Category: Books

  • Panpsychismus im Nachhaltigkeitsdenken. Eine metaethische Reflexion by Madeleine Hugai

    Panpsychismus im Nachhaltigkeitsdenken. Eine metaethische Reflexion by Madeleine Hugai

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    What does sustainability mean when nature is understood not merely as a resource but as a bearer of subjectivity? What underlying assumptions shape our current thinking about sustainability, and where are its limits? Madeleine Hugai demonstrates that prevailing concepts are heavily human-centered and thus overlook important aspects. As an alternative, she develops an expanded concept…

  • Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl and Fukushima by Hannah Klaubert

    Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl and Fukushima by Hannah Klaubert

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    Examining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms as important resources for understanding the material, environmental and social fallout of nuclear disasters. In a field that remains scientifically contested and, in the current moment of climate breakdown, highly politicized, Narrating Nuclear Disasters offers literature as an arena for exploring…

  • Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene master narrative by Chiara Xausa

    Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene master narrative by Chiara Xausa

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    Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene Master Narrative (Peter Lang, 2025; Ralahine Utopian Studies series) offers one of the first sustained analyses of climate fiction through an intersectional ecocritical framework. What happens when the dominant narrative of the Anthropocene is challenged from a feminist and decolonial perspective? How can speculative fiction reimagine environmental futures…

  • Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

    Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

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    Nopólemo does not take pleasure in the atrocities of war, and for that reason he rejects viewing everyday life as subject to opposing choices—either this or that, black or white, with me or against me, truth or lie, good or bad. Life is blurred and made up of countless shades of gray. The greater the…

  • Letteratura e Antropocene by Annamaria Elia

    Letteratura e Antropocene by Annamaria Elia

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    What happens to literature when the Anthropocene is no longer merely a descriptive category, but a profound transformation of the ways in which we know, feel, imagine and inhabit the world? How can the contemporary novel respond to a crisis that calls into question the boundaries between the human and the non-human, nature and culture,…

  • Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland by Katherine M. Huber

    Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland by Katherine M. Huber

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    The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—the place where many colonial methods were tested before being exported to the farther-flung portions of the empire. In Irish Ecomedia, Katherine M. Huber examines the environmental impacts of imperial rule and the various ways they…

  • Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities (2025)

    Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities (2025)

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    Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities (2025), edited by Gabriela Jarzębowska, Aleksandra Ross, and Krzysztof Skonieczny. This volume critically interrogates non-Western frameworks within environmental humanities, seeking to challenge and deconstruct dominant Western paradigms. Through a range of interdisciplinary contributions, the book explores alternative epistemologies, including Indigenous, postcolonial, and regional perspectives from Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the…

  • Maragarida Vale de Gato and José Duarte (eds.). Dez Ar Mar / Ten Sea Air. Lisbon: Casa de Gigante

    Maragarida Vale de Gato and José Duarte (eds.). Dez Ar Mar / Ten Sea Air. Lisbon: Casa de Gigante

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    Ten (+ 10) poets and scholars (including artistic partnerships) were invited to experiment with the question: how to breathe in and navigate through the climate crisis? We were particularly interested in coastal issues or “ecotones,” areas where at least two communities/environments overlap. Participants: Abigail Chabitnoy, Ana Mafalda Leite, Brenda Shaughnessy, Caleb Parkin, David Gewanter, Diana…

  • José Manuel Marrero Henríquez – Escritos antivíricos

    José Manuel Marrero Henríquez – Escritos antivíricos

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    The literary chronicles of Escritos antivíricos [Antiviral Writings] are far from being a mere anecdotal account of a family’s daily life during the pandemic. Their scope is broader, transcending the circumstances of their origin to become a meticulous analysis of the contemporary reality of a digitized world, contaminated both biologically and semantically. With tones that…

  • Greening Bohemia: The Environmental Arc of Beat Generation Literature. – Chad Weidner

    Greening Bohemia: The Environmental Arc of Beat Generation Literature. – Chad Weidner

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    Greening Bohemia suggests that Beat writing contains deep insights into the human-nature relationship, critiques of consumerism, spiritual quests, and a vision for a more harmonious future human existence. The book places the Beat Generation in a larger ecological and cultural narrative, emphasizing its lasting impact and encouraging readers to reconsider its legacy. Greening Bohemia highlights…