Planet Work : : Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene / / ed. by Ryan Hediger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Amanda,; Akilli, Sinan,; Armstrong, James,; Clausen, Daniel,; Elliot, Will,; Elliott, Will,; Geier, Ted,; Hediger, Ryan,; Ladino, Jennifer K.,; Maier, Kevin,; O'Dair, Sharon,; O’Dair, Sharon,; Rey, Jo Anne,; Rey, Jo,; Rodland, David L.,; Rodland, David,; Wanat, Matt,
• HerausgeberIn: Hediger, Ryan,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.) :; 4 b-w illus., 1 color illus.

Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound role in climate change and other crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave traumas and hazards plaguing planet Earth, contributors expose fundamental flaws in ideas of work and search for ways to redirect cultures toward more sustainable modes of life. These essays evaluate Anthropocene frames of interpretation, dramatize problems and potentials in regimes of labor, and explore leisure practices such as walking and storytelling as modes of recasting life, while a coda advocates reviving notions of work as craft.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION Denaturalizing the Slow Violence of Work -- Section One QUESTIONING “ANTHROPOCENE” FRAMES -- 1 ▶ WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE The Dragon, the Phoenix, and the Golden Spike -- 2 ▶ ANTHROPOCENE PERFORMANCE Work without Ends -- Section Two RETHINKING WORK IN THE ANTHROPOCENE -- 3 ▶ UNFREE LABOR Slavery and the Anthropocene in the Americas -- 4 ▶ THE RISE OF THE NOVEL AND THE NARRATIVE LABOR OF HORSES IN THE ENGLISH NOVEL OF THE EARLY ANTHROPOCENE -- 5 ▶ RECONSTRUCTION AGRARIANISM IN DOUGLASS AND BURROUGHS Relational Labor against White Supremacist Ownership -- 6 ▶ THE WORK OF THE GLOBE How the Unisphere, Icon of the 1964–1965 World’s Fair, Illuminates the Nature of Modern Work -- 7 ▶ LEISURE AND LIGHT WORK Coming of Age in Wendell Berry’s and Thomas Pynchon’s Novels of Extraction -- Section Three LEARNING FROM LEISURE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE -- 8 ▶ WALKING THE LINE BETWEEN LEISURE AND LABOR Dorothy Wordsworth and Harriet Martineau in the English Lake District -- 9 ▶ LABOR, LEISURE, AND LOVE OF COUNTRY Rangering in the Age of the Alt-NPS -- 10 ▶ LEARNING TO PLAY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE Winter Recreation and the Politics of Climate Change -- 11 ▶ WEAVING “LIFEWORKINGS” Goanna Walking between Humanism and Posthumanism, Dharug Women’s Way -- CODA ▶ PEDAGOGICAL ANTHROPO/SCENES Reviving Craft in the Academy -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX