Routledge Environmental Humanities

From microplastics in the sea to hyper-trends such as global climate change, mega-extinction, and widening social disparities and displacement, we live on a planet undergoing tremendous flux and uncertainty. At the center of this transformation is human culture, both contributing to the state of the world and responding to planetary change. The Routledge Environmental Humanities Series seeks to engage with contemporary environmental challenges through the various lenses of the humanities and to explore foundational issues in environmental justice, multicultural environmentalism, ecofeminism, environmental psychology, environmental materialities and textualities, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, environmental communication and information management, multispecies relationships, and related topics. The series is premised on the notion that the arts, humanities, and social sciences, integrated with the natural sciences, are essential to comprehensive environmental studies.

The environmental humanities are a multidimensional discipline encompassing such fields as anthropology, history, literary and media studies, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, and women’s and gender studies; however, the Routledge Environmental Humanities is particularly eager to receive book proposals that explicitly cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, bringing the full force of multiple perspectives to illuminate vexing and profound environmental topics. We favor manuscripts aimed at an international readership and written in a lively and accessible style. Our readers include scholars and students from across the span of environmental studies disciplines and thoughtful citizens and policy makers interested in the human dimensions of environmental change.

Please contact the Editor, Grace Harrison ([email protected]), to submit proposals.

Praise for A Cultural History of Climate Change (2016):

A Cultural History of Climate Change shows that the humanities are not simply a late-arriving appendage to Earth System science, to help in the work of translation. These essays offer distinctive insights into how and why humans reason and imagine their ‘weather-worlds’ (Ingold, 2010). We learn about the interpenetration of climate and culture and are prompted to think creatively about different ways in which the idea of climate change can be conceptualised and acted upon beyond merely ‘saving the planet’.

Professor Mike Hulme, King's College London, in Green Letters

Series Editors:

Professor Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, USA

Professor Joni Adamson, Arizona State University, USA

Professor YUKI Masami, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan.

Professor Iain McCalman AO, Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University.

Professor Libby Robin, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra; Guest Professor of Environmental History, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden.

Dr Paul Warde, Reader in Environmental History, University of Cambridge, UK

Christina Alt, St Andrews University, UK,　Alison Bashford, University of New South Wales, Australia,　Peter Coates, University of Bristol, UK,　Thom van Dooren, University of Sydney, Australia,　Georgina Endfield, Liverpool UK,　Jodi Frawley, University of Western Australia,　Andrea Gaynor, The University of Western Australia, Australia,　Christina Gerhardt, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA,□Tom Lynch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA,　Jennifer Newell, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia ,　Simon Pooley, Imperial College London, UK,　Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University, South Africa,　Ann Waltner, University of Minnesota, US,　Jessica Weir, University of Western Sydney, Australia

William Beinart,University of Oxford, UK,　Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa,　Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago, USA,　Poul Holm, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland,　Shen Hou, Renmin University of China, Beijing,　Rob Nixon, Princeton University, USA,　Pauline Phemister, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK,　Sverker Sörlin, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden,　Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum, Munich and Co-Director, Rachel Carson Centre, LMU Munich University, Germany,　Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University, USA,　Kirsten Wehner, University of London, UK