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Dark, Scary, Awe-Inspiring, and Community Building: Essays on the Environmental History of the Great Black Swamp

Stump-Smith, Madison
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1688042721090384

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2023, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, History.
Environmental history is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand how human-environment relationships and ecosystems have changed over time. Even with a focus on natural spaces, environmental history often examines land via socio-political barriers. This thesis aims to reconstruct that narrative by examining history through an ecosystem boundary. This collection of Great Black Swamp environmental history essays examines the use of place within a swampland ecosystem. It demonstrates the paradox of environmental history that humans can create affective connections to place and make decisions that harm those landscapes by examining the environment through a narrow and utilitarian perspective, ignoring interconnections. Chapters examine the erasure of environmental change at Fort Meigs Historic Site, Representative Delbert Latta “seeing like the state” in making 1970-80s environmental policy decisions, and the performative tradition of Earth Day at Bowling Green State University. While communities have an affective connection to the swampland, those relationships are changing and shifting in meaning. They must be critically analyzed and adapted, especially in an environment rapidly shifting from anthropocentric climate change.
Amilcar Challu, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Cheryl Dong, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
124 p.
Ecology; Environmental Studies; History
environmental history; Great Black Swamp; affect; local history; landscape history;

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  • Stump-Smith, M. (2023). Dark, Scary, Awe-Inspiring, and Community Building: Essays on the Environmental History of the Great Black Swamp [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1688042721090384

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stump-Smith, Madison. Dark, Scary, Awe-Inspiring, and Community Building: Essays on the Environmental History of the Great Black Swamp. 2023. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1688042721090384.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stump-Smith, Madison. "Dark, Scary, Awe-Inspiring, and Community Building: Essays on the Environmental History of the Great Black Swamp." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1688042721090384

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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This open access ETD is published by Bowling Green State University and OhioLINK.