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Environmental Humanities and Climate Catastrophe: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Crisis in the 21st Century

The contemporary Environmental Humanities (EH) take as a founding premise that we live in a time of accelerating planetary transformation: ecological instability, multispecies extinction, forced migration, and social and political unrest fostered by climate change. EH marshals the disciplines of literature, philosophy, history, communications, anthropology, and sociology to understand and propose constructive responses to these dangers. EH embraces diverse ways of knowing from humanities traditions of the Global North and South, values Indigenous voices, and addresses multispecies welfare. It brings to the foreground the imperative need for environmental consciousness, equity, and justice. This proposal seeks to extend and enhance collections of the Smathers Libraries in this field.