How writers, artists, and curators are taking creative new approaches to the discipline of natural history

Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions, Imagining a New Natural History presents essays that analyze how books, artworks, and contemporary
museum practices reconceive approaches to the discipline that cast
humans and nature as separate entities. The creative works examined in
this volume feature real and fictional archaeologists, museum curators,
botanists, and taxidermists and explore subjects such as the catalog,
the cabinet of curiosities, and the exhibition.

The
contributors to this volume include leading scholars within Latin
American studies and the environmental humanities, and the materials
they study span diverse media, geographies, historical periods, and
linguistic traditions, including Indigenous and Latinx cultural
productions. They show how Latin American writers, artists, and critics
provide a way of reckoning with the realities of climate change and the
Anthropocene, as well as with the conceptual and aesthetic challenges
that such realities pose to them. Through the perspectives of these
artistic and literary practices, the natural history collections of
anthropological museums, herbaria, and laboratories become explorations
into the current climate predicament.

Contributors: Gabriel Giorgi Gisela Heffes Nicolás Campisi Antonio Gómez
Carlos Fonseca Florencia Garramuño Ignacio Veraguas Caripan
Valeria Meiller Luciana Martins Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos Ignacio
Pastén López Florencia Malbrán Joanna Page Lucas Mertehikian
Matylda Figlerowicz Nathaniel Wolfson Emily Hind

Author Biography

Nicolás Campisi, assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University, is the author of The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times. Lucas Mertehikian is director of the Humanities Institute at the New York Botanical Garden.

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