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- Cover
- Half Title
- Endorsement Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to the Environmental Humanities
- History and theory
- Chapter objectives
- Book overview
- Resurrecting the auroch
- What on earth are the Environmental Humanities?
- Historical roots of the Environmental Humanities
- A humanities to come? EH arrives
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- References
- 2 Climate change
- The great disrupter
- Chapter objectives
- More than an inconvenient truth
- What is climate change?
- The Environmental Humanities difference
- Environmental Humanities action
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- References
- 3 The Anthropocene
- A superhero species comes of age
- Chapter objectives
- It is the dawning of the age of the human
- What is the Anthropocene?
- What does the Anthropocene mean?
- What the Environmental Humanities contributes
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- References
- 4 Indigenous cultures and nature
- Past, present, and future
- Chapter objectives
- Contacting the sentinelese
- Indigenous cultures and the Environmental Humanities
- Indigenous cultures and EH: Historical perspectives
- Indigenous cultures and EH: Current directions
- Summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- References
- 5 Environmental anthropology, cultural geography, and the geohumanities
- Space and place
- Chapter objectives
- Razing the amazon
- Space and place in the Environmental Humanities
- Space and place: historical perspectives
- Space and place: current trends and future prospects
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- References
- 6 Environmental history
- The story of coevolution
- Chapter objectives
- Virus cultures
- Environmental history
- Telling it like it is
- History for the future
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- References
- 7 Environmental philosophy
- Thinking about nature
- Chapter objectives
- Luminescing flora
- Ecophilosophy as a pillar of the Environmental Humanities
- Historical developments and key texts in environmental philosophy
- Current trends and future prospects in environmental philosophy
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- References
- 8 Ecological religious studies
- Faith in nature
- Chapter objectives
- Religion versus environment
- Religion or ecology
- Religion and ecology
- Religion and ecology futures
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- References
- 9 Environmental art
- Creativity, activism, and sustainability
- Chapter objectives
- The art of vegetating
- Environmental art: from representation to relation
- Historical and theoretical contexts in environmental art
- Current and future directions in environmental art
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- References
- 10 Ecological literary studies
- Imagining nature
- Chapter objectives
- Can literature save the world?
- Literary environments
- Reading literary environments
- Being at home in the world
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- References
- 11 Environmental theater
- Performing nature
- Chapter objectives
- Deliberating species
- Ecotheater: imaginative impressions of sustainable futures
- Performing nature: Ecotheater history and theory
- Hope for the Earth? Current trajectories in ecotheater
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- References
- 12 Environmental film
- Projecting nature
- Chapter objectives
- Harvesting honeycomb
- Green film criticism and environmental consciousness
- Imaging nature: ecocinema history and theory
- The timeliness of film? Current trajectories in ecocinema studies
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- Filmography
- References
- 13 Environmental journalism
- Mediating ecological issues
- Chapter objectives
- Investigating environmental crime
- Reporting environmental facts: journalism and ecological concerns
- News about nature: environmental journalism history and theory
- New green beats? Current trajectories in environmental journalism
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- Filmography
- References
- 14 Conclusion
- Back to the future Environmental Humanities
- Chapter objectives
- Rewilding the urban
- The Environmental Humanities: old roots, new seeds
- Animal and plant studies
- Arctic and Antarctic humanities
- Asian Environmental Humanities
- Blue humanities
- Emergency humanities
- Energy humanities
- Extinction studies
- Medical environmental humanities
- Paleoenvironmental humanities
- Wetland humanities
- Chapter summary
- Exercises
- Annotated bibliography
- Weblinks
- References
- Index