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Seeds of Transformative Change
(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 ... -
Speaking for the Earth and Humans In the “Age of Consequences”
(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 ... -
The Language of Warning: The World Scientists’ Efforts to Communicate and the Challenge of Poignancy
(Cappadocia University Press, 2020)It’s one thing to issue a clarion cry (or multiple clarion cries), and yet another thing to be heard. The world scientists’ warnings about the direness of our climate predicament have offered detailed, authoritative ... -
Political, Ethical, and Societal Aspects of Issuing Warnings to Humanity
(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 Sense of Place at the End of the World
(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 ... -
“We” May Be in This Together, but We Are Not All Human and We Are Not One and the Same
(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 ... -
A Sea Change in the Environmental Humanities
(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 ... -
Long Live the Climate Machine!
(Cappadocia University Press, 2020)This paper tries to grasp the different links of the issue of climate change in the public debate from the point of view of adaptation. Firstly, it is a question of the novelty introduced by the climate problem on ecological ... -
Apocalypse Then, Now — and Future?
(Cappadocia University Press, 2020)Since The Limits to Growth study in 1972 scores of studies have concluded that, without a dramatic reduction in human numbers and per-capita consumption and thus ecosystem destruction, and absent concomitant transformation ... -
Alberta and the Global Commons: A Climate Change Tragedy
(Cappadocia University Press, 2020)The Canadian province of Alberta contains the third-largest proven reserve of oil on earth, yet the disconnect between politics and the sciences has never been more severe or as consequential. A right-wing party given to ... -
Gaia versus the Anthropocene: Untimely Thoughts on the Current Eco-Catastrophe
(Cappadocia University Press, 2020)Embracing science but suggesting an alternate explanation for global warming, the essay provides a thermodynamic and historical perspective on eco-destruction. From a long-term evolutionary perspective, caution is raised ... -
At the Bottom of the Barrel: A Response to the Recent World Scientists’ Warnings
(Cappadocia University Press, 2020)COVID-19 has taught us that it is possible to make sudden social changes that result in radical reductions of greenhouse emissions, changes that decades of climate change activism have failed to achieve. At the core of ... -
The Watchman’s Part: Earth Time, Human Time, and the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity”
(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 ... -
Beyond Nonpartisan Discourses: Radical Knowledge for Extreme Times
(Cappadocia University Press, 2020)The majority of scientists agree on climate change and on the most daunting environmental problems humans are facing today. Moved by a commendable desire to contribute to the solution of these problems, several scientists ... -
Passionate Specificity
(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’ ... -
Book Review: Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin’s The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
(Cappadocia University Press, 2020)Book Review, Derek Woods Lewis, Simon L., and Mark A. Maslin. 2018. The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene. London: Pelican. -
Loved Badly on Your Bank
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2020)About the Author: Paul Lindholdtcame of age in and around the Salish Sea. A professor of English at Eastern Washington University, he has won recognition from the Academy of American Poets, the Society of ... -
Book Review: David Farrier's Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2020)About the Author: Killian Quigley is a postdoctoral researcher at the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, where he leads the Unsettling Ecological Poetics and Ocean Ontologiesresearch programs. ... -
And Even Dust Can Burst into Flames, Genevieve Robertson—Carbon Studies: Walking in the Dark
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2020)About the Author: Caitlin Chaisson is an independent curator and critic. Her research-based practices intersect around questions pertaining to cultural production and the environment. She is Founder ... -
Excerpt from “Seeds:” Seed 5. Tiny house, caracol, snail + Seed 19. SARS-CoV-2
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2020)About the AuthorKim Trainor is the granddaughter of an Irish banjo player and a Polish faller who worked in logging camps around Port Alberni in the 1930s. Lediwas a finalist for the 2019 Raymond Souster Award. ...