Research Catalog

Title

Global ecologies and the environmental humanities : postcolonial approaches / edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan.

Publication

New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967-
• Didur, Jill, 1965-
• Carrigan, Anthony, 1980-

Description

xv, 391 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Series Statement

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31

Uniform Title

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31.

Subjects

• Postcolonialism in literature
• Ecocriticism
• Environmentalism in literature
• Human ecology in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Introduction: A postcolonial environmental humanities.
• Part I. The politics of earth: Forests, gardens, plantations. 1. Narrativizing nature: India, empire, and environment / David Arnold -- 2. "The Perverse Little People of the Hills:" Unearthing ecology and transculturation in Reginald Farrer's alpine plant hunting / Jill Didur -- 3. Bagasse: Caribbean art and the debris of the sugar plantation / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- 4. Writing a native garden?: Environmental language and post-Mabo literature in Australia / Susan K. Martin.
• Part II. Disaster, vulnerability, and resilience. 5. Towards a postcolonial disaster studies / Anthony Carrigan -- 6. Nuclear disaster: The Marshall Islands experience and lessons for a post-Fukushima world -- 7. Island vulnerability and resilience: Combining knowledges for disaster risk reduction, including climate change adaptation / Ilan Kelman, JC Gaillard, Jessica Mercer, James Lewis, and Anthony Carrigan.
• Part III. Political ecologies and environmental justice. 8. The edgework of the clerk: Resilience in Arundhati Roy's Walking the the Comrades / Susie O'Brien -- 9. Filming the emergence of popular environmentalism in Latin America: Postcolonialism and Buen Vivir / Jorge Marcone -- 10. Witnessing the nature of violence: Resource extraction and political ecologies in the contemporary African novel / Byron Caminero-Santangelo.
• Part IV. Mapping world ecologies. 11. Narrating a global future: Our Common Future and the public hearings of the World Commission on environment and development / Cheryl Lousley -- 12. Oil on sugar: Commodity frontiers and peripheral aesthetics / Michael Niblett -- 13. Ghost Mountains and Stone Maidens: Ecological imperialism, compound catastrophe, and the Post-Soviet ecogothic / Sharae Deckard.
• Part V. Terraforming, climate change, and the anthropocene. 14. Terraforming planet earth / Joseph Masco -- 15. Climate change, cosmology, and poetry: The case of Derek Walcott's Omeros / George B. Handley -- 16. Ordinary futures: Interspecies worldings in the anthropocene / Elizabeth Deloughrey.

Call Number

JFE 16-5816

ISBN

• 9781138827721
• 113882772X
• 9781315738635 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014038773

OCLC

890180263

Title

Global ecologies and the environmental humanities : postcolonial approaches / edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan.

Publisher

New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967- editor.

Didur, Jill, 1965- editor.

Carrigan, Anthony, 1980- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-5816