Empire and Environment

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"Empire and Environment is an important volume with scholarship of the highest quality that will be valuable to scholars and graduate and undergraduate students. The book puts into conversation interdisciplinary and transnational writers, activists, and poetry. The range of artists and scholars gathered together allow for coverage of diverse interests, disciplines, and geographies. It also makes for a dynamic read and will appeal to a variety of readers." -- Marguerite Nguyen, Wesleyan University "Living up to the promise of their anthology titles, editors Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Zhou Xiaojing bring together a heterogenous collection of works not only to consider the ruinous impacts of imperialism and colonialism across the Pacific region, but also to recognize the current and future possibilities of decolonial environmental justice and self-determination. Empire and Environment is certain to be a key interdisciplinary text for those interested in transpacific studies, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, empire and settler colonialism." -- Ashanti Shih, H-Net "By bringing destructive consequences of capitalism into dialogue with ecological destruction across and within the Pacific region, Empire and Environment increases our understanding of the complexities and conflicts of present-day global ecological systems deeply and persistently shaped by histories of colonialism, militarism, extractive imperialism, and racial capitalism." -- Hanyue Li, Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies "With its strategic turn to the Pacific region as the locus of its critique, the book lets emerge often understated transpacific sensibilities, which in turn grants visibility to alternative coalitions that are grounded not only in geographical proximities but also in struggles and worldviews that resonate across the region and beyond. As such, more than articulating of the endurance of imperial debris, Empire and Environment reminds us that among the ruins there also lie possible futures, with marginalized human and nonhuman lives perpetually persisting." -- Christian Jil R. Benitez, The Journal of Asian Studies