The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities (Routledge Literature Companions)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
490 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317660187
Related ISBNs:
9781315766355, 9781032179292, 9781138786745
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Ursula K. Heise
Edited by:
Jon Christensen
Edited by:
Michelle Niemann

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