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The confrontation with the social role of monuments clarifies an arc of memory-cultural voids, ambivalences,and the question of whose perspectives dominate. A trilingual and multi-layered snapshot of transnational debates at the intersections of art, history, democracy, and justice, Shaping the Past reveals possibilities for a creative and civic-minded approach to controversial monuments and associated images of history.

COVER -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Environmental Humanities across Times, Disciplines, and Research Practices by Carolyn Fornoff, Patricia Eunji Kim, and Bethany Wiggin -- Part I. Variations and Methods -- Chapter 1. Time Bomb: Pessimistic Approaches to Climate Change Studies by Jason Bell and Frank Pavia -- Chapter 2. Earth's Changing Climate: A Deep-Time Geoscience Perspective by Jane E. Dmochowski and David A. D. Evans -- Chapter 3. Deep Time and Landscape History: How Can Historical Particularity Be Translated? by Ömür Harmansah -- ETUDE 1. A Period of Animate Existence -- Chapter 4. Staging Climate: A Period of Animate Existence and the Global Imaginary by Marcia Ferguson -- Chapter 5. A Period of Animate Existence by Troy Herion, Mimi Lien, and Dan Rothenberg -- Chapter 6. Conversations with Dan Rothenberg, Director of A Period of Animate Existence by Bethany Wiggin -- Part II. Variations, Fast and Slow -- Chapter 7. Time Machines and Timelapse Aesthetics in Anthropocenic Modernism by Charles M. Tung -- Chapter 8. Fishing for the Anthropocene: Time in Ocean Governance by Jennifer E. Telesca -- ETUDE 2. WetLand -- Chapter 9. WetLand Manifesto by Mary Mattingly -- Chapter 10. Figuring WetLand by Kate Farquhar -- Part III. Repetitions and Variations -- Chapter 11. Vanishing Sounds: Thoreau and the Sixth Extinction by Wai Chee Dimock -- Chapter 12. Hoopwalking: Human Rewilding and Anthropocene Chronotypes by Paul Mitchell -- Chapter 13. Dirt Eating in the Disaster by Iemanjá Brown -- ETUDE 3. Futurity Unknown -- Chapter 14. The Memory of Plants: Genetics, Migration, and the Construction of the Future by Beatriz Cortez -- Coda by Carolyn Fornoff, Patricia Eunji Kim, and Bethany Wiggin -- Contributors.