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The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities
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ABSTRACT
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. Articulating the significance of humanistic perspectives for our collective social engagement with ecological crises, the volume explores the potential of the environmental humanities for organizing humanistic research, opening up new forms of interdisciplinarity, and shaping public debate and policies on environmental issues.
Sections cover:
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The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth
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Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities
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Inequality and Environmental Justice
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Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory
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Environmental Arts, Media, and Technologies
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The State of the Environmental Humanities
The first of its kind, this companion covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines within the humanities and with the social and natural sciences. Exploring how the environmental humanities contribute to policy and action concerning some of the key intellectual, social, and environmental challenges of our times, the chapters offer an ideal guide to this rapidly developing field.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction: planet, species, justice—and the stories we tell about them
part |2 pages
PART I The Anthropocene and the domestication of Earth
chapter 3|11 pages
“They carry life in their hair”: domestication and the African diaspora
chapter 6|8 pages
Hybrid aversion: wolves, dogs, and the humans who love to keep them apart
chapter 7|10 pages
Techno-conservation in the Anthropocene: what does it mean to save a species?
part |2 pages
PART II Posthumanism and multispecies communities
chapter 12|9 pages
Encountering a more-than-human world: ethos and the arts of witness
chapter 13|9 pages
Loving the native: invasive species and the cultural politics of flourishing
chapter 15|9 pages
Interspecies diplomacy in Anthropocenic waters: performing an ocean-oriented ontology
part |2 pages
PART III Inequality and environmental justice
chapter 17|9 pages
Turning over a new leaf: Fanonian humanism and environmental justice
chapter 18|11 pages
Action-research and environmental justice: lessons from Guatemala’s Chixoy Dam
chapter 19|9 pages
Farming as speculative activity: the ecological basis of farmers’ suicides in India
chapter 20|12 pages
Ecological security for whom? The politics of flood alleviation and urban environmental justice in Jakarta, Indonesia
chapter 21|10 pages
Our ancestors’ dystopia now: indigenous conservation and the Anthropocene
chapter 22|11 pages
Collected things with names like Mother Corn: Native North American speculative fiction and film
chapter 23|10 pages
The stone guests: Buen Vivir and popular environmentalisms in the Andes and Amazonia
part |2 pages
PART IV Decline and resilience: environmental narratives, history, and memory
chapter 24|8 pages
Play it again, Sam: decline and finishing in environmental narratives
chapter 26|10 pages
Losing primeval forests: degradation narratives in South Asia
chapter 27|10 pages
Multidirectional eco-memory in an era of extinction: colonial whaling and indigenous dispossession in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance
chapter 28|11 pages
The Caribbean’s agonizing seashores: tourism resorts, art, and the future of the region’s coastlines
part |2 pages
PART V Environmental arts, media, and technologies
chapter 31|10 pages
Slow food, low tech: environmental narratives of agribusiness and its alternatives
chapter 32|14 pages
Mattress story: on thing power, waste management rhetoric, and Francisco de Pájaro’s trash art
chapter 33|9 pages
Touching the senses: environments and technologies at the movies
chapter 34|12 pages
Climate, design, and the status of the human: obstacles and opportunities for architectural scholarship in the environmental humanities
part |2 pages
PART VI: The state of the environmental humanities