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Frogs and feeling communities : A study in history of emotions and environmental history
Gaynor, Andrea Broomhall, Susan Flack, Andrew
Gaynor, Andrea
Broomhall, Susan
Flack, Andrew
Abstract
This article offers an overview of some approaches from the history of emotions that environmental historians could employ in order to sharpen engagement with emotion, and applies some of these approaches to a long history of human–frog interactions, by way of example. We propose that emotions have played a key role in the constitution of human communities, as well as enabling or inhibiting particular kinds of human thoughts and actions in relation with the living planet. In tracing human–frog relations over time we tease apart the complex historic relationships between cultural frameworks, scientific expectations and conventions, and the texts and images emerging from these contexts, which operate explicitly or implicitly to train and discipline the emotional selves of human adults and children.
Keywords
animal history, environmental history, frogs, history of emotions, science
Date
2022
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Journal article
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Environment and History
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Volume
28
Issue
1
Page Range
83-104
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ACU Department
Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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