Selected Bibliography

 

  • Allitt, Patrick. A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism. Penguin, 2014. Print.
  • Behrends, Andrea, Stephen P. Reyna and Gunther Schlee. Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil. London: Pluto Press, 2011. Print
  • Black, Brian C., Karen R. Merrill and Tyler Priest. “Oil in American History.” The Journal of American History. 99.1 (2012). Web. http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/projects/oil/
  • Blue Vinyl: The World’s First Toxic Comedy. Dir. Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand. Perf. William Baggett and Charlie Cray. Docurama, 2005. DVD.
  • Bruckner, Pascal. The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings. Trans. Steven Rendall. N.p.: Polity, 2014. Print
  • Colton, Craig. Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2000. Print
  • Cramer, Bradley D., Thijs R.A. Vandenbroucke, and Gregory A. Ludvigson. “High-Resolution Event Stratigraphy (HiRES) and the Quanitificaion of Stratigraphic Uncertainty: Silurian Examples of the Quest for Precision in Stratigraphy.” Earth-Science Reviews. 141 (2015): 136-153. [T/S
  • Eckstein, Barbara. Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City. NY: Routledge, 2006. Print.
  • Ellsworth, Elizabeth and Jamie Knight ed. Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum, 2013. Print.
  • Farley, Andrew and Katherine Hayhoe. A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-based Decisions. New York: Hachette Book Group, 2011.
  • Finney, S.C. “The ‘Anthropocene’ as a Ratified Unit in the ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart: Fundamental Issues That Must Be Addressed by the Task Group.” Geological Society, London. Special Publication. 24 Oct. 2013. [T/S]
  • Fox, William L. “The Art of the Anthropocene.” Beyond Earth Art. Cornell University, Ithaca. 11 Apr. 2014. Cornellcast. Web. http://www.cornell.edu/video/art-of-anthropocene-beyond-earth-art
  • Magrane, Eric. “Art that Walks in the World: A Conversation with William L. Fox.” Institute for the Environment. The University of Arizona, 26 Feb 2014. Web.
  • Gold, Russell. The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World. New York: Siman & Schuster, 2014. Print.
  • Haraway, Donna. “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene: Staying with the Trouble.” Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. 9 May Lecture. http://anthropocene.au.dk/arts-of-living-on-a-damaged-planet/
  • Hirshfield, Jane. Come, Thief: Poems. New York: Alfred A, Knopf, 2011. Print.
  • —. After: Poems. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. Print.
  • “I’ve Fallen, and I Can’t Get Up!” Prod. Dave Fothergill. Vimeo. N.p., 2014. Web. https://vimeo.com/109169719
  • Juhasz, Antonia. Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill. NY: John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Print.
  • —. The Tyranny of Oil. NY: William Morrow, 2008.
  • Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014. Print.
  • —.“Enter the Anthropocene – The Age of Man” National Geographic Magazine Mar. 2011: 1-3. Print.
  • Krajick, Kevin. “Ice Man: Lonnie Thompson Scales the Peaks for Science.” Science 18 Oct. 2002:518-522. Print.
  • Latour, Bruno. “Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene.” New Literary History. 45.1 (2014): 1-18.
  • Hodder, Ian. “The Entanglements of Humans and Things: A Long-Term View.” New Literary History. 45.1 (2014): 19-36.
  • Harman, Graham. “Entanglement and Relation: A Response to Bruno Latour and Ian Hodder.” New Literary History. 45.1 (2014): 37-49.
  • LeMenager, Stephanie. Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Print.
  • Louisiana Story. By Frances Flaherty and Robert J. Flaherty. Dir. Robert J. Flaherty. Films Inc., 1948. Videocassette.
  • McNeish, John-Andrew and Owen Logan, ed. Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-economics of Oil and Gas. London: Pluto Press, 2012. Print.
  • Morton, Timothy. “On Entering the Anthropocene.” Environmental Humanities Symposium. University of New South Wales, Australia. 24 Aug. 2012. Ecology Without Nature. Web. http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2012/08/on-entering-anthropocene-mp3.html
  • Radkau, Joachim. Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Print.
  • Ruddiman, William F. Plows, Plagues, & Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Print.
  • Schneyer, Joshua and Brian Grow. “Exclusive: Oil Company Rewrites Its History, May Aid Founder’s Divorce Case.” Thomson Reuters., 24 Sep. 2014. Web. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/24/us-continental-hamm-history-abridged-exc-idUSKCN0HJ17020140924
  • Smith, Bruce D., Melinda A. Zeder. “The onset of the Anthropocene.” Anthropocene (2013): 1-6 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2013.05.001.
  • Solnit, Rebecca. “Common Grounds and Killers.” A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. New York: Penguin Group, 2009. 231-304. Print.
  • —. “Epilogue: The Doorway in the Ruins.” A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. New York: Penguin Group, 2009. 305 – 314. Print.
  • Smil, Vaclav. Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. Print.
  • —. Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.
  • Steffen, Will, Paul J. Crutzen and John R. McNeill. “The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature?” Ambio 36:8 (2007): 614-621. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25547826
  • Tarbell, Ida M. The History of the Standard Oil Company. London: Heineman, 1905. Print.
  • “The Anthropocene: A Man-Made World.” The Economist. 26 May 2011s:1-6. Print.
  • Thompson, Lonnie. “Warriors and Heroes.” Rolling Stone. 17 Nov 2005:86 -100. Print.
  • United States. Report to the President. National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. Deep Water: The Gulf Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling. N.p.: n.p., 2011. Print. [T/S] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-OILCOMMISSION/pdf/GPO-OILCOMMISSION.pdf
  • Wrigley, E.A. Energy and the English Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Print.
  • Yergin, Daniel. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. NY: Free Press, 2008; Rpt. 1991.

Other booklists

  • University of Oxford’s “Life After the Anthropocene” Interdisciplinary Seminar Series for 2014 – 2015. Organized by Jamie Lorimer and Jamie Castell. http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/anthropocene-reader
  • A useful introduction: Whitehead, Mark, Environmental Transformations: A Geography of the Anthropocene Routledge, London (2014)
  • Rockstrom, Johan, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Asa Persson, F. Stuart Chapin, Eric F. Lambin, Timothy M. Lenton, et al. “A Safe Operating Space for Humanity.” Nature 461, no. 7263 472-75.
  • Crutzen, P. J. “Geology of Mankind.” Nature 415, no. 6867 (Jan 3 2002): 23-23.
  • Steffen, W., J. Grinevald, P. Crutzen, and J. McNeill. “The Anthropocene: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369, no. 1938 (2011): 842-67.
  • Thomas, C. D. “The Anthropocene Could Raise Biological Diversity.” Nature 502, no. 7469 (2013): 7. (And see responses in the letters page of Nature)
  • Zalasiewicz, J. The Earth after Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? : OUP Oxford, 2008.
  • Zalasiewicz, Jan, Mark Williams, Alan Haywood, and Michael Ellis. “The Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Geological Time?”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369, no. 1938 (2011): 835-41.
  • Zalasiewicz, Jan, Mark Williams, Richard Fortey, Alan Smith, Tiffany L. Barry, Angela L. Coe, Paul R. Bown, et al. “Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369, no. 1938 (2011): 1036-55.

Popular press

  • Ackerman, Diane The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us Norton and Company, New York (2014)
  • Brand, Stewart. Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.  New York: Viking, 2009.
  • Kareiva, Peter. “Conservation in the Anthropocene.” Breakthrough Journal 2 (2011).
  • Lynas, Mark. The God Species : How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans.  London: Fourth Estate, 2011.
  • Marris, E. (2011). Rambunctious garden: saving nature in a post-wild world. New York, NY, Bloomsbury USA.
  • McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature.  New York: Anchor Books, 1990.
  • Shellenberger, M., and T.  Nordhaus, eds. Love Your Monsters: Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene: Breakthrough Institute, 2011.
  • Vince, Gaia Adventures in the Anthropocene Chatto and Windus, London (2014)

Humanities and social sciences

  • The Anthropocene Projekt at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
  • Castree, N. (2014). “The Anthropocene and Geography I: The Back Story.” Geography Compass 8(7): 436-449.
  • Castree, N. (2014). “Geography and the Anthropocene II: Current Contributions.” Geography Compass 8(7): 450-463.
  • Castree, N. (2014). “The Anthropocene and Geography III: Future Directions.” Geography Compass 8(7): 464-476.
  • Chakrabarty, D. “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry 35, no. 2 (2009): 197-222.
  • Clark, N. (2011). Inhuman nature : sociable living on a dynamic planet. Thousand Oaks, CA, SAGE Publications.
  • Colebrook, C. (2014). Essays on Extinction: Death of the posthuman. Open Humanities Press http://openhumanitiespress.org/essays-on-extinction-vol1.html
  • Orestes, Naomi and Conway, Erik The Collapse of Western Civilisation: A View for the Future  Columbia University Press, New York (2014)
  • Crist, E “On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature” Environmental Humanities, vol. 3, 2013, pp. 129-147
  • Dalby, S. “Biopolitics and Climate Security in the Anthropocene.” Geoforum 49 (2013): 184-92.
  • Ellsworth, Elizabeth and Kruse, Jaime, Making the geologic now: responses to material conditions of contemporary life  Punctum Books, New York (2014).
  • Gibson-Graham, J. K. “A Feminist Project of Belonging for the Anthropocene.” Gender, Place & Culture 18, no. 1 (2011): 1-21.
  • Hamilton, C. Earthmasters: Playing God with the Climate. Allen & Unwin, 2013.
  • Keulartz, J. “The Emergence of Enlightened Anthropocentrism in Ecological Restoration.” Nature and Culture 7, no. 1 (2012): 48-71.
  • Latour, B “War and Peace in an Age of Ecological Conflicts” available online at http://www.bruno-latour.fr/article
  • Lorimer, J. “Multinatural Geographies for the Anthropocene.” Progress in Human Geography 36, no. 5 (2012): 593-612.
  • Morton, T. (2013). Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World, University of Minnesota Press.
  • van Dooren, T. (2014). Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction, Columbia University Press.
  • Yusoff, K. “Geologic Life: Prehistory, Climate, Futures in the Anthropocene.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 31, no. 5 (2013): 779-95.
  • http://www.grassrootsbookstore.com/transformation-without-apocalypse-spring-creek-winter-symposium-2014 :Transformation Without Apocalypse (Spring Creek Winter Symposium