...Joni Adamson Copyright © 2017 Regents of the University of Colorado 2017 Roots an d T rajectories of the Enviro nm ental Hum anities: F rom E n v ir o n m e n t a l Justice to In t e r g e n e r a t i o n a l J u s t i c e J on i A d a m s o n S ince the turn of the tw en ty-first century...

...Hsuan L. Hsu Copyright © 2014 Regents of the University of Colorado 2014 L iterary To po g r a ph ies a n d th e Scales of E n v ir o n m e n t a l J ustice H S U A N L. H S U C ARTO G R APHY has been a powerful tool in struggles fo r environm ental justice. By visually correlating data...

... to solve environm ental problems, or are we fiddling while Rome burns? When we insist on the profound yet overlooked importance of the environmental humanities, do we insist too much? Can we really blame our colleagues in the social and natural sciences for asking us to prove it? I ask these questions...

... where she directs the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI). She lectures internationally and is the author and/or co-editor of many books th a t helped to establish and expand the environmental hum anities, including Keywords fo r Environm ental Studies (New York University Press, 2016) and Hum...

... Literature, Environm ental Justice, and Ecocriticism : The M iddle Place would consolidate in critical term s the connections between Native American literature and environmental justice. Adamson's monograph suggests that indigenous literary and oral w orks were central to, as one c ritic puts it, "'co n fro...

...Lawrence Buell Copyright © 2017 Regents of the University of Colorado 2017 T h e A n t h r o p o c e n e Ta k e o v e r : Hazards for Environm ental Hum anists Law rence B uell T his essay falls into three unequal parts. First, a short reconnaissance of the four hazards to which my title...

...Joe Balay Copyright © 2017 Regents of the University of Colorado 2017 IN T E R T W IN IN G S : Rethinking E nvironm ental Ethics th ro u gh A esth etics w ith M erleau-Ponty Joe Balay F rom the 1916 Organic A c t's e ffo rt "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects" of U.S...

... and ecologism, and it is tem pting because of their fam iliarity to interpret our current environ­ mental situation in term s of them. Representatives of both perspectives have criticized the other, but neither narrative has proven particularly effective at im proving our environm ental situation or warding off...

... in the developm ent of the environm ental hum anities. W hat objects of inquiry are being addressed; by w hat newer or older conceptual/cultural forces and desires are they being pushed or pulled? Do their paths diverge or cross? W hat debates are they initiating? W hat paths are they describing? A t this moment...

... regarding Yorick, who is often seen as the high water­ mark of sentimental characters, and Sterne the watermark of sentim ental writers. Ernest Nevin Dilworth sums up m uch of this discourse: [F]rom Thackeray down to the present our tu­ tors have w hipped us into believing that Sterne, when h e s...

... u t borders, w ith different kinds of divisions at stake. How m ight one calibrate the globe in globalization w ith the planet at risk in environm ental crisis? And w hat can be gained by distinguishing between them? A related question, not fu lly addressed here, is how these tw o rubrics differ...

... of attaining environm ental inform ation has morphed into one of managing environm ental sensation. Or, to play o ff the title of a recent collection, numbers have turned to nerves.1 W hat can we learn about environm ental culture and interpretive approaches if we regard inform ation, sensation, and feeling...

... arrett that names like Hem ans and Landon were re-introduced into liter­ ary discourse, the sentim ental aspects o f B arrett s relationship with Hemans and Landon have been largely overlooked by con­ tem porary critics. O n the other hand, h er worries about the gender politics of literary culture...

..., infrastructures of energy, extraction, transport, and waste are inseparable from human im pact and environm ental damage. Perhaps this is why infrastructure is a recurring trope in philosophical investigations of the natural world: one thinks of Heidegger's dam on the Rhine th a t converts nature into "standing...

... to seasonal and inter-annual environm ental changes. A t the same tim e, our societies have been heavily disrupted by colonialism , capitalism , and industrial­ ization. Regarding Indigenous peoples in the A rctic, Callison w rites th a t clim ate change is "Understood as an emergent form of life clim ate...

...Emily T. Yeh Copyright © 2017 Regents of the University of Colorado 2017 P olitical. Ec o lo g y , C r itiq ue, a n d Multiple O n to lo g ies: Musings on the Po sth u m an an d Other Environm ental Turns E m i l y T. Y e h In tro d u ctio n : N ew Turns? As a graduate student in the late...

.... The issue considers Innovative col­ laborations, from adapting GIS (Geographic Inform ation Systems) m apping into a tool fo r Indigenous postcolonial resistance, to supplem enting cartographic techniques w ith literary and film ic resources to expose global environm ental injustices. Some of the "Im...

... Proceeding from a posi­ tion known as deep ecology (which places the Earth n o t hum an beings at the center o f an environm ental ethic),Joplin approvingly finds Wordsworth moving towards a potentially eco­ logical w orld as he rejects a hum an-centered, o r anthropocentric, approach to the Earth...

... and m ust th e re fo re lay claim to a place in the d o m a in o f re a lism .1 Behind th is s ig n ific a n t reproach fo r e xclu d in g w o rkin g -cla ss a gency is a m ore c o m m o n ­ place critique, that Harkness's novel indulges in pathos and sentim entalism , which it a rg u a b ly does...

... pt at verbal dom inance over the visual that constantly falls short o f the ephem eral nature of vision and o f the polyvalent reference o f the image. The Rings o f Saturn takes place in a kind o f dream state, in w hich the boundaries between external vision and m ental perception, between...