"Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound role in climate change and other crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave traumas and hazards plaguing planet Earth, contributors expose fundamental flaws in ideas of work and search for ways to redirect cultures toward more sustainable modes of life. These essays evaluate Anthropocene frames of interpretation, dramatize problems and potentials in regimes of labor, and explore leisure practices such as walking and storytelling as modes of recasting life, while a coda advocates reviving notions of work as craft"--
This work examines theory and historical cases to shed light on human labor and leisure as drivers of environmental change, within the context of environmental thought and social ethics. Editor Ryan Hediger (English, Kent State University) assembles contributors in environmental humanities, environmental studies, animal studies, Indigenous studies, and even literature. Early chapters frame the Anthropocene via science and via the environmental humanities. Chapters in Section 2 apply ideas from environmental humanities, historiography, and critical race theory to reexamine the human impact on the environment since the Age of Exploration. Section 3 focuses on lessons learned by studying the impact of leisure on the environment. Some subjects addressed are slavery and the Anthropocene in the Americas, relational labor against white supremacist ownership, coming of age in Wendell Berrys and Thomas Pynchons novels of extraction, winter recreation and the politics of climate change, and womens walking in the 19th century. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound role in climate change and other crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave traumas and hazards plaguing planet Earth, contributors expose fundamental flaws in ideas of work and search for ways to redirect cultures toward more sustainable modes of life. These essays evaluate Anthropocene frames of interpretation, dramatize problems and potentials in regimes of labor, and explore leisure practices such as walking and storytelling as modes of recasting life, while a coda advocates reviving notions of work as craft.
Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years. Yet, surprisingly, work norms have not been sufficiently interrogated for their profound roles in climate change and other crises gathered under the term Anthropocene. Essays in this book expose deep flaws in ideas of work and investigate leisure practices for (sometimes radically) alternative ways of life.
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