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
Buying pre-order items
Ebook and audiobook pre-orders will be delivered on the publication date.
Payment for this pre-order will be taken when the item becomes available
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.
Accessibility Information
Additional accessibility information
- EPUB 3.0
- Conforms with the requirements of EPUB Accessibility Spec v1.1
- WCAG level AA
- WCAG v2.2 compliant
- accessibility@bloomsbury.com
Hazards
The publication contains no hazards
Support for non-visual reading
- No accessibility features offered by the reading system, device or reading software are disabled or otherwise unusable with the product
- Has alternative text descriptions for images
Visual adjustments
Appearance of the text and page layout can be modified according to the capabilities of the reading system (font family and size, spaces, as well as color of background and text)
Navigation
- Page list to go to pages from the print source version
- Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
- All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
- Content is enhanced with ARIA roles to optimize organization and facilitate navigation
- Purposes of all links are made clear
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
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | Aug 20 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350253643 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Reviews
Related Titles
