Abstract

HOFMEYR, Isabel  and  JAPPIE, Saarah. Archiving Environmental Change: Mapping a Network. Kronos [online]. 2025, vol.51, n.1, pp.1-9. ISSN 2309-9585.  https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2025/v51a1.

This introduction describes the work of the Archiving Environmental Change working group, which emerged from the Transregional Collaboratory on the Indian Ocean, a programme established by the Social Science Research Council in 2019, with funding from the Mellon Foundation. The group set out to explore how the terms 'archives' and 'environment' change each other. This introduction considers two routes into this question of archives, environments and their intersections: (1) Relativising archive as dry inscription, and (2) Rethinking elements as media. The introduction considers each in turn and then addresses the articles that make up this special section, discussing how they illuminate these themes.

Keywords : Archives; environment; Transregional Collaboratory on the Indian Ocean; organic archives; elemental media; environmental humanities; collaboration; environmental change.

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