The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

ISBN-13: 9781032179292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 508 str.

Ursula Heise; Jon Christensen; Michelle Niemann

Opis

The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship.

Spis treści

Introduction: Planet, Species, Justice—and the Stories We Tell about Them Ursula K. HeisePart 1: The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth 1. The Anthropocene: Love It or Leave It Dale Jamieson2. Domestication, Domesticated Landscapes, and Tropical Natures Susanna B. Hecht3. "They Carry Life in Their Hair": Domestication and the African Diaspora Judith A. Carney4. Domestication in a Post-Industrial World Libby Robin5. Meals in the Age of Toxic Environments Yuki Masami6. Hybrid Aversion: Wolves, Dogs, and the Humans Who Love to Keep Them Apart Emma Marris7. Techno-Conservation in the Anthropocene: What Does It Mean to Save a Species? Ronald Sandler8. Coloring Climates: Imagining a Geoengineered World Bronislaw Szerszynski9. Utopia's Afterlife in the Anthropocene Anahid NersessianPart 2: Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities 10. Renaissance Selfhood and Shakespeare's Comedy of the Commons Robert N. Watson11. Multispecies Epidemiology and the Viral Subject Genese Marie Sodikoff12. Encountering a More-than-Human World: Ethos and the Arts of Witness Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren13. Loving the Native: Invasive Species and the Cultural Politics of Flourishing Jessica R. Cattelino14. Artifacts and Habitats Dolly Jørgensen15. Interspecies Diplomacy in Anthropocenic Waters: Performing an Ocean-Oriented Ontology Una Chaudhuri16. The Anthropocene at Sea: Temporality, Paradox, Compression Stacy AlaimoPart 3: Inequality and Environmental Justice 17. Turning Over a New Leaf: Fanonian Humanism and Environmental Justice Jennifer Wenzel18. Action-Research and Environmental Justice: Lessons from Guatemala’s Chixoy Dam Barbara Rose Johnston19. Farming as Speculative Activity: The Ecological Basis of Farmers' Suicides in India Akhil Gupta20. Ecological Security for Whom?The Politics of Flood Alleviation and Urban Environmental Justice in Jakarta, Indonesia Helga Leitner, Emma Colven, and Eric Sheppard21. Our Ancestors’ Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the Anthropocene Kyle Powys Whyte22. Collected Things with Names like Mother Corn: Native North American Speculative Fiction and Film Joni Adamson23. The Stone Guests: Buen Vivir and Popular Environmentalisms in the Andes and Amazonia Jorge MarconePart 4: Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory 24. Play It Again, Sam: Decline and Finishing in Environmental NarrativesRichard White25. Hubris and Humility in Environmental Thought Michelle Niemann26. Losing Primeval Forests: Degradation Narratives in South Asia Kathleen D. Morrison27. Multidirectional Eco-Memory in an Era of Extinction: Colonial Whaling and Indigenous Dispossession in Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance Rosanne Kennedy28. The Caribbean's Agonizing Seashores: Tourism Resorts, Art, and the Future of the Region's Coastlines Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert29. Bear Down: Resilience and Multispecies Ethology Brett BuchananPart 5: Environmental Arts, Media, and Technologies 30. Contemporary Environmental Art James Nisbet31. Slow Food, Low Tech: Environmental Narratives of Agribusiness and Its Alternatives Allison Carruth 32. Mattress Story: On Thing Power, Waste Management Rhetoric, and Francisco de Pájaro’s Trash Art Maite Zubiaurre33. Touching the Senses: Environments and Technologies at the Movies Alexa Weik von Mossner34. Climate, Design, and the Status of the Human: Obstacles and Opportunities for Architectural Scholarship in the Environmental Humanities Daniel A. Barber35. Climate Visualizations: Making Data Experiential Heather Houser36. Digital ? Environmental : Humanities Stéfan Sinclair and Stephanie Posthumus37. From The Xenotext Christian BökPart 6: The State of the Environmental Humanities 38. The Body and Environmental History in the Anthropocene Linda Nash39. Material Ecocriticism and the Petro-Text Heather I. Sullivan40. Fossil Freedoms: The Politics of Emancipation and the End of Oil Hannes Bergthaller41. Scaling the Planetary Humanities: Environmental Globalization and the ArcticSverker Sörlin42. Some "F" Words for the Environmental Humanities: Feralities, Feminisms, Futurities Catriona Sandilands43. Biocities: Urban Ecology and the Cultural Imagination Jon Christensen and Ursula K. Heise44. Environmental Humanities: Notes Towards a Summary for Policymakers Greg Garrard 45. The Humanities after the Anthropocene Stephanie LeMenager

O autorze

Ursula K. Heise is Professor of English and a faculty member of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Jon Christensen is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of History, and the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Michelle Niemann is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.