Part I: Histories: Indigeneity, Coloniality, and Human Rights
Chapter 1
The Mortality Cost of Carbon Extraction: Oil, Indigenous Lives, and Human Rights in the Americas
Georgiana Banita
Chapter 2
Environmental Coloniality and ‘Regressive’ Neo-Extractivism
Ricardo Pagliuso Regatieri
Part II: Literatures: Multi-Species Stories and Human-Nature Entanglements
Chapter 3
The Weather in Thoreau: Different Dimensions of Climate (Change) in Walden and Beyond
Robert A. Winkler
Chapter 4
Thornton Wilder’s Un-Aristotelian Warning: The Skin of Our Teeth as Climate Play
Réka M. Cristian
Chapter 5
The Environmental Paradox of Robotics. A Reading of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Adriana Kiczkowski
Chapter 6
Living in Symbiosis with Nature: Race and the American Landscape as Depicted in Joseph Drew Lanham’s Life Writing The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature (2016)
Lena Leßlhumer
Chapter 7
The Last Generation: Cherríe Moraga’s Prose and Poetry, the Chthulucene, and Intersectional Environmentalism
Nicole Haring
Part III: Films: (In)Justices and Hope
Chapter 8
The Vertical Dimension of the American West: Mining and the Media Archaeology of Navajo Land
Michael Fuchs and Christian Quendler
Chapter 9
Staying Hopeful with Climate Change: A Documentary Analysis
Francesca Mallocci