Description: This volume traces the emergence of the environmental humanities as a scholarly discipline and advocates for the social, political, and public relevance of the field.
Brief description: Scott Slovic is University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Idaho, USA, where has been teaching since 2012-previously he was a professor at Texas State University and the University of Nevada, Reno. He served as founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 he has edited ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment for ASLE and Oxford University Press. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of twenty-seven books, including, most recently, The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran). His forthcoming books include Nature in Literary Studies (coedited with Peter Remien) for Cambridge University Press's Critical Concepts Series. He coedits Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Routledge Environmental Humanities with Joni Adamson and Yuki Masami.
Review Quotes:
"Echoing Walt Whitman, I suggested many years ago that ecocriticism was 'large and it contain[ed] multitudes.' Well, the field continues to grow and now contains multitudes of ideas, texts, and vocabularies my colleagues and I never imagined when we worked to establish the field. Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique is diverse and rich in so many ways--culturally, disciplinarily, and even in the varying degrees of aesthetic adventurousness and ethical urgency described by the contributors. This collection showcases the true vibrancy of contemporary work in the environmental humanities." --Scott Slovic, Oregon Research Institute
"Discourses on ecology and environmental humanities have helped us see beyond borders and frontiers and this book, with its global perspectives and multicultural view-points, is a welcome addition. The contributors proffer a variant spectrum of academic studies on imagining nature and narrating ecology." --Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Pondicherry University "Environment is a 'process, ' as Lawrence Buell implies, rather than a 'constant.' Buell's implication gives a dynamic direction to environmental studies. In the twenty-first century, 'environmental humanities' has evolved out of environmental studies and speaks of cross-fertilization of this domain by multiple disciplines including politics, ethics, aesthetics, linguistics, and others. A wonderful collection of well-researched essays, this book not only draws our attention to the emergent areas of ecocriticism like ecographics, ecotheology, bioregionalism, and multi-species studies but at the same time vividly marks the passage from ecocriticism to environmental humanities." --Joyjit Ghosh, Vidyasagar University