The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

Herausgeber: Heise, Ursula; Niemann, Michelle; Christensen, Jon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 490
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1315g
• ISBN-13: 9781138786745
• ISBN-10: 1138786748
• Artikelnr.: 43674280

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction:
Planet, Species, Justice-and the Stories We Tell about Them Ursula K. Heise
Part 1: The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth
1. The Anthropocene: Love It or Leave It Dale Jamieson
2. Domestication, Domesticated Landscapes, and Tropical Natures Susanna B.
Hecht
3. "They Carry Life in Their Hair": Domestication and the African Diaspora
Judith A. Carney
4. Domestication in a Post-Industrial World Libby Robin
5. Meals in the Age of Toxic Environments Yuki Masami
6. Hybrid Aversion: Wolves, Dogs, and the Humans Who Love to Keep Them
Apart Emma Marris
7. Techno-Conservation in the Anthropocene: What Does It Mean to Save a
Species? Ronald Sandler
8. Coloring Climates: Imagining a Geoengineered World Bronislaw Szerszynski
9. Utopia's Afterlife in the Anthropocene Anahid Nersessian
Part 2: Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities
10. Renaissance Selfhood and Shakespeare's Comedy of the Commons Robert N.
Watson
11. Multispecies Epidemiology and the Viral Subject Genese Marie Sodikoff
12. Encountering a More-than-Human World: Ethos and the Arts of Witness
Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren
13. Loving the Native: Invasive Species and the Cultural Politics of
Flourishing Jessica R. Cattelino
14. Artifacts and Habitats Dolly Jørgensen
15. Interspecies Diplomacy in Anthropocenic Waters: Performing an
Ocean-Oriented Ontology Una Chaudhuri
16. The Anthropocene at Sea: Temporality, Paradox, Compression Stacy Alaimo
Part 3: Inequality and Environmental Justice
17. Turning Over a New Leaf: Fanonian Humanism and Environmental Justice
Jennifer Wenzel
18. Action-Research and Environmental Justice: Lessons from Guatemala's
Chixoy Dam Barbara Rose Johnston
19. Farming as Speculative Activity: The Ecological Basis of Farmers'
Suicides in India Akhil Gupta
20. Ecological Security for Whom? The Politics of Flood Alleviation and
Urban Environmental Justice in Jakarta, Indonesia Helga Leitner, Emma
Colven, and Eric Sheppard
21. Our Ancestors' Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the
Anthropocene Kyle Powys Whyte
22. Collected Things with Names like Mother Corn: Native North American
Speculative Fiction and Film Joni Adamson
23. The Stone Guests: Buen Vivir and Popular Environmentalisms in the Andes
and Amazonia Jorge Marcone
Part 4: Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives, History, and
Memory
24. Play It Again, Sam: Decline and Finishing in Environmental Narratives
Richard White
25. Hubris and Humility in Environmental Thought Michelle Niemann
26. Losing Primeval Forests: Degradation Narratives in South Asia Kathleen
D. Morrison
27. Multidirectional Eco-Memory in an Era of Extinction: Colonial Whaling
and Indigenous Dispossession in Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance Rosanne
Kennedy
28. The Caribbean's Agonizing Seashores: Tourism Resorts, Art, and the
Future of the Region's Coastlines Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
29. Bear Down: Resilience and Multispecies Ethology Brett Buchanan
Part 5: Environmental Arts, Media, and Technologies
30. Contemporary Environmental Art James Nisbet
31. 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 Zubiaurre
33. Touching the Senses: Environments and Technologies at the Movies Alexa
Weik von Mossner
34. Climate, Design, and the Status of the Human: Obstacles and
Opportunities for Architectural Scholarship in the Environmental Humanities
Daniel A. Barber
35. Climate Visualizations: Making Data Experiential Heather Houser
36. Digital ? Environmental : Humanities Stéfan Sinclair and Stephanie
Posthumus
37. From The Xenotext Christian Bök
Part 6: The State of the Environmental Humanities
38. The Body and Environmental History in the Anthropocene Linda Nash
39. Material Ecocriticism and the Petro-Text Heather I. Sullivan
40. Fossil Freedoms: The Politics of Emancipation and the End of Oil
Hannes Bergthaller
41. Scaling the Planetary Humanities: Environmental Globalization and the
Arctic Sverker Sörlin
42. Some "F" Words for the Environmental Humanities: Feralities, Feminisms,
Futurities Catriona Sandilands
43. Biocities: Urban Ecology and the Cultural Imagination Jon Christensen
and Ursula K. Heise
44. Environmental Humanities: Notes Towards a Summary for Policymakers
Greg Garrard
45. The Humanities after the Anthropocene Stephanie LeMenager