Joni Adamson is Professor of Environmental Humanities and Senior Sustainability Scholar, Arizona State University, US.Kimberly N. Ruffin is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at Roosevelt University, US.

• Section 1. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging 1. Zora Neale Hurston and the Environmental Ethic of Risk 2. Haitian Soil for the Citizen's Soul 3. Intimate Cartographies: Defining Navajo Ecological Citizenship through U.S. Mapping, Soil Conservation and Livestock Reduction Programs 4. Getting Back to an Imagined Nature: The Mannahatta Project and Environmental Justice 5. The Oil Desert 6. Japanese Roots in American Soil: National Belonging in David Mas Masumoto’s Harvest Son and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s The Legend of Fire Horse Woman Section II. Border Ecologies 7. Our Nations and All Our Relations: Environmental Ethics in William S. Yellow Robe Jr.’s The Council 8. Preserving the Great White North: Migratory Birds, Italian Immigrants, and the Making of Ecological Citizenship Across the U.S.-Canada Border, 1900-1924 9. Boundaries of Violence: Water, Gender and Development in Context 10. U.S. Border Ecologies, Environmental Criticism, and Transnational American Studies 11. Climate Justice and Trans-Pacific Indigenous Feminisms Section III. Ecological Citizenship in Action 12. Roots of Nativist Environmentalism in America’s Eden 13. Wielding Common Wealth in Washington, D.C. and Eastern Kentucky: Creative Social Practice in Two Marginalized Communities 14. "Climate Justice Now! Imagining Grassroots Eco-Cosmopolitanism 15. The Los Angeles Urban Rangers, Trailblazing the Commons

"It is fair to characterize the collection American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship as an attempt to theorize and reinvigorate how American studies scholars can reengage with the environmental crisis… this dynamic volume…extends beyond critical environmental justice studies to overtly engage activist work, acknowledging that ‘theory can be produced outside the academy in communities and activist contexts,’ which in turn has made environmental justice activism ‘a cultural movement interested in issues of ideology and representation.’" --Kevin C. Armitage, American Quarterly"The individual cultural and comparative cultural work represented in American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship is especially key given the results of the recent Green 2.0 report released in July 2014…[It] aims to ensure that diverse voices are highlighted for the central roles all are playing as citizens of the anthropocene…Its mix of approaches and subjects fertilizes important questions and connections for ecocriticism’s continued development as a field…The collection’s range assures that scholars within the humanities and social sciences—especially in gender studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and sustainability studies—will find multiple points of connection." --Kristin J. Jacobson, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, American Literary History"This book offers a fertile intersection between areas of study frequently kept separate: American Studies and ecocriticism…The chapters in this book present clear examples of interdisciplinary analysis, often reaching surprising conclusions from the juxtaposition of apparently unrelated issues that merge together…One of the major strengths of the volume is the emphasis on environmental justice and activism…All in all, Joni Adamson and Kimberly Ruffin have presented an extremely varied collection of essays which echo each other on their interpretations of what an ecological planetary citizenship might imply…The very basis of life, our environment, cuts across all borders and studies such as this can increase awareness and show the need for the consideration of a more global and ethical planetary ecological citizenship." –Carmen Flys-Junquera, University of Alcalá/Franklin Institute, Green Letters"In this landmark volume, Adamson and Ruffin bring together sociologists and humanists, historians and ecocritics, ethnic studies and environmental studies, to explore a wide range of American texts and topics, times and places, human groups and socio-ecological concerns, disclosing a diversity of local interconnections between social justice and sustainability in globalizing world. In its multidisciplinary reach, historical depth and intellectual rigor, this outstanding collection sets a new agenda for transnational environmental American Studies."--Catherine Rigby, School of English Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University"American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship is a long overdue intervention into American Studies, and a signal contribution to reorienting literary/cultural environmental studies. It offers a rich argument for the connection between the human and social sciences, and social and environmental justice on a global, transnational scale. Highly innovative, the contributions from both well-established and emerging scholars, balance well between larger conceptual issues and key case studies from around the globe."--T.V Reed, Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies, Washington State University"The collection is a successful interdisciplinary project that signals from the outset its intention to take seriously the implications of ecological thought. The result is a significant development of the concept of ecological citizenship which relies on a dynamic between global and bioregional perspectives, and acknowledges the fundamental connection between community and place that was often neglected when borders were drawn." --Ryan Palmer, Uppsala University, Sweden, Ecozon"This collection makes the concept of ‘ecological citizenship’ both accessible and urgent, and as a whole, these essays offer a vital missing chapter in the history of American Studies' engagement with environmental activism and scholarship." --Annette Kolodny, Professor Emerita of American Literature and Culture, the University of Arizona, author of The Lay of the Land, The Land Before Her, and In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery

Joni Adamson is Professor of Environmental Humanities and Senior Sustainability Scholar, Arizona State University, US.Kimberly N. Ruffin is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at Roosevelt University, US.

• Section 1. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging 1. Zora Neale Hurston and the Environmental Ethic of Risk 2. Haitian Soil for the Citizen's Soul 3. Intimate Cartographies: Defining Navajo Ecological Citizenship through U.S. Mapping, Soil Conservation and Livestock Reduction Programs 4. Getting Back to an Imagined Nature: The Mannahatta Project and Environmental Justice 5. The Oil Desert 6. Japanese Roots in American Soil: National Belonging in David Mas Masumoto’s Harvest Son and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s The Legend of Fire Horse Woman Section II. Border Ecologies 7. Our Nations and All Our Relations: Environmental Ethics in William S. Yellow Robe Jr.’s The Council 8. Preserving the Great White North: Migratory Birds, Italian Immigrants, and the Making of Ecological Citizenship Across the U.S.-Canada Border, 1900-1924 9. Boundaries of Violence: Water, Gender and Development in Context 10. U.S. Border Ecologies, Environmental Criticism, and Transnational American Studies 11. Climate Justice and Trans-Pacific Indigenous Feminisms Section III. Ecological Citizenship in Action 12. Roots of Nativist Environmentalism in America’s Eden 13. Wielding Common Wealth in Washington, D.C. and Eastern Kentucky: Creative Social Practice in Two Marginalized Communities 14. "Climate Justice Now! Imagining Grassroots Eco-Cosmopolitanism 15. The Los Angeles Urban Rangers, Trailblazing the Commons

"It is fair to characterize the collection American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship as an attempt to theorize and reinvigorate how American studies scholars can reengage with the environmental crisis… this dynamic volume…extends beyond critical environmental justice studies to overtly engage activist work, acknowledging that ‘theory can be produced outside the academy in communities and activist contexts,’ which in turn has made environmental justice activism ‘a cultural movement interested in issues of ideology and representation.’" --Kevin C. Armitage, American Quarterly"The individual cultural and comparative cultural work represented in American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship is especially key given the results of the recent Green 2.0 report released in July 2014…[It] aims to ensure that diverse voices are highlighted for the central roles all are playing as citizens of the anthropocene…Its mix of approaches and subjects fertilizes important questions and connections for ecocriticism’s continued development as a field…The collection’s range assures that scholars within the humanities and social sciences—especially in gender studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and sustainability studies—will find multiple points of connection." --Kristin J. Jacobson, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, American Literary History"This book offers a fertile intersection between areas of study frequently kept separate: American Studies and ecocriticism…The chapters in this book present clear examples of interdisciplinary analysis, often reaching surprising conclusions from the juxtaposition of apparently unrelated issues that merge together…One of the major strengths of the volume is the emphasis on environmental justice and activism…All in all, Joni Adamson and Kimberly Ruffin have presented an extremely varied collection of essays which echo each other on their interpretations of what an ecological planetary citizenship might imply…The very basis of life, our environment, cuts across all borders and studies such as this can increase awareness and show the need for the consideration of a more global and ethical planetary ecological citizenship." –Carmen Flys-Junquera, University of Alcalá/Franklin Institute, Green Letters"In this landmark volume, Adamson and Ruffin bring together sociologists and humanists, historians and ecocritics, ethnic studies and environmental studies, to explore a wide range of American texts and topics, times and places, human groups and socio-ecological concerns, disclosing a diversity of local interconnections between social justice and sustainability in globalizing world. In its multidisciplinary reach, historical depth and intellectual rigor, this outstanding collection sets a new agenda for transnational environmental American Studies."--Catherine Rigby, School of English Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University"American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship is a long overdue intervention into American Studies, and a signal contribution to reorienting literary/cultural environmental studies. It offers a rich argument for the connection between the human and social sciences, and social and environmental justice on a global, transnational scale. Highly innovative, the contributions from both well-established and emerging scholars, balance well between larger conceptual issues and key case studies from around the globe."--T.V Reed, Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies, Washington State University"The collection is a successful interdisciplinary project that signals from the outset its intention to take seriously the implications of ecological thought. The result is a significant development of the concept of ecological citizenship which relies on a dynamic between global and bioregional perspectives, and acknowledges the fundamental connection between community and place that was often neglected when borders were drawn." --Ryan Palmer, Uppsala University, Sweden, Ecozon"This collection makes the concept of ‘ecological citizenship’ both accessible and urgent, and as a whole, these essays offer a vital missing chapter in the history of American Studies' engagement with environmental activism and scholarship." --Annette Kolodny, Professor Emerita of American Literature and Culture, the University of Arizona, author of The Lay of the Land, The Land Before Her, and In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery

Joni Adamson is Professor of Environmental Humanities and Senior Sustainability Scholar, Arizona State University, US.Kimberly N. Ruffin is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at Roosevelt University, US.

• Section 1. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging 1. Zora Neale Hurston and the Environmental Ethic of Risk 2. Haitian Soil for the Citizen's Soul 3. Intimate Cartographies: Defining Navajo Ecological Citizenship through U.S. Mapping, Soil Conservation and Livestock Reduction Programs 4. Getting Back to an Imagined Nature: The Mannahatta Project and Environmental Justice 5. The Oil Desert 6. Japanese Roots in American Soil: National Belonging in David Mas Masumoto’s Harvest Son and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s The Legend of Fire Horse Woman Section II. Border Ecologies 7. Our Nations and All Our Relations: Environmental Ethics in William S. Yellow Robe Jr.’s The Council 8. Preserving the Great White North: Migratory Birds, Italian Immigrants, and the Making of Ecological Citizenship Across the U.S.-Canada Border, 1900-1924 9. Boundaries of Violence: Water, Gender and Development in Context 10. U.S. Border Ecologies, Environmental Criticism, and Transnational American Studies 11. Climate Justice and Trans-Pacific Indigenous Feminisms Section III. Ecological Citizenship in Action 12. Roots of Nativist Environmentalism in America’s Eden 13. Wielding Common Wealth in Washington, D.C. and Eastern Kentucky: Creative Social Practice in Two Marginalized Communities 14. "Climate Justice Now! Imagining Grassroots Eco-Cosmopolitanism 15. The Los Angeles Urban Rangers, Trailblazing the Commons

"It is fair to characterize the collection American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship as an attempt to theorize and reinvigorate how American studies scholars can reengage with the environmental crisis… this dynamic volume…extends beyond critical environmental justice studies to overtly engage activist work, acknowledging that ‘theory can be produced outside the academy in communities and activist contexts,’ which in turn has made environmental justice activism ‘a cultural movement interested in issues of ideology and representation.’" --Kevin C. Armitage, American Quarterly"The individual cultural and comparative cultural work represented in American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship is especially key given the results of the recent Green 2.0 report released in July 2014…[It] aims to ensure that diverse voices are highlighted for the central roles all are playing as citizens of the anthropocene…Its mix of approaches and subjects fertilizes important questions and connections for ecocriticism’s continued development as a field…The collection’s range assures that scholars within the humanities and social sciences—especially in gender studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and sustainability studies—will find multiple points of connection." --Kristin J. Jacobson, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, American Literary History"This book offers a fertile intersection between areas of study frequently kept separate: American Studies and ecocriticism…The chapters in this book present clear examples of interdisciplinary analysis, often reaching surprising conclusions from the juxtaposition of apparently unrelated issues that merge together…One of the major strengths of the volume is the emphasis on environmental justice and activism…All in all, Joni Adamson and Kimberly Ruffin have presented an extremely varied collection of essays which echo each other on their interpretations of what an ecological planetary citizenship might imply…The very basis of life, our environment, cuts across all borders and studies such as this can increase awareness and show the need for the consideration of a more global and ethical planetary ecological citizenship." –Carmen Flys-Junquera, University of Alcalá/Franklin Institute, Green Letters"In this landmark volume, Adamson and Ruffin bring together sociologists and humanists, historians and ecocritics, ethnic studies and environmental studies, to explore a wide range of American texts and topics, times and places, human groups and socio-ecological concerns, disclosing a diversity of local interconnections between social justice and sustainability in globalizing world. In its multidisciplinary reach, historical depth and intellectual rigor, this outstanding collection sets a new agenda for transnational environmental American Studies."--Catherine Rigby, School of English Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University"American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship is a long overdue intervention into American Studies, and a signal contribution to reorienting literary/cultural environmental studies. It offers a rich argument for the connection between the human and social sciences, and social and environmental justice on a global, transnational scale. Highly innovative, the contributions from both well-established and emerging scholars, balance well between larger conceptual issues and key case studies from around the globe."--T.V Reed, Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies, Washington State University"The collection is a successful interdisciplinary project that signals from the outset its intention to take seriously the implications of ecological thought. The result is a significant development of the concept of ecological citizenship which relies on a dynamic between global and bioregional perspectives, and acknowledges the fundamental connection between community and place that was often neglected when borders were drawn." --Ryan Palmer, Uppsala University, Sweden, Ecozon"This collection makes the concept of ‘ecological citizenship’ both accessible and urgent, and as a whole, these essays offer a vital missing chapter in the history of American Studies' engagement with environmental activism and scholarship." --Annette Kolodny, Professor Emerita of American Literature and Culture, the University of Arizona, author of The Lay of the Land, The Land Before Her, and In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery