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Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Chris Campbell

Michael Niblett

Kerstin Oloff

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System

&lt;p&gt;1. Introduction: Plotting the Crisis—World-Literature, World-Culture, and the World-Food-System.-&amp;nbsp;Part I Imperial Appetites and the Development of the World-Food-System.-&amp;nbsp;2. Eat Meat Crave Repeat: H. Rider Haggard, Lost World Romance and the Global Growth of Britain’s Meat Markets.-&amp;nbsp;3. Pain, Pleasure, and the World-Food-System: Plotting the Afterlife of the Plantation in the Poetry of Grace Nichols.-&amp;nbsp;4. "The Landscape Heaved with Unspeakable Terror": The Weird Presence of the World-Food-System in the Cultural Imaginaries of England and the Caribbean.-&amp;nbsp;Part II Cash-Crops and Agricultural Monarchs.-&amp;nbsp;5. Laurie Lee in Cyprus: Scripting Propaganda, Productivity, and Peasant Labour.-&amp;nbsp;6. Plants in the Free World Garden: Revolution and Rice in Thai Literature.-&amp;nbsp;7. Fleeing &lt;i&gt;Ilex Paraguariensis&lt;/i&gt;: Yerba Mate Plantations in Horacio Quiroga and Augusto Roa Bastos.-&amp;nbsp;8.&amp;nbsp;"To win the energies of intoxication for the revolution": Dialectical Aesthetics in Miguel Ángel Asturias’ &lt;i&gt;Banana Trilogy&lt;/i&gt; (1950–1960).-&amp;nbsp;Part III Consumed by Crisis.-&amp;nbsp;9. Alimentary Gothic: Horror, Puerto Rico and the World-Food-System.-&amp;nbsp;10. Made in Cod’s Image: Food, Fuel, and World-Ecological Decline in Michael Crummey’s &lt;i&gt;Sweetland.-&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;11. White Flight from Planet Earth: Reading Race, Cheap Food, and Capitalism’s Crisis State in &lt;i&gt;Interstellar.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Routledge Food Studies

This book explains how "natural wine" was made and not discovered by Spanish lawmakers, chemists, merchants, and theologians, showing how Spain consolidated a legal construct that normalized specific technical interventions while preserving the label natural.The book argues that wine labeled as "natural" was not the preservation of a traditional product but the product of a legal fiction that allowed wines with additives to be normalized and protected under law. In doing so, the book explores the emergence and changing meanings of natural wine. Rather than providing a fixed definition, it analyzes how the boundaries of "natural" shifted from period to period. It shows how natural wine ended up being used in the historical- legal sense that crystallized in late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Spain and culminated in 1932. Through detailed archival research, the book explores debates around adulteration, chemistry, purity, and authenticity, using historical food studies and legal analysis as its framework. It introduces the Spanish case as a significant but overlooked moment in the broader European shift toward legally codified standards of food authenticity and quality. Drawing primarily on the work of Alessandro Stanziani and influenced by Bruno Latour's perspective on scientific authority and socio-technical networks, the book bridges the fields of legal history, enology, and cultural politics. This historical analysis sheds light on contemporary controversies surrounding wine regulation, appellation systems, and the global natural wine movement.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food and wine studies, legal and economic history, anthropology, science and technology studies, and European agrarian history.

The Legal and Cultural History

The Making of Natural Wine in Spain

People are obsessed with objects: the memories they hold, the thoughts they inspire, the skills they showcase, their monetary value, and what they communicate to others. This book guides creative nonfiction writers through crafting prose inspired by the material things in their lives. Combining ideas from the fields of creative writing, rhetoric and composition and qualitative inquiry, it investigates how authors examine the cultural and personal significance of objects and offers new approaches for how writers might use personal experience and theoretical context to get the most out of object writing. Melissa Tombro draws on her experience as a third-generation antiques dealer and professor of writing and gender studies to explore the power of materiality in storytelling and how we come to understand ourselves and others based on what is owned, valued, and discarded. Through case studies, personal writing, theory and literature, the book considers topics and ideas including: collecting and collections, cultural and monetary value of objects, family history and nostalgia, gender in relation to objects, public collections and archives, inherited objects, garbage and recycled objects, objects and status, generational trends and fads, and objects in the age of social media. Providing the foundations for writerly growth by engaging in cultural analysis, autoethnographic inquiry, narrative building, and personal reflection, Writing About Objects presents original assignments and prompts to extend writers' thinking outside of the self and towards the larger cultural sphere. This is not just a how-to guide but an exploration of how people collect, value and engage with the things around them.

Crafting Nonfiction from Things

Writing about Objects

Global Perspectives in Comics Studies

Exploring Ecological Issues in Graphic Narratives positions graphic storytelling at the intersection of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and Comics Studies. This book argues that ecological catastrophe is not only a scientific or policy crisis but also a crisis of representation, set against the backdrop of climate change, biodiversity loss, and systemic environmental inequity.While ecocriticism has expanded significantly, this book largely focuses on canonical prose, overlooking the multimodal and spatial possibilities of graphic narratives. It critically engages with the Anthropocene, highlighting the deep connections between environmental degradation and colonialism, capitalism, caste oppression, and gendered exploitation. Through global case studies-including Indigenous resistance in Canada's oil sands, Dalit environmental aesthetics in India, Japanese eco-dystopian manga, and urban human-animal reconfigurations-it explores how graphic narratives depict "slow violence," express nonhuman agency, and challenge anthropocentric binaries.Part of the Global Perspectives in Comics Studies series, this book addresses the multilingual dimensions of the comics medium, often overlooked in ecocriticism, making it a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts alike. With its international scope, it will appeal to academics, students, activists, artists, educators, policy-makers, and graphic novel enthusiasts exploring ecological issues, environmental justice, and the interdisciplinary potential of graphic narratives, particularly in regions where comics and graphic novels thrive.

Exploring Ecological Issues in Graphic Narratives

Craftpedia Library: Survey Series

Japanese Stonework

Palgrave Studies in Intermediality

This open access book explores the excesses, distortions and perverse effects that emerge when art and popular culture refuse reverence for nostalgic views on nature. Developing Phoebe Wagner's pioneering concept of the environmental grotesque, the book's authors argue that the problem is not ignorance of the crisis but rather poverty in our imaginative responses. Grotesque Anthropocene thus offers a needed rupture of our current ecological sensibilities, attending to the productive ambiguities of works across media, from art and literature to film and television.

This open access book
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 explores the excesses, distortions and perverse effects that emerge when art and popular culture refuse reverence for nostalgic views on nature. Developing Phoebe Wagner's pioneering concept of the environmental grotesque, the book's authors argue that the problem is not ignorance of the crisis but rather poverty in our imaginative responses. 
 Grotesque Anthropocene&nbsp;
 thus offers a needed rupture of our current ecological sensibilities,&nbsp;attending to the productive ambiguities of works across media, from art and literature to film and television.

Disfigured Environments Across Media

Grotesque Anthropocene

In this “engrossing” (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who forces him to reconsider why people give up control—and what it takes, ultimately, to find one’s place in the world. FINALIST FOR THE WESTPOINT PRIZE FOR LITERATURE • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE SEASON’S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS: Time, Rolling Stone, Vulture, Men’s Health, WNYC, Electric Lit, Feminist Book Club, Lit Hub “A gorgeously written literary excavation of belonging and belief.”—Emma Donoghue, The Boston Globe After the death of his father, a young journalist named Faruq Zaidi takes the opportunity to embed himself in a mysterious cult based in the California redwoods and known as “the nameless,” whose strikingly attractive members adhere to the 18 Utterances, including teachings such as “all suffering is distortion” and “see only beauty.” Shepherding them is Odo, an enigmatic Vietnam War veteran who received “the sight”—the movement’s foundational principles—during his time as an infantryman. Through flashbacks that recount the cult’s wartime origins, we see four soldiers contend with the existential struggles of combat and with their responsibilities to each other, and by the end of the novel we learn which one becomes Odo. Faruq, skeptical but committed to unraveling the mystery of both “the nameless” and Odo, extends his stay by months, and as he gets deeper into the cult’s inner workings and alluring teachings, he begins to lose his grip on reality. Faruq is forced to come to terms with the memories he has been running from while trying to resist Odo’s spell. Ultimately this immersive and unsettling novel asks: What does it take to find one’s place in the world? And what exactly do we seek from one another?

In this “engrossing” (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who forces him to reconsider why people give up control—and what it takes, ultimately, to find one’s place in the world. FINALIST FOR THE WESTPOINT PRIZE FOR LITERATURE • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE SEASON’S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS: Time, Rolling Stone, Vulture, Men’s Health, WNYC, Electric Lit, Feminist Book Club, Lit Hub “A gorgeously written literary excavation of belonging and belief.”—Emma Donoghue, The Boston Globe After the death of his father, a young journalist named Faruq Zaidi takes the opportunity to embed himself in a mysterious cult based in the California redwoods and known as “the nameless,” whose strikingly attractive members adhere to the 18 Utterances, including teachings such as “all suffering is distortion” and “see only beauty.” Shepherding them is Odo, an enigmatic Vietnam War veteran who received “the sight”—the movement’s foundational principles—during his time as an infantryman. Through flashbacks that recount the cult’s wartime origins, we see four soldiers contend with the existential struggles of combat and with their responsibilities to each other, and by the end of the novel we learn which one becomes Odo. Faruq, skeptical but committed to unraveling the mystery of both “the nameless” and Odo, extends his stay by months, and as he gets deeper into the cult’s inner workings and alluring teachings, he begins to lose his grip on reality. Faruq is forced to come to terms with the memories he has been running from while trying to resist Odo’s spell. Ultimately this immersive and unsettling novel asks: What does it take to find one’s place in the world? And what exactly do we seek from one another?

A Novel

O Sinners!

This groundbreaking book shows how cows' choices have influenced the economic, agricultural, and socio-political development of the Americas.

Tracing the interconnected transformations of cattle, land, and labor from the 18th-century colonial Caribbean to the early national period of the 19th century to the present day, Kettler and Yingling demonstrate how cows impact on nearly every major aspect of development in the Americas, including colonization, slavery, our ability to objectify animals we consume, our current foodways, environmental degradation, and the climate emergency. Bringing together research from many fields, but proceeding always in a straightforward, chronological, historical manner underrepresented in other areas of animal studies, this book ultimately restores cattle as subjects of their own lives who in seeking to escape exploitation have deeply affected the legal, property, and geographical frameworks that haunt us today.

Agency, Appetite, and the Anthropocene

The Once and Future Cow

STEMinist mecha fantasy meets reality television in this high-stakes novel from the author of A Magical Girl Retires—a wildly imaginative tale of sibling bonds, unexpected friendship, and an existential quest to understand what it means to be human. Robotics student Kim Wooram, runner-up at the World Gigantic Mechanics Olympiad, is a world-class pilot and engineer. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she likes working solo, preferring the company of robots to most other humans. Sought by robotics centers across the globe, she chooses to return to Korea after learning of an exciting new secret government robotic project known as V. To her disappointment, only male pilots are allowed to apply.Desperate for a chance to make history and encouraged by her twin brother, Boram, the usual rule-following Wooram makes a risky choice. Posing as Boram, she auditions for Project V, the reality competition show whose winner will pilot the robot V—and quickly becomes one of the top contestants in both skill and popularity. Wooram attracts fans and friends like Seojin, the show’s youngest female writer and ardent “Boram” stan, and Jeonghoon, the clumsy but lovable underdog. She also gains a rival in Jinyoung, the ruthless heir to a Korean corporate dynasty.As Wooram comes tantalizingly close to achieving her goal, she begins to realize that V’s arrogant AI is a ticking time bomb. With victory within reach, and her identity at stake, will Wooram destroy the robot of her dreams to save lives, or stick to the script?Project V is a playful yet sharp meditation on some of the most pressing issues roiling modern society in Korea and across the globe: the male dominance in STEM fields, the ethics of parasocial idolatry and our addiction to social media and reality television, and the promise and peril of an AI-oriented future. Punchy and compelling, Park Seolyeon’s novel is a winning exploration of ambition and creation—a quintessential novel of our present and future for mecha fans and all curious readers.Translated from the Korean by Gene Png&nbsp;

STEMinist mecha fantasy meets reality television in this high-stakes novel from the author of A Magical Girl Retires—a wildly imaginative tale of sibling bonds, unexpected friendship, and an existential quest to understand what it means to be human. Robotics student Kim Wooram, runner-up at the World Gigantic Mechanics Olympiad, is a world-class pilot and engineer. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she likes working solo, preferring the company of robots to most other humans. Sought by robotics centers across the globe, she chooses to return to Korea after learning of an exciting new secret government robotic project known as V. To her disappointment, only male pilots are allowed to apply.Desperate for a chance to make history and encouraged by her twin brother, Boram, the usual rule-following Wooram makes a risky choice. Posing as Boram, she auditions for Project V, the reality competition show whose winner will pilot the robot V—and quickly becomes one of the top contestants in both skill and popularity. Wooram attracts fans and friends like Seojin, the show’s youngest female writer and ardent “Boram” stan, and Jeonghoon, the clumsy but lovable underdog. She also gains a rival in Jinyoung, the ruthless heir to a Korean corporate dynasty.As Wooram comes tantalizingly close to achieving her goal, she begins to realize that V’s arrogant AI is a ticking time bomb. With victory within reach, and her identity at stake, will Wooram destroy the robot of her dreams to save lives, or stick to the script?Project V is a playful yet sharp meditation on some of the most pressing issues roiling modern society in Korea and across the globe: the male dominance in STEM fields, the ethics of parasocial idolatry and our addiction to social media and reality television, and the promise and peril of an AI-oriented future. Punchy and compelling, Park Seolyeon’s novel is a winning exploration of ambition and creation—a quintessential novel of our present and future for mecha fans and all curious readers.Translated from the Korean by Gene Png&nbsp;

Project V

SpringerBriefs in Law

As the climate crisis intensifies, contemporary literature has emerged as one of the most potent arenas for legal imagination. 
 Legal Drafts in Anthropocene Literature 
 examines how fiction set in the Anthropocene — ranging from cli-fi novels to experimental poetry — anticipates, critiques and actively shapes the development of legal frameworks aimed at addressing environmental destruction.
 Building on the key idea that literature acts as a ‘seismographic’ indicator of legal change, this volume brings together Alexandra Juster, Justine Scarlaken, Matthew Birkhold, and Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi, who analyse works by John Ironmonger, Gaspard Koenig, Jean Giono, Camille de Toledo, Baptiste Morizot, Jessie Kleemann, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Indra Sinha. The authors reveal how fictional narratives generate what the volume terms 'legal drafts' — implicit or explicit proposals for new legal concepts, instruments, and responsibilities that are urgently needed in the Anthropocene era.The volume addresses the most pressing legal questions of our time: How can individuals and collectives be held accountable for climate damage? Should nature be granted legal personality? What would an ‘ecocide’ prosecution entail, and how can narratives render such an unthinkable crime imaginable? How does poetry expose the epistemological limits of law when confronted with slow violence and planetary interdependence?The contributions collectively demonstrate that literature does not merely reflect legal reality — it actively generates it, from river parliaments and beaver diplomacy in contemporary French literature to Greenlandic poetic testimony as a speculative lawsuit against ice melt and the narrative jurisprudence of climate governance fiction.

As the climate crisis intensifies, contemporary literature has emerged as one of the most potent arenas for legal imagination. Legal Drafts in Anthropocene Literature examines how fiction set in the Anthropocene — ranging from cli-fi novels to experimental poetry — anticipates, critiques and actively shapes the development of legal frameworks aimed at addressing environmental destruction.
 
 Building on the key idea that literature acts as a ‘seismographic’ indicator of legal change, this volume brings together Alexandra Juster, Justine Scarlaken, Matthew Birkhold, and Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi, who analyse works by John Ironmonger, Gaspard Koenig, Jean Giono, Camille de Toledo, Baptiste Morizot, Jessie Kleemann, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Indra Sinha. The authors reveal how fictional narratives generate what the volume terms 'legal drafts' — implicit or explicit proposals for new legal concepts, instruments, and responsibilities that are urgently needed in the Anthropocene era.
 
 The volume addresses the most pressing legal questions of our time: How can individuals and collectives be held accountable for climate damage? Should nature be granted legal personality? What would an ‘ecocide’ prosecution entail, and how can narratives render such an unthinkable crime imaginable? How does poetry expose the epistemological limits of law when confronted with slow violence and planetary interdependence?
 
 The contributions collectively demonstrate that literature does not merely reflect legal reality — it actively generates it, from river parliaments and beaver diplomacy in contemporary French literature to Greenlandic poetic testimony as a speculative lawsuit against ice melt and the narrative jurisprudence of climate governance fiction.

Legal Drafts in Anthropocene Literature

Object Lessons

Ballot chronicles the history of ballots used in American elections, their psychological, cultural, and political impact, and the post-2020 bills, laws, and policies that suppress the vote.

Ballot

This book examines London’s eighteenth–century upholding trade. Primarily providing household furniture and upholstery goods and services at the beginning of the century, by mid-century upholders provided stylish and fashionable residential interior furnishings, funeral undertaking, and a secondary market for used household goods. Upholders were at the forefront of the development of Britain’s material culture, and were important contributors to London’s economic and social fabric. Providing context to the social and business lives of upholders, the author surveys key themes including apprenticeship, livery companies, empire, material culture, consumerism, taste and fashion, advertising, and credit. The book also explores how upholders came to dominate the funeral undertaking business, and integrated brokering, appraising, and auctioneering into their businesses.

Adapting to the economic changes and interior furnishing trends that took place in the first half of the eighteenth century, many upholders expanded their business lines. While consumer demand increased for household goods, so too did the widespread use of personal credit, which ultimately led to an increase in upholder bankruptcies after 1760. Through two case studies of financially successful upholders, the book sheds light on diverse topics such as the East India Company, banking, royal household tradesmen, and military contracting, to create an intricate understanding of their experiences. Offering new insights into the business, social, and personal lives of London’s upholders, this book demonstrates how they were instrumental in creating a new domestic commerce in eighteenth-century Britain.

This book examines London’s eighteenth–century upholding trade. Primarily providing household furniture and upholstery goods and services at the beginning of the century, by mid-century upholders provided stylish and fashionable residential interior furnishings, funeral undertaking, and a secondary market for used household goods. Upholders were at the forefront of the development of Britain’s material culture, and were important contributors to London’s economic and social fabric. Providing context to the social and business lives of upholders, the author surveys key themes including apprenticeship, livery companies, empire, material culture, consumerism, taste and fashion, advertising, and credit. The book also explores how upholders came to dominate the funeral undertaking business, and integrated brokering, appraising, and auctioneering into their businesses.Adapting to the economic changes and interior furnishing trends that took place in the first half of the eighteenth century, many upholders expanded their business lines. While consumer demand increased for household goods, so too did the widespread use of personal credit, which ultimately led to an increase in upholder bankruptcies after 1760. Through two case studies of financially successful upholders, the book sheds light on diverse topics such as the East India Company, banking, royal household tradesmen, and military contracting, to create an intricate understanding of their experiences. Offering new insights into the business, social, and personal lives of London’s upholders, this book demonstrates how they were instrumental in creating a new domestic commerce in eighteenth-century Britain.

A New Domestic Commerce

The Eighteenth–Century London Upholder

This book explores traditional Japanese textiles, focusing on their patterns, colors, materials, and cultural meanings. It presents textiles not only as decorative objects, but as expressions of everyday life, regional identity, and historical development. 

Through selected examples, the book offers a structured introduction to the diversity of Japanese textile traditions and the cultural contexts in which they were created and used.

Patterns, Colors and Cultural Meaning

Japanese Textiles

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System

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