New issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology (16.2, December 2022) now online

HoST is a peer-reviewed open access journal, published online in English by Sciendo, and results of a partnership between four Portuguese research units (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, ICS e IHC).

The full issue is available here:  HoST - Volume 16 (2022): Issue 2 (December 2022)

We invite all interested to submit your work following the guidelines available at HoST's website.
We also inform that we have presently an open call for Thematic Dossiers.

 

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 16.2

Thematic Dossier “Prometheus in the Garden of Eden. Essays on the Anthropocene”

This thematic dossier includes a preface by Dipesh Chakrabarty and an introduction by guest editors Maria Paula Diogo, José Luís Câmara Leme and Davide Scarso, followed by four articles dedicated to the Anthropocene, a concept that allows the discussion of numerous issues among various groups in society and different contexts of analysis. Some of these contexts of analysis are presented in this issue.

Preface. Prometheus in the Garden of Eden. Essays on the Anthropocene, Dipesh Chakrabarty
Introduction: Prometheus in the Garden of Eden. Essays on the Anthropocene, Maria Paula Diogo, José Luís Câmara Leme and Davide Scarso
Has Humankind Overwhelmed Nature’s Agency?, James Williams
Death, Life, and Longing in the Pandemicene,” Scott Gabriel Knowles
Digesting Planetary Harms: Ocean Life, Biomaterial Innovation, and Uncanny Ingestions of the Anthropocene, Hannah Dickinson and Elizabeth Johnson
The Anthropocene or the Perennial Mining of Otherness—Inquiry on Artistic and Ethnographical Practice for Climate Emergency, Rita Natálio

It also includes two articles in the section Varia
Pyrethrum and the Second World War: Recontextualising DDT in the Narrative of Wartime Insect Control, Sabine Clarke and Richard J. E. Brown
Abbe’s Theory and its Introduction in Spain: The Use of Instruments for Scientific Demonstrations, Esteban Moreno Gómez and Carolina Martín Albaladejo

In this issue you can also find three Book Reviews
Book Review: Dipesh Chakrabarty. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, Gael Caignard
Book Review: Gianenrico Bernasconi and Susanne Thürigen, eds. Material Histories of Time: Objects and Practices, 14th-19th Centuries, Stephen Johnston
Book Review: Agustí Camós Cabeceran. La Huella de Lamarck en España en el Siglo XIX, Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper