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Offers a comprehensive introduction to the environmental humanities. It addresses the 21st century recognition of an environmental crisis.
List of contents
1. 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.
About the author
Jeffrey J. Cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University and former co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. He is widely published in the fields of medieval studies, monster theory, and the environmental humanities. His book Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman received the 2017 René Wellek Prize in comparative literature from the American Comparative Literature Association. In collaboration with Lindy Elkins-Tanton he co-wrote the book Earth, a re-examination of our widest home from the perspectives of a planetary scientist and a literary humanist. With Julian Yates he is co-writing Noah's Arkive: Towards an Ecology of Refuge.Stephanie Foote is the Jackson and Nichols Chair of English at West Virginia University. She is the author of Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2001), The Parvenu's Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism (2014), and the editor, with Elizabeth Mazzolini, of Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice (2012). She is the co-founder and co-editor of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities. Her articles have appeared in numerous edited collections and journals, such as American Literature, American Literary History, Signs, The Henry James Review, College Literature, Pedagogy, J19, and PMLA. She is currently working on The Art of Waste, a project about waste and literature.
Summary
This book 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. It addresses the 21st century recognition of an environmental crisis.
