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OverviewLabor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound role in climate change and other crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave traumas and hazards plaguing planet Earth, contributors expose fundamental flaws in ideas of work and search for ways to redirect cultures toward more sustainable modes of life. These essays evaluate Anthropocene frames of interpretation, dramatize problems and potentials in regimes of labor, and explore leisure practices such as walking and storytelling as modes of recasting life, while a coda advocates reviving notions of work as craft. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ryan Hediger , Ryan Hediger , David Rodland , Ted GeierPublisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S. Imprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9781684484591ISBN 10: 1684484596 Pages: 284 Publication Date: 09 December 2022 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Denaturalizing the Slow Violence of Work Ryan Hediger Section One: Questioning “Anthropocene” Frames Chapter 1: What’s Past is Prologue: The Dragon, the Phoenix, and the Golden Spike David L. Rodland Chapter 2: Anthropocene Performance: Work without Ends Ted Geier Section Two: Rethinking Work in the Anthropocene Chapter 3: Unfree Labor: Slavery and the Anthropocene in the Americas Ryan Hediger Chapter 4: The Rise of the Novel and the Narrative Labor of Horses in the English Novel of the Early Anthropocene Sinan Akıllı Chapter 5: Reconstruction Agrarianism in Douglass and Burroughs: Relational Labor Against White Supremacist Ownership Daniel Clausen Chapter 6: The Work of the Globe: How the Unisphere, Icon of the 1964-65 World’s Fair, Illuminates the Nature of Modern Work James Armstrong Chapter 7: Leisure and Light Work: Coming of Age in Wendell Berry’s and Thomas Pynchon’s Novels of Extraction Matt Wanat Section Three: Learning from Leisure in the Anthropocene Chapter 8: Walking the Line between Leisure and Labor: Dorothy Wordsworth and Harriet Martineau in the English Lake District Amanda Adams Chapter 9: Labor, Leisure and Love of Country: Rangering in the Age of the Alt-NPS Jennifer K. Ladino Chapter 10: Learning to Play in the Anthropocene: Winter Recreation and the Politics of Climate Change Will Elliot and Kevin Maier Chapter 11: Weaving “Lifeworkings”: Goanna Walking between Humanism and Posthumanism, Dharug Women’s Way Jo Rey Coda Pedagogical Anthropo/Scenes: Reviving Craft in the Academy Sharon O'Dair Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors IndexReviews"""The idea of improvement through labor offered Europe a pretext for conquest and the means for colonizing the world in its image. This lively and provocative volume spotlights the enduring extractivist legacies of this deep cultural history, offering a fresh reexamination of labor, leisure, and the Anthropocene.""--Dominic Boyer ""author of Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene"" ""This exciting collection of theoretical reflections and historical case-studies explores the question of work as a critical category for environmental thought and social ethics. The cultural and literary explorations pursued in this volume offer a collective argument for attending to local textures and dynamic contingencies in the context of planetary ecological collapse.""--Eric Gidal ""author of Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age"" ""This fascinating collection rethinks the Anthropocene by emphasizing the centrality of work--that is, human labor--in remaking the planet. Cutting through debates over when to date the epoch, or what to call it, while eschewing the nebulous language of 'agency, ' it offers an immensely clarifying perspective that will speak to readers in many disciplines.""--Jesse Oak Taylor ""coeditor of Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times""" ""The idea of improvement through labor offered Europe a pretext for conquest and the means for colonizing the world in its image. This lively and provocative volume spotlights the enduring extractivist legacies of this deep cultural history, offering a fresh reexamination of labor, leisure, and the Anthropocene.""--Dominic Boyer ""author of Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene"" ""This exciting collection of theoretical reflections and historical case-studies explores the question of work as a critical category for environmental thought and social ethics. The cultural and literary explorations pursued in this volume offer a collective argument for attending to local textures and dynamic contingencies in the context of planetary ecological collapse.""--Eric Gidal ""author of Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age"" ""This fascinating collection rethinks the Anthropocene by emphasizing the centrality of work--that is, human labor--in remaking the planet. Cutting through debates over when to date the epoch, or what to call it, while eschewing the nebulous language of 'agency, ' it offers an immensely clarifying perspective that will speak to readers in many disciplines.""--Jesse Oak Taylor ""coeditor of Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times"" Author InformationRyan Hediger is a professor of English at Kent State University in Ohio. He is the author of Homesickness: Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment, editor of Animals and War, coeditor of Animals and Agency, and is currently writing a monograph on labor norms and settler colonialism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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