Readings Between Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities
Aesthetics, Ethics and Sustainable Transition
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Description
The relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities is both intimate and tense. It makes little sense to examine the representation of environments without thinking about the animals that shape them, or, conversely, to think about animals without exploring the ecologies they live in. Yet, animal studies and the environmental humanities often appear to have divergent ethical, political and intellectual emphases.
This book examines the relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities through three interlinked topics – meat, oil and conservation – each of which has given rise to an emerging sub-field of academic enquiry: vegan studies, the energy humanities, and extinction studies. Exploring these themes and perspectives through readings of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present, the book argues that the contradictions and cross-fertilisations between ecological and animal critical perspectives provide a compelling perspective on the failure of mainstream discourses of sustainability to address our current global emergency.
Table of Contents
Part I: Meat: Ecocarnism and Vegan Studies
I. Eating Well in the Anthropocene
II. Wendell Berry's Carnopoetics
III. Cultured Meat Landscapes
Part II: Automobility: Animals, Oil and the Energy Humanities
IV. Carnism and Motonormativity
V. Roadkill in J. G. Ballard's Autoscapes
VI. Multispecies Automobilities in Nnedi Okorafor's Africanfuturism
Part III: Conservation: Neoliberalism and Extinction Studies
VII. (Un)natural Capital and Endangered Species
VIII. Comedy, Capital and the Poetics of Encounter in Douglas Adams and Mark Cawardine's Last Chance to See.
IX. Disentangled Creatures in Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker
Conclusion: The Aporias of Green Capitalism
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Product details
| Published | Sep 17 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350253612 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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