Description
Book SynopsisThis Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to resource impoverishment and the importance of the nonhuman world. It addresses the twenty-first century recognition of an environmental crisis ? its antecedents, current forms, and future trajectories ? as well as possible responses to it. This books foregrounds scholarship from different periods, fields, and global locations, but it is organized to give readers a working context for the foundational debates. Each chapter examines a key topic or theme in Environmental Humanities, shows why that topic emerged as a category of study, explores the different approaches to the topics, suggests future avenues of inquiry, and considers the topic''s global implications, especially those that involve environmental justice issues.
Trade Review'All in all, the collection is a compendious description of various approaches to reading … Highly recommended.' G. D. MacDonald, Choice Magazine
Table of Contents1. Introduction Climate Change/Changing Climates Stephanie Foote and Jeffrey Cohen; 2. Commons Stephanie LeMenager; 3. Rights Cajetan Iheka; 4. Time as Kinship Kyle Powys Whyte; 5. The Nature of Gender Teena Gabrielson; 6. Race, Health and Environment Urmi Engineer Willoughby; 7. Narrative and Environmental Innovation Allison Carruth; 8. Climate Fictions: Future-Making Technologies Matt Bell; 9. Apocalypse/Extinction David Higgins; 10. Multispecies Ron Broglio; 11. Food Nicole Shukin; 12. Plants Catriona Sandilands; 13. Extraction Jeffrey Insko; 14. Ice/Water/Vapor Steve Mentz; 15. Rocks Paul A. Harris; 16. Coal/Oil Lowell Duckert; 17. Waste Susan Signe Morrison; 18. Ecomedia Anthony Lioi; 19. New Materialism and the Nonhuman Story Serpil Oppermann; 20. Risk Nicole Walker; 21. Coda: Virus Priscilla Wald; Bibliography; Index.
