Galvanizing glaciology: Thoughts on an ecocritical art history

2026.01.26.

Glaciers are marked by the contours of time. Flow lines and lateral moraines (ridges of accumulated dirt and rocks) demarcate the movement of ice with traces of debris incised into the glacier’s icy surface. Tributaries, rivers, and floods unfurl the flow of the ice into meltwater. As many of the world’s glaciers continue to thaw and no longer reproduce, they have been classed as an endangered species. They are being memorialised rather than immortalised. As Julie Cruikshank wrote over a decade ago, glaciers are “a cryospheric weather vane for potential natural and social upheaval.”

Galvanizing glaciology: Thoughts on an ecocritical art history

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  • Source: Environmental History Now (EHN)
  • Type: Educational resource
  • Accessed: 26 January 2026

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Gapp, Isabel. Galvanizing glaciology: Thoughts on an ecocritical art history
EHN.
https://envhistnow.com/2022/01/20/galvanizing-glaciology-thoughts-on-an-ecocritical-art-history/
Accessed 26 January 2026.
Archived at: https://web.archive.org/web/20251016093540/https://envhistnow.com/2022/01/20/galvanizing-glaciology-thoughts-on-an-ecocritical-art-history/

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