Ecologies in Practice

Edited by Elysia French, Amanda White
Contributions by Christina Battle, Leah Decter, Natalie Doonan, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Lisa Hirmer, David Huebert, Tom Cull, Emily McGiffin, Maria Michails, Emma Morgan-Thorp, Dana Prieto, Genevieve Robertson, Andreas Rutkauskas, Mary Ann Steggles, and Ellyn Walker
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Art
Series: Environmental Humanities

What is the responsibility, or the task of the arts as we face environmental crisis?

Ecologies in Practice is an edited collection of dynamic and multi-formatted contributions that explore the ways in ...

Rivers in Rock

By Kenneth Hewitt
Subjects: Waterloo Region, Geography, Environmental Studies, Travel

This richly illustrated book is both a visitor’s guide to one of southwestern Ontario’s most striking landforms – the Elora Gorge on the Upper Grand River – and a thorough, accessible introduction to its nat ...

Something Cold and Hard Like Winter

By (artist) Shelley Niro
Contributions by Alicia Elliott
Foreword by Suzanne Luke
Subjects: Art, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Studies

Something Cold and Hard like Winter showcases the movement of time through large scale photographs and video. The works speak to the narratives that surround the earth and the longevity of its existence, ...

Current, Climate

By Rita Wong
Edited by Nicholas Bradley
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Current, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, ...

Multispecies Modernity

By Sundhya Walther
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Environmental Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature considers relationships between animals and humans in the iconic spaces of postcolonial India: the wild, the body, the home, and the city. ...

On Active Grounds

Edited by Robert Boschman & Mario Trono
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies, Film & Media, Indigenous Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

On Active Grounds considers the themes of agency and time through the burgeoning, interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. Fourteen essays and a photo album cover topics such as environmental ...

Ornithologies of Desire

By Travis V. Mason
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Poetry
Series: Environmental Humanities

Ornithologies of Desire develops ecocritical reading strategies that engage scientific texts, field guides, and observation. Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending ...

downstream

Edited by Dorothy Christian & Rita Wong
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Indigenous Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines, Creative Writing, Poetry
Series: Environmental Humanities

downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building ...

Sustaining the West

Edited by Liza Piper & Lisa Szabo-Jones
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Literary Criticism, Art, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature
Series: Environmental Humanities

Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most r ...

Found in Alberta

Edited by Robert Boschman & Mario Trono
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Environmental Humanities

Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene is a collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is ...