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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its found- ing 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. Parts 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. Ursula K. Heise is the Marcia H. Howard Chair in Literary Studies at the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Jon Christensen is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of History, and the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Michelle Niemann is an independent scholar, writing consultant, and editor, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA from 2014 to 2016. 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Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann First published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2017 selection and editorial matter Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Heise, Ursula K., editor. | Christensen, Jon (Environmental histsorian), editor. | Niemann, Michelle, editor. Title: The Routledge companion to the environmental humanities / edited by Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann. Other titles: Companion to the environmental humanities Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2016021347| ISBN 9781138786745 (hardback: alk. paper) | ISBN 9781317660194 (web pdf) | ISBN 9781317660187 (epub) | ISBN 9781317660170 (mobipocket/kindle) Subjects: LCSH: Environmental sciences—Social aspects. | Science and the humanities. | Human ecology. | Nature—Affect of human beings on. Classification: LCC GE105 .R68 2016 | DDC 304.2—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016021347 ISBN: 978-1-138-78674-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-76635-5 (ebk) Typeset in Goudy Std by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK CONTENTS List of illustrations x List of contributors xii Acknowledgments xvi Introduction: planet, species, justice—and the stories we tell about them 1 URSULA K. HEISE PART I The Anthropocene and the domestication of Earth 11 1 The Anthropocene: love it or leave it 13 DALE JAMIESON 2 Domestication, domesticated landscapes, and tropical natures 21 SUSANNA B. HECHT 3 “They carry life in their hair”: domestication and the African diaspora 35 JUDITH A. CARNEY 4 Domestication in a post-industrial world 46 LIBBY ROBIN 5 Meals in the age of toxic environments 56 YUKI MASAMI 6 Hybrid aversion: wolves, dogs, and the humans who love to keep them apart 64 EMMA MARRIS v CONTENTS 7 Techno-conservation in the Anthropocene: what does it mean to save a species? 72 RONALD SANDLER 8 Coloring climates: imagining a geoengineered world 82 BRONISLAW SZERSZYNSKI 9 Utopia’s afterlife in the Anthropocene 91 ANAHID NERSESSIAN PART II Posthumanism and multispecies communities 101 10 Renaissance selfhood and Shakespeare’s comedy of the commons 103 ROBERT N. WATSON 11 Multispecies epidemiology and the viral subject 112 GENESE MARIE SODIKOFF 12 Encountering a more-than-human world: ethos and the arts of witness 120 DEBORAH BIRD ROSE AND THOM VAN DOOREN 13 Loving the native: invasive species and the cultural politics of flourishing 129 JESSICA R. CATTELINO 14 Artifacts and habitats 138 DOLLY JØRGENSEN 15 Interspecies diplomacy in Anthropocenic waters: performing an ocean-oriented ontology 144 UNA CHAUDHURI 16 The Anthropocene at sea: temporality, paradox, compression 153 STACY ALAIMO vi CONTENTS PART III Inequality and environmental justice 163 17 Turning over a new leaf: Fanonian humanism and environmental justice 165 JENNIFER WENZEL 18 Action-research and environmental justice: lessons from Guatemala’s Chixoy Dam 174 BARBARA ROSE JOHNSTON 19 Farming as speculative activity: the ecological basis of farmers’ suicides in India 185 AKHIL GUPTA 20 Ecological security for whom? The politics of flood alleviation and urban environmental justice in Jakarta, Indonesia 194 HELGA LEITNER, EMMA COLVEN, AND ERIC SHEPPARD 21 Our ancestors’ dystopia now: indigenous conservation and the Anthropocene 206 KYLE POWYS WHYTE 22 Collected things with names like Mother Corn: Native North American speculative fiction and film 216 JONI ADAMSON 23 The stone guests: Buen Vivir and popular environmentalisms in the Andes and Amazonia 227 JORGE MARCONE PART IV Decline and resilience: environmental narratives, history, and memory 237 24 Play it again, Sam: decline and finishing in environmental narratives 239 RICHARD WHITE vii CONTENTS 25 Hubris and humility in environmental thought 247 MICHELLE NIEMANN 26 Losing primeval forests: degradation narratives in South Asia 258 KATHLEEN D. MORRISON 27 Multidirectional eco-memory in an era of extinction: colonial whaling and indigenous dispossession in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance 268 ROSANNE KENNEDY 28 The Caribbean’s agonizing seashores: tourism resorts, art, and the future of the region’s coastlines 278 LIZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT 29 Bear down: resilience and multispecies ethology 289 BRETT BUCHANAN PART V Environmental arts, media, and technologies 299 30 Contemporary environmental art 301 JAMES NISBET 31 Slow food, low tech: environmental narratives of agribusiness and its alternatives 313 ALLISON CARRUTH 32 Mattress story: on thing power, waste management rhetoric, and Francisco de Pájaro’s trash art 323 MAITE ZUBIAURRE 33 Touching the senses: environments and technologies at the movies 337 ALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER 34 Climate, design, and the status of the human: obstacles and opportunities for architectural scholarship in the environmental humanities 346 DANIEL A. BARBER viii CONTENTS 35 Climate visualizations: making data experiential 358 HEATHER HOUSER 36 Digital? Environmental: Humanities 369 STÉFAN SINCLAIR AND STEPHANIE POSTHUMUS 37 From The Xenotext 379 CHRISTIAN BÖK PART VI The state of the environmental humanities 401 38 The body and environmental history in the Anthropocene 403 LINDA NASH 39 Material ecocriticism and the petro-text 414 HEATHER I. SULLIVAN 40 Fossil freedoms: the politics of emancipation and the end of oil 424 HANNES BERGTHALLER 41 Scaling the planetary humanities: environmental globalization and the Arctic 433 SVERKER SÖRLIN 42 Some “F” words for the environmental humanities: feralities, feminisms, futurities 443 CATRIONA SANDILANDS 43 Biocities: urban ecology and the cultural imagination 452 JON CHRISTENSEN AND URSULA K. HEISE 44 Environmental humanities: notes towards a summary for policymakers 462 GREG GARRARD 45 The humanities after the Anthropocene 473 STEPHANIE LEMENAGER Index 482 ix