Planet Work : : Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.) :; 4 b-w illus., 1 color illus.
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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

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