By Serpil Oppermann. West Virginia University Press, 2023.
Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene is an intellectually engaging piece of scholarship. With transdisciplinarity and theoretical lucidity, it rethinks the Anthropocene from a material ecocritical perspective, envisioning innovative modes of knowledge for deeper understandings of Anthropocene ecologies. Focusing on nonhuman agencies, Oppermann shows in fascinating detail how to better imagine an ecological future on our storied planet that has suffered enormously from an anthropocentric mindset.
Serpil Oppermann is the Director of the Environmental Humanities Center and a Professor of Environmental Humanities at Cappadocia University. She has served as the President of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE) and is a co-editor of Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. She has co-edited works such as Material Ecocriticism (2014), Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene (2017), and Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes (2020). Her work primarily delves into the relationships of human and more-than-human environments from natural sciences and environmental humanities perspectives. Her current research is primarily focused on the Anthropocene and the Blue Humanities.
