Environment

How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall

An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies

Break Up the Anthropocene Steve Mentz 2019 Fall

Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch

Hope at Sea Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature Teresa Shewry 2015 Fall

Hope is a lifeline running through the work of literary writers in and surrounding the Pacific Ocean

Wildlife in the Anthropocene Conservation after Nature Jamie Lorimer 2015 Spring

Considers the effects of the Anthropocene era on approaches to conservation

Oil Culture Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, Editors 2014 Fall

The cultural life of oil—from aesthetics and politics to economy and ecology

Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World Timothy Morton 2013 Fall

The world as we know it has already come to an end

Governing the Wild Ecotours of Power Stephanie Rutherford 2011 Fall

Shows how iconic representations of nature—from museum to theme park—define our ideas about saving the natural world

Against Ecological Sovereignty Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World Mick Smith 2011 Fall

Links the political critique of sovereign power with ecological concerns

Swamplife People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades Laura A. Ogden 2011 Spring

Alligator hunters, mangroves, and the (mis)adventures of the Ashley Gang in the Florida Everglades

A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans with A Theory of Meaning Jakob von Uexküll 2010 Fall

The influential work of speculative biology—and a key document in posthumanist studies—now available in a new, accurate English translation

Fighting for the Future of Food Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro 2010 Fall

How activists changed the trajectory of the new agricultural biotechnologies

Removing Mountains Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields Rebecca R. Scott 2010 Fall

Coal country lives in southern West Virginia

Trouble in the Forest California’s Redwood Timber Wars Richard Widick 2009 Fall

The long social history of California’s conflict over ancient forests and its impact today

Shopping Our Way to Safety How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves Andrew Szasz 2009 Spring

What could be wrong with bottled water and sunscreen?

Toxic Burn The Grassroots Struggle against the WTI Incinerator Thomas Shevory 2007 Spring

The economics of trash and the politics behind hazardous waste disposal.

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