Readings Between Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities

Aesthetics, Ethics and Sustainable Transition

Readings Between Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities

Aesthetics, Ethics and Sustainable Transition

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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.

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Introduction: Sustainable Transition and the More-than-humanities
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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Published	Aug 20 2026
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Pages	256
ISBN	9781350253636
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

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John Miller

John Miller is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Centu…

An excellent and timely book that makes an eloquent case for why the environmental humanities and animal studies fields – which continue to some extent to be separated – not only should be, but must be, conjoined.

Graham Huggan, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds, UK
A much-needed volume from one of the world's rare experts in both ecocriticism and animal studies, Miller's book models the difficult but necessary work of making literary criticism relevant to the ever-growing problems of endangered more-than-human lives in rapidly changing environments.

Susan McHugh, Professor of English, University of New England, USA