Planet Work

Ryan Hediger is a professor of English at Kent State University in Ohio. He is the author of Homesickness: Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment, editor of Animals and War, coeditor of Animals and Agency, and is currently writing a monograph on labor norms and settler colonialism.

• Introduction: Denaturalizing the Slow Violence of WorkRyan HedigerSection One: Questioning “Anthropocene” FramesChapter 1: What’s Past is Prologue: The Dragon, the Phoenix, and the Golden SpikeDavid L. RodlandChapter 2: Anthropocene Performance: Work without EndsTed GeierSection Two: Rethinking Work in the AnthropoceneChapter 3: Unfree Labor: Slavery and the Anthropocene in the AmericasRyan HedigerChapter 4: The Rise of the Novel and the Narrative Labor of Horses in the English Novel of the Early AnthropoceneSinan AkıllıChapter 5: Reconstruction Agrarianism in Douglass and Burroughs: Relational Labor Against White Supremacist OwnershipDaniel ClausenChapter 6: The Work of the Globe: How the Unisphere, Icon of the 1964-65 World’s Fair, Illuminates the Nature of Modern WorkJames ArmstrongChapter 7: Leisure and Light Work: Coming of Age in Wendell Berry’s and Thomas Pynchon’s Novels of ExtractionMatt WanatSection Three: Learning from Leisure in the AnthropoceneChapter 8: Walking the Line between Leisure and Labor: Dorothy Wordsworth and Harriet Martineau in the English Lake DistrictAmanda AdamsChapter 9: Labor, Leisure and Love of Country: Rangering in the Age of the Alt-NPSJennifer K. LadinoChapter 10: Learning to Play in the Anthropocene: Winter Recreation and the Politics of Climate ChangeWill Elliot and Kevin MaierChapter 11: Weaving “Lifeworkings”: Goanna Walking between Humanism and Posthumanism, Dharug Women’s WayJo ReyCodaPedagogical Anthropo/Scenes: Reviving Craft in the AcademySharon O'DairAcknowledgementsNotesBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex