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Routledge Environmental Humanities


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From microplastics in the sea to hyper-trends such as global climate change, mega-extinction, and widening social disparities and displacement, we live on a planet undergoing tremendous flux and uncertainty. At the center of this transformation is human culture, both contributing to the state of the world and responding to planetary change. The Routledge Environmental Humanities Series seeks to engage with contemporary environmental challenges through the various lenses of the humanities and to explore foundational issues in environmental justice, multicultural environmentalism, ecofeminism, environmental psychology, environmental materialities and textualities, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, environmental communication and information management, multispecies relationships, and related topics. The series is premised on the notion that the arts, humanities, and social sciences, integrated with the natural sciences, are essential to comprehensive environmental studies.

The environmental humanities are a multidimensional discipline encompassing such fields as anthropology, history, literary and media studies, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, and women’s and gender studies; however, the Routledge Environmental Humanities is particularly eager to receive book proposals that explicitly cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, bringing the full force of multiple perspectives to illuminate vexing and profound environmental topics. We favor manuscripts aimed at an international readership and written in a lively and accessible style. Our readers include scholars and students from across the span of environmental studies disciplines and thoughtful citizens and policy makers interested in the human dimensions of environmental change.

Please contact the Editor, Grace Harrison ([email protected]), to submit proposals.

Praise for A Cultural History of Climate Change (2016):

A Cultural History of Climate Change shows that the humanities are not simply a late-arriving appendage to Earth System science, to help in the work of translation. These essays offer distinctive insights into how and why humans reason and imagine their ‘weather-worlds’ (Ingold, 2010). We learn about the interpenetration of climate and culture and are prompted to think creatively about different ways in which the idea of climate change can be conceptualised and acted upon beyond merely ‘saving the planet’.

Professor Mike Hulme, King's College London, in Green Letters

Series Editors:

Professor Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, USA

Professor Joni Adamson, Arizona State University, USA

Professor YUKI Masami, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan.

Previous editors:

Professor Iain McCalman AO, Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University.

Professor Libby Robin, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra; Guest Professor of Environmental History, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden.

Dr Paul Warde, Reader in Environmental History, University of Cambridge, UK

Editorial Board

Christina Alt, St Andrews University, UK, Alison Bashford, University of New South Wales, Australia, Peter Coates, University of Bristol, UK, Thom van Dooren, University of Sydney, Australia, Georgina Endfield, Liverpool UK, Jodi Frawley, University of Western Australia, Andrea Gaynor, The University of Western Australia, Australia, Christina Gerhardt, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA,□Tom Lynch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA, Jennifer Newell, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia , Simon Pooley, Imperial College London, UK, Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Ann Waltner, University of Minnesota, US, Jessica Weir, University of Western Sydney, Australia

International Advisory Board

William Beinart,University of Oxford, UK, Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago, USA, Poul Holm, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Shen Hou, Renmin University of China, Beijing, Rob Nixon, Princeton University, USA, Pauline Phemister, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK, Sverker Sörlin, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum, Munich and Co-Director, Rachel Carson Centre, LMU Munich University, Germany, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University, USA, Kirsten Wehner, University of London, UK

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Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities

Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Maxine Newlands, Claire Hansen
August 07, 2024

Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities is an edited interdisciplinary collection that explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. The blue humanities is a way of understanding humanity’s relationship with water and manifestations of what is ...

Literature and Ecotheology From Chaos to Cosmos

Literature and Ecotheology: From Chaos to Cosmos

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By George B. Handley
August 07, 2024

Literature and Ecotheology: From Chaos to Cosmos challenges us in a time of climate crisis to find more common ground between the dual projects of ecocriticism and ecotheology. This book argues that in our postsecular age, literature has become an important repository of theological wisdom that can...

Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters

Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Jelle J.P. Wouters, Dan Smyer Yü
July 17, 2024

Woven together as a text of humanities-based environmental research outcomes, Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region. The collective endeavour of the ...

Storied Deserts Reimagining Global Arid Lands

Storied Deserts: Reimagining Global Arid Lands

1st Edition

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Edited By Celina Osuna, Aidan Tynan
June 20, 2024

Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of research on desert places from around the world. Deserts, despite dominant stereotypes of wasteland and barrenness, are culturally and ecologically abundant places. ...

Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown Entangled Futurities

Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities

1st Edition

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Edited By Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, Conrad Scott
May 31, 2024

This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian representations of pandemics from across literature, the arts, and social movements. Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater, ...

Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa Poetics and Politics of Exploitation

Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa: Poetics and Politics of Exploitation

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By James Ogude, Tafadzwa Mushonga
May 27, 2024

This book brings together perspectives on resource exploitation to expose the continued environmental and socio-political concerns in post-colonial Africa. The continent is host to a myriad of environmental issues, largely resulting from its rich diversity of natural resources that have been ...

The Hydrocene Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water

The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris
May 09, 2024

This book challenges conventional notions of the Anthropocene and champions the Hydrocene: the Age of Water. It presents the Hydrocene as a disruptive, conceptual epoch and curatorial theory, emphasising water's pivotal role in the climate crisis and contemporary art. The Hydrocene is a wet ...

Towards an Ecocritical Theatre Playing the Anthropocene

Towards an Ecocritical Theatre: Playing the Anthropocene

1st Edition

By Mohebat Ahmadi
January 29, 2024

Towards an Ecocritical Theatre investigates contemporary theatre through the lens of Anthropocene-oriented ecocriticism. It assesses how Anthropocene thinking engages different modes of theatrical representation, as well as how the theatrical apparatus can rise to the representational challenges of...

Museum Practices and the Posthumanities Curating for Planetary Habitability

Museum Practices and the Posthumanities: Curating for Planetary Habitability

1st Edition

By Fiona R. Cameron
October 24, 2023

This book critiques modern museologies and curatorial practices that have been complicit in emerging existential crises. It confidently presents novel, more-than-human curatorial visions, methods, frameworks, policies, and museologies radically refiguring the epistemological foundations of ...

Subterranean Imaginaries and Groundwater Narratives

Subterranean Imaginaries and Groundwater Narratives

1st Edition

By Deborah Wardle
October 04, 2023

This book interrogates the problems of how and why largely unseen matter, in this case groundwater, has found limited expression in climate fiction. It explores key considerations for writing groundwater narratives in the Anthropocene. The book investigates a unique selection of climate fiction ...

Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments

Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia: Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments

1st Edition

Edited By Riamsara Kuyakanon, Hildegard Diemberger, David Sneath
September 25, 2023

Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world. This volume presents a comparative, place-based exploration of landscapes across Asia and the entities, practices and knowledges that inhabit ...

Ecologies of Gender Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn

Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn

1st Edition

Edited By Susanne Lettow, Sabine Nessel
September 25, 2023

Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn examines the role of gender in recent debates about the nonhuman turn in the humanities, and critically explores the implications for a contemporary theory of gender and nature relations. The interdisciplinary contributions ...

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