Title & Author:

The Routledge companion to the environmental humanities / edited by Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann.

Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Description:

xvi, 489 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Routledge companions

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: planet, species, justice : and the stories we tell about them / Ursula K. Heise -- The anthropocene : love it or leave it / Dale Jamieson -- Domestication, domesticated landscapes, and tropical natures / Susanna B. Hecht -- "They carry life in their hair" : domestication and the African diaspora / Judith A. Carney -- Domestication in a post-industrial world / Libby Robin -- Meals in the age of toxic environments / Yuki Masami -- Hybrid aversion : wolves, dogs, and the humans who love to keep them apart / Emma Marris -- Techno-conservation in the anthropocene : what does it mean to save a species? / Ronald Sandler -- Coloring climates : imagining a geoengineered world / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Utopia's afterlife in the anthropocene / Anahid Nersessian -- Renaissance selfhood and Shakespeare's comedy of the commons / Robert N. Watson -- Multispecies epidemiology and the viral subject / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- Encountering a more-than-human world : ethos and the arts of witness / Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren -- Loving the native : invasive species and the cultural politics of flourishing / Jessica R. Cattelino -- Artifacts and habitats / Dolly Jørgensen -- Interspecies diplomacy in anthropocenic waters : performing an ocean-oriented ontology / Una Chaudhuri -- The anthropocene at sea : temporality, paradox, compression / Stacy Alaimo -- Turning over a new leaf : Fanonian humanism and environmental justice / Jennifer Wenzel -- Action-research and environmental justice : lessons from Guatemala's Chixoy Dam / Barbara Rose Johnston -- Farming as speculative activity : the ecological basis of farmers' suicides in India / Akhil Gupta -- Ecological security for whom? : the politics of flood alleviation and urban environmental justice in Jakarta, Indonesia / Helga Leitner, Emma Colven, and Eric Sheppard -- Our ancestors' dystopia now : indigenous conservation and the anthropocene / Kyle Powys Whyte -- Collected things with names like Mother Corn : native North American speculative fiction and film / Joni Adamson -- The stone guests : Buen Vivir and popular environmentalisms in the Andes and Amazonia / Jorge Marcone -- Play it again, Sam : decline and finishing in environmental narratives / Richard White -- Hubris and humility in environmental thought / Michelle Niemann -- Losing primeval forests : degradation narratives in South Asia / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Multidirectional eco-memory in an era of extinction : colonial whaling and indigenous dispossession in Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance / Rosanne Kennedy -- The Caribbean's agonizing seashores : tourism resorts, art, and the future of the region's coastlines / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Bear down : resilience and multispecies ethology / Brett Buchanan -- Contemporary environmental art / James Nisbet -- Slow food, low tech : environmental narratives of agribusiness and its alternatives / Allison Carruth -- Mattress story : on thing power, waste management rhetoric, and Francisco de Pájaro's trash art / Maite Zubiaurre -- Touching the senses : environments and technologies at the movies / Alexa Weik von Mossner -- Climate, design, and the status of the human : obstacles and opportunities for architectural scholarship in the environmental humanities / Daniel A. Barber -- Climate visualizations : making data experiential / Heather Houser -- Digital? Environmental : Humanities / Stéfan Sinclair and Stephanie Posthumus -- From the xenotext / Christian Bök -- The body and environmental history in the anthropocene / Linda Nash -- Material ecocriticism and the petro-text / Heather I. Sullivan -- Fossil freedoms : the politics of emancipation and the end of oil / Hannes Bergthaller -- Scaling the planetary humanities : environmental globalization and the arctic / Sverker Sörlin -- Some "F" words for the environmental humanities : feralities, feminisms, futurities / Catriona Sandilands -- Biocities : urban ecology and the cultural imagination / Jon Christensen and Ursula K. Heise -- Environmental humanities : notes towards a summary for policymakers / Greg Garrard -- The humanities after the anthropocene / Stephanie LeMenager.

Summary:

"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."-- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781138786745 (hardback : alk. paper)
1138786748 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781317660194 (web pdf)
9781317660187 (epub)
9781317660170 (mobipocket/kindle)
9781315766355
1315766353

Subject:

Environmental sciences Social aspects.
Science and the humanities.
Human ecology.
Nature Effect of human beings on.
Sciences de l'environnement Aspect social.
Sciences et sciences humaines.
Écologie humaine.
Homme Influence sur la nature.
human ecology.

Added entries:

Heise, Ursula K., editor.
Christensen, Jon, 1960- editor.
Niemann, Michelle, editor.
Routledge companions.

Companion to the environmental humanities
Environmental humanities

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296838
Call No.: BIB 243157
Status: Available