The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities- Front Cover
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of illustrations
	Figures
	Tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: planet, species, justice—and the stories
we tell about them
	The emergence of the environmental humanities
	The environmental humanities between the Anthropocene and posthumanisms
	Narrative, aesthetics, and media
	References
PART I:
The Anthropocene and the domestication of Earth
Chapter 1: The Anthropocene: love it or leave it
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: Domestication, domesticated landscapes, and tropical natures
	Domestication politics and the human footprint
	Domestication and the environmental humanities
	The great Amazon wilderness debate: Meggers, “Neo-Meggersians,” and the “Denevan School”
	Models of domestication
	References
Chapter 3: “They carry life in their hair”: domestication and
the African diaspora
	Suriname, 1711: they carry life in their hair
	The Columbian Exchange: migration and crop transfers
	Slave agency in crop introductions
	African food crops in the transatlantic slave trade
	Subsistence and slave food fields
	African plants and the transatlantic commodity chain
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: Domestication in a post-industrial world
	The domesticated life and its history
	De-domestication: European expansion and settler anxiety
	Re-domestication?
	References
Chapter 5: Meals in the age of toxic environments
	Note
	References
Chapter 6: Hybrid aversion: wolves, dogs, and the humans who love
to keep them apart
	Thelma and Louise
	Free-ranging wolfdog hybrids
	Wolfdog hybrids as pets
	Zweiweltenkind
	Wildness at what cost?
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: Techno-conservation in the Anthropocene: what does it mean
to save a species?
	Climate change, species extinctions, and conservation strategies
	The tragedy of the Anthropocene: from passenger pigeons to polar bears
	What is the alternative?
	References
Chapter 8: Coloring climates: imagining a geoengineered world
	Geoengineering and the disciplines
	Coloring the sky
	Reflecting (on) the sky
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	References
Chapter 9: Utopia’s afterlife in the Anthropocene
	Anthropocene and utopia
	Utopia at the limit
	Weak utopia
	Notes
	References
PART II:
Posthumanism and multispecies communities
Chapter 10: Renaissance selfhood and Shakespeare’s comedy
of the commons
	Human selfhood in the Renaissance
	Human selfhood in Shakespeare
	References
Chapter 11: Multispecies epidemiology and the viral subject
	The ethnography of zoonosis in Madagascar
	References
Chapter 12: Encountering a more-than-human world: ethos and
the arts of witness
	Albatrosses
	Ethos
	Mistletoe
	Becoming-witness
	Notes
	References
Chapter 13: Loving the native: invasive species and the cultural politics
of flourishing
	Category problems
	Disturbance and equilibrium
	Loving native species
	On flourishing
	Notes
	References
Chapter 14: Artifacts and habitats
	Artificial reefs
	Bird nest boxes
	Note
	References
Chapter 15: Interspecies diplomacy in Anthropocenic waters: performing
an ocean-oriented ontology
	References
Chapter 16: The Anthropocene at sea: temporality, paradox, compression
	Notes
	References
PART III: Inequality and environmental justice
Chapter 17: Turning over a new leaf: Fanonian humanism and
environmental justice
	Notes
	References
Chapter 18: Action-research and environmental justice: lessons
from Guatemala’s Chixoy Dam
	Environmental justice
	July 2003: encountering power, tasting terror
	Forging an environmental justice movement
	Environmental injustice: study findings
	Action and reaction
	The elusive experience of success
	Accountability and justice
	Environmental justice?
	References
Chapter 19: Farming as speculative activity: the ecological basis of farmers’
suicides in India
	Outline of the problem
	Seeds of death?
	Ecological roots
	Markets and stratification
	A speculative climate?
	References
Chapter 20: Ecological security for whom? The politics of flood alleviation
and urban environmental justice in Jakarta, Indonesia
	Jakarta
	Hydrological engineering
	Transforming threats into opportunities
	Normalisasi
	Doing no harm
	Environmental (in)justice
	Struggling for environmental justice and engineering with nature
	References
Chapter 21: Our ancestors’ dystopia now: indigenous conservation and
the Anthropocene
	Conservation in the Anthropocene
	The dystopia of our ancestors
	Anishinaabe restoration and conservation
	Nmé, Manoomin, and Nibi
	Note
	References
Chapter 22: Collected things with names like Mother Corn: Native
North American speculative fiction and film
	Collected things: Mother Corn
	Inflection points: Gardens in the Dunes
	Interrogating the ethics of biotechnologies: The Sixth World
	References
Chapter 23: The stone guests: Buen Vivir and popular environmentalisms
in the Andes and Amazonia
	Buen Vivir and other popular environmentalisms
	Between a rock and a hard place
	Buen Vivir and posthumanist political ontologies
	Notes
	References
PART IV:
Decline and resilience: environmental narratives, history, and memory
Chapter 24: Play it again, Sam: decline and finishing in environmental narratives
	Note
	References
Chapter 25: Hubris and humility in environmental thought
	Hubris and humility, progress and decline
	Revisions of hubris and humility
	References
Chapter 26: Losing primeval forests: degradation narratives in South Asia
	Sylvan tales: forests as locations of cultural value
	Constructing narratives: origins, improvement, degradation, and development
	The Gangetic plain: forests conquered?
	The Western Ghats: remnant forests, remnant people
	Discussion
	References
Chapter 27: Multidirectional eco-memory in an era of extinction: colonial whaling and indigenous dispossession in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance
	Literary remembrance: the environments of cultural memory
	Remembering whaling in the settler colonial present
	Figurations of memory: whaling as allegory
	Creaturely life and multidirectional eco-memory
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 28: The Caribbean’s agonizing seashores: tourism resorts, art,
and the future of the region’s coastlines
	References
Chapetr 29: Bear down: resilience and multispecies ethology
	Notes
	References
PART V:
Environmental arts, media, and technologies
Chapter 30: Contemporary environmental art
	The horizontal turn
	The artist as adviser
	Environmental abstraction
	References
Chapter 31: Slow food, low tech: environmental narratives of agribusiness
and its alternatives
	Slow food nonfiction: the ecological claims for local foodsheds
	Heirloom seeds: the rhetoric of biodiversity versus biotech
	Pleasurable politics: the cultural and aesthetic claims for slow food
	The slow food test kitchen: Pollan’s Cooked
	The alternative food futures of bioart
	Notes
	References
Chapter 32: Mattress story: on thing power, waste management rhetoric,
and Francisco de Pájaro’s trash art
	References
Chapter 33: Touching the senses: environments and technologies at the movies
	Environments at the movies: cinematic storyworlds and embodied simulation
	Movies of the environment: technology, perception, and engagement in Chasing Ice
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
Chapter 34: Climate, design, and the status of the human: obstacles and
opportunities for architectural scholarship in the
environmental humanities
	Obstacles
	Opportunities
	References
Chapter 35: Climate visualizations: making data experiential
	Models: between data and figuration
	Scientific visualizations: between mastery and humility
	Carbon consulting: making data matter
	Notes
	References
Chapter 36: Digital? Environmental: Humanities
	Critical perspectives on technologically mediated experiences of nature
	Environmental impacts of digital technologies
	Digital technologies and activating publics
	Digital scholarly tools, environmental content
	Four branches of the same tree?
	Conclusion for (Digital; Environmental; Humanities)
	References
Chapter 37: From The Xenotext
PART VI:
The state of the environmental humanities
Chapter 38: The body and environmental history in the Anthropocene
	Models of environmental history: systems and neo-Darwinism
	Looking ahead
	Toward an environmental history of culture
	Notes
	References
Chapter 39: Material ecocriticism and the petro-text
	References
Chapter 40: Fossil freedoms: the politics of emancipation and the end of oil
	Thinking past petroleum
	Petromodernity as socio-metabolic regime
	Thinking past liberation
	References
Chapter 41: Scaling the planetary humanities: environmental globalization
and the Arctic
	On the emerging Arctic humanities
	The cryo-historical moment
	At the center of this world
	Environmental geopolitics: scaling and telecoupling
	Note
	References
Chapter 42: Some “F” words for the environmental humanities: feralities,
feminisms, futurities
	Feralities
	Feminisms
	Futurities
	References
Chapter 43: Biocities: urban ecology and the cultural imagination
	Nature in the city: from garden cities to biocities
	Nature and social justice: theories of biocities
	Biocities and the imagination of the future
	Note
	References
Chapter 44: Environmental humanities: notes towards a summary
for policymakers
	Ecologizing humanity
	Humanizing ecology
	Chiasmic conclusion
	References
Chapter 45: The humanities after the Anthropocene
	Genre trouble
	Making the social
	Notes
	References
Index