Teaching Energy Humanities (Options for Teaching)

Humanists interpret systems of energy production through literature The field of energy humanities seeks to understand the interrelationships between our currently dominant oil-based energy systems and human cultural expressions.Considering how questions of energy-its production, distribution, and use-are always already questions of ethics, identity, narrative, and community, energy humanities examines existing petrocultures and envisions just and sustainable futures. This volume will help instructors teach students how literature reflects the hidden infrastructure and costs of energy production, revealing the connection between historical and contemporary forms of extractivism.The range is broad, covering texts from the nineteenth century to the present and including topics from whale hunting and coal mining to oil drilling and lithium mining.The essays demonstrate the lingering imperial logics of resource extraction and the obfuscation of labor in capitalist energy systems.They descr