Cultural Histories of the Anthropocene provides a guide to a new field that remains fertile but is already overgrown with a thicket of specialized terms and insider arguments. It's comprehensive, but not in the style of a generic textbook; instead, this edited collection provides a distinct perspective on a global phenomenon. The seventeen bite-sized essays represent a complex and ongoing interdisciplinary conversation among the leading Nordic scholars whose work has done so much to make writing critical planetary histories possible. They critically analyze theories, concepts, and methods; reflect on the politics and ethics of writing of the Anthropocene and being a scholar in the Anthropocene; and they provide model ethnographic case studies and close of exhibits and texts. Cultural Histories of the Anthropocene will be a particularly valuable resource in undergraduate and graduate classes in the environmental humanities.

Perrin Selcer, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, USA

No cultural historian or scholar engaged with the environmental humanities can ignore the rich and diverse content of this impressive volume.

Christian Wicke, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, The Netherlands