West Virginia University Press has announced Salvaging the Anthropocene, a new book series edited by Stephanie Foote, the Jackson and Nichols Professor of English at West Virginia University.
Salvaging the Anthropocene will publish short, plainly-written books about daily intellectual, artistic, social, and aesthetic responses to global environmental degradation. Starting from the premise that these practices may transform rather than merely manage the despair entailed by recognizing the scale and depth of environmental problems, the series focuses on how social actors–artists, designers, bloggers, citizen reporters, photographers, mapmakers, geocachers, hikers, knitters, canners, gardeners, activists, gamers, lifestyle minimalists, protesters, tourists, hoarders, ascetics, scavengers, freegans, and more–salvage both material and meaning in the era of ecological catastrophe.
Salvaging the Anthropocene fills a gap in the scholarly conversation about the humanities’ relationship to environmental concerns by publishing concise books about these generative engagements with the Anthropocene. It promises to be the premier outlet for scholarship that addresses not simply how humans have made climate change, but what humans make of its effects.
About the series editor:
Stephanie Foote is Jackson and Nichols Professor of English at West Virginia University and the cofounder and editor of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.
The editorial advisory board for this series includes:
- Hester Blum, Pennsylvania State University
- Allison Carruth, UCLA
- Jeffrey Cohen, George Washington University
- William Gleason, Princeton University
- Jeff Insko, Oakland University
- Anthony Lioi, The Julliard School
- Dana Luciano, Georgetown University
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Abby Freeland, Sales and Marketing Director at West Virginia University Press, 304.293.6188, abby.freeland@mail.wvu.edu