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

Other author DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967- editor.
Other author Didur, Jill, 1965- editor.
Other author Carrigan, Anthony, 1980- editor.
Format Book
PublicationNew York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Descriptionxv, 391 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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SeriesRoutledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ; 31
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature 31. ^A1063856
Contents Foreword / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Introduction: A postcolonial environmental humanities.
Contents 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.
Contents 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.
Contents 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.
Contents 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.
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2014038773
ISBN9781138827721 (hbk.)
ISBN113882772X (hbk.)
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