{"product_id":"the-activist-humanist-form-and-method-in-the-climate-crisis-9780691250588","title":"The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn argument that humanists have the tools--and the responsibility--to mobilize political power to tackle climate change\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change? In this thought-provoking book, Caroline Levine makes the case for an alternative view, arguing that humanists have the tools to mobilize political power--and the responsibility to use those tools to avert the worst impacts of global warming. Building on the theory developed in her award-winning book, \u003ci\u003eForms\u003c\/i\u003e, Levine shows how formalist methods can be used in the fight for climate justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCountering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace only \"modest gestures of care\"--and who seem to have moved directly to \"mourning\" our inevitable environmental losses--Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental activism should be integral to humanists' work. She identifies three major infrastructural forms crucial to sustaining collective life: routines, pathways, and enclosures. Crisscrossing between art works and public works--from urban transportation to television series and from food security programs to rhyming couplets--she considers which forms might support stability and predictability in the face of growing precarity. Finally, bridging the gap between academic and practical work, Levine offers a series of questions and exercises intended to guide readers into political action. \u003ci\u003eThe Activist Humanist\u003c\/i\u003e provides an essential handbook for prospective activist-scholars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaroline Levine\u003c\/b\u003e is the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of the Humanities at Cornell University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eForms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association (Princeton); \u003ci\u003eProvoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Serious Pleasures of Suspense\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644769440018,"sku":"9780691250588","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6e67135c-fe4f-49e8-9383-55b73f251f0a.jpg?v=1733125206","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-activist-humanist-form-and-method-in-the-climate-crisis-9780691250588","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}