Environmental Humanities

"Environmental Humanities scholarship responds to the long history of environmental exploitation of colonized peoples, and the economic, ecological, racial, and gendered dimensions of such exploitation. It is equally interested in understanding current resource wars, food shortages, the rise of epidemics, the importance of multispecies imaginaries, and the place of nation-state politics at a time of climate breakdown. It argues that to better understand and respond to the climate crisis scientific and humanities perspectives are equally crucial. Students who earn this specialization will have a comprehensive understanding of the roles of capital, culture, and politics at a time of rapid climate change. They will engage with literature and other arts from across the globe, and also gain some understanding of ecological concepts."
-drawn from UMass Environmental Humanities webpage