Teaching climate change in the humanities

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.

Part I. Who we are. Making climate change our job / SueEllen Campbell -- Climate disruption involves all disciplines: who becomes a mentor? / James Engell -- When the newt shut off the lights: scale, practice, politics / Stacy Alaimo -- Knowing and not knowing climate change: pedagogy for a new dispensation / Matthew Kearnes -- Energy, climate and the classroom: a letter / Imre Szeman -- Will the end of the world be on the final exam? Emotions, climate change and teaching an introductory environmental studies course / Robert Wilson -- Teaching climate crisis in the neoliberal university: on the poverty of the environmental humanities / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Graeme Macdonald, Nicholas Lawrence, and Jonathan Skinner -- Climate change, public engagement and integrated environmental humanities / Steven Hartman.

Part II. Teaching and learning climate change head on. Thinking climate change like a planet: notes from an environmental philosopher / J. Baird Callicott -- Teaching about climate change and indigenous peoples: decolonizing research and broadening knowledge / Mark Carey, Kathy Lynn, Kevin Hatfield, and Jennifer O'Neal -- Teaching teleconnection / Gillen D'Arcy Wood -- Bui…