The aim of this Element is to forge new conceptual tools to give more ecological power to the human imagination. It contrasts the harmful modern concepts of reality and imagination with a more grounded earthly and animal imagination and offers an al...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009644426)
The aim of this Element is to forge new conceptual tools to give more ecological power to the human imagination. It contrasts the harmful modern concepts of reality and imagination with a more grounded earthly and animal imagination and offers an al...Lasīt vairāk
This Element traces the evolution of cars from horsecars, carriages, and bicycles, and the influence of Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan on labor standards and consumer behaviors. As the car industry pushes high-tech autonomous or self-driving vehicle...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009526746)
This Element traces the evolution of cars from horsecars, carriages, and bicycles, and the influence of Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan on labor standards and consumer behaviors. As the car industry pushes high-tech autonomous or self-driving vehicle...Lasīt vairāk
Descartes features heavily in ecocritical literature. He is often said to dismiss the non-human world as irrelevant and inanimate. This Element offers insights into the seventeenth-century context and explains what Descartes said, what problems emer...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009617130)
Descartes features heavily in ecocritical literature. He is often said to dismiss the non-human world as irrelevant and inanimate. This Element offers insights into the seventeenth-century context and explains what Descartes said, what problems emer...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009500579)
Growing Hope takes a closer look at how such narratives can carry the promise of a better future in the face of grim realities. It brings together two kinds of narratives that are rarely considered in conjunction: stories about urban community garden...Lasīt vairāk
Growing Hope takes a closer look at how such narratives can carry the promise of a better future in the face of grim realities. It brings together two kinds of narratives that are rarely considered in conjunction: stories about urban community garden...Lasīt vairāk
Slime has always stirred the imagination and evoked strong responses. This Element discusses slime as it defines the very parameters of life, from the primordial slime through which life began to the rot and slime to which life decomposes; despite sl...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009550703)
Slime has always stirred the imagination and evoked strong responses. This Element discusses slime as it defines the very parameters of life, from the primordial slime through which life began to the rot and slime to which life decomposes; despite sl...Lasīt vairāk
The ecological crisis is the result of modernitys coloniality. The Moderns considered the Earth as natural resources at their disposal. Their colonial vision of nature was complemented by that of nonmodern cultures like Byzantium and pre-Columbian...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009547116)
The ecological crisis is the result of modernitys coloniality. The Moderns considered the Earth as natural resources at their disposal. Their colonial vision of nature was complemented by that of nonmodern cultures like Byzantium and pre-Columbian...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Jun-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009517089)
This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanities perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories. It is shown that the common notions of rubber history, which...Lasīt vairāk
This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanities perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories. It is shown that the common notions of rubber history, which...Lasīt vairāk
The surging wave of indigenous politics, rights of nature, and social movements acting with rocks, rivers, glaciers, and lakes has brought to light an ecology of nonlife. Its protagonists are earth-beings, geobodies that question deep-seated Wester...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Dec-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009475969)
The surging wave of indigenous politics, rights of nature, and social movements acting with rocks, rivers, glaciers, and lakes has brought to light an ecology of nonlife. Its protagonists are earth-beings, geobodies that question deep-seated Wester...Lasīt vairāk
Anthroposcreens frames the climate unconscious as a reading strategy for film and television productions during the Anthropocene. Drawing attention to the affects of climate change and the broader environmental damage of the Anthropocene, this stud...Lasīt vairāk
By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planets troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from vario...Lasīt vairāk
Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural disasters: images of the gray flood and silver tsunami imbue senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the...Lasīt vairāk
This Element presents a necessary intervention within the rapidly expanding field of research in the environmental humanities on climate change and environmental literacy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. This El...Lasīt vairāk
This Element follows the development of humans in constantly changing climates and environments from Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, to fully modern humans who moved out of Africa to Europe and Asia 70,000 years ago. This Element follows...Lasīt vairāk
The words Anthropocene animals conjure pictures of dead albatrosses bodies filled with plastic fragments, polar bears adrift on melting ice sheets, solitary elephants in the savannah. Suspended between the impersonal nature of the Great Extinction...Lasīt vairāk
Traveling between Naples (Italy) and Agbogbloshie (Ghana), science fiction and epidemic outbreaks, this Element will take the readers into the bowels of the Wasteocene, but it will also indicate the commoning practices which are dismantling it....Lasīt vairāk
The distinction between humans and the natural world is an artefact and more a matter of linguistic communication than a conceptual separation. This Element proposes ecosemiotics as an epistemological tool to better understand the relationship betwee...Lasīt vairāk
In recent years, the word virus has lost its biological perimeter of reference to acquire a much broader could say paradigmatic meaning. This Element aims to shed light on how virality has become the most powerful metaphor available to descri...Lasīt vairāk
This Element provides an accessible introduction to ecosemiotics and demonstrates its pertinence for the study of todays unstable culture-nature relations. Ecosemiotics can be defined as the study of sign processes responsible for ecological phenome...Lasīt vairāk
The concept of Anthropocene has been incorporated within a hegemonic narrative that represents Man as the dominant geological force of our epoch, emphasizing the destruction and salvation power of industrial technologies. This Element develops a co...Lasīt vairāk
This Element aims to show why the ancient tradition still matters in the Anthropocene. Revisiting ancient materials alongside central concepts of contemporary environmental theory, Schliephake offers new perspectives and argues that classical ecologi...Lasīt vairāk
Petroglyphic rock art in three valleys of Mongolias Altai Mountains reveals the anatomy of deep time at the boundary between Central and North Asia. Inscribed over a period of twelve millennia, its subject matter, styles, and manner of execution ref...Lasīt vairāk
