The words most commonly associated with the environmental
movement—save, recycle, reuse, protect, regulate,
restore—describe what we can do to help the environment, but few
suggest how we might transform ourselves to better navigate the
sudden turns of the late Anthropocene. Which words can help us to
veer conceptually along with drastic environmental flux? Jeffrey
Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert asked 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. Some verbs are closely tied
to natural processes: compost, saturate, seep, rain, shade,
sediment, vegetate, environ. Many are vaguely unsettling: drown,
unmoor, obsolesce, power down, haunt. Others are enigmatic or
counterintuitive: curl, globalize, commodify, ape, whirl. And while
several verbs pertain to human affect and action—love, represent,
behold, wait, try, attune, play, remember, decorate, tend, hope—a
primary goal of Veer Ecology is to decenter the human. Indeed, each
of the essays speaks to a heightened sense of possibility,
awakening our imaginations and inviting us to think the world anew
from radically different perspectives. A groundbreaking guide for
the twenty-first century, Veer Ecology foregrounds the risks and
potentialities of living on—and with—an alarmingly dynamic
planet. Contributors: Stacy Alaimo, U of Texas at Arlington; Joseph
Campana, Rice U; Holly Dugan, George Washington U; Lara Farina,
West Virginia U; Cheryll Glotfelty, U of Nevada, Reno; Anne F.
Harris, DePauw U; Tim Ingold, U of Aberdeen; Serenella Iovino, U of
Turin; Stephanie LeMenager, U of Oregon; Scott Maisano, U of
Massachusetts, Boston; Tobias Menely, U of California, Davis; Steve
Mentz, St. John’s U; J. Allan Mitchell, U of Victoria; Timothy
Morton, Rice U; Vin Nardizzi, U of British Columbia; Laura Ogden,
Dartmouth College; Serpil Opperman, Hacettepe U, Ankara; Daniel C.
Remein, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Margaret Ronda, U of
California, Davis; Nicholas Royle, U of Sussex; Catriona
Sandilands, York U; Christopher Schaberg, Loyola U; Rebecca R.
Scott, U of Missouri; Theresa Shewry, U of California, Santa
Barbara; Mick Smith, Queen’s U; Jesse Oak Taylor, U of
Washington; Brian Thill, Golden West College; Coll Thrush, U of
British Columbia, Vancouver; Cord J. Whitaker, Wellesley College;
Julian Yates, U of Delaware.
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