Ecoadaptation: Mediating Nature and the Environment

Ecoadaptation:
Mediating Nature and the Environment
Edited by Pamela Demory

Palgrave MacMillan
297 pages - Hardback
ISBN 978-3032098467
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007
/978-3-032-09847-4
Publication Date: 21/04/2026

I've just had a chapter published in this book Ecoadaptation: Mediating Nature and the Environment. It was a great privilege to be included in this book – my first time under the umbrella of adaptation studies – alongside some really great scholars. The book is part of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC) series. Having started my career in environmental consultancy, it was nice to see my academic work returning to a field that has always been important to me.

My chapter is called "The Ark of the Moral Universe: Recycling Genesis Toward Environmental Justice". In it I look at adaptations of the flood story, going back beyond Noah to the Sumerian flood myths of the third millennium BCE. Those of you who are regular readers might recall I ran a series on Noah adaptations back in 2024. This is the culmination of that. 

The book is available in both hardback and electronic versions now, with a paperback version due next year. I've listed the contents and the scholars names below and it will be available from all the usual places.

For the time being I am not planning to write any more chapters for edited collections, but to focus instead on my next book (though, I'm open to offers!). The last few of these I've done, my first draft has been several times the word limit and then I hate the process of cutting it down by so much. 

Anyway, congratulations to everyone involved and a special thank you to our editor Pamela Demory who was incredibly helpful and insightful with my contribution. I'm really grateful for her patience, expertise and generosity.

Contents

1 What is Ecoadaptation? And Why Should We Care?
Pamela Demory

Part I — The Nature of (Eco)Adaptation

2 Is Adaptation Natural? Ecocritical Repercussions of Conceptualizing Adaptation as Memetic Evolution and/or as (Re)Iterations in the Signifying Chain
Robert Geal

3 A History of Urgency: Cultural Transformations and Ecological Reflections in Czech Environmental Documentaries
Petr Bubeníˇcek and Tereza Dˇedinová

4 The Gloom in the Attic: Fungal Networks as Ecofeminist Adaptation Studies
Cat Champney and Juliana Jones-Beaton

Part II — Adaptation in the Age of Climate Change

5 Geo-Echolocating and Bio-Boomeranging: Rayco Pulido Rodríguez’s Nela as Ecoadaptation of Galdos’ Marianela
Christopher R. Carter

6 “I Can Hear the Glaciers Melting”: Tom Stoppard’s Radio Drama Darkside and the Exploration of Ecological Ethics via Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon
Thomas Grochowski

7 The Ark of the Moral Universe: Recycling Genesis Toward Environmental Justice
Matthew Page

8 “Posters of the Sea and Land”: Indexing Environmental Change in Alexander Abela’s Ecological Adaptation of Macbeth
Allen H. Redmon

Part III — Indigenous Nature and Culture

9 Indigo’s Challenge to The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology
Elizabeth D. Gruber

10 “A Huge Mass in a Single Hand”: Yellowstone and the Selling of Montana
Katie Kane

11 “This Is Indigenous Land”: Adapting and Protesting Colonialist Discourses through Graffiti in Forte Dos Reis Magos, Brazil
Augustto Correa Cipriani and Clara Matheus Nogueira

Part IV — The Nature of Genre Adaptation

12 The Dead Don’t Die and Zombies Don’t Run: Adapting the Zombie Apocalypse to Slow Cinema
Agnieszka Rasmus

13 Settler Ecologies and Western Adaptation: Unfitting Characters in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Susan Kollin

14 Against Nature? Queering the Romcom
Thomas Leitch

Part V — Adapting Nature

15 Biocinemimicry in The Birds
Christina Parker-Flynn

16 Material Worlds: Seventeenth-Century Vanitas Still Life and Contemporary Environmental Art
Kim Waale

17 The Nature of Experience and the Experience of Nature in Proteus: Artifact Edition

John Sanders