Recommended Readings

Recommended Readings

Recommended Readings

to be expanded and revised

 

General Environmental Humanities

  • Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. London: Routledge, 2012.
  • Haraway, Donna J. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016.
  • Heise, Ursula K., Jon Christensen and Michelle Niemann (ed). The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities. Routledge, 2017.
  • Plumwood, Val. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. Routledge, 1993.
  • Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt: The Mushroom at the End of the World. Princeton University Press, 2015.
  • Wenzel, Jennifer. 2020. The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature. Fordham University Press.
  • Seymour, Nicole. Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irrelevance in the Ecological Age. Minnesota University Press, 2018.
  • Liboiron, Max and Josh Lepawsky. Discard Studies. MIT Press, 2022.
  • LeMenager, Stephanie. Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Material Cultural Studies/New Materialisms

  • Alaimo, Stacy. Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
  • Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantam Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press, 2007.
  • Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press, 2010.
  • Crane, Kylie. Plastic and Concrete: Thinking Through Materialities. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
  • Davis, Heather. Plastic Matter. Duke University Press, 2022.
  • Hodder, Ian. Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things. Malden: John Wiley, 2012.
  • Iovino, Serenella and Serpil Oppermann. Material Ecocriticism. Indiana University Press, 2014.
  • Parikka, Jussi. A Geology of Media. University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
  • Sheller, Mimi. Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity. MIT Press, 2014.

Postcolonial/Transcultural Environmental Humanities/Ecocriticism

  • Ghosh, Amitav. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. London: John Murray, 2021.
  • Grove, Richard. Green Imperialism: Colonial expansion, tropical island Edens and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Huggan, Graham and Helen Tiffin. Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment. Routledge, 2015.
  • Marzec, Robert P. An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature: From Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  • Nixon, Robert. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press, 2011.
  • Yusoff, Kathryn. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
  • Wilke, Heinrich. The Order of Destruction: Monoculture in Colonial Caribbean Literature, c. 1640-1800. Routledge, 2024.

Blue Humanities

  • Jue, Melody. Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater. Duke University Press, 2020.

Science Communication

Student Projects

PODCAST: Luxury cruise ships running on natural gas: Are they environmentally sustainable?
This podcast episode was produced as a course project by students José Ernesto Pereira Mendes Oliveira and Stefanie Linsenbarth during the Science Communication module 2024.

 

Join us for an exploration of the complex intersections between liquefied natural gas (LNG) and environmental sustainability. In our first episode, hosts Stefanie and Ernesto critically analyze the use of LNG in the cruise industry, examining its implications for climate change and energy security. We investigate the European Commission’s classification of LNG as a sustainable transition fuel and its global geopolitical impact, especially in the wake of reduced reliance on Russian energy. Through a scientific lens, we challenge prevailing narratives about LNG’s environmental benefits, scrutinizing its extraction processes and long-term effects on ecological systems. Discover the hidden costs of LNG-fueled luxury cruise ships, which promise unforgettable experiences yet contribute significantly to marine pollution and atmospheric emissions. This podcast offers an insightful, balanced look at LNG's role in our energy landscape, encouraging informed conversations on sustainability.
 

Impressum & Sources

Impressum & Sources

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 music: https://pixabay.com/music/upbeat-solitude-dark-ambient-electronic-197737/      [https://pixabay.com/service/license-summary/]
 picture : Polskie LNG S.A., CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons: https://images.app.goo.gl/msqoC3RgoxZKQGX29
 Hosts: José Ernesto Pereira Mendes Oliveira and Stefanie Linsenbarth (students at University of Rostock of the Master program Culture - Ecology - Change  )
 

Sources:
https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/maritime-sustainability
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/oct/19/europe-ports-bear-brunt-of-cruise-ship-pollution
https://p.dw.com/p/4JjNM
https://www.voiceofeurope.com/activists-blocked-cruise-liner-in-rostock-to-protest-environmental-damage/
https://www.csis.org/analysis/geopolitical-significance-us-lng
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261517718302140#fig1
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/10/8335
https://www.nabu.de/umwelt-und-ressourcen/verkehr/schifffahrt/containerschifffahrt/20715.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X21001528
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rise-promise-lng-sustainable-energy-landscape-morteza-hashemi-dqbuf?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_more-articles_related-content-card
https://www.shell.de/about-us/newsroom/shell-lng-study/_jcr_content/root/main/containersection-0/simple/call_to_action/links/item1.stream/0/8c14ea6b6b92b887fba9026055a12cd0e9b817779cec881fdf3910537b5db666/lng-study-uk-einzelseiten.pdf
https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/fracking_frenzy_0.pdf
https://www.leopoldina.org/en/press-1/press-releases/press-release/press/2969/
https://energiesysteme-zukunft.de/en/
https://davidsuzuki.org/science-learning-centre-article/report-summary-burning-bridge-debunking-lng-as-a-climate-solution/
https://www.klimareporter.de/international/lng-heisst-fracking
https://web.archive.org/web/20051026004113/http://lngwatch.com/race/truth.htm
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en