Imagining a New Natural History: Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene

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Nicolás Campisi Lucas Mertehikian

Imagining a New Natural History

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Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene

Nicolás Campisi, Lucas Mertehikian

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University Press of Florida
03 February 2026

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Literary studies: general; Museums & museology; Cultural studies; Media studies

How writers, artists, and curators are taking creative new approaches to the discipline of natural history

Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions, Imagining a New Natural History presents essays that analyze how books, artworks, and contemporary museum practices reconceive approaches to the discipline that cast humans and nature as separate entities. The creative works examined in this volume feature real and fictional archaeologists, museum curators, botanists, and taxidermists and explore subjects such as the catalog, the cabinet of curiosities, and the exhibition.

The contributors to this volume include leading scholars within Latin American studies and the environmental humanities, and the materials they study span diverse media, geographies, historical periods, and linguistic traditions, including Indigenous and Latinx cultural productions. They show how Latin American writers, artists, and critics provide a way of reckoning with the realities of climate change and the Anthropocene, as well as with the conceptual and aesthetic challenges that such realities pose to them. Through the perspectives of these artistic and literary practices, the natural history collections of anthropological museums, herbaria, and laboratories become explorations into the current climate predicament.

Contributors: Gabriel Giorgi

Gisela Heffes

Nicolás Campisi

Antonio Gómez

Carlos Fonseca

Florencia Garramuño

Ignacio Veraguas Caripan

Valeria Meiller

Luciana Martins

Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos

Ignacio Pastén López

Florencia Malbrán

Joanna Page

Lucas Mertehikian

Matylda Figlerowicz

Nathaniel Wolfson

Emily Hind

Edited by: Nicolás Campisi, Lucas Mertehikian
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 21mm
ISBN: 9781683405559
ISBN 10: 1683405552
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 03 February 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nicolás Campisi, assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University, is the author of The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times. Lucas Mertehikian is director of the Humanities Institute at the New York Botanical Garden.