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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From the End of Nature to the Beginning of the Anthropocene -- 1. Lost Dogs, Last Birds, and Listed Species: Elegy and Comedy in Conservation Stories -- 2. From Arks to ARKive.org: Database, Epic, and Biodiversity -- 3. The Legal Lives of Endangered Species: Biodiversity Laws and Culture -- 4. Mass Extinction and Mass Slaughter: Biodiversity, Violence, and the Dangers of Domestication -- 5. Biodiversity, Environmental Justice, and Multispecies Communities -- 6. Multispecies Fictions for the Anthropocene -- Coda: The Hug of the Polar Bear -- Works Cited -- Index

Ecocriticism started out in the early 1990s in the framework of American literary studies - in the Anglo sense that equates "America" with the "United States." In fact, the new field's first professional organization, the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, was founded as an offshoot of academic interest focused on a particular region of the United States, in the backroom of a casino in Reno, Nevada, during the 1992 annual convention of the Western Literature Association. During its first decade, the bulk of ecocritical attention focused on American literature as shaped by Thoreau and British literature as shaped by Wordsworth - a limited but powerful concentration on nature writing in the genres of poetry, nonfiction prose, and the noveI, with particular attention to Native American literature. By the turn of the millennium, in a story that has by now been told repeatedly, interest in the literature-environment nexus had grown and diversified enough that ecocriticism almost literally exploded into a much broader research area encompassing multiple historical periods (from the Middle Ages to postmodernism), genres (from poetry to the graphic novel and narrative film), and regions: the Caribbean, Latin America, East Asia, and Western Europe all emerged as new areas of ecocritical exploration. New encounters between postcolonial theory and ecocritical analysis proved particularly productive for both fields: linking historical exploration and political ecology with literary analysis, the emergent "poco-eco" matrix opened new perspectives on the connections and disjunctures between imperialism, ecological crisis, and conservation. Over the last few years, the concept of "Environmental Humanities" has increasingly co me to accompany and to superimpose itself as an umbrella term on ecocriticism and comparable research areas in neighboring disciplines: environmental history, environmental anthropology, environmental philosophy, cultural geography, and political ecology. Driven by the impulse to connect environmental research across the humanities, to justify humanistic research at institutions often prone to cut first in the humanities, and to bring the knowledge generated through humanistic research into the public sphere, environmentally oriented scholars have used the term "Environmental Humanities" as a shorthand for what they hope will be a new vision of their discipline. As of this writing, the concept remains somewhat more aspirational than real. While ecocritics and environmental philosophers have long collaborated in Australia, and environmental historians and ecocritics sometimes collaborate in the United States, the disciplines that make up the Environmental Humanities have to date largely pursued their own disciplinary trajectories. But there are signs that the tide may have begun to turn. Various universities and research organizations have started programs in the field. The Swedish environmental historian Sverker Sörlin published a brief outline of the new interdisciplinary matrix in the journal 'BioScience' in 2012, and a longer manifesto followed from the editorial collective of the newly established journal 'Environmental Humanities' at Macquarie University in Australia (Rose et al. 2012). Another journal focusing on the environmental humanities began publication in early 2014 from the University of Oregon under the title 'Resilience'.

Planet, species, justice, and the stories we tell about them / Ursula K. Heise -- The anthropocene : love it or leave it / Dale Jamieson -- Domestication, domesticated landscapes, and tropical natures / Susanna B. Hecht -- "They carry life in their hair" : domestication and the African diaspora / Judith A. Carney -- Domestication in a post-industrial world / Libby Robin -- Meals in the age of toxic environments / Yuki Masami -- Hybrid aversion : wolves, dogs, and the humans who love to keep them apart / Emma Marris -- Techno-conservation in the anthropocene : what does it mean to save a species? / Ronald Sandler -- Coloring climates : imagining a geoengineered world / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Utopia's afterlife in the anthropocene / Anahid Nersessian -- Renaissance selfhood and Shakespeare's comedy of the commons / Robert N. Watson -- Multispecies epidemiology and the viral subject / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- Encountering a more-than-human world : ethos and the arts of witness / Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren -- Loving the native : invasive species and the cultural politics of flourishing / Jessica R. Cattelino -- Artifacts and habitats / Dolly Jørgensen -- Interspecies diplomacy in anthropocenic waters : performing an ocean-oriented ontology / Una Chaudhuri -- The anthropocene at sea : temporality, paradox, compression / Stacy Alaimo -- Turning over a new leaf : Fanonian humanism and environmental justice / Jennifer Wenzel -- Action-research and environmental justice : lessons from Guatemala's Chixoy Dam / Barbara Rose Johnston -- Farming as speculative activity : the ecological basis of farmers' suicides in India / Akhil Gupta -- Ecological security for whom? : the politics of flood alleviation and urban environmental justice in jakarta, indonesia / Helga Leitner, Emma Colven, and Eric Sheppard -- Our ancestors' dystopia now : indigenous conservation and the anthropocene / Kyle Powys Whyte -- Collected things with names like mother corn : native North American speculative fiction and film / Joni Adamson -- The stone guests : buen vivir and popular environmentalisms in the Andes and Amazonia / Jorge Marcone -- Play it again, Sam : decline and finishing in environmental narratives / Richard White -- Hubris and humility in environmental thought / Michelle Niemann -- Losing primeval forests : degradation narratives in South Asia / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Multidirectional eco-memory in an era of extinction : colonial whaling and indigenous dispossession in kim scott's that deadman dance / Rosanne Kennedy -- The Caribbean's agonizing seashores : tourism resorts, art, and the future of the region's coastlines / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Bear down : resilience and multispecies ethology / Brett Buchanan -- Contemporary environmental art / James Nisbet -- Slow food, low tech : environmental narratives of agribusiness and its alternatives / Allison Carruth -- Mattress story : on thing power, waste management rhetoric, and Francisco de Pájaro's trash art / Maite Zubiaurre -- Touching the senses : environments and technologies at the movies / Alexa Weik von Mossner -- Climate, design, and the status of the human : obstacles and opportunities for architectural scholarship in the environmental humanities / Daniel A. Barber -- Climate visualizations : making data experiential / Heather Houser -- Digital? environmental : humanities / Stéfan Sinclair and Stephanie Posthumus -- From the xenotext / Christian Bök -- The body and environmental history in the anthropocene / Linda Nash -- Material ecocriticism and the petro-text / Heather I. Sullivan -- Fossil freedoms : the politics of emancipation and the end of oil / Hannes Bergthaller -- Scaling the planetary humanities : environmental globalization and the arctic / Sverker Sörlin -- Some "f" words for the environmental humanities : feralities, feminisms, futurities / Catriona Sandilands -- Biocities : urban ecology and the cultural imagination / Jon Christensen and Ursula K. Heise -- Environmental humanities : notes towards a summary for policymakers / Greg Garrard -- The humanities after the anthropocene / Stephanie LeMenager

"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."--Provided by publisher