The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship. Articulating the significance of humanistic perspectives for our collective social engagement with ecological crises, the volume explores the potential of the environmental humanities for organizing humanistic research, opening up new forms of interdisciplinarity, and shaping public debate and policies on environmental issues.
Sections cover:
The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth
Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities
Inequality and Environmental Justice-
Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory
Environmental Arts, Media, and Technologies
The State of the Environmental Humanities
The first of its kind, this companion covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines within the humanities and with the social and natural sciences. Exploring how the environmental humanities contribute to policy and action concerning some of the key intellectual, social, and environmental challenges of our times, the chapters offer an ideal guide to this rapidly developing field.

Ursula K. Heise is Professor of English and a faculty member of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Jon Christensen is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of History, and the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Michelle Niemann is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Introduction: Planet, Species, Justice-and the Stories We Tell about Them Ursula K. Heise Part 1: The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth 1. The Anthropocene: Love It or Leave It Dale Jamieson 2. Domestication, Domesticated Landscapes, and Tropical Natures Susanna B. Hecht 3. "They Carry Life in Their Hair": Domestication and the African Diaspora Judith A. Carney 4. Domestication in a Post-Industrial World Libby Robin 5. Meals in the Age of Toxic Environments Yuki Masami 6. Hybrid Aversion: Wolves, Dogs, and the Humans Who Love to Keep Them Apart Emma Marris 7. Techno-Conservation in the Anthropocene: What Does It Mean to Save a Species? Ronald Sandler 8. Coloring Climates: Imagining a Geoengineered World Bronislaw Szerszynski 9. Utopia's Afterlife in the Anthropocene Anahid Nersessian Part 2: Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities 10. Renaissance Selfhood and Shakespeare's Comedy of the Commons Robert N. Watson 11. Multispecies Epidemiology and the Viral Subject Genese Marie Sodikoff 12. Encountering a More-than-Human World: Ethos and the Arts of Witness Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren 13. Loving the Native: Invasive Species and the Cultural Politics of Flourishing Jessica R. Cattelino 14. Artifacts and Habitats Dolly Jørgensen 15. Interspecies Diplomacy in Anthropocenic Waters: Performing an Ocean-Oriented Ontology Una Chaudhuri 16. The Anthropocene at Sea: Temporality, Paradox, Compression Stacy Alaimo Part 3: Inequality and Environmental Justice 17. Turning Over a New Leaf: Fanonian Humanism and Environmental Justice Jennifer Wenzel 18. Action-Research and Environmental Justice: Lessons from Guatemala's Chixoy Dam Barbara Rose Johnston 19. Farming as Speculative Activity: The Ecological Basis of Farmers' Suicides in India Akhil Gupta 20. Ecological Security for Whom? The Politics of Flood Alleviation and Urban Environmental Justice in Jakarta, Indonesia Helga Leitner, Emma Colven, and Eric Sheppard 21. Our Ancestors' Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the Anthropocene Kyle Powys Whyte 22. Collected Things with Names like Mother Corn: Native North American Speculative Fiction and Film Joni Adamson 23. The Stone Guests: Buen Vivir and Popular Environmentalisms in the Andes and Amazonia Jorge Marcone Part 4: Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory 24. Play It Again, Sam: Decline and Finishing in Environmental Narratives Richard White 25. Hubris and Humility in Environmental Thought Michelle Niemann 26. Losing Primeval Forests: Degradation Narratives in South Asia Kathleen D. Morrison 27. Multidirectional Eco-Memory in an Era of Extinction: Colonial Whaling and Indigenous Dispossession in Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance Rosanne Kennedy 28. The Caribbean's Agonizing Seashores: Tourism Resorts, Art, and the Future of the Region's Coastlines Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert 29. Bear Down: Resilience and Multispecies Ethology Brett Buchanan Part 5: Environmental Arts, Media, and Technologies 30. Contemporary Environmental Art James Nisbet 31. Slow Food, Low Tech: Environmental Narratives of Agribusiness and Its Alternatives Allison Carruth 32. Mattress Story: On Thing Power, Waste Management Rhetoric, and Francisco de Pájaro's Trash Art Maite Zubiaurre 33. Touching the Senses: Environments and Technologies at the Movies Alexa Weik von Mossner 34. Climate, Design, and the Status of the Human: Obstacles and Opportunities for Architectural Scholarship in the Environmental Humanities Daniel A. Barber 35. Climate Visualizations: Making Data Experiential Heather Houser 36. Digital ? Environmental : Humanities Stéfan Sinclair and Stephanie Posthumus 37. From The Xenotext Christian Bök Part 6: The State of the Environmental Humanities 38. The Body and Environmental History in the Anthropocene Linda Nash 39. Material Ecocriticism and the Petro-Text Heather I. Sullivan 40. Fossil Freedoms: The Politics of Emancipation and the End of Oil Hannes Bergthaller 41. Scaling the Planetary Humanities: Environmental Globalization and the Arctic Sverker Sörlin 42. Some "F" Words for the Environmental Humanities: Feralities, Feminisms, Futurities Catriona Sandilands 43. Biocities: Urban Ecology and the Cultural Imagination Jon Christensen and Ursula K. Heise 44. Environmental Humanities: Notes Towards a Summary for Policymakers Greg Garrard 45. The Humanities after the Anthropocene Stephanie LeMenager