Routledge Environmental Humanities
About the Book Series
From microplastics in the sea to hyper-trends such as global climate change, mega-extinction, and widening social disparities and displacement, we live on a planet undergoing tremendous flux and uncertainty. At the center of this transformation is human culture, both contributing to the state of the world and responding to planetary change. The Routledge Environmental Humanities Series seeks to engage with contemporary environmental challenges through the various lenses of the humanities and to explore foundational issues in environmental justice, multicultural environmentalism, ecofeminism, environmental psychology, environmental materialities and textualities, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, environmental communication and information management, multispecies relationships, and related topics. The series is premised on the notion that the arts, humanities, and social sciences, integrated with the natural sciences, are essential to comprehensive environmental studies.
The environmental humanities are a multidimensional discipline encompassing such fields as anthropology, history, literary and media studies, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, and women’s and gender studies; however, the Routledge Environmental Humanities is particularly eager to receive book proposals that explicitly cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, bringing the full force of multiple perspectives to illuminate vexing and profound environmental topics. We favor manuscripts aimed at an international readership and written in a lively and accessible style. Our readers include scholars and students from across the span of environmental studies disciplines and thoughtful citizens and policy makers interested in the human dimensions of environmental change.
Please contact the Editor, Grace Harrison ([email protected]), to submit proposals.
Praise for A Cultural History of Climate Change (2016):
A Cultural History of Climate Change shows that the humanities are not simply a late-arriving appendage to Earth System science, to help in the work of translation. These essays offer distinctive insights into how and why humans reason and imagine their ‘weather-worlds’ (Ingold, 2010). We learn about the interpenetration of climate and culture and are prompted to think creatively about different ways in which the idea of climate change can be conceptualised and acted upon beyond merely ‘saving the planet’.
Professor Mike Hulme, King's College London, in Green Letters
Series Editors:
Professor Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, USA
Professor Joni Adamson, Arizona State University, USA
Professor YUKI Masami, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan.
Previous editors:
Professor Iain McCalman AO, Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University.
Professor Libby Robin, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra; Guest Professor of Environmental History, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden.
Dr Paul Warde, Reader in Environmental History, University of Cambridge, UK
Editorial Board
Christina Alt, St Andrews University, UK, Alison Bashford, University of New South Wales, Australia, Peter Coates, University of Bristol, UK, Thom van Dooren, University of Sydney, Australia, Georgina Endfield, Liverpool UK, Jodi Frawley, University of Western Australia, Andrea Gaynor, The University of Western Australia, Australia, Christina Gerhardt, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA,□Tom Lynch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA, Jennifer Newell, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia , Simon Pooley, Imperial College London, UK, Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Ann Waltner, University of Minnesota, US, Jessica Weir, University of Western Sydney, Australia
International Advisory Board
William Beinart,University of Oxford, UK, Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago, USA, Poul Holm, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Shen Hou, Renmin University of China, Beijing, Rob Nixon, Princeton University, USA, Pauline Phemister, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK, Sverker Sörlin, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum, Munich and Co-Director, Rachel Carson Centre, LMU Munich University, Germany, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University, USA, Kirsten Wehner, University of London, UK
Translating Oil: Petro-Aesthetics and Energy Transition
1st Edition
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By Sissel Furuseth, Julia Leyda
February 10, 2027
This book interrogates a variety of translation processes that take place when petroleum-based cultures are established, maintained, and dismantled. Through a range of case studies, it shows how energy transition actualises questions of translatability and reflects on how we can learn to ...
Literary Storytelling and the Environmental Crisis of the Oceans: Jellyfish Poetics
1st Edition
By Rosanne van der Voet
February 08, 2027
With particular focus on more-than-human experience, this creative-critical book explores the role of literary storytelling in representing and communicating the oceanic environmental crisis. Investigating the creative potential of scholarship in material ecocriticism and the blue humanities, this ...
Postcolonial Indigenous Ecocritism and Environmental Protest
1st Edition
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By Donna L. Potts, Amitendu Bhattacharya
February 03, 2027
Postcolonial Indigenous Ecocriticism explores the ways in which contemporary indigenous environmental protests are rooted in the folklore, music, dance, art, language, and mythology of the precolonial. Colonized countries and regions, having endured the suppression of indigenous languages as well ...
Brackish Blue Humanities and Environmental Art: Thinking with the Baltic Sea
1st Edition
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By Ewelina Jarosz, Karolina Kolenda, Tomasz Sikora
January 14, 2027
Brackish Blue Humanities and Environmental Art: Thinking with the Baltic Sea invites readers on a speculative cruise across one of Europe’s most fragile and politically charged waters. Moving beyond ocean-centered paradigms of the blue humanities, this volume reimagines the Baltic Sea beyond a ...
The Sea in Nordic Literature: Oceanic Criticism and Blue Humanities
1st Edition
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By Frederike Felcht, Søren Frank, Katie Ritson
September 10, 2026
The first collection to address the role of the oceanic in literary texts and traditions from across the Nordic region, this book explores applications of ecocriticism, postcolonial theory, new materialism, and gender studies at a time when interest in marine ecosystems and their vulnerabilities to...
Wild Anthropocene: Literature and Multispecies Justice in Deep Time
1st Edition
By Louise Economides
July 20, 2026
Wild Anthropocene examines four key areas—the politics of deep time, neoliberalism's socio-ecological impacts, global population growth and inter-species entanglement—to demonstrate how literature illuminates progressive solutions to Anthropocene challenges. The book argues that technological ...
Redefining Land Management in North American Literature and Culture: From Resource to Reciprocity
1st Edition
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By Jada Ach, Kristen Brown
June 24, 2026
Exploring the ongoing histories of human-centered ecosystem management in the lands and waters that comprise what is now known as North America, this book tracks the diverse ways in which human-environmental relations have been presented across different forms of media. Including literature, film, ...
Jewish Environmentalism in the Post-Secular Age: Earthly Spirituality
1st Edition
By Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
June 12, 2026
Presenting Jewish environmentalism as a case study of contemporary post-secularism, this book exemplifies the responses of world religions to the global ecological crisis and situates Jewish environmental spirituality historically, socially, theologically, and politically. Discussing key figures, ...
Shadow Country: Reimagining Place and Story in Settler Colonial Australia
1st Edition
By Emily Potter
June 12, 2026
This book explores a series of Australian 'shadow places' that manifest complex stories of colonised Australia in the throes of environmental crisis. These are places—from nuclear testing grounds, to extractivist landscapes, to the frontiers of colonial violence—that bear the heaviest burdens of ...
Ecological Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities
1st Edition
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By Simone M. Müller, Matthias Schmidt, Kirsten Twelbeck
May 22, 2026
This book provides a systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the conflicts, issues, and tensions associated with today’s ecological transformation processes from an Environmental Humanities perspective. It explores the notion of ecological ambivalence, where conflicting reactions, beliefs, or ...
Media Seas and the Blue Humanities: Studies of the High North Atlantic
1st Edition
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By Jørgen Alnæs, Synne Tollerud Bull, Liv Hausken, Susanne Østby Sæther
May 12, 2026
This book contributes to the emerging field of the blue humanities by developing a critical media perspective on the technical, social, cultural, and historical mediation of knowledge, perception, and experience of the oceans. With contributions from leading scholars from across a diverse range of ...
Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters
1st Edition
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By Jelle J.P. Wouters, Dan Smyer Yü
December 26, 2025
Woven together as a text of humanities-based environmental research outcomes, Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region. The collective endeavour of the ...