Marcus Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3599874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcus Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcus |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3572-5442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Environmental Humanities Switzerland ‐ a decade in retrospect
Environmental crises confront humanity with challenges that reach into all areas of society ‐ from poverty and exclusion, capitalism and finance, to forced migration, global health, and artificial intelligence. This article traces the history of saguf ’s working group Environmental Humanities from 2014 to 2025 and reflects on its contributions in Switzerland and beyond
Luigi Piccioni, The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880-1936
Global change in microcosms: Environmental and societal predictors of land cover change on the Atlantic Ocean Islands
Chronophilia; or, Biding Time in a Solar System
Having evolved in a dynamic solar system, all life on earth has adapted to and depends on recurring and repeating cycles of light, heat, and gravity. Our sleep cycles, reproductive cycles, and emotional cycles are all linked in varying ways to planetary motion even though we continually disrupt, modify, or extend these cycles to go about our personal and collective business. This essay explores how our sense of time is both physiological and cult…
Applying the Environmental Humanities
Environmental issues require answers from science, society, and culture. How can we apply the humanities and arts to these issues while cultivating methodologies that value context-dependence, multiperspectivity, relativism, and subjectivity
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Seeing the Environment through the Humanities: A New Window on Grand Societal Challenges
The Environmental Humanities draw from insights of the human and natural sciences for proposing new concepts and solutions to society's pressing environmental problems
Developing the Environmental Humanities: A Swiss Perspective
The environmental humanities as a metadiscipline provide a new forum for enabling continuous and reciprocal conversations within the humanities and with other sciences in environmental research
Engagement für inter- und transdisziplinäre Forschung zur nachhaltigen EntwicklungCommitment to Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development
Die SAGUF lanciert neue Arbeitsgruppen zu aktuellen Themen und Heraus forderungen
Dialectical Sonority: Walter Benjamin's Acoustics of Profane Illumination
In a letter to his friend and intellectual collaborator Theodor W. Adorno, on December 25, 1935, Walter Benjamin describes music as a field of inquiry “fairly remote” from his own.1 Several years later, in another letter to Max Horkheimer, he writes that the “state of musical affairs ... could not be any more remote” for him.2 Yet despite these claims of unfamiliarity with aurality, there are numerous observations on acoustic phenomena throughout…
Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America
Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America. By Hays Samuel P.. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. xv + 277 pp. Notes, index. $27.95, paper.) Marcus Hall Marcus Hall University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10…
Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See
Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act
Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act Get access Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act. By Harvey Mark. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xviii + 325 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Marcus Hall Marcus Hall University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 2…
What’s Next for Environmental History
Storia dell'Ambiente: Una Introduzione. [History of the Environment: An Introduction]. Marco Armiero and Stefania Barca. Roma: Carocci editore, 2004. 211pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, 16.8…
The Provincial Nature of George Perkins Marsh
While many of Marsh's novel conservation insights were universal and true for citizens of all countries, his key warnings about degradation were characteristically American - having been interpreted, produced, and packaged by an American for Americans. The contrasts he saw between American and Mediterranean lands allowed Marsh to formulate and then support his thesis that humans not only modified but damaged the earth. This paper suggests that Ma…
Repairing Mountains: Restoration, Ecology, and Wilderness in Twentieth-Century Utah
Restoring the Countryside: George Perkins Marsh and the Italian Land Ethic (1861-1882)
G.P. Marsh wrote his monumental Man and Nature (1864) almost entirely in Italy, where he drew heavily from Italian insights and Italian landscapes. While warning about the human propensity to degrade nature, he also maintained hope in the human ability to restore nature. In Italy, as in the United States, Marsh's writings helped stimulate discussion leading to major new land-use policies; generally preservationist measures in the U.S. and restora…
Global change in microcosms: Environmental and societal predictors of land cover change on the Atlantic Ocean Islands
Dialectical Sonority: Walter Benjamin's Acoustics of Profane Illumination
In a letter to his friend and intellectual collaborator Theodor W. Adorno, on December 25, 1935, Walter Benjamin describes music as a field of inquiry “fairly remote” from his own.1 Several years later, in another letter to Max Horkheimer, he writes that the “state of musical affairs ... could not be any more remote” for him.2 Yet despite these claims of unfamiliarity with aurality, there are numerous observations on acoustic phenomena throughout…
Restoring the Countryside: George Perkins Marsh and the Italian Land Ethic (1861-1882)
G.P. Marsh wrote his monumental Man and Nature (1864) almost entirely in Italy, where he drew heavily from Italian insights and Italian landscapes. While warning about the human propensity to degrade nature, he also maintained hope in the human ability to restore nature. In Italy, as in the United States, Marsh's writings helped stimulate discussion leading to major new land-use policies; generally preservationist measures in the U.S. and restora…
Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See
The Provincial Nature of George Perkins Marsh
While many of Marsh's novel conservation insights were universal and true for citizens of all countries, his key warnings about degradation were characteristically American - having been interpreted, produced, and packaged by an American for Americans. The contrasts he saw between American and Mediterranean lands allowed Marsh to formulate and then support his thesis that humans not only modified but damaged the earth. This paper suggests that Ma…
Repairing Mountains: Restoration, Ecology, and Wilderness in Twentieth-Century Utah
Restoring the Countryside: George Perkins Marsh and the Italian Land Ethic (1861-1882)
G.P. Marsh wrote his monumental Man and Nature (1864) almost entirely in Italy, where he drew heavily from Italian insights and Italian landscapes. While warning about the human propensity to degrade nature, he also maintained hope in the human ability to restore nature. In Italy, as in the United States, Marsh's writings helped stimulate discussion leading to major new land-use policies; generally preservationist measures in the U.S. and restora…
Repairing Mountains: Restoration, Ecology, and Wilderness in Twentieth-Century Utah
Storia dell'Ambiente: Una Introduzione. [History of the Environment: An Introduction]. Marco Armiero and Stefania Barca. Roma: Carocci editore, 2004. 211pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, 16.8…
The Provincial Nature of George Perkins Marsh
While many of Marsh's novel conservation insights were universal and true for citizens of all countries, his key warnings about degradation were characteristically American - having been interpreted, produced, and packaged by an American for Americans. The contrasts he saw between American and Mediterranean lands allowed Marsh to formulate and then support his thesis that humans not only modified but damaged the earth. This paper suggests that Ma…
What’s Next for Environmental History
Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See
Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act
Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act Get access Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act. By Harvey Mark. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xviii + 325 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Marcus Hall Marcus Hall University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 2…
Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America
Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America. By Hays Samuel P.. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. xv + 277 pp. Notes, index. $27.95, paper.) Marcus Hall Marcus Hall University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10…
Dialectical Sonority: Walter Benjamin's Acoustics of Profane Illumination
In a letter to his friend and intellectual collaborator Theodor W. Adorno, on December 25, 1935, Walter Benjamin describes music as a field of inquiry “fairly remote” from his own.1 Several years later, in another letter to Max Horkheimer, he writes that the “state of musical affairs ... could not be any more remote” for him.2 Yet despite these claims of unfamiliarity with aurality, there are numerous observations on acoustic phenomena throughout…
Engagement für inter- und transdisziplinäre Forschung zur nachhaltigen EntwicklungCommitment to Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development
Die SAGUF lanciert neue Arbeitsgruppen zu aktuellen Themen und Heraus forderungen
Developing the Environmental Humanities: A Swiss Perspective
The environmental humanities as a metadiscipline provide a new forum for enabling continuous and reciprocal conversations within the humanities and with other sciences in environmental research
Seeing the Environment through the Humanities: A New Window on Grand Societal Challenges
The Environmental Humanities draw from insights of the human and natural sciences for proposing new concepts and solutions to society's pressing environmental problems
Eseh Notepad
Eseh Notepad
Eseh Notepad
Eseh Notepad
Applying the Environmental Humanities
Environmental issues require answers from science, society, and culture. How can we apply the humanities and arts to these issues while cultivating methodologies that value context-dependence, multiperspectivity, relativism, and subjectivity
Chronophilia; or, Biding Time in a Solar System
Having evolved in a dynamic solar system, all life on earth has adapted to and depends on recurring and repeating cycles of light, heat, and gravity. Our sleep cycles, reproductive cycles, and emotional cycles are all linked in varying ways to planetary motion even though we continually disrupt, modify, or extend these cycles to go about our personal and collective business. This essay explores how our sense of time is both physiological and cult…
Global change in microcosms: Environmental and societal predictors of land cover change on the Atlantic Ocean Islands
Luigi Piccioni, The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880-1936
Environmental Humanities Switzerland ‐ a decade in retrospect
Environmental crises confront humanity with challenges that reach into all areas of society ‐ from poverty and exclusion, capitalism and finance, to forced migration, global health, and artificial intelligence. This article traces the history of saguf ’s working group Environmental Humanities from 2014 to 2025 and reflects on its contributions in Switzerland and beyond
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