Environmental Humanities
Voices from the Anthropocene
1st Edition
Published on 30. November 2016
392 pages
978-1-78348-940-4 (ISBN)
Description
This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures.
At a time when the narrative and theoretical threads of the environmental humanities are more entwined than ever with the scientific, ethical, and political challenges of the global ecological crisis, this volume invites us to rethink the Anthropocene, the posthuman, and the environmental from various cross-disciplinary viewpoints. The book enriches the environmental debate with new conceptual tools and revitalizes thematic and methodological collaborations in the trajectory of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Alliances between the humanities and the social and natural sciences are vital in addressing and finding viable solutions to our planetary predicaments. Drawing on cutting-edge studies in all the major fields of the eco-cultural debate, the chapters in this book build a creative critical discourse that explores, challenges and enhances the field of environmental humanities.
At a time when the narrative and theoretical threads of the environmental humanities are more entwined than ever with the scientific, ethical, and political challenges of the global ecological crisis, this volume invites us to rethink the Anthropocene, the posthuman, and the environmental from various cross-disciplinary viewpoints. The book enriches the environmental debate with new conceptual tools and revitalizes thematic and methodological collaborations in the trajectory of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Alliances between the humanities and the social and natural sciences are vital in addressing and finding viable solutions to our planetary predicaments. Drawing on cutting-edge studies in all the major fields of the eco-cultural debate, the chapters in this book build a creative critical discourse that explores, challenges and enhances the field of environmental humanities.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-78348-940-4 (9781783489404)
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Persons
Serenella Iovino is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turin. Her publications include Ecocriticism and Italy (2015), Ecologia Letteraria (2006, 2015), Filosofie dell'ambiente (2004), and, as co-editor, Material Ecocriticism (2014), ContaminAzioni Ecologiche (2015) and Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities (forthcoming). She is a former president of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment.
Serpil Oppermann is Professor of English at Hacettepe University, Turkey. She is co-editor of The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons (2011), International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism (2013), and Material Ecocriticism (2014) and editor of New International Voices in Ecocriticism (2015).
Serpil Oppermann is Professor of English at Hacettepe University, Turkey. She is co-editor of The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons (2011), International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism (2013), and Material Ecocriticism (2014) and editor of New International Voices in Ecocriticism (2015).
Content
Foreword, Richard Kerridge / Introduction: The Environmental Humanities and the Challenges of the Anthropocene, Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino / Part I - Re-Mapping the Humanities / Posthuman Environs, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen / Environmental History between Institutionalization and Revolution: A Short Commentarywith Two Sites and One Experiment, Marco Armiero / Cultural Ecology, the Environmental Humanities, and the Transdisciplinary Knowledge of Literature, Hubert Zapf / Where is Feminism in the Environmental Humanities? Greta Gaard / Seasick Among the Waves of Ecocriticism: An Inquiry into Alternative Historiographic Metaphors, Scott Slovic / Part II - Voicing the Anthropocene / The Extraordinary Strata of the Anthropocene, Jan Zalasiewicz / Worldview Remediation in the First Century of the New Millennium, J. Baird Callicott / We Have Never Been "Anthropos": From Environmental Justice to Cosmopolitics, Joni Adamson / Resources (Un)Ltd: Of Planets, Mining and Biogeochemical Togetherness, Filippo Bertoni / Lacuna: Minding the Gaps of Place and Class, Lowell Duckert / Part III - Nature's Cultures and Creatures / Nature/Culture/Seawater: Theory Machines, Anthropology, Oceanization, Stefan Helmreich / Revisiting the Anthropological Difference, Matthew Calarco / Lively Ethography: Storying Animist Worlds, Thom van Dooren and Deborah Bird Rose / Religion and Ecology: Towards the Communion of Creatures, Kate Rigby / How the Earth Speaks Now: The Book of Nature and Biosemiotics as Theoretical Resource for the Environmental Humanities in the Twenty-First Century, Wendy Wheeler / Part IV - EcoStories and Conversations / How to Read a Bridge, Rob Nixon / The Martian Book of the Dead, Bronislaw Szerszynski / On Rivers, Juan Carlos Galeano / Can the Humanities Become Posthuman? A Conversation, Rosi Braidotti and Cosetta Veronese
