{"id":726,"date":"2020-09-01T19:59:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T19:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=726"},"modified":"2020-10-20T19:13:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:13:58","slug":"online-book-talk-etienne-benson-surroundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/booktalk\/online-book-talk-etienne-benson-surroundings\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Book Talk: Etienne Benson, Surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, October 19, 2020, at 16:00 Central European time, Etienne Benson, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, presented his book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/S\/bo50271092.html\">Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms<\/a><\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2020) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the ubiquity of environmental rhetoric in the modern world, it\u2019s easy to think that the meaning of the terms environment and environmentalism are and always have been self-evident. But in <em>Surroundings<\/em>, we learn that the environmental past is much more complex than it seems at first glance. In this wide-ranging history of the concept through a series of richly contextualized case studies, Benson uncovers the diversity of forms that environmentalism has taken over the last two centuries and opens our eyes to the promising new varieties of environmentalism that are emerging today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse Book Talk: Benson\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/470299675?h=d38b7f46d0&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"819\" height=\"461\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, October 19, 2020, at 16:00 Central European time, Etienne Benson, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Benson_cover_500.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}