Environmental humanities : voices from the anthropocene / edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oppermann, Serpil, editor.

Iovino, Serenella, 1971- editor.

EBSCOhost.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Rowman and Littlefield International - intersections

Rowman and Littlefield International - Intersections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental sciences--Philosophy.

Environmental sciences.

Science and the humanities.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 373 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

London : Rowman and Littlefield International, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : the environmental humanities and the challenges of the anthropocene / Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino

Posthuman environs / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Environmental history between institutionalization and revolution : a short commentary with 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

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Environmental humanities (Rowman and Littlefield International : 2017). Environmental humanities.

ISBN:

9781783489404

1783489405

Publisher Number:

99971058706

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