Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson. Ethos Books, June 2020.

The first environmental humanities book about Singapore, Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene examines the ways that Singaporean life and culture is deeply entangled with the nonhuman lives that flourish in the small island city-state. From chilli crab to Tiger Beer, Changi Airport to Pulau Semakau, these essays offer new perspectives on familiar Singaporean subjects, bringing an environmental humanities lens to the study of Singapore in ground-breaking ways—such as a chapter on Malay orang minyak films and mythology as a form of Singaporean petrohorror, and a chapter that applies a settler-colonial environmental perspective to the displacement and erasure of the Orang Laut (the indigenous sea people of Singapore). Beyond its focus on Singapore and Southeast Asia, this is a book that offers an innovative example of local and public environmental humanities scholarship.