Environmental Studies
Spring| Summer 2019
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Earth Emotions
New Words for a New World Glenn A. Albrecht May 2019 272pp 9781501715228 £15.99 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the 21st century. Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known ecoemotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia—love of life—for our home planet. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated Anthropocene era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science.
Living with Oil and Coal
Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India Dolly Kikon Series edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan
April 2019 200pp 13 b&w illus., 2 maps 9780295743950 £23.99 PB 9780295745039 £79.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
The 19th-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, and the scramble for natural resources regulate the lives of Naga, Ahom, and Adivasi people, as well as migrants from elsewhere in the region, as they struggle to find peace and work. Anthropologist Dolly Kikon uses indepth ethnographic accounts to address the complexity of Northeast India, a region between Southeast Asia and China where boundaries and borders are made, disputed, and maintained. Bringing a fresh and exciting direction to borderland studies, she explores the social bonds established through practices of resource extraction and the tensions these relations generate, focusing on peoples’ love for the landscape and for the state, as well as for family, friends, and neighbors.
Reoccupy Earth
Spaceship in the Desert
Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology April 2019 240pp 9780823283538 £21.99 PB 9780823283545 £79.00 HB
Experimental Futures March 2019 272pp 31 illus. 9781478000914 £20.99 PB 9781478000723 £83.00 HB
Notes toward an Other Beginning David Wood
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Habit rules our lives. And yet climate change and the catastrophic future it portends make it clear that we cannot go on like this. Our habits are integral to narratives of the good life, to social norms and expectations, as well as to economic reality. Such shared shapes are vital. Yet while many of our individual habits seem perfectly reasonable, when aggregated they spell disaster. Beyond consumerism, other forms of life and patterns of dwelling are clearly possible. But how can we get there from here? Who precisely is the “we” that our habits have created, and who else might we be? Philosophy is about emancipation— from illusions, myths, and oppression. In Reoccupy Earth, the noted philosopher David Wood shows how an approach to philosophy attuned to our ecological existence can suspend the taken-for-granted and open up alternative forms of earthly dwelling. Sharing the Earth, as we do, raises fundamental questions about space and time, place and history, territory and embodiment—questions that philosophy cannot directly answer but can help us to frame and to work out for ourselves.
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Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi Gökçe Günel
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world’s first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert Gökçe Günel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures, providing an illuminating portrait of an international group of engineers, designers, and students who attempted to build a post-oil future in Abu Dhabi. While many of Masdar's initiatives—such as developing a new energy currency and a driverless rapid transit network—have stalled or not met expectations, Günel analyzes how these initiatives contributed to rendering the future a thinly disguised version of the fossil-fueled present. Spaceship in the Desert tells the story of Masdar, at once a “utopia” sponsored by the Emirati government, and a well-resourced company involving different actors who participated in the project, each with their own agendas and desires.
At the Wilderness Edge
The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada’s West Coast J.I. Little February 2019 216pp 9780773556409 £23.99 PB 9780773556300 £91.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS
An engaging study of grassroots politics in action and the people behind it, At the Wilderness Edge sheds new light on the rise of environmental consciousness in the 1960s, a pivotal era in the history and preservation of green spaces in and around British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada.
Canadian Environmental Philosophy
Edited by C. Tyler DesRoches, Frank Jankunis & Byron Williston May 2019 352pp 9780773556676 £25.99 PB 9780773556669 £99.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS
Canadian Environmental Philosophy is the first collection of essays to take up theoretical and practical issues in environmental philosophy today, from a Canadian perspective. The essays covers various subjects, from ecological nationalism to the significance of the Anthropocene, showcasing a range as diverse and challenging as the Canadian landscape itself.
Climate Change and the Art of Devotion
Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy
July 2019 272pp 110 color illus., 3 maps 9780295745374 £58.00 HB
Early American Studies May 2019 288pp 8 illus. 9780812251272 £37.00 HB
Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850 Sugata Ray UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. Author Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology emerged in the wake of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850), an epoch marked by climatic catastrophes across the globe.
Transforming Nature in Early New England Strother Roberts
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Roberts argues that colonial New England was an integral part of England’s expanding imperial economy. Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy shows how the extraction of each commodity had an impact on the New England landscape, creating a new colonial ecology inextricably tied to the broader trans-Atlantic economy beyond it shores
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Coral Empire
Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity Ann Elias
March 2019 304pp 55 illus., incl. 16 in color 9781478003823 £20.99 PB 9781478003182 £83.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ann Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and the sea as an unexplored territory to be exploited in ways that tied the tropics and reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature.
Cultural Sustainabilities
Music, Media, Language, Advocacy Edited by Timothy J Cooley
April 2019 360pp 9780252084157 £24.99 PB 9780252042362 £91.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Cultural Sustainabilities presents 23 essays, each asking a particular question or presenting a specific local case study about cultural and environmental sustainability. Contributing to the environmental humanities, the authors embrace and celebrate human engagement with ecosystems, though with a profound sense of collective responsibility created by the emergence of the Anthropocene.
Defending Giants
The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics Darren Frederick Speece Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
February 2019 384pp 16 b&w illus., 5 maps (2 in fm) 9780295745732 £19.99 NIP UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur and endurance. Since the 19th century, however, logging operations have eaten away at the redwood forest. Defending Giants explores the long history of the socalled Redwood Wars, focusing on the ways rural Americans fought for control over both North Coast society and its forests.
Ecohumanism and the Ecological Culture
The Educational Legacy of Lewis Mumford and Ian McHarg William J. Cohen Foreword by Frederick R. Steiner May 2019 306pp 9781439918289 £31.00 PB 9781439918272 £91.00 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reveals how Mumford’s conception of an educational philosophy was enacted by his mentee, Ian McHarg, the renowned landscape architect and regional planner at the University of Pennsylvania. Cohen explores Mumford’s important vision of ecohumanism and how McHarg actually made that vision happen.
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Ecologics
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene Cymene Howe June 2019 288pp 52 illus. 9781478003854 £20.99 PB 9781478003199 £83.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cymene Howe traces the complex relationships between humans, nonhuman beings and objects, and geophysical forces that shaped the Mareña Renovables project in Oaxaca, Mexico, which had it been completed, would have been Latin America’s largest wind power installation.
Great Plains Weather Kenneth F. Dewey
Discover the Great Plains June 2019 200pp 50 photos 9781496215499 £12.99 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Kenneth F. Dewey explains what makes the climate of the Great Plains unique by presenting a historical climatology of extreme weather events and sharing some of his experiences from the road. His absorbing narrative is complemented by images that he amassed in forty years of climatological research.
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Energopolitics
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene Dominic Boyer
June 2019 280pp 35 illus. 9781478003779 £20.99 PB 9781478003137 £83.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dominic Boyer examines the politics of wind power and how it is shaped by myriad factors—from the legacies of settler colonialism and indigenous resistance to state bureaucracy and corporate investment—while outlining the fundamental impact of energy and fuel on political power.
In Defense of Farmers
The Future of Agriculture in the Shadow of Corporate Power Edited by Jane Gibson & Sara Alexander Foreword by John K. Hansen
Our Sustainable Future July 2019 468pp 16 photos, 4 maps, 7 tables, 3 graphs 9781496206732 £50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Illuminates the critical role that farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines its vulnerabilities, adaptations and evolution. Joining the conversations about agriculture and rural societies within an array of disciplines, this volume addresses specific challenges farmers face in 4 different countries.
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Enlightenment and the Gasping City
Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko
Exterranean
Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene Phillip John Usher
June 2019 256pp 12 b&w halftones 9781501737657 £20.99 PB 9781501737640 £79.00 HB
Meaning Systems March 2019 240pp 9780823284214 £24.99 PB 9780823284221 £91.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene
Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains
Identifies air pollution as a boundary between the physical and the immaterial, showing how air pollution impresses itself on the urban environment as stagnation and blur. With air pollution now affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, AbrahmsKavunenko seeks to understand how air pollution has become a part of Mongolian religious and ritual life.
Edited by Kregg Hetherington
Experimental Futures February 2019 328pp 37 illus. 9781478001485 £20.99 PB 9781478001133 £83.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The contributors explore life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles, charting the shifting conceptions of environment, infrastructure, and both human and nonhuman life in the face of widespread uncertainty about the planet’s future.
By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images from across Europe, Usher offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought. Both historicist and speculative in approach, Exterranean lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across and untranslates theoretical affordances between periods and languages.
Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas Nachiket Chanchani March 2019 280pp 80 color illus., 26 b&w illus., 5 maps, 12 tables 9780295744513 £58.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Explores scores of stone edifices and steles that were erected in the mountainous landscape around the Ganga River in the Himalayas. Through their forms, locations, and interactions with the natural environment, these lithic ensembles evoked legendary worlds, embedded historical memories in the topography, changed the mountain range’s appearance, and shifted its semiotic effect.
No Horizon Is So Far
Two Women and Their Historic Journey across Antarctica Liv Arnesen, Ann Bancroft & Cheryl Dahle February 2019 280pp 9781517907020 £11.99 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
This book follows the first two women to cross Antarctica from the planning of their expedition through their brutal trek as they walked, skied, and icesailed for almost three months in temperatures reaching as low as -35°F, all while towing their 250-pound supply sledges across 1,700 miles of ice full of dangerous crevasses.
Water
Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity Jeremy J. Schmidt
April 2019 320pp 9781479853823 £17.99 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This title details the remarkable intellectual history of America’s water management philosophy. It shows how this philosophy shaped early 20th century conservation in the US, influenced American international development programs, and ultimately shaped programs of global governance that today connect water resources to the Earth system.
Power-Lined
Electricity, Landscape, and the American Mind Daniel L. Wuebben
July 2019 276pp 8 photos, 16 illus., 1 map 9781496203663 £37.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Wuebben weaves together a sweeping investigation of the varied influence of overhead wires on the American landscape and mind. Power-Lined exposes the subtle influences wrought by the wiring of the nation and shows that perceptions of overhead lines may be key in progressing toward a more sustainable energy future.
Recent Highlights Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas Karine Gagné
January 2019 264pp 19 b&w illus., 2 maps 9780295744001 £23.99 PB 9780295744018 £74.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Looks at the causes and consequences of ongoing social and cultural change in peoples’ relationship with the natural environment. Illuminates how relations of reciprocity—learned through everyday life and work in the mountains—shape and nurture an ethics of care.
Standing with Standing Rock
Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement Edited by Nick Estes & Jaskiran Dhillon
Indigenous Americas May 2019 448pp 9781517905361 £19.99 PB 9781517905354 £83.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Amid the Standing Rock movement, the Oceti Sakowin (the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota people) reunited. The contributors to this work reflect on Indigenous history and politics and on the movement’s significance, challenging our understanding of colonial history not simply as “lessons learned” but as essential guideposts for activism.
The Nature of Canada
Edited by Colin M. Coates & Graeme Wynn
May 2019 320pp 72 b&w photos, 4 maps, 2 charts 9780774890366 £23.99 PB UBC PRESS
Intended to delight and provoke, these short, beautifully crafted essays, explore how humans have engaged with the Canadian environment and what those interactions say about the nature of Canada. The foremost stars in the field of environmental history reflect on how we have idolized and found inspiration in nature.
Communicating Climate Change
When the Caribou Do Not Come
Cornell Series in Environmental Education November 2018 174pp 2 b&w halftones, 1 figure, 9 charts 9781501730795 £15.99 PB
October 2018 280pp 15 figures, 12 tables, 6 photos, 3 maps 9780774831192 £29.99 NIP
A Guide for Educators Anne K. Armstrong, Marianne E. Krasny & Jonathon P. Schuldt
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Uses fictional vignettes of climate change education programs and true stories from climate change educators working in the field to illustrate the possibilities of applying research to practice.
Indigenous Knowledge and Adaptive Management in the Western Arctic Edited by Brenda L. Parlee & Ken J. Caine
UBC PRESS
Grounded in community-based research, these collected essays bring to the fore the insights of the Inuvialuit, Gwich’in, and Sahtú, for whom caribou stewardship has long been a way of life. This book emphasizes the important role that Indigenous knowledge plays in managing our Arctic ecosystems.