Oppermann Serpil - Environmental Humanities

Environmental Humanities

ROWMAN AND LITTLEFIELD INTERNATIONAL INTERSECTIONS

The Rowman and Littlefield International Intersections series presents an overview of the latest and emerging trends in some of the most dynamic areas of research in the Humanities and Social Sciences today. The texts explore emerging subdisciplines or topics or established subdisciplines that are evolving as interdisciplinary fields.

TITLES IN THE SERIES

Critical Kinship Studies edited by Charlotte Krolkke, Lene Myong, Stine Willum Adrian, and Tine Tjrnhj-Thomsen

Environmental Humanities edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino

Environmental Humanities

Voices from the Anthropocene

Edited by

Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino

Table of Contents

Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Marco Armiero

Hubert Zapf

Greta Gaard

Scott Slovic

Jan Zalasiewicz

J. Baird Callicott

Joni Adamson

Filippo Bertoni

Lowell Duckert

Stefan Helmreich

Matthew Calarco

Thom van Dooren and Deborah Bird Rose

Kate Rigby

Wendy Wheeler

Rob Nixon

Bronislaw Szerszynski

Juan Carlos Galeano

Rosi Braidotti and Cosetta Veronese

Transdisciplinary and multiperspectival, the Environmental Humanities are, by definition, a research field based on teamwork. Faithful to this premise, this book also comes from the joint efforts of people and institutions whose support we are happy to recognise.

Sarah Campbell at Rowman & Littlefield International deserves heartfelt thanks for asking us to assemble this volume. Her invitation has given us another opportunity to work with so many important colleagues who share our scepticism about the Great Divide between the sciences and the humanities, and whose work stimulates us to cross disciplinary boundaries and envision new productive forms of dialogue. To all of them, as our authors on the pages of this book, goes therefore a deep gratitude: because their voices and ideas are the real strength of this project. In particular, we would like to thank Baird Callicott for his expert and patient feedback on our Introduction. The editorial team at Rowman & Littlefield International (Sinead Murphy, Isobel Cowper-Coles) added to our efforts its scrupulous and resourceful work on texts, illustrations, and captions.

For these many years of ecocultural debates, we owe thankfulness to the international and intersectional community of ASLE and EASLCE: projects like this book, among all the others we have pursued over the last decade, would be unthinkable apart from this collective atmosphere of sharing, thinking, and caring.

In addition, Serenella Iovino would like to thank the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation for yielding her a research grant at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society of the Ludwig-Maximilians Universitt, Munich. There, thanks to the welcoming, inclusive collegial atmosphere created by Christof Mauch and coordinated by Rob Emmett, she found an amazingly inspirational milieu, where cutting-edge cross-disciplinary inquiry goes hand in hand with Bavarias legendary Lebensgenuss. Some of the contributions in this volume come from presentations and discussions held during the Thursday meetings in the Leopoldstrasse. Sincere gratitude also goes to her colleagues at the Turin International Group of Environmental Humanities Research, especially Daniela Fargione, Laura Bonato, and Alberto Baracco, and to the students and colleagues at the Elitestudienkolleg Ethik der Textkulturen at the University of Augsburg, Germany, masterfully led by Hubert Zapf.

To our families, an inextinguishable debt of gratitude that words could never convey.

AnkaraTurin, May 2016

J. Baird Callicotts chapter previously appeared with the title A NeoPreSocratic Manifesto in Environmental Humanities 2 (2013): 169186.

Stefan Helmreichs chapter is reproduced by permission of the American Anthropological Association from American Anthropologist 113.1 (March 2011): 132144. Not for sale or further reproduction.

Thom van Dooren and Deborah Bird Roses chapter was previously published in the special issue of Environmental Humanities, Multispecies Studies. Ed. Thom van Dooren, Ursula Mnster, Eben Kirksey, Deborah Bird Rose, Matthew Chrulew, Anna Tsing. 8.1 (Spring 2016).

Rob Nixons chapter appeared in the special issue of Perspectives, The Edges of Environmental History: Honouring Jane Carruthers. Ed. Christof Mauch and Libby Robin. 1 (Spring 2014): 101109.

Rosi Braidotti and Cosetta Veroneses Can the Humanities Become Posthuman? A Conversation appeared in of the special double issue of Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism, Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontological Stories. Ed. Serenella Iovino, Roberto Marchesini, and Eleonora Adorni. June 2016: 95102.

All these texts are reproduced in revised or expanded form with the kind permission of the previous publishers or of the authors as copyright owners.