Energy Use and the Humanities
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2016) | Viewed by 47750
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will include papers that explore the intersection of the various Humanities disciplines, with the production and consumption of energy sources, such as petroleum, natural gas, nuclear energy, solar and wind power, and coal (this is only a partial list and papers that explore other energy sources are encouraged as well). The issue aims to build upon existing environmentally inflected Humanities scholarship, by exploring the ways that creative artists, writers, thinkers, and activists have either critically examined energy production and consumption or utilized these practices as subject matter. A major, though not exclusive, focus will be on papers that consider how the Environmental Humanities can address energy use during a period of anthropogenic climate change. Papers that consider any aspect of the literary, visual, cinematic, historical, and ethical implications of energy practices from any part of the globe are welcomed.
Dr. Adam W. Sweeting
Guest Editor
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References:
Bamberger, Michelle, The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom is Threatening our Families, Pets, and Food (Boston: Beacon Press, 2014)
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry 35:2 (2009), 197-222.
Inman, Mason, “Natural Gas: The Fracking Fallacy.” Nature 516(7529), 03 December 2014, 28-30. Journal of American Studies, 46:2 (May 2012), 269-480. Special issue on oil culture
LeMenager, Stephanie, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (London: Oxford UP, 2014).
Martin, Mark, (ed.), I’m with the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet (London: Verso, 2011)
McKewan, Ian, Solar (New York: Doubleday), 2010
Morton, Timothy, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), 2013.
Keywords
- Ecocriticism
- Environmental Humanities
- Climate Change
- Energy production and use
- Petroleum
- Fracking
- Sustainability
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