn, 2012.
  • Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von. A Monastery for the Ibex: Conservation, State, and Conflict on the Gran Paradiso, 1919-1949. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.
  • Heurich, Marco, and Christof Mauch (eds.). Urwald der Bayern. Geschichte, Politik und Natur im Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020.
  • Holm, Poul, Joni Adamson, Hsinya Huang, Lars Kirdan, Sally Kitch, Iain McCalman, James Ogude, Marisa Ronan, Dominic Scott, Kirill Ole Thompson, Charles Travis, and Kirsten Wehner. “Humanities for the Environment: A Manifesto for Research and Action.” Humanities 4 (2015): 977-992.
  • Holmes, George et al. “Understanding Conservationists’ Perspectives on the New Conservation Debate.” Conservation Biology 31,2 (2017): 353-365.
  • Holmes, George et al. “Mainstreaming the Humanities in Conservation.” Conservation Biology 36,3 (2021): 1-4.
  • Huggan, Graham, and Helen Tiffin. Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment. London: Routledge, 2010.
  • Huggan, Graham. Nature’s Saviours: Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age. London: Routledge, 2013.
  • Huggan, Graham. “From the Serengeti to the Bavarian Forest, and Back Again: Bernhard Grzimek, Celebrity Conservation, and the Transnational Politics of National Parks.” Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 13,2 (2022), https://ecozona.eu/article/view/4525.
  • Jørgensen, Dolly. “Rethinking Rewilding.” Geoforum 65 (2015), 482-88.
  • Kupper, Patrick. Wildnis schaffen. Eine transnationale Geschichte des Schweizerischen Nationalparks. Bern: Haupt, 2012.
  • Kupper, Patrick, and Anna-Katharina Wöbse, eds. Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
  • Lorimer, Jamie. Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2015.
  • James McGinlay, Vassilis Gkoumas, Jens Holtvoeth, Ruymán F.A. Fuertes, Elena Bazhenova, Alessandro Benzoni, Kerstin Botsch, Carmen C. Martel, Cati C. Sánchez, Isabel Cervera, Guillermo Chaminade, Juliana Doerstel, Concepción J.F. García, Angela Jones, Michael Lammertz, Kaja Lotman, Majda Odar, Teresa Pastor, Carol Ritchie, Stefano Santi, Mojca Smolej, Francisco S. Rico, Holly Waterman, Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica, Andreas Kontoleon, Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos, and Nikoleta Jones. “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Management of European Protected Areas and Policy Implications,” Forests 11, no. 11 (2020): 1214, https://doi.org/10.3390/f11111214.
  • Münster, Ursula, Thom van Dooren, and Eben Kirksey. “Multispecies Studies: Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness.” Environmental Humanities 8, no. 2 (2016): 1-24.
  • Piňosová, Jana. Inspiration Natur. Naturschutz in den böhmischen Ländern bis 1933. Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2017.
  • Ritson, Katie, and Eveline R. de Smalen. “Imagining the Anthropocene in the Wadden Sea.” Maritime Studies 20 (2021): 293-303.
  • Ritson, Katie et al. “Creating Corridors for Nature Protection: Conservation Humanities as an Intervention in Contemporary European Biodiversity Strategies.” Environmental Humanities [forthcoming]
  • Šimková, Pavla. “Grenzenlos wild? Der Naturschutz und die Grenze im Bayerischen Wald und Šumava.” Copernico. Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa, 21 July 2023, https://www.copernico.eu/de/link/6426ecdeabfb13.83429804.
  • Smalen, Eveline de. “Sandpipers and the Art of Letting Go: Narratives of Conservation in the Wadden Sea.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia 9 (Spring 2021), doi:10.5282/rcc/9241.
  • Trudgill, Stephen. Why Conserve Nature? Perspectives on Meanings and Motivations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
  • Vasile, Monica. “The Vulnerable Bison: Practices and Meanings of Rewilding in Romanian Carpathians.” Conservation & Society 16, no. 3 (2018): 217-231.
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