Energy Humanities

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<p><b>How can humanities scholars help us respond to growing concerns about climate change and fossil fuels?</b></p><p>Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Responding to growing public concern about anthropogenic climate change and the unsustainability of the fuels we use to power our modern society, energy humanists highlight the essential contribution that humanistic insights and methods can make to areas of analysis once thought best left to the natural sciences.</p><p>In this groundbreaking anthology, Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer have brought together a carefully curated selection of the best and most influential work in energy humanities. Arguing that today¿s energy and environmental dilemmas are fundamentally problems of ethics, habits, imagination, values, institutions, belief, and power¿all traditional areas of e