Environmental Humanities (eBook)

Voices from the Anthropocene

Serenella Iovino, Serpil Oppermann (Herausgeber)

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2016
392 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-940-4 (ISBN)

Infos

An international and interdisciplinary team of scholars offer innovative models of thinking about environmentality in the humanities and in Anthropocene discourse in the environmental sciences.

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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.

Autor

lt;span>Serenella Iovino is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turin. Her publications include Ecocriticism and Italy (2015), Ecologia Letteraria (2006, 2015), Filosofie dell’ambiente (2004), and, as co-editor, Material Ecocriticism (2014), ContaminAzioni Ecologiche (2015) and Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities (forthcoming). She is a former president of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment.

Serpil Oppermann is Professor of English at Hacettepe University, Turkey. She is co-editor of The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons (2011), International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism (2013), and Material Ecocriticism (2014) and editor of New International Voices in Ecocriticism (2015).

Inhalt

Foreword, Richard Kerridge / Introduction: The Environmental Humanities and the Challenges of the Anthropocene, Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino / Part I – Re-Mapping the Humanities / 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 / Part II – Voicing the Anthropocene / 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 / Part III – Nature’s Cultures and Creatures / 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 / Part IV – EcoStories and Conversations / 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Rowman and Littlefield International – Intersections
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: Animal Studies • Comparative Literature • critical geography • Cultural Studies • Cultural Theory • ecocritical theory • Ecocriticism • Ecology • Environment • environmental philosophy • Environmental Studies • posthumanism
• ISBN-10: 1-78348-940-5 / 1783489405
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78348-940-4 / 9781783489404