Introduction. Coda: virus / Priscilla Wald The commons / Stephanie LeMenager -- Rights / Cajetan Iheka -- Time as kinship / Kyle Powys Whyte -- The nature of gender / Teena Gabrielson -- Race, health, and environment / Urmi Engineer Willoughby -- Narrative and environmental innovation / Allison Carruth -- Climate fictions: future-making technologies -- Apocalypse/extinction / David Higgins -- Multispecies / Ron Broglio -- Food / Nicole Shukin -- Plants / Catriona Sandilands -- Extraction / Jeffrey Insko -- Ice/water/vapor / Steve Mentz -- Rocks / Paul A. Harris -- Coal/oil / Lowell Duckert -- Waste / Susan Signe Morrison -- Ecomedia / Anthony Lioi -- New materialism and the nonhuman story / Serpil Oppermann -- Risk / Nicole Walker -- Coda: virus / Priscilla Wald
Summary:
"What is Environmental Humanities? Over the last three decades, humanities scholars working on environmental matters have moved beyond field-specific and well-delineated descriptors like "environmental history" or "literature and the environment," subdisciplines that had often been outliers in the curricula of History and Literature departments. These scholars produced groundbreaking interdisciplinary work that challenged the primacy of standard narratives of the cultural reproduction of the vexed category of nature, and helped to usher in what we now label the environmental humanities (or EH). EH is a lively and capacious domain of inquiry that includes researchers and writers in Literature, Languages, History, Anthropology, Urban Planning, Philosophy, Political Science, Education, Religion, Classics, Creative Writing, Geography, and Landscape Architecture, as well as scholars of Race and Gender Studies. Working within and across conventional disciplines, EH has over the last decade or so spun out a dazzling set of conceptual and theoretical problems, drawing on feminist, queer, postcolonial, urban, oceanic, posthuman, nonhuman, elemental, prismatic, geologic, digital, indigenous, new materialist, energy, and object oriented ontology theories. In each of these riotous theoretical inquiries, EH scholars have challenged the disciplinary conventions that have shaped and limited how we understand and can talk to one another about key terms like "nature," "culture," "matter," and "representation.""-- Provided by publisher.
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