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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:

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

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