Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities

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Climate change is an enormous and increasingly urgent issue. This important book highlights how humanities disciplines can mobilize the creative and critical power of students, teachers, and communities to confront climate change. The book is divided into four clear sections to help readers integrate climate change into the classes and topics they are already teaching as well as engage with interdisciplinary methods and techniques. Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities constitutes a map and toolkit for anyone who wishes to draw upon the strengths of literary and cultural studies to teach valuable lessons that engage with climate change. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of illustrations Contributors Preface Introduction Part I Who we are 1 Making climate change our job 2 Climate disruption involves all disciplines: Who becomes a mentor? 3 When the newt shut off the lights: Scale, practice, politics 4 Knowing and not knowing climate change: Pedagogy for a new dispensation 5 Energy, climate and the classroom: A letter 6 Will the end of the world be on the final exam? Emotions, climate change, and teaching an introductory environmental studies course 7 Teaching climate crisis in the neoliberal university: On the poverty of Environmental Humanities 8 Climate change, public engagement, and integrated Environmental Humanities Part II Teaching and learning climate change head-on 9 Thinking climate change like a planet: Notes from an environmental philosopher 10 Teaching about climate change and indigenous peoples: Decolonizing research and broadening knowledge 11 Teaching teleconnection 12 Building paradise in the classroom 13 Learning in the Anthropocene: Environmental justice and climate pedagogy 14 In-flight behaviour: Teaching climate change literature in first-year intro English 15 Learning from the past – teaching past climate change and catastrophes as windows onto vulnerability and resilience 16 Climate visualizations as cultural objects 17 Engaging the ‘Eaarth’: Teaching and making climate change cultures in an art and design context 18 Signs, images, and narratives: Climate change across languages and cultures Part III Teaching and learning climate change sideways 19 The elephant in the room: Acknowledging global climate change in courses not focused on climate 20 Teaching climate change otherwise 21 Teaching ecological restoration in the climate change century 22 Exploratory concepts, case studies, and keywords for teaching environmental justice and climate change in a lower-level humanities classroom 23 Garbage and literature: Generating narrative from a culture of waste 24 Teaching literature as climate changes: Ecological presence, a globalized world, and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water 25 Looking back to look ahead: Climate change and US literary history 26 Atlas’s shifting shoulders: Teaching climate change and classics 27 Stealing the apocalypse: Myths of resistance in contemporary popular culture 28 Teaching climate change and film Part IV Archives and contexts for teaching and learning climate change 29 The persuasive force of the right supplementary materials for climate change humanities courses 30 Vanishing sounds: Thoreau and the sixth extinction 31 Teaching climate change at the end of nature: Postcolonial Australia, Indigenous realism and Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book 32 When sea levels rise: Writing/righting climate change in Pacific Islanders’ literature 33 Climate change and changing world literature 34 Untangling intentions: Teaching the history of climate politics Afterword Index