The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the environmental humanities. It addresses the 21st century recognition of an environmental crisis.

Jeffrey Cohen (Edited by), Stephanie Foote (Edited by)

9781316510681, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 2 September 2021

376 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.66 kg

'All in all, the collection is a compendious description of various approaches to reading … Highly recommended.' G. D. MacDonald, Choice Magazine

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.

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
Index.

Subject Areas: Environmentalist thought & ideology [RNA], Humanities [H], Literary studies: general [DSB], Literature: history & criticism [DS], Literature & literary studies [D]