Last week\u2019s class on the non-human was extremely interesting. For me, it helped clear up some ideas I have for my long essay, and allowed me to adapt what I was saying in my short essay. It showed me that I was viewing the human and the environment as separate \u201cbeings\u201d or \u201cobjects\u201d in some sort of dichotomy, and that this view was problematic. Humans are part of the environment, they impact the environment, they are catalysts for change and react to that change. Humans cannot exist without the environment, so why do we view them almost in opposition to them both in life and history?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is why, in my long essay, although my focus is on social movements in the twentieth century, I am not going to consider these social people as separate from the environment, but rather as campaigning for something they are a part of. This can help me better understand why collective opinions formed, as I will remember that these same humans are part of the same environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, after doing research for my short essay, I have decided that I will place more focus on micro historical and anthropological methods than historical environmental. The short essay was a useful exercise because it allowed me to study different approaches to environmental history, and I can apply the concepts I have learned to my long essay, but I am not sure everything was completely relevant to my question. Of course, that is the beauty of the preliminary essay, because if I dived into the long essay first thinking I was going to use environmental historical methods I would have hit a roadblock which is not fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My plans at the moment and for the future are to continue reading primary and secondary sources for my essay and map what I find onto a timeline and a map of Europe, to understand the socio-political context a bit better to answer the question Why did environmental social movements develop similarly in Eastern and Western Europe?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week\u2019s class on the non-human was extremely interesting. For me, it helped clear up some ideas I have for my long essay, and allowed me to adapt what I was saying in my short essay. It showed me that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5wNtZ-H1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}