'Every Damn one of 'em's got a Little Piece of Land in his Head': Masculinity and Ecological Crisis in the Dust Bowl

20世纪30年代美国沙尘暴造成的环境和人类破坏——迅速干旱、作物歉收以及随之而来的大规模移民——与气候学家对我们共同未来的预测非常相似。然而，尽管沙尘暴预示着全球气候变化的影响，但对历史学家来说，它仍然是一个狭隘的主题。更具体地说，在过去和现在的环境灾难中，最被史学所忽视的共同特征是男性气概的作用。虽然社会学家和活动家早就注意到环境危机和男子气概之间的相互联系，但这一知识并没有在历史上得到应用，就像沙尘暴一样。1通过纠正这种差异，这个项目将进一步加深我们对沙尘暴和环境危机的理解，同时也将其作为一个案例研究来重新构建两次世界大战期间美国男子气概的历史。这个项目要问的是，男子气概的观念是如何与沙尘暴地区的环境危机交织在一起的？人类与土地的意识形态关系在历史上是如何形成的？沙尘风暴的男性伤亡人数在当时是如何体现的？在尘暴区生活的人是什么感觉？为什么？

The environmental and human devastation - rapid aridification, crop failure, and consequent massmigration - wrought by the American Dust Bowl in the 1930s closely parallels predictions made by climatescientists for our collective future. Yet, despite presaging the effects of global climate change, the DustBowl remains a parochial subject for historians. More specifically, the feature shared between past andpresent environmental disasters which has been most been neglected historiographically is the role ofmasculinity. Whilst sociologists and activists have long noted the reciprocal connection betweenenvironmental crises and masculinity, this knowledge has not been applied historically, no more so than inthe case of the Dust Bowl.1 Through rectifying this disparity, this project will further our understanding ofthe Dust Bowl and environmental crises at large whilst also using it as a case study to reframe the historyof inter-war American masculinity. How, this project asks, did ideas of masculinity intersect withenvironmental crisis in the Dust Bowl? How had men's ideological relationship to the land been historicallyformed? How were male casualties of the Dust Bowl represented at the time? What did it feel like to be aman in the Dust Bowl and why?