Readings Between Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities

Aesthetics, Ethics and Sustainable Transition
The relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities is both intimate and tense. This book takes a provocative look at the two fields and their relationship through the analysis of four emerging sub-fields: the energy humanities, vegan studies, extinction studies and the medical posthumanities.

The relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities is both intimate and tense. It makes little sense to examine the representation of environments without thinking about the animals that shape them, or, conversely, to think about animals without exploring the ecologies they live in. Yet, animal studies and the environmental humanities often appear to have divergent ethical, political and intellectual emphases.

This book examines the relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities through three interlinked topics meat, o