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Session Submission Type: Panel
In these panels, we are interested in exploring relationships between bodies and environments as an opportunity to interrogate the political construction of spaces for (the construction of) particular kinds of bodies. In doing so, we aim to expand our conversations in environmental history in ways that begin to include other kinds of environments, place bodies (human and otherwise) back into these spaces, and make visible the many bodies and types that are excluded from our narratives of environments as something disconnected from technology and therefore inaccessible to entire populations. We use these panels to further a process of including more elements of science studies, disability studies, and urban history and design into our discussions and explorations of histories of our environments.
Panel 2 will focus on environments for laboring bodies and the construction of ideal body types.
"Very Close, Very Dirty, Very Damp, and Very Offensive": The Mutual Construction of Bodies and Environments in Victorian Bakeries - David Fouser, University of California, Irvine
Gut Microbes and the Industrial Revolution - Thomas Finger, Northern Arizona University
What Clean Should Smell Like: Body Work, Laundry, and the Politics of Nature in the US, 1931-1947 - Spring Greeney, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Radical Requiems: Refashioning the Body of the Farmed Animal in the Twentieth Century to Sell a Sustainable Future - Karen Sayer, Leeds Trinity University