Environmental Humanities

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Oppermann and Iovino have assembled a creative, diverse essay collection, international in scope, often speculative and passionate, and committed to transdisciplinarity. If the Anthropocene usually signifies boosterish techno-optimism or dire eco-apocalypse, this book offers the hope, at least, of keener intelligence about what the humanities can be as we enter an era of profound, geologic uncertainty. -- Stephanie LeMenager, Moore Professor of English and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon If you read only one collection of essays in the new field of Environmental Humanities, you cannot currently do better than by choosing this one. It provides a great chorus of voices, a wide panorama of concepts and discourses, and a fascinating, at times troubling, exploration of the situation of humanity on an endangered planet. -- Christof Mauch "Has our planet entered the Anthropocene? Are we leaving behind the geological era that provided the climatic conditions for the birth and flowering of civilization? If so, all the categories that informed civilization - including that of anthropos itself - will be up for review. Such a renegotiation of the very terms of our existence is a task not so much for science as for a scientifically literate, re-awakened humanities, blasted open by crisis to new horizons of imagination and to unprecedented existential responsibilities. Voices from the Anthropocene is a powerful response to this extraordinary challenge." -- Freya Matthews, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Philosophy, LaTrobe University the environmental humanities is well on its way to becoming a permanent fixture of contemporary university life. The field has two academic journals (Resilience and Environmental Humanities) and dozens of academic programs and institutes have proliferated in Europe and the United States. But there are other markers of academic legitimacy, such as handbooks, companions, and encyclopedias. These hefty-and often expensive-books collect key works and interventions by scholars in a particular subject. * Environmental Ethics *