The goal of this workshop is to provoke an informed, interdisciplinary dialogue on the various dimensions of how people engage with their environments. The environment – broadly considered as a dynamic product constantly (re)produced through the interaction of people and the material world they both comprise and occupy – is a source of human sustenance as well as an object of politics, social movements, discourses, and cultural representations. Our goal is to explore the relationships between human rights, perceptions of the environment, cultural representations of nature, and the materiality of environmental histories as they are configured in specific social, political, and cultural contexts.