1st Edition
Stewardship and the Future of the Planet Promise and Paradox
Introduction: The Contradictory Inflections of Stewardship
Rachel Carnell
Part I: Human Self-Perception and Misperception
1. Stewardship and Sense of Place: Assumptions and Ideals
Tyra A. Olstad
2."I Was Under No Necessity of Seeking My Bread": Robinson Crusoe and the Stewardship of Resources in Eighteenth-Century England
Chris Mounsey
3. Stewardship in American Literature: Promise and Paradox in the New World
Josh A. Weinstein
Part II: Dystopic Visions of Past, Present, and Future
4. Monstrous Stewardship and the Plantation in Charles Chesnutt’s "The Goophered Grapevine"
Matthew Wynn Sivils
5. Human Stewardship and "Reproductive Futurism" in Dystopian Fiction
Pramod K. Nayar
6 Climate Change and Apocalyptic Literature: Post-Human Stewardship in Paolo Bacigalupi's Drowned Cities Trilogy
Jeff Karem
Part III: Approaches to Contemporary Challenges
7. Political Aspects of Stewardship for Wildlife in the U.S.
Bruce Rocheleau
8. The Future of the Seascape and the Humanity of Islanders: Focusing on the Korean Archipelago
Sun-Kee Hong
9. Stewardship of Rangelands in the 21st Century: Managing Complexity from the Margins
Nathan F. Sayre
Part IV: Envisioning the Future
10. Product Stewardship: Ethics and Effectiveness in a Circular Economy
Helen Lewis and Nick Florin
11. An Evolutionary Systems Theoretic Perspective on Global Stewardship
William M. Bowen
12. Stewardship in the Anthropocene: Meanings, Tensions, Futures
Maria Tengö, Johan Enqvist, Simon West, Uno Svedin, Vanessa Masterson and Jamila Haider
Biography
Rachel Carnell is Professor of English at Cleveland State University. Having published extensively on eighteenth-century literature and politics, she began working on environmental stewardship after unearthing archival references to eighteenth-century lawsuits that described landed estates in terms of expected monetary output.
Chris Mounsey is Professor of eighteenth-century cultural studies at the University of Winchester. He has published widely on a range of issues including sexuality, disability, and bioethics. He is series editor of the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics.
