Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities - 9781138827721

Taylor & Francis

Global Ecologies and the Environmental HumanitiesPostcolonial Approaches\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, Anthony Carrigan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138827721, 978-1138827721\nSynopsis\nThis book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to the representation of environmental issues. Essays in this path-breaking collection examine the role that narrative, visual, and aesthetic forms can play in drawing attention to and shaping our ideas about long-term and catastrophic environmental challenges such as climate change, militarism, deforestation, the pollution and management of the global commons, petrocapitalism, and the commodification of nature.\n\nThe volume presents a postcolonial approach to the environmental humanities, especiall.