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The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

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The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

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The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities book

The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

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The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities book

Edited ByUrsula Heise, Jon Christensen, Michelle Niemann
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 16 January 2017
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315766355
Pages 506
eBook ISBN 9781315766355
Subjects Environment and Sustainability, Humanities, Language & Literature
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Heise, U., Christensen, J., & Niemann, M. (Eds.). (2017). The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315766355

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:

  • The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth

  • Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities

  • Inequality and Environmental Justice 

  • Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory

  • Environmental Arts, Media, and Technologies

  • 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

ByURSULA K. HEISE

part |2 pages

PART I The Anthropocene and the domestication of Earth

chapter 1|8 pages

The Anthropocene: love it or leave it

ByDALE JAMIESON

chapter 2|14 pages

Domestication, domesticated landscapes, and tropical natures

BySUSANNA B. HECHT

chapter 3|11 pages

“They carry life in their hair”: domestication and the African diaspora

ByJUDITH A. CARNEY

chapter 4|10 pages

Domestication in a post-industrial world

ByLIBBY ROBIN

chapter 5|8 pages

Meals in the age of toxic environments

ByYUKI MASAMI

chapter 6|8 pages

Hybrid aversion: wolves, dogs, and the humans who love to keep them apart

ByEMMA MARRIS

chapter 7|10 pages

Techno-conservation in the Anthropocene: what does it mean to save a species?

ByRONALD SANDLER

chapter 8|9 pages

Coloring climates: imagining a geoengineered world

ByBRONISLAW SZERSZYNSKI

chapter 9|10 pages

Utopia’s afterlife in the Anthropocene

ByANAHID NERSESSIAN

part |2 pages

PART II Posthumanism and multispecies communities

chapter 10|9 pages

Renaissance selfhood and Shakespeare’s comedy of the commons

ByROBERT N. WATSON

chapter 11|8 pages

Multispecies epidemiology and the viral subject

ByGENESE MARIE SODIKOFF

chapter 12|9 pages

Encountering a more-than-human world: ethos and the arts of witness

ByDEBORAH BIRD ROSE AND THOM VAN DOOREN

chapter 13|9 pages

Loving the native: invasive species and the cultural politics of flourishing

ByJESSICA R. CATTELINO

chapter 14|6 pages

Artifacts and habitats

ByDOLLY JØRGENSEN

chapter 15|9 pages

Interspecies diplomacy in Anthropocenic waters: performing an ocean-oriented ontology

ByUNA CHAUDHURI

chapter 16|10 pages

The Anthropocene at sea: temporality, paradox, compression

BySTACY ALAIMO

part |2 pages

PART III Inequality and environmental justice

chapter 17|9 pages

Turning over a new leaf: Fanonian humanism and environmental justice

ByJENNIFER WENZEL

chapter 18|11 pages

Action-research and environmental justice: lessons from Guatemala’s Chixoy Dam

ByBARBARA ROSE JOHNSTON

chapter 19|9 pages

Farming as speculative activity: the ecological basis of farmers’ suicides in India

ByAKHIL GUPTA

chapter 20|12 pages

Ecological security for whom? The politics of flood alleviation and urban environmental justice in Jakarta, Indonesia

ByHELGA LEITNER, EMMA COLVEN, ERIC SHEPPARD

chapter 21|10 pages

Our ancestors’ dystopia now: indigenous conservation and the Anthropocene

ByKYLE POWYS WHYTE

chapter 22|11 pages

Collected things with names like Mother Corn: Native North American speculative fiction and film

ByJONI ADAMSON

chapter 23|10 pages

The stone guests: Buen Vivir and popular environmentalisms in the Andes and Amazonia

ByJORGE MARCONE

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

ByRICHARD WHITE

chapter 25|11 pages

Hubris and humility in environmental thought

ByMICHELLE NIEMANN

chapter 26|10 pages

Losing primeval forests: degradation narratives in South Asia

ByKATHLEEN D. MORRISON

chapter 27|10 pages

Multidirectional eco-memory in an era of extinction: colonial whaling and indigenous dispossession in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance

ByROSANNE KENNEDY

chapter 28|11 pages

The Caribbean’s agonizing seashores: tourism resorts, art, and the future of the region’s coastlines

ByLIZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT

chapter 29|10 pages

Chapetr 29: Bear down: resilience and multispecies ethology

ByBRETT BUCHANAN

part |2 pages

PART V Environmental arts, media, and technologies

chapter 30|12 pages

Contemporary environmental art

ByJAMES NISBET

chapter 31|10 pages

Slow food, low tech: environmental narratives of agribusiness and its alternatives

ByALLISON CARRUTH

chapter 32|14 pages

Mattress story: on thing power, waste management rhetoric, and Francisco de Pájaro’s trash art

ByMAITE ZUBIAURRE

chapter 33|9 pages

Touching the senses: environments and technologies at the movies

ByALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER

chapter 34|12 pages

Climate, design, and the status of the human: obstacles and opportunities for architectural scholarship in the environmental humanities

ByDANIEL A. BARBER

chapter 35|11 pages

Climate visualizations: making data experiential

ByHEATHER HOUSER

chapter 36|10 pages

Digital? Environmental: Humanities

BySTÉFAN SINCLAIR, STEPHANIE POSTHUMUS

chapter 37|22 pages

From The Xenotext

ByCHRISTIAN BÖK

part |2 pages

PART VI: The state of the environmental humanities

chapter 38|11 pages

The body and environmental history in the Anthropocene

ByLINDA NASH

chapter 39|10 pages

Material ecocriticism and the petro-text

ByHEATHER I. SULLIVAN

chapter 40|9 pages

Fossil freedoms: the politics of emancipation and the end of oil

ByHANNES BERGTHALLER

chapter 41|10 pages

Scaling the planetary humanities: environmental globalization and the Arctic

BySVERKER SÖRLIN

chapter 42|9 pages

Some “F” words for the environmental humanities: feralities, feminisms, futurities

ByCATRIONA SANDILANDS

chapter 43|10 pages

Biocities: urban ecology and the cultural imagination

ByJON CHRISTENSEN, URSULA K. HEISE

chapter 44|11 pages

Environmental humanities: notes towards a summary for policymakers

ByGREG GARRARD

chapter 45|9 pages

The humanities after the Anthropocene

BySTEPHANIE LEMENAGER
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