Humanities for the Environment

Joni Adamson is Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English, and Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, USA. Michael Davis is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, Australia, and a Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

1. Introduction: "Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice in the Environmental Humanities"

Section I: Integrating Knowledge, Extending the Conversation

2. "Backbone: Holding Up Our Future"

3. "Country and the Gift"

4. "Introduction: Backbone and Country"

Section II: Backbone

5. "Twilight Islands and Environmental Crises: Re-writing a History of the Caribbean and Pacific Regions through the Islands Existing in their Shadows"

6. "Seaweed, Soul-ar Panels and Other Entanglements"

7. "Is it Colonial Déjà Vu? Indigenous Peoples and Climate Injustice"

8. "Gathering the Desert in an Urban Lab: Designing the Citizen Humanities"

9. "Environmental Rephotography: Visually Mapping Time, Change and Experience"

10. "Integral Ecology in the Pope’s Environmental Encyclical, Implications for Environmental Humanities"

Section III: Country

11. "Radiation Ecologies, Resistance, and Survivance on Pacific Islands: Albert Wendt’s Black Rainbow and Syaman Rapongan’s Drifting Dreams and the Ocean"

12. "Walking Together into Knowledge: Aboriginal/European Collaborative Environmental Encounters in Australia’s North-East, 1847-1850"
13. "‘The Lifting of the Sky’: Outside the Anthropocene" 14. "Literature, Ethics, and Bushfire in the Anthropocene" 15. "Placing the Nation: Curating Landmarks at the National Museum of Australia"
16. "The Oceanic Turn: Submarine Futures of the Anthropocene"