Browsing by Author "Oppermann, Serpil"
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New Materialism and the Nonhuman Story
Oppermann, Serpil (Cambridge University Press, 2021)Offers a comprehensive introduction to the environmental humanities. It addresses the 21st century recognition of an environmental crisis. -
Passionate Specificity
Fisher-Wirth, Ann (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)I am a Professor of English and Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi. Mississippi is a conservative state, and environmental education is not part of many schools’ ... -
Political, Ethical, and Societal Aspects of Issuing Warnings to Humanity
Yearley, Steven (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)The scientific community has a sustained history of issuing warnings to society’s leaders and policy-makers. In such cases, scientists take on the task of alerting those in power to issues they may not notice or not wish ... -
“The Scale of the Anthropocene: Material Ecocritical Reflections”
Oppermann, Serpil (Mosaic, 2018)This essay considers the messy intra-actions of the Anthropocene agencies using the lenses of material ecocriticism. -
A Sea Change in the Environmental Humanities
Åsberg, Cecilia (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)As we are living through a transformative response to a viral pandemic, this think piece suggests a reimagining of the environmental humanities in the open-ended inventories of feminist posthumanities and the low trophic ... -
Seeds of Transformative Change
Hartman, Steven; Oppermann, Serpil (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)Welcome to the inaugural issue of Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for the growing international community of environmental humanists committed to the Earth and ... -
The Sense of Place at the End of the World
Foot, Stephanie (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)This article discusses the 2017 document “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice” in relationship to the daily life of Appalachia, one of the United States’ most resource rich and yet economically poorest ... -
Speaking for the Earth and Humans In the “Age of Consequences”
Castree, Noel (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)The environmental humanities are suffused with a sense of urgency. As geoscientists sound the alarm about human treatment of the Earth, likewise environmental humanists seek to trigger the “conversation of humankind” that ... -
“Storied Seas and Living Metaphors in the Blue Humanities”
Oppermann, Serpil (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)ABSTRACT: This article investigates the terraqueous entanglements of human and marine life in material and discursive contexts through an aquatic practice of material ecocritical theory. Material ecocriticism encourages ... -
Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes
Oppermann, Serpil; Akıllı, Sinan (Lexington Books, 2020)N/A -
The Watchman’s Part: Earth Time, Human Time, and the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity”
Szerszynski, Bronislaw (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)In this article I discuss three “Warnings to Humanity” about the state of the global environment, signed by global networks of scientists and published in 1992, 2017 and 2019. I place these in the context of the long ... -
“We” May Be in This Together, but We Are Not All Human and We Are Not One and the Same
Braidotti, Rosi (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)There has never been a more urgent time to engage with the Environmental Humanities and the other Posthumanities. This engagement is creative as well as critical and it touches upon some fundamental issues within what I ... -
What Matters Most Is the Wounded Planet
Oppermann, Serpil (Routledge, 2021)Indeed, “something miniscule” – an almost indelible entity – has toppled life on a global scale for almost two years now, impelling us to notice the precariousness of life “that hang(s) together in fragile coordinations” ...