In Practice: Teaching Environmental American Studies in a Time of Crisis: Decarbonizing the US History Survey: The Case of “Postwar Affluence”

Quinn, Eithne, Devienne, Elsa, Roane, J. T., Young, Alexis, Okoth, Christine, Wills, John and Henderson, Frances (2021) In Practice: Teaching Environmental American Studies in a Time of Crisis: Decarbonizing the US History Survey: The Case of “Postwar Affluence”. Journal of American Studies, 55 (5). pp. 1246-1271. ISSN 0021-8758

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I have been thinking a lot about environmental pedagogy in American studies, especially since I started teaching a third-year interdisciplinary course, Climate Change & Culture Wars, which focusses on the post-1970s US. I wanted to know more about how others are approaching the topic as we face up to looming climate and ecological collapse. University teachers and learners across disciplines are reckoning with it, but what's going on in American studies in Britain, and what can we learn from each other and from teachers elsewhere? How is the crisis impacting on the framing of our disciplinary fields and how are we incorporating its intellectual and practical demands into pedagogic spaces and syllabi?

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