Secondary Reading

General Secondary Texts

After Oil Collective, Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice, ed. Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney (University of Minnesota Press, 2022).

Jan Alber, Steffen Jöris, Wolfgang Römer, The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change (De Gruyter, 2021)

Jennifer Atkinson & Sarah Jaquette Ray (eds), The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to teach in a burning world (Berkeley, 2024)

Dominic Boyer and Imre Szeman, Energy Humanities: An Anthology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017).

Roman Bartosch, Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change: Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, "Welcome to the Anthropocene," The Shock of the Anthropocene (Verso, 2016): 16-28

Marco Caracciolo, Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures

(Bloomsbury, 2022)

Cardoso Celermajer et al, “Climate imaginaries as praxis”, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7:3 (2024)

Climaginaries, “The Museum of Carbon Ruins: An Exhibition of the Fossil Era”

Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry 35. 2 (2009): 197–222.

Jeremy Davies, The Birth of the Anthropocene (University of California Press, 2016): 1-14, 41-68.

Simin Davoudi & Ruth Machen, “Climate imaginaries and the mattering of the medium,” Geoforum 137 (2022).

Ashley Dawson, Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, (Verso, 2021)

-----Extinction: A Radical History (OR Books, 2016)

-----People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons (OR Books, 2020)

Carl Death, “Climate Fiction, Climate Theory: Decolonising Imaginations of Global Futures”

Millenium, 50:2 (2022)

Mel Evans, Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts (Chicago, 2015).

Janet Fiskio, Climate change, literature, and environmental justice: poetics of dissent and repair (OUP, 2021)

Jennifer Gabrys and Kathryn Yusoff, “Climate Change and the Imagination.” WIREs 2:4 (2011): 516-534.

Christina Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Knopf, 2020).

Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Chicago, 2016

Jason Hickel. “Degrowth: A Theory of Radical Abundance,” Real-World Economics Review (2019): 54-68.

Eric Holthaus, The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming (Harper One, 2020).

Julia Hoydis, Roman Bartosch and Jens Martin Gurr, Climate change literacy, (Cambridge, 2023)

Eva Horn, The Future As Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age, (Princeton, 2018)

Mike Hulme, “Climate Imaginaries: climate change forever,” from Climate Change (Routledge 2021)

Bob Johnson, Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019).

Adeline Johns-Putra, Climate change and the Contemporary Novel (CUP, 2019)

Adeline Johns-Putra & Axel Goodbody, Cli-Fi: A Companion (2018)

Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Knopf 2014)

Mathew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton, “How We Win,” from Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown, in Beyond the Ruins: The Fight Against Environmental Breakdown, a Verso Report (Verso, 2021)

Caroline Levine, The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis

(Princeton, 2023)

Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, “Defining the Anthropocene,” Nature 519 (12 March 2015): 171-180.

Elizabeth M DeLoughrey, Allegories of the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2019)

Gregory Lynall, Imagining Solar Energy: the power of the sun in literature, science and culture (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Andreas Malm. The Progress of This Storm: On Society and Nature in a Warming World (Verso, 2018)

Michael E Mann, Our Fragile Moment: how lessons from the Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis (Scribe, 2023)

---- The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet (Scribe, 2021)

Sarah E McFarland, Ecocollapse fiction and cultures of human extinction, (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Antonia Mehnert, Climate Change Fictions: representations of global warming in American literature (Palgrave, 2016)

Andrew Milner, Science Fiction and Climate Change: a sociological approach, (Liverpool, 2020)

Jason W. Moore, “The Capitalocene, Part I: On the Nature and Origins of our Ecological Crisis,” Journal of Peasant Studies 44:3 (2017): 594-630

Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard UP, 2011)

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Columbia University Press, 2014): 11-33.

Martin Puchner, Literature for a Changing Planet, (Oxford, 2022)

Wolfgang Römer, “Scenarios of Human-Induced Climate and Environmental Changes at Different Spatial and Temporal Scales”, in Alber et al, The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change (De Gruyter, 2021)

Joshua Schuster, What Is Extinction? A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals (Fordham University Press, 2023).

Imre Szeman, Sheena Wilson and Adam Carlson, Petrocultures: oil, politics, and culture (McGill, 2017)

Imre Szeman, Futures of the Sun: The Struggle over Renewable Life

(Minnesota, 2024)

Adam Trexler, Anthropocene Fiction: the Novel in a time of Climate Change, (UVA Press, 2015)

UNFCCC (2016), The Paris Agreement

Françoise Vergès, “Racial Capitalocene,” Futures of Black Radicalism, eds. Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin (Verso, 2017).

Jennifer Wenzel, The Disposition of Nature (Fordham University Press, 2020): 1-46.

David Wallace-Wells, “The Uninhabitable Earth,” New York Magazine, July 10, 2017.

Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann, Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (Verso, 2020)