Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking

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Veer Ecology is a groundbreaking guide for the twenty-first century, with the editors asking thirty brilliant thinkers to each propose one verb that stresses the forceful potential of inquiry, weather, biomes, apprehensions, and desires to swerve and sheer. Each term is accompanied by a concise essay contextualizing its meaning in times of resource depletion, environmental degradation, and global climate change.

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor of English and director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at George Washington University. His books include Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green and Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman, both from Minnesota. Lowell Duckert is assistant professor of English at West Virginia University. He is coeditor, with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, of Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire and author of For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes, both from Minnesota.

"Many of the themes and ideas described by the essayists are unique, deeply enriching the reader's understanding of the future possibilities of the dynamic Earth. Many essays deserve multiple reads; their perspectives widen and deepen one another in the context of the essays surrounding it. A powerful book worth owning, reflecting on, and rereading time and again."-Choice "Veer Ecology is a sustained argument for the necessity of art and politics to make sense of environmental science."-Glasgow Review of Books "Veer Ecology is a valuable contribution to efforts to make sense of the extraordinary transitions put in place by drastic environmental change."-Radical Philosophy "Critics interested in adding new tools to their kits and readers interested in radically rethinking ecology will find Veer Ecology a useful and provocative companion."-ISLE "Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking compel readers to consider the power of language as a tool for both thinking and acting in the Anthropocene."-H-net