Environmental Humanities: Emergent Key Terms, glossary project edited by Ulrik Ekman and Daniel Irrgang – a growing online resource hosted by the University of Copenhagen, 2025.
This glossary of key terms engages with the potentials and challenges of addressing climate change by experimenting with different modes of speaking in environmental humanities tongues, via a transdisciplinary dialogue across the faculties. This collection of entries seeks to pave ways through the challenges of defining key descriptive and normative terms for the environmental humanities – to let new senses emerge, whose operative usage may offer better purchase at moving through the complex environmental and human problems at stake.
This is a rhizomatically growing project with more forthcoming entries currently in preparation for publication. We invite readers to revisit this page over time to discover new authors and contributions.
The first wave of contributors includes:
- Astrid Møller-Olsen
- Daniel Irrgang
- Donna Haraway
- Elspeth Probyn
- Frederik Appel Olsen
- Gísli Pálsson
- John Charles Ryan
- Josie Taylor
- Julia Watson
- Kristin Veel
- Nicoletta Isar
- Serpil Oppermann
- Siegfried Zielinski
- Sophie Wennerscheid
- Søren Reith-Hauberg
- Stefanie Heine and Holger Schulze
- Steffen Krejberg Knudsen
- Ulrik Ekman
- Vaclav Masek
- Vasundhara Bhojvaid
- Wolfgang Ernst
Edited by Ulrik Ekman and Daniel Irrgang and was conceived as part of the activities in the Art and Earth research cluster in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
