Contributors: Talin Abadian, Megan Cole, Marianna Davison, Aaron Katzeman, Margherita Long, James Nisbet, Jon Pitt, Elane Westfaul
Environmental Humanities Foundations
Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” Critical Inquiry 35, no. 2 (2009): 197–222.
William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness; Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” in Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, ed. William Cronon (New York: Norton, 1995), 69-90.
Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021).
Ramachandra Guha, “Radical American Environmentalism: A Third World Critique,” Environmental Ethics 11, no. 1 (1989): 71-83.
Ursula K. Heise, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Max Liboiron, Pollution Is Colonialism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021).
Jason W. Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life (London: Verso, 2015).
Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011).
Val Plumwood, “The Politics of Ecological Rationality,” from Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason (New York: Routledge, 2002), 62-80.
Raymond Williams, “Ideas of Nature,” in Ecology: The Shaping Enquiry, ed. Jonathan Benthall (London: Longman, 1972), 146–164.
Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018).
Anthropocene/Capitalocene
Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer, “The ‘Anthropocene,’” from The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change, eds. Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 479-490.
Jeremy Davies, The Birth of the Anthropocene (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016).
Heather Davis and Zoe Todd, “On the Importance of a Date, Or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene,” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 16, no. 4 (2017): 761-80.
Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor, “Introduction,” from Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times (Philadelphia: Penn State University Press: 2017), 1-24.
Kohei Saito, Slow Down: A Degrowth Manifesto (New York: Astra, 2024).
Ruba Salih and Olaf Corry, “Displacing the Anthropocene: Colonisation, extinction, and the unruliness of nature in Palestine,” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 5, no. 1 (March 2022): 381-400.
Françoise Vergès, “Racial Capitalocene: Is the Anthropocene Racial?” Verso Blog, August 30, 2017.
Dystopia/Utopia
Andrew Boyd, I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor (Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2023).
Kyle Powys Whyte, “Too late for Indigenous climate justice: Ecological and relational tipping points,” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 11, no. 1, (October 2019).
Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Theory for a World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019).
Eco-Anxiety
Emily Raboteau, Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse” (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2024).
Fazal Sheikh and Terry Tempest Williams, The Moon Is Behind Us (Göttingen: Steidl, 2021).
Alexa Weik von Mossner, Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017).
Britt Wray, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis (Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2022), and GenDread Website: https://gendread.substack.com/.
Energy Humanities
Cultures of Energy podcast.
Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Zone, 1988).
Douglas Kahn, “Introduction,” in Energies in the Arts, ed. Douglas Kahn (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), 1-46.
Stephanie Lemenager, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (London: Verso, 2016).
Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (London: Verso, 2013).
Muriel Rukeyser, Book of the Dead (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003).
Jesse Oak Taylor, The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016).
Patricia Yaeger, “Literature in the Ages of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources,” PMLA 126, no. 2 (2011): 305–10.
Environmental Justice
Robert D. Bullard, “Anatomy of Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement” from Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1993): 15-39.
Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, “A History of the Environmental Justice Movement,” from From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (New York: NYU Press, 2001).
Dina Gilio-Whitaker, As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2019).
Dina Gilio-Whitaker, “Environmental justice is only the beginning,” High Country News, July 1, 2022.
Nathan Hare, “Black Ecology,” The Black Scholar 1, no. 6 (April 1970): 2-8.
Tara Houska, “We Need Climate Solutions That Reflect Values, Not Just Statistics,” Vogue (September 24, 2020).
First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, “The Principles of Environmental Justice” (1991).
Julie Sze, Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020).
Feminist STS and Ecocriticism
Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman, Material Feminisms (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008).
Stacy Alaimo, “Sustainable This, Sustainable That: New Materialisms, Posthumanism, and Unknown Futures,” PMLA 127, no. 3 (2012): 558–64.
Greta Gaard, ed., Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature (Temple University Press, 1993).
Hope Jahren, Lab Girl: A Memoir (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2017).
Katherine McKittrick, Dear Science and Other Stories (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021).
Deboleena Roy, Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018).
Isabelle Stengers, In Catastrophic Times. Resisting the Coming Barbarism (Open Humanities Press, 2015).
Indigeneity/Reciprocity
Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2020).
Jack D. Forbes, “Indigenous Americans: Spirituality and Ecos,” Daedalus 130, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 283-300.
Candice Fujikane, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021).
Karin Amimoto Ingersoll, Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016).
Anja Kanngieser and Zoe Todd, “From Environmental Case Study to Environmental Kin Study,” History and Theory 59, no. 3 (September 2020), 385-393.
John Joseph Mathews, Sundown (London, New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1934 / Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988).
The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (Brooklyn and Philadelphia: Common Notions Press, 2021).
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (New York: Viking Press, 1977).
Charles Sepulveda, “Our Sacred Waters: Theorizing Kuuyam as a Decolonial Possibility,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 7, no. 1 (January 2018): 40-58.
Kim Tallbear, “Standing With and Speaking as Faith: A Feminist-Indigenous Approach to Inquiry,” Journal of Research Practice 10, no. 2 (2014): 1-7.
Melanie Benson Taylor, “Indigenous Interruptions in the Anthropocene,” PMLA 136, no. 1 (2021): 9-16.
Vanessa Watts, “Indigenous place-thought & agency amongst humans and non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!),” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 2, no. 1 (2013): 20-34.
Landscape
Mark A. Cheetham, “Manipulated Landscapes” and “Beyond Suspicion: Why (not) ‘Landscape’?,” in Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s (University Park: Penn State Press, 2018), 1-89.
Vittoria di Palma, Wasteland: A History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), 1-42.
Justin P. Dunnavant et al., “Assessing Heritage Resources in St. Croix Post-Hurricanes Irma and Maria,” Transforming Anthropology 26, no. 2 (September 2018): 157-172.
Eduardo Kohn, “Introduction: Runa Puma,” from How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), 1-25.
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York: Oxford UP, 1964).
Sugata Ray, “Climate Change and Art History” and “Land,” from Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550–1850 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019), 3-23, 61-95.
More-than-Human
David Chamovtiz, What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses (New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012).
Emanuele Coccia, The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019).
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
John Hartigan Jr., Care of the Species: Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
Ursula Heise, Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meaning of Endangered Species (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Milkweed Editions, 2013).
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949).
Vandana Shiva, “Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest,” YES! Magazine, May 3, 2019.
Banu Subramaniam, Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity (Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2014).
“Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth,” World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, Cochabamba, Bolivia, (April 10, 2010).
Thom Van Dooren, Eben Kirksey, and Ursula Münster, “Multispecies Studies: Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness,” Environmental Humanities 8, no 1 (May 2016): 1–23.
Queer Ecology
Neel Ahuja, “Intimate Atmospheres: Queer Theory in a Time of Extinctions,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 21, no. 2-3, (June 1, 2015).
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson, eds., Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010).
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, “Queer Ecology: Keywords for Environmental Studies,” in Keywords for Environmental Studies, eds. Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, and David N. Pellow (New York: NYU Press, 2016).
Timothy Morton, “Guest Column: Queer Ecology,” PMLA 125, no. 2 (March 2010): 273-282.
Stella Sanford, Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
Nicole Seymour, Strange natures: futurity, empathy, and the queer ecological imagination (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2013).
Stories of Protest and Activism
Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (New York: Perennial Classics, 2000).
T.C. Boyle, A Friend of the Earth (New York: Viking Press, 2000).
Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023).
Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (New York: Verso, 2019).
Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, eds., Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019).
Michiko Ishimure, Paradise in a Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2003).
Line 3 Storytelling Anthology Team, Even the River Starts Small: A Collection of Stories from the Movement to Stop Line 3 (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2024).
Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline (London: Verso, 2021) and movie adaptation.
Ogata Masato, Rowing the Eternal Sea: The Story of a Minamata Fisherman, ed. Oiwa Keibo, trans. Karen Colligan-Taylor (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001), 79-185.
Richard Powers, The Overstory (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019).
Upton Sinclair, Oil! (New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926).
Shelley Streeby, Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018).
Kyle Powys Whyte, “The Dakota Access Pipeline, Environmental Injustice, and U.S. Colonialism,” Red Ink: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities 19, no. 1 (Spring 2017).
Toxicants
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962).
Mel Chen, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012).
Amanda Boetzkes, Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019).
Max Liboiron, “Scale, Harm, Violence, Land,” from Pollution Is Colonialism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021), 81-112.
Max Liboiron, Manuel Tironi, and Nerea Calvillo, ”Toxic Politics: Acting in a permanently polluted world,” Social Studies of Science 48, no. 3 (2018): 331-349.
Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1997).
U.S. Militarism
Costs of War Project, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.
Neta Crawford, The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022).
Elizabeth Deloughrey, “Toward a Critical Ocean Studies for the Anthropocene,” English Language Notes 57, no 1 (2019): 21–36.
Ed McNally, “Green Empire?” New Left Review, February 2, 2023.
Barry Sanders, The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2009).
Visual Culture
Rasheed Araeen, “Ecoaesthetics: A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century,” Third Text 23, no. 5 (September 2009): 679-684.
Nick Axel, Daniel A. Barber, Nikolaus Hirschl, and Anton Vidokle, eds., Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022).
Alan C. Braddock, “From Nature to Ecology: The Emergence of Ecocritical Art History,” in A Companion to American Art, ed. John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. LaFountain (Hoboken: Wiley and Sons, 2015): 447-67.
T. J. Demos, Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Berlin: Sternberg, 2016).
T. J. Demos, Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Berlin: Sternberg, 2017).
Finis Dunaway, Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).
Lucas Hilderbrand and James Nisbet, eds., “Visual Culture and the Climate Crisis,” Afterimage 47, no. 2, special issue dossier (Summer 2020): 12-58.
Karl Kusserow and Alan C. Braddock, eds., Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective (Princeton University Art Museum, 2021).
Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt, eds., Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017).