Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene

by Serpil Oppermann (Editor)

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.

392 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 30, 2016

Reviews

[Keygan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read most of the essays in this book: overall, a fascinating collection of voices (anthropologists, writers, scholars, scientists) on living in and thinking about the Anthropocene. I was especially interested in Thom van Dooren and Deborah Bird Rose's "Lively Ethography: Storying Animist Worlds" and will seek out more of their work. I recommend this to scholars interested in how Anthropocene/climate change/extinction impacts the humanities disciplines.