The vast majority of existing ecocritical studies, even those which espouse the “postcolonial ecocritical” perspective, operate within a first-world sensibility, speaking on behalf of subalternized human communities and degraded landscapes without actually eliciting the voices of the impacted communities. Ecocriticism of the Global South seeks to allow scholars from (or intimately familiar with) underrepresented regions to “write back” to the world’s centers of political and military and economic power, expressing views of the intersections of nature and culture from the perspective of developing countries. This approach highlights what activist and writer Vandana Shiva has described as the relationship between “ecology and the politics of survival,” showing both commonalities and local idiosyncrasies by juxtaposing such countries as China and Northern Ireland, New Zealand and Cameroon. Much like Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development, this new book is devoted to representing diverse and innovative ecocritical voices from throughout the world, particularly from developing nations. The two volumes complement each other by pointing out the need for further cultivation of the environmental humanities in regions of the world that are, essentially, the front line of the human struggle to invent sustainable and just civilizations on an imperiled planet. “Ecocriticism of the Global South is a rare and much needed achievement in ecocriticism. It speaks from geographical and political contexts―giving it unprecedented planetary reach. In this process, it both extends and transforms the significance of the ecocritical project as a world phenomenon.” ―George B. Handley, Brigham Young University Scott Slovic is University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Idaho, USA, where has been teaching since 2012-previously he was a professor at Texas State University and the University of Nevada, Reno. He served as founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 he has edited ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment for ASLE and Oxford University Press. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of twenty-seven books, including, most recently, The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran). His forthcoming books include Nature in Literary Studies (coedited with Peter Remien) for Cambridge University Press's Critical Concepts Series. He coedits Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Routledge Environmental Humanities with Joni Adamson and Yuki Masami. Swarnalatha Rangarajan is Professor of English at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India where she has been teaching since 2010. Previously, she was a Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University and a Charles Wallace Fellow at Cambridge University. She has coedited such books as Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (2014) and Ecocriticism of the Global South (2015) (with Scott Slovic and Vidya Sarveswaran) and is the author of the novel Final Instructions (2015). She served as the founding editor of The Indian Journal of Ecocriticism and has guest-edited two special issues on Indian ecosophy for The Trumpeter . Her monograph Ecocriticism: Big Ideas and Practical Solutions appeared in 2018. Vidya Sarveswaran is Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India where she has been teaching since 2012. Before that she taught for thirteen years at Ethiraj College for Women in Chennai. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2008-09, and in 2016 she was a Rachel Carson Fellow at the University of Munich. As mentioned above, she coedited Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development , Ecocriticism of the Global South , and The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication with Scott Slovic and Swarnalatha Rangarajan. She is also a documentary filmmaker and has recently been completing a film that documents ecological narratives in Rajasthan.