American Studies: Environment
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the American Studies Association conference. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MN89710. Code expires December 7, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
CREATIVITY AND REVOLT // SOCIAL JUSTICE // PUBLIC POLICY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
HISTORY // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // RACE // NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ENVIRONMENT // ANIMALS
ETHNOGRAPHY // LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM
MEDIA AND ART // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DISABILITY STUDIES
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Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds Nils Bubandt, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Rachel Cypher, Editors 2022 Fall
- A methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
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Settling the Boom The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun, Editors 2022 Fall
- Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom
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The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall
- A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
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Angry Planet Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World Anne Stewart 2022 Fall
- Before the idea of the Anthropocene, there was the angry planet
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This Contested Land The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments McKenzie Long 2022 Spring
- One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii
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Endlings Fables for the Anthropocene Lydia Pyne 2023 Spring
- Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss
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Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth The Gothic Anthropocene Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund, Editors 2022 Spring
- An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era
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Game Animals, Video Games, and Humanity Thomas R.J. Tyler 2022 Spring
- A playful reflection on animals and video games, and what each can teach us about the other
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Pipeline Populism Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century Kai Bosworth 2022 Spring
- How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles
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The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring
- A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain
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Justice at Work The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock 2022 Spring
- A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept U.S. cities
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Solarities Seeking Energy Justice After Oil Collective Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, Editors 2022 Fall
- A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation
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Does the Earth Care? Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology Mick Smith and Jason Young 2022 Fall
- Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency
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Earthworks Rising Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Chadwick Allen 2022 Spring
- A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices
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Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall
- A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position The Earth as Lover Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens 2021 Spring
- The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
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Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care Elan Abrell 2021 Spring
- A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States
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Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall
- A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
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Standing with Standing Rock Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, Editors 2019 Spring
- Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline
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Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall
- Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
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After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
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The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring
- Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
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Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring
- A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory
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The Child to Come Life after the Human Catastrophe Rebekah Sheldon 2016 Fall
- A bold new reading of the child for the twenty-first century, with implications for contemporary environmentalism
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Exposed Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Stacy Alaimo 2016 Fall
- A bold call to approach environmentalism from the inside out