Environment

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

The Breeding Birds of Minnesota History, Ecology, and Conservation Lee A. Pfannmuller, Gerald J. Niemi and Janet C. Green 2022 Spring

A comprehensive, detailed, illustrated history of Minnesota’s breeding birds—the first in nearly a century

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

Walleye A Beautiful Fish of the Dark Paul J. Radomski 2022 Spring

Walleye, the holy grail of game fish: on catching them, understanding their biology and history, and ensuring their survival

Game Animals, Videogames, and Humanity Thomas R.J. Tyler 2022 Spring

A playful reflection on animals and videogames, and what each can teach us about the other

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

On the Wandering Paths Sylvain Tesson 2022 Spring

A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France

Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring

How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants

A Natural Curiosity The Story of the Bell Museum Lansing Shepard, Don Luce, Barbara Coffin and Gwen Schagrin 2021 Fall

A richly illustrated tour of Minnesota’s premier natural history museum after 150 years

Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2022 Spring

Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment

Tsuchi Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art Bert Winther-Tamaki 2022 Spring

An examination of Japanese contemporary art through the lens of ecocriticism and environmental history

Hudson Bay Bound Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic Natalie Warren 2022 Spring

The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay

Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring

Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization

Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2021 Fall

Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures

Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall

A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world

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

Building on Borrowed Time Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Lukas Ley 2021 Fall

A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster

Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall

What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?

A Love Affair with Birds The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts Sue Leaf 2021 Fall

The father of Minnesota ornithology, whose life story opens a window on a lost world of nature and conservation in the state’s early days

The Three Sustainabilities Energy, Economy, Time Allan Stoekl 2021 Fall

Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
...
12
Next 20 items

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

Share