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The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities

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Stephanie Foote, Jeffrey Cohen, Stephanie LeMenager, Cajetan Iheka, Kyle Powys Whyte, Teena Gabrielson, Urmi Engineer Willoughby, Allison Carruth, Matt Bell, David Higgins, Ron Broglio, Nicole Shukin, Catriona Sandilands, Jeffrey Insko, Steve Mentz, Paul A. Harris, Lowell Duckert, Susan Signe Morrison, Anthony Lioi, Serpil Oppermann, Nicole Walker, Priscilla Wald
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  • Date Published: September 2021
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  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781009017763

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  • This Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to resource impoverishment and the importance of the nonhuman world. It addresses the twenty-first century recognition of an environmental crisis – its antecedents, current forms, and future trajectories – as well as possible responses to it. This books foregrounds scholarship from different periods, fields, and global locations, but it is organized to give readers a working context for the foundational debates. Each chapter examines a key topic or theme in Environmental Humanities, shows why that topic emerged as a category of study, explores the different approaches to the topics, suggests future avenues of inquiry, and considers the topic's global implications, especially those that involve environmental justice issues.

    • Provides a wide ranging overview of the best recent and historical work within the field
    • Written so that even students new to the field can understand what the environmental humanities are and why they matter
    • Articulates how the humanities have responded to a world experiencing the wide ranging effects of climate change
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    'All in all, the collection is a compendious description of various approaches to reading … Highly recommended.' G. D. MacDonald, Choice Magazine

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    • Date Published: September 2021
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781009017763
    • length: 376 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 151 x 22 mm
    • weight: 0.55kg
    • availability: In stock
  • Table of Contents

    1. Introduction Climate Change/Changing Climates Stephanie Foote and Jeffrey Cohen
    2. Commons Stephanie LeMenager
    3. Rights Cajetan Iheka
    4. Time as Kinship Kyle Powys Whyte
    5. The Nature of Gender Teena Gabrielson
    6. Race, Health and Environment Urmi Engineer Willoughby
    7. Narrative and Environmental Innovation Allison Carruth
    8. Climate Fictions: Future-Making Technologies Matt Bell
    9. Apocalypse/Extinction David Higgins
    10. Multispecies Ron Broglio
    11. Food Nicole Shukin
    12. Plants Catriona Sandilands
    13. Extraction Jeffrey Insko
    14. Ice/Water/Vapor Steve Mentz
    15. Rocks Paul A. Harris
    16. Coal/Oil Lowell Duckert
    17. Waste Susan Signe Morrison
    18. Ecomedia Anthony Lioi
    19. New Materialism and the Nonhuman Story Serpil Oppermann
    20. Risk Nicole Walker
    21. Coda: Virus Priscilla Wald
    Bibliography
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  • Editors

    Jeffrey Cohen, Arizona State University
    Jeffrey J. Cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University and former co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. He is widely published in the fields of medieval studies, monster theory, and the environmental humanities. His book Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman received the 2017 René Wellek Prize in comparative literature from the American Comparative Literature Association. In collaboration with Lindy Elkins-Tanton he co-wrote the book Earth, a re-examination of our widest home from the perspectives of a planetary scientist and a literary humanist. With Julian Yates he is co-writing Noah's Arkive: Towards an Ecology of Refuge.

    Stephanie Foote, West Virginia University
    Stephanie Foote is the Jackson and Nichols Chair of English at West Virginia University. She is the author of Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2001), The Parvenu's Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism (2014), and the editor, with Elizabeth Mazzolini, of Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice (2012). She is the co-founder and co-editor of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities. Her articles have appeared in numerous edited collections and journals, such as American Literature, American Literary History, Signs, The Henry James Review, College Literature, Pedagogy, J19, and PMLA. She is currently working on The Art of Waste, a project about waste and literature.

    Contributors

    Stephanie Foote, Jeffrey Cohen, Stephanie LeMenager, Cajetan Iheka, Kyle Powys Whyte, Teena Gabrielson, Urmi Engineer Willoughby, Allison Carruth, Matt Bell, David Higgins, Ron Broglio, Nicole Shukin, Catriona Sandilands, Jeffrey Insko, Steve Mentz, Paul A. Harris, Lowell Duckert, Susan Signe Morrison, Anthony Lioi, Serpil Oppermann, Nicole Walker, Priscilla Wald

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