Elements in Environmental Humanities – serie
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The Anatomy of Deep Time
Rock Art and Landscape in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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Petroglyphic rock art in three valleys of Mongolia's Altai Mountains reveals the anatomy of deep time at the boundary between Central and North Asia. Inscribed over a period of twelve millennia, its subject matter, styles, and manner of execution reflect the constraints of changing geology, …
Deep History, Climate Change, and the Evolution of Human Culture
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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This Element follows the development of humans in constantly changing climates and environments from Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, to fully modern humans who moved out of Africa to Europe and Asia 70,000 years ago. Biosemiotics reveals meaningful communication among coevolving members of the …
Italo Calvino's Animals
Anthropocene Stories
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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The words 'Anthropocene animals' conjure pictures of dead albatrosses' bodies filled with plastic fragments, polar bears adrift on melting ice sheets, solitary elephants in the savannah. Suspended between the impersonal nature of the Great Extinction and the singularity of exotic individuals, these …
Anthroposcreens
Mediating the Climate Unconscious
Av Julia Leyda
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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Anthroposcreens frames the 'climate unconscious' as a reading strategy for film and television productions during the Anthropocene. Drawing attention to the affects of climate change and the broader environmental damage of the Anthropocene, this study mobilizes its frame in concert with other tools …
Aging Earth
Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures
Häftad, 2023
467 kr
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Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural disasters: images of the 'gray flood' and 'silver tsunami' imbue senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative shift in younger and older populations: …
Climate Change Literacy
Av Julia Hoydis, Roman Bartosch m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
467 kr
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This Element presents a necessary intervention within the rapidly expanding field of research in the environmental humanities on climate change and environmental literacy. In contrast to the dominant, science-centred literacy debates, which largely ignore the unique resources of the humanities, it …
Blue Humanities
Storied Waterscapes in the Anthropocene
Häftad, 2023
467 kr
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By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet's troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, …
The Earth Intoxicated on Imagination
Häftad, 2025
347 kr
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The aim of this Element is to forge new conceptual tools to give more ecological power to the human imagination. Imagination, both an innovative force and one that distances and blinds, is central to the ecological crisis as well as its potential resolution. Human imagination creates a bubble of …
Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories
The Example of Rubber
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories. It is shown that the common notions of rubber history, which assume that rubber only became a useful material …
Nonhuman Subjects
An Ecology of Earth-Beings
Häftad, 2023
354 kr
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The surging wave of indigenous politics, rights of nature, and social movements acting with rocks, rivers, glaciers, and lakes has brought to light an ecology of nonlife. Its protagonists are 'earth-beings,' geobodies that question deep-seated Western notions of personhood. Mountains in the Andes, …
Nonhuman Subjects
An Ecology of Earth-Beings
Inbunden, 2023
1048 kr
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The surging wave of indigenous politics, rights of nature, and social movements acting with rocks, rivers, glaciers, and lakes has brought to light an ecology of nonlife. Its protagonists are 'earth-beings,' geobodies that question deep-seated Western notions of personhood. Mountains in the Andes, …
Growing Hope
Narratives of Food Justice
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
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Growing Hope takes a closer look at how such narratives can carry the promise of a better future in the face of grim realities. It brings together two kinds of narratives that are rarely considered in conjunction: stories about urban community gardening and stories about vegan food justice. It …
Growing Hope
Narratives of Food Justice
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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Growing Hope takes a closer look at how such narratives can carry the promise of a better future in the face of grim realities. It brings together two kinds of narratives that are rarely considered in conjunction: stories about urban community gardening and stories about vegan food justice. It …
Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories
The Example of Rubber
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
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This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories. It is shown that the common notions of rubber history, which assume that rubber only became a useful material …
Automobility and the Anthropocene
The Car as Post-Human
Häftad, 2025
336 kr
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The automobile has transformed Earth's habitats and humans' habits since the 1890s, when it, this Element argues, began the Anthropocene. Climate change now motivates efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, of which cars and trucks account for at least 10 percent. Shifting to electric vehicles …
Automobility and the Anthropocene
The Car as Post-Human
Inbunden, 2025
954 kr
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The automobile has transformed Earth's habitats and humans' habits since the 1890s, when it, this Element argues, began the Anthropocene. Climate change now motivates efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, of which cars and trucks account for at least 10 percent. Shifting to electric vehicles …
Plantations
Extraction, Extinction, Emergence
Av Sophie Chao
Häftad, 2026
324 kr
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Plantations are major drivers of biodiversity loss, habitat degradation, and climate change. They find root in (neo)colonial logics of mastery and progress that position nature as a passive resource, exploited to serve (certain) humans' ends. Yet the rise and fall of plantations have never been …
Plantations
Extraction, Extinction, Emergence
Av Sophie Chao
Inbunden, 2026
1025 kr
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Plantations are major drivers of biodiversity loss, habitat degradation, and climate change. They find root in (neo)colonial logics of mastery and progress that position nature as a passive resource, exploited to serve (certain) humans' ends. Yet the rise and fall of plantations have never been …
The Open Veins of Modernity
Ecological Crisis and the Legacy of Byzantium and Pre-Columbian America
Av Eleni Kefala
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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The ecological crisis is the result of modernity's coloniality. The Moderns considered the Earth as 'natural resources' at their disposal. Their colonial vision of nature was complemented by that of nonmodern cultures like Byzantium and pre-Columbian America as passive or primitive, respectively. …
The Open Veins of Modernity
Ecological Crisis and the Legacy of Byzantium and Pre-Columbian America
Av Eleni Kefala
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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The ecological crisis is the result of modernity's coloniality. The Moderns considered the Earth as 'natural resources' at their disposal. Their colonial vision of nature was complemented by that of nonmodern cultures like Byzantium and pre-Columbian America as passive or primitive, respectively. …
Slime
An Elemental Imaginary
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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Slime has always stirred the imagination and evoked strong responses. It is as central to life and growth as to death, degeneration, and rot. Slime heals and cures; it also infects and kills. Slime titillates and terrifies. It fascinates children and is the horror in stories and the disgusting in …
Slime
An Elemental Imaginary
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
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Slime has always stirred the imagination and evoked strong responses. It is as central to life and growth as to death, degeneration, and rot. Slime heals and cures; it also infects and kills. Slime titillates and terrifies. It fascinates children and is the horror in stories and the disgusting in …
Descartes and the Non-Human
Av Emma Gilby
Inbunden, 2025
954 kr
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Descartes features heavily in ecocritical literature. He is often said to dismiss the non-human world as irrelevant and inanimate, and to espouse a harmfully instrumental attitude towards it. This Element goes into detail on the standard picture in circulation, while also outlining an alternative …
Descartes and the Non-Human
Av Emma Gilby
Häftad, 2025
336 kr
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Descartes features heavily in ecocritical literature. He is often said to dismiss the non-human world as irrelevant and inanimate, and to espouse a harmfully instrumental attitude towards it. This Element goes into detail on the standard picture in circulation, while also outlining an alternative …
The Earth Intoxicated on Imagination
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
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The aim of this Element is to forge new conceptual tools to give more ecological power to the human imagination. Imagination, both an innovative force and one that distances and blinds, is central to the ecological crisis as well as its potential resolution. Human imagination creates a bubble of …
Ruin Ecology
An Exercise in Environmental Imagination
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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This Element discusses the presence of ruins in contemporary environmental imagination. Contemporary ruins, much more than those that served as constituents of Romantic and Gothic aesthetics, simultaneously express a fascination with and a dread of the non-human agencies at play in the world, while …
Ruin Ecology
An Exercise in Environmental Imagination
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
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This Element discusses the presence of ruins in contemporary environmental imagination. Contemporary ruins, much more than those that served as constituents of Romantic and Gothic aesthetics, simultaneously express a fascination with and a dread of the non-human agencies at play in the world, while …
Mar Menor
Histories from the Critical Zone
Av Juan Manuel Zaragoza Bernal
Häftad, 2026
254 kr
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The Mar Menor, Europe's largest saltwater coastal lagoon, was long sustained by high salinity and low-nutrient waters that supported remarkable biodiversity. Since the late twentieth century, however, intensive tourism, industrial agriculture linked to the Tagus-Segura water transfer, and legacy …
Mar Menor
Histories from the Critical Zone
Av Juan Manuel Zaragoza Bernal
Inbunden, 2026
820 kr
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The Mar Menor, Europe's largest saltwater coastal lagoon, was long sustained by high salinity and low-nutrient waters that supported remarkable biodiversity. Since the late twentieth century, however, intensive tourism, industrial agriculture linked to the Tagus-Segura water transfer, and legacy …
The Craft of Poisoning
Learning to Live in Toxic Worlds
Inbunden, 2026
815 kr
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Since their introduction in 1935, cane toads have spread out across the top of Australia, leaving a wave of death in their wake: animals poisoned by the unfamiliar toxins they carry. While management efforts have focused on lethal interventions, one group of scientists has been attempting to teach …
