Steven Hartman, Ph.D. (2003), is Professor in the Department of Tourism and Geography at Mid Sweden University, Chair of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Co-Convenor of the Humanities for the Environment Circumpolar Observatory based at Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland.

• IntroductionSteven Hartman: Naturalizing Culture and Countering Nature in Discourses of the Environment Part 1: Re-contextualizing NatureKlaus Benesch: Day and Night: Topography and Renewal in Thoreau’s Walden and Douglass’s NarrativeTatiani G. Rapatzikou: James Schuyler’s Flower Poems and the Urban Pastoral AestheticØyunn Hestetun: Palimpsest of Subjugation: Inscriptions of Domination on the Land and the Human Body in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand AcresMark Luccarelli: Reframing American Naturism? Space, History and the Rise of Environmental DiscoursePart 2: Challenging Nature and Envisioning CounternaturesLawrence Buell: Uses and Abuses of Environmental MemoryUrsula K. Heise: Environment, Technology and Modernity in Contemporary Japanese AnimationTorben Huus Larsen: A Harmony of Murder: Transatlantic Visions of Wilderness in Werner Herzog’s Grizzly ManMarcus Nordlund: Literary Appreciation: A Biocultural ViewPart 3: Applying CounternaturesHenrik Otterberg: Dark Darwin: (D)evolutionary Theory and the Logic of Vampirism in Bram Stoker’s DraculaTorsten Pettersson: Why Should We Respect Nature? An Appropriation of NietzscheKaren Lykke Syse: Histories and Ideologies of Nature in ArgyllAdriana Méndez Rodenas: “Picturing Eden”: Contesting Fredrika Bremer’s TropicsHåkan Sandgren: Life Under Water: Narratives of Deep Sea CounternaturesDavid E. Nye: Superfund Sites as Anti-LandscapesIndex