Readings between animal studies and the environmental humanities aesthetics, ethics and sustainable transition John Miller

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, John, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in literature.

Human ecology in literature.

Human-animal relationships in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Ecology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2026

Summary:

"The relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities is both intimate and tense. It makes little sense to examine the representation of environments without thinking about the animals that shape them, or, conversely, to think about animals without exploring the ecologies they live in. Yet, animal studies and the environmental humanities often appear to have divergent ethical, political and intellectual emphases. This book examines the relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities through three interlinked topics – meat, oil and conservation – each of which has given rise to an emerging sub-field of academic enquiry: vegan studies, the energy humanities, and extinction studies. Exploring these themes and perspectives through readings of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present, the book argues that the contradictions and cross-fertilisations between ecological and animal critical perspectives provide a compelling perspective on the failure of mainstream discourses of sustainability to address our current global emergency"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

Introduction : Sustainable transition and the more-than-humanities

Eating well in the Anthropocene

Wendell Berry’s carnopoetics

Cultured meat landscapes

Carnism and motonormativity

Roadkill in J. G. Ballard’s autoscapes

Multispecies automobilities in Nnedi Okorafor’s Africanfuturism

(Un)natural capital and endangered species

Comedy, capital and the poetics of encounter in Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine’s Last Chance to See

Disentangled creatures in Ned Beauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker

Conclusion : The aporias of green capitalism

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed July 28, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Miller, John, 1973- Readings between animal studies and the environmental humanities

ISBN:

9781350253643

1350253642

9781350253650

1350253650

9781350253636

1350253634

OCLC:

1593365312

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