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1 online resource (605 pages) |
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Routledge Literature Companions |
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Routledge companions to literature series.
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The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities; Also Available in this Series; Title Page; Copyright; 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; Part I The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth; 1 The Anthropocene: Love it or Leave it; 2 Domestication, Domesticated Landscapes, and Tropical Natures |
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Domestication Politics and the Human FootprintDomestication and the Environmental Humanities; The Great Amazon Wilderness Debate: Meggers, "Neo-Meggersians," and the "Denevan School"; Models of Domestication; 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 |
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4 Domestication in a Post-Industrial WorldThe Domesticated Life and Its History; De-Domestication: European Expansion and Settler Anxiety; Re-Domestication?; 5 Meals in the Age of Toxic Environments; 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?; 7 Techno-Conservation in the Anthropocene: What Does It Mean to Save a Species?; Climate Change, Species Extinctions, and Conservation Strategies |
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The Tragedy of the Anthropocene: From Passenger Pigeons to Polar BearsWhat is the Alternative?; 8 Coloring Climates: Imagining a Geoengineered World; Geoengineering and the Disciplines; Coloring the Sky; Reflecting (On) the Sky; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 9 Utopia'S Afterlife in the Anthropocene; Anthropocene and Utopia; Utopia at the Limit; Weak Utopia; Part II Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities; 10 Renaissance Selfhood and Shakespeare's Comedy of the Commons; Human Selfhood in the Renaissance; Human Selfhood in Shakespeare; 11 Multispecies Epidemiology and the Viral Subject |
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The Ethnography of Zoonosis in Madagascar12 Encountering a More-Than-Human World: Ethos and the Arts of Witness; Albatrosses; Ethos; Mistletoe; Becoming-Witness; 13 Loving the Native: Invasive Species and the Cultural Politics of Flourishing; Category Problems; Disturbance and Equilibrium; Loving Native Species; On Flourishing; 14 Artifacts and Habitats; Artificial Reefs; Bird Nest Boxes; 15 Interspecies Diplomacy in Anthropocenic Waters: Performing an Ocean-Oriented Ontology; 16 The Anthropocene at Sea: Temporality, Paradox, Compression; Part III Inequality and Environmental Justice |
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17 Turning Over a New Leaf: Fanonian Humanism and Environmental Justice |
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Print version record |
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Environmental sciences.
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environmental sciences.
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Environmental sciences
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Christensen, Jon
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Niemann, Michelle
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| ISBN |
9781317660187 |
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1317660188 |
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