The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities by Jeffre... - 9781316510681

The Cambridge Companion to Environmental HumanitiesAuthor(s): Jeffrey Cohen, Stephanie Foote\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781316510681, 978-1316510681\nSynopsis\nThis Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to resource impoverishment and the importance of the nonhuman world. It addresses the twenty-first century recognition of an environmental crisis its antecedents, current forms, and future trajectories as well as possible responses to it. This books foregrounds scholarship from different periods, fields, and global locations, but it is organized to give readers a working context for the foundational debates. Each chapter examines a key topic or theme in Environmental Humanities, shows why.