Global ecologies and the environmental humanities : Postcolonial approaches

DeLoughrey, Elizabeth. (Author). DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967- (editor.). Didur, Jill, 1965- (editor.). Carrigan, Anthony, 1980- (editor.).

Summary: Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities is a must-read for anyone interested in the roots of today's environmental crisis and possible solutions to it. This book brings an important international perspective to the emerging field of the environmental humanities and reenergizes familiar concepts such as the Anthropocene, resilience, and terraforming by placing them within imperial and postcolonial contexts. It also introduces new concepts to the environmental humanities conversation, such as postcolonial disaster studies and environmental theology. Surveying a broad range of cultural aesthetics, literary genres, and geographies, and deftly moving between global and local scales of inquiry, Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities offers up a variety of exciting new methods for addressing the past, current, and future state of the world's environment.” - Erin James, University of Idaho, USA “This may well be the decade that environmental humanities move to the front and centre of critical theory. This expertly assembled volume by a trio of vibrant scholars shows why. Bringing together diverse issues of disaster management, commodity frontiers and economies of scale with those of literary genres, styles, and forms the contributors show once again that our world and our texts remain indispensible to one another. -- Review from thenile.com.au website.

Record details

ISBN: 9781138827721 (hardback)
Physical Description: print
xv, 391 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2015.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

List of figures -- Foreoword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A postcolonial environmental humanities -- pt. I Politics of Earth: Forests, Gardens, Plantations -- 1. Narrativizing Nature: India, Empire, and Environment / David Arnold -- 2. "The Perverse Little People of the Hills:" Unearthing Ecology and Transculturation in Reginald Farrer's Alpine Plant Hunting / Jill Didur -- 3. Bagasse: Caribbean Art and the Debris of the Sugar Plantation / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- 4. Writing a Native Garden?: Environmental Language and Post-Mabo Literature in Australia / Susan K. Martin -- pt. II Disaster, Vulnerability, and Resilience -- 5. Towards a Postcolonial Disaster Studies / Anthony Carrigan -- 6. Nuclear Disaster: The Marshall Islands Experience and Lessons for a Post-Fukushima World / Barbara Rose Johnston -- 7. Island Vulnerability and Resilience: Combining Knowledges for Disaster Risk Reduction, Including Climate Change Adaptation / Anthony Carrigan -- pt. III Political Ecologies and Environmental Justice -- 8. Edgework of the Clerk: Resilience in Arundhati Roy's Walking with the Comrades / Susie O'Brien -- 9. Filming the Emergence of Popular Environmentalism in Latin America: Postcolonialism and Buen Vivir / Jorge Marcone -- 10. Witnessing the Nature of Violence: Resource Extraction and Political Ecologies in the Contemporary African Novel / Byron Caminero-Santangelo -- pt. IV Mapping World Ecologies -- 11. Narrating a Global Future: Our Common Future and the Public Hearings of the World Commission on Environment and Development / Cheryl Lousley -- 12. Oil on Sugar: Commodity Frontiers and Peripheral Aesthetics / Michael Niblett -- 13. Ghost Mountains and Stone Maidens: Ecological Imperialism, Compound Catastrophe, and the Post-Soviet Ecogothic / Sharae Deckard -- pt. V Terraforming, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene -- 14. Terraforming Planet Earth / Joseph Masco -- 15. Climate Change, Cosmology, and Poetry: The Case of Derek Walcott's Omeros / George B. Handley -- 16. Ordinary Futures: Interspecies Worldings in the Anthropocene / Elizabeth Deloughrey -- Contributors -- Index.