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

    Contributor(s): DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M, 1967- [editor.] | Didur, Jill, 1965- [editor.] | Carrigan, Anthony, 1980- [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature: 31.Publisher: New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: xv, 391 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138827721; 113882772X; 9781138235816; 1138235814Subject(s): Ecocriticism | Environmentalism in literature | Postcolonialism in literature | Human ecology in literature | Ecocriticism | Environmentalism in literature | Human ecology in literature | Postcolonialism in literature | Ekokritik | Miljörörelser i litteraturen | Humanekologi i litteraturen | Postkolonialism i litteraturenDDC classification: 809/.9336 LOC classification: PN98.E36 | G57 2015Other classification: 17.82 Online resources: WorldCat Link
    Contents:
    Foreword / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Introduction: A postcolonial environmental humanities.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Foreword / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Introduction: A postcolonial environmental humanities.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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