Inspired by a range of ecological movements, ecocriticism explores the ways in which we
imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of …

Since prehistory, literature and the arts have been drawn to portrayals of physical
environments and human-environment interactions. The modern environmentalist …

In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of
land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A …

The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium.
Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship …

Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the
movement's reputation for gloom and doom Activists today strive to educate the public about …

Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor
recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks …

Finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon have made their way up and down the …

In this scintillating combination of critical race theory, social commentary, veganism, and
gender analysis, media studies scholar Aph Ko offers a compelling vision of a reimagined …

In Fictions of Land and Flesh Mark Rifkin explores the impasses that arise in seeking to
connect Black and Indigenous movements, turning to speculative fiction to understand those …

What is ecocriticism? The imprecision with which it has been defined and the increasingly
disparate uses to which it and its cognates have been put recall Arthur Lovejoy's classic …