The Seed Box

About

We are an environmental humanities research center based at Linköping University in Sweden.

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The Seed Box is an international research center supporting interdisciplinary, critical, creative, and contemporary environmental humanities research. Our researchers are junior scholars as well as leaders in the field, and our work is informed by integrated social justice, gender, race, and class perspectives. Together in collaboration with citizens and stakeholders, our innovative approaches expand the analytical relevance of the humanities and make vital contributions to communities and environments. We are supported by funding from Mistra, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research; and Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences, and Spatial Planning.

Nature is no longer separable from culture. In this new era some call the Anthropocene, the environment is in us, and we humans are fully in the environment. It is also beyond doubt that sustainability and reasonably equitable prosperity will never be achieved without attention to imagination, values, competing worldviews, anti-colonial justice, feminist ethics and more-than-human politics, emerging histories, possible futures, and alternative ways of telling our environmental stories. Rising to the environmental challenges presented by this situation requires an enlivened field of humanities that includes advanced transdisciplinary research on nature, culture and environment. Responding to such concerns, our form of the environmental (post-)humanities are rethinking the place of humanity in the environment.