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Environmental Humanities in Folktales

Author : P. Mary Vidya Porselvi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000905357
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Humanities in Folktales written by P. Mary Vidya Porselvi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work throws light on the areas of space and time, nature and culture, spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking. It identifies and explores motifs and patterns in select folktales that promote interconnectedness, interdependence, holism, synthesis, and circular pattern of life and examines the ecological relevance of folktales in fostering a systematic view of life. The volume discusses why it is important to critically analyze alternative worldviews in order to find holistic solutions to contemporary global ecological issues. It sheds light upon Ecofemiotics as a discipline, a portmanteau of Ecofeminist Semiotics, and through a re-reading of folktales, it puts forward an innovative folktale typology which connects women with environment. The book discusses an ecofemiotics cyclical praxis at three levels, • Promoting theory to practice through the analysis of folktales as Gaia Care Narratives using the Ecofemiotic framework. • Enabling practice to theory, through a classroom experiment, observation, and inference. • Envisioning theory to practice, through the identification of Gaia Care Principles and its multidisciplinary hands-on scope and function to create avenues towards ecological balance and sustainable living. Inspired by the hearts that tell stories of love, care, nurture, and the Earth, this nuanced work will be of interest to students and researchers of literature and literary theory, sociology, social anthropology, gender studies and women’s studies, feminism, development studies, environment, and folklore studies.

Nature, Culture and Gender

Author : P. Mary Vidya Porselvi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131719666X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Nature, Culture and Gender written by P. Mary Vidya Porselvi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folktales in India have been told, heard, read and celebrated for many centuries. In breaking new ground, Indian folktales have been reread and examined in the light of the Mother Earth discourse as it manifests in the lifeworlds of women, nature and language. The book introduces ecofeminist criticism and situates it within an innovative folktale typology to connect women and environment through folklore. The book proposes an innovative paradigm inspired by the beehive to analyze motifs, relationships, concerns, worldviews and consciousness of indigenous women and men who live close to nature as well as other socially marginalized groups. In the current global context fraught with challenges for ecology and hopes for sustainable development, this book with its interdisciplinary approach will interest scholars and researchers of literature, environmental studies, gender studies and cultural anthropology.

Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000635848
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities written by Charles Travis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret, and manage nature in several different academic fields. Employing historical, philosophical, linguistic, literary, and cultural lenses, this handbook explores how the digital environmental humanities (DEH), as an emerging field, recognises its convergence with the environmental humanities. As such, it is empirically, critically, and ethically engaged in exploring digitally mediated, visualised, and parsed framings of past, present, and future environments, landscapes, and cultures. Currently, humanities, geographical, cartographical, informatic, and computing disciplines are finding a common space in the DEH and are bringing the use of digital applications, coding, and software into league with literary and cultural studies and the visual, film, and performing arts. In doing so, the DEH facilitates transdisciplinary encounters between fields as diverse as human cognition, gaming, bioinformatics and linguistics, social media, literature and history, music, painting, philology, philosophy, and the earth and environmental sciences. This handbook will be essential reading for those interested in the use of digital tools in the study of the environment from a wide range of disciplines and for those working in the environmental humanities more generally.

Environmental Humanities

Author : Serpil Oppermann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783489405
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Humanities written by Serpil Oppermann and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international and interdisciplinary team of scholars offer innovative models of thinking about environmentality in the humanities and in Anthropocene discourse in the environmental sciences.

Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas

Author : Dan Smyer Yü
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000397580
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas written by Dan Smyer Yü and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability showcases how the eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan communities. Unique in scope, this book features case studies from Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sino-Indian borderlands, many of which are documented by authors from indigenous Himalayan communities. It explores three environmental characteristics of modern Himalayas: the anthropogenic, the indigenous, and the animist. Focusing on the sentient relations of human-, animal-, and spirit-worlds with the earth in different parts of the Himalayas, the authors present the complex meanings of indigeneity, commoning and sustainability in the Anthropocene. In doing so, they show the vital role that indigenous stories and perspectives play in building new regional and planetary environmental ethics for a sustainable future. Drawing on a wide range of expert contributions from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanist disciplines, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental humanities, religion and ecology, indigenous knowledge and sustainable development more broadly.

Framing the Environmental Humanities

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004360484
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Framing the Environmental Humanities written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume use framing and framing theory to engage with key questions in environmental literature, history, politics, film, TV and pedagogy.

Earth Care

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Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874837841
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Earth Care written by and published by august house. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of traditional tales and proverbs from over twenty countries or ethnic groups, touching upon both human and ecological themes such as environmental protection and the care of other creatures.

Humanities for the Environment

Author : Joni Adamson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131728366X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Humanities for the Environment written by Joni Adamson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanities for the Environment, or HfE, is an ambitious project that from 2013-2015 was funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project networked universities and researchers internationally through a system of 'observatories'. This book collects the work of contributors networked through the North American, Asia-Pacific, and Australia-Pacific observatories. Humanities for the Environment showcases how humanists are working to 'integrate knowledges' from diverse cultures and ontologies and pilot new 'constellations of practice' that are moving beyond traditional contemplative or reflective outcomes (the book, the essay) towards solutions to the greatest social and environmental challenges of our time. With the still controversial concept of the 'Anthropocene' as a starting point for a widening conversation, contributors range across geographies, ecosystems, climates and weather regimes; moving from icy, melting Arctic landscapes to the bleaching Australian Great Barrier Reef, and from an urban pedagogical 'laboratory' in Phoenix, Arizona to Vatican City in Rome. Chapters explore the ways in which humanists, in collaboration with communities and disciplines across academia, are responding to warming oceans, disappearing islands, collapsing fisheries, evaporating reservoirs of water, exploding bushfires, and spreading radioactive contamination. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences interested in interdisciplinary questions of environment and culture.

Italy and the Environmental Humanities

Author : Serenella Iovino
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813941083
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Italy and the Environmental Humanities written by Serenella Iovino and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches--including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal and landscape studies--to move past cliché and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place. Among the topics investigated are post-seismic rubble and the stratifying geosocial layers of the Anthropocene, the landscape connections in the work of writers such as Calvino and Buzzati, the contaminated fields of the ecomafia’s trafficking, Slow Food’s gastronomy of liberation, poetic birds and historic forests, resident parasites, and nonhuman creatures. At a time when the tension between the local and the global requires that we reconsider our multiple roots and porous place-identities, Italy and the Environmental Humanities builds a creative critical discourse and offers a series of new voices that will enrich not just nationally oriented discussions, but the entire debate on environmental culture. Contributors: Marco Armiero, Royal Institute of Technology at Stockholm * Franco Arminio, Writer, poet, and filmmaker * Patrick Barron, University of Massachusetts * Damiano Benvegnù, Dartmouth College and the Oxford Center for Animal Ethics * Viktor Berberi, University of Minnesota, Morris * Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University * Luca Bugnone, University of Turin * Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia *Almo Farina, University of Urbino * Sophia Maxine Farmer, University of Wisconsin-Madison * Serena Ferrando, Colby College * Tiziano Fratus, Writer, poet, and tree-seeker * Matteo Gilebbi, Duke University * Andrea Hajek, University of Warwick * Marcus Hall, University of Zurich * Serenella Iovino, University of Turin * Andrea Lerda, freelance curator * Roberto Marchesini, Study Center of Posthuman Philosophy in Bologna * Marco Moro, Editor-in-Chief of Edizioni Ambiente, Milan * Elena Past, Wayne State University * Carlo Petrini, Founder of International Slow Food Movement * Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, Miami University (Ohio)* Monica Seger, College of William and Mary * Pasquale Verdicchio, University of California, San Diego

Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities

Author : Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317574303
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities written by Elizabeth DeLoughrey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to the representation of environmental issues. Essays in this path-breaking collection examine the role that narrative, visual, and aesthetic forms can play in drawing attention to and shaping our ideas about long-term and catastrophic environmental challenges such as climate change, militarism, deforestation, the pollution and management of the global commons, petrocapitalism, and the commodification of nature. The volume presents a postcolonial approach to the environmental humanities, especially in conjunction with current thinking in areas such as political ecology and environmental justice. Spanning regions such as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Australasia and the Pacific, as well as North America, the volume includes essays by founding figures in the field as well as new scholars, providing vital new interdisciplinary perspectives on: the politics of the earth; disaster, vulnerability, and resilience; political ecologies and environmental justice; world ecologies; and the Anthropocene. In engaging critical ecologies, the volume poses a postcolonial environmental humanities for the twenty-first century. At the heart of this is a conviction that a thoroughly global, postcolonial, and comparative approach is essential to defining the emergent field of the environmental humanities, and that this field has much to offer in understanding critical issues surrounding the creation of alternative ecological futures.

Grounding Education in Environmental Humanities

Author : Lucas F. Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351003887
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Grounding Education in Environmental Humanities written by Lucas F. Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume draws together educators and scholars to engage with the difficulties and benefits of teaching place-based education in a distinctive culture-laden area in North America: the United States South. Despite problematic past visions of cultural homogeneity, the South has always been a culturally diverse region with many historical layers of inhabitation and migration, each with their own set of religious and secular relationships to the land. Through site-specific narratives, this volume offers a blueprint for new approaches to place-based pedagogy, with an emphasis on the intersection between religion and the environment. By offering broadly applicable examples of pedagogical methods and practices, this book confronts the need to develop more sustainable local communities to address globally significant challenges.

The Fairy Tale World

Author : Andrew Teverson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351609947
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Fairy Tale World written by Andrew Teverson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fairy Tale World is a definitive volume on this ever-evolving field. The book draws on recent critical attention, contesting romantic ideas about timeless tales of good and evil, and arguing that fairy tales are culturally astute narratives that reflect the historical and material circumstances of the societies in which they are produced. The Fairy Tale World takes a uniquely global perspective and broadens the international, cultural, and critical scope of fairy-tale studies. Throughout the five parts, the volume challenges the previously Eurocentric focus of fairy-tale studies, with contributors looking at: • the contrast between traditional, canonical fairy tales and more modern reinterpretations; • responses to the fairy tale around the world, including works from every continent; • applications of the fairy tale in diverse media, from oral tradition to the commercialized films of Hollywood and Bollywood; • debates concerning the global and local ownership of fairy tales, and the impact the digital age and an exponentially globalized world have on traditional narratives; • the fairy tale as told through art, dance, theatre, fan fiction, and film. This volume brings together a selection of the most respected voices in the field, offering ground-breaking analysis of the fairy tale in relation to ethnicity, colonialism, feminism, disability, sexuality, the environment, and class. An indispensable resource for students and scholars alike, The Fairy Tale World seeks to discover how such a traditional area of literature has remained so enduringly relevant in the modern world.

The Environmental Humanities

Author : Robert S. Emmett
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262342308
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Environmental Humanities written by Robert S. Emmett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies. The emergence of the environmental humanities as an academic discipline early in the twenty-first century reflects the growing conviction that environmental problems cannot be solved by science and technology alone. This book offers a concise overview of this new multidisciplinary field, presenting concepts, issues, current research, concrete examples, and case studies. Robert Emmett and David Nye show how humanists, by offering constructive knowledge as well as negative critique, can improve our understanding of such environmental problems as global warming, species extinction, and over-consumption of the earth's resources. They trace the genealogy of environmental humanities from European, Australian, and American initiatives, also showing its cross-pollination by postcolonial and feminist theories. Emmett and Nye consider a concept of place not synonymous with localism, the risks of ecotourism, and the cultivation of wild areas. They discuss the decoupling of energy use and progress, and point to OECD countries for examples of sustainable development. They explain the potential for science to do both good and harm, examine dark visions of planetary collapse, and describe more positive possibilities—alternative practices, including localization and degrowth. Finally, they examine the theoretical impact of new materialism, feminism, postcolonial criticism, animal studies, and queer ecology on the environmental humanities.

Dancing with Trees

Author : Allison Galbraith
Publisher : FOLK TALES
ISBN 13 : 9780750978873
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Dancing with Trees written by Allison Galbraith and published by FOLK TALES. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oral storytelling traditions of the British Isles have connected people to the land and to their plant and animal neighbours for centuries. This collection brings together story wisdom from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland that speaks to the heart of humanity's relationship with nature. Whether it's traditional stories about native birds and animals or tales of living in harmony with the landscapes we call home, there's something here for everyone who believes that a more beautiful world is within our reach. Richly illustrated with thirty original drawings, these enchanting tales will appeal to everyone interested in nature and in environmental conservation and will be enjoyed by readers, storytellers and listeners time and again.

Wasteocene

Author : Marco Armiero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108922155
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Wasteocene written by Marco Armiero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans may live in the Anthropocene, but this does not affect all in the same way. How would the Anthropocene look if, instead of searching its traces in the geosphere, researchers would look for them in the organosphere, in the ecologies of humans in their entanglements with the environment? Looking at this embodied stratigraphy of power and toxicity, more than the Anthropocene, we will discover the Wasteocene. The imposition of wasting relationships on subaltern human and more-than-human communities implies the construction of toxic ecologies made of contaminating substances and narratives. While official accounts have systematically erased any trace of those wasting relationships, another kind of narrative has been written in flesh, blood, and cells. Traveling between Naples (Italy) and Agbogbloshie (Ghana), science fiction and epidemic outbreaks, this Element will take the readers into the bowels of the Wasteocene, but it will also indicate the commoning practices which are dismantling it.

The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

Author : Ursula K. Heise
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138786745
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities written by Ursula K. Heise and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planet, species, justice, and the stories we tell about them / Ursula K. Heise -- The anthropocene : love it or leave it / Dale Jamieson -- Domestication, domesticated landscapes, and tropical natures / Susanna B. Hecht -- "They carry life in their hair" : domestication and the African diaspora / Judith A. Carney -- Domestication in a post-industrial world / Libby Robin -- Meals in the age of toxic environments / Yuki Masami -- Hybrid aversion : wolves, dogs, and the humans who love to keep them apart / Emma Marris -- Techno-conservation in the anthropocene : what does it mean to save a species? / Ronald Sandler -- Coloring climates : imagining a geoengineered world / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Utopia's afterlife in the anthropocene / Anahid Nersessian -- Renaissance selfhood and Shakespeare's comedy of the commons / Robert N. Watson -- Multispecies epidemiology and the viral subject / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- Encountering a more-than-human world : ethos and the arts of witness / Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren -- Loving the native : invasive species and the cultural politics of flourishing / Jessica R. Cattelino -- Artifacts and habitats / Dolly Jørgensen -- Interspecies diplomacy in anthropocenic waters : performing an ocean-oriented ontology / Una Chaudhuri -- The anthropocene at sea : temporality, paradox, compression / Stacy Alaimo -- Turning over a new leaf : Fanonian humanism and environmental justice / Jennifer Wenzel -- Action-research and environmental justice : lessons from Guatemala's Chixoy Dam / Barbara Rose Johnston -- Farming as speculative activity : the ecological basis of farmers' suicides in India / Akhil Gupta -- Ecological security for whom? : the politics of flood alleviation and urban environmental justice in jakarta, indonesia / Helga Leitner, Emma Colven, and Eric Sheppard -- Our ancestors' dystopia now : indigenous conservation and the anthropocene / Kyle Powys Whyte -- Collected things with names like mother corn : native North American speculative fiction and film / Joni Adamson -- The stone guests : buen vivir and popular environmentalisms in the Andes and Amazonia / Jorge Marcone -- Play it again, Sam : decline and finishing in environmental narratives / Richard White -- Hubris and humility in environmental thought / Michelle Niemann -- Losing primeval forests : degradation narratives in South Asia / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Multidirectional eco-memory in an era of extinction : colonial whaling and indigenous dispossession in kim scott's that deadman dance / Rosanne Kennedy -- The Caribbean's agonizing seashores : tourism resorts, art, and the future of the region's coastlines / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Bear down : resilience and multispecies ethology / Brett Buchanan -- Contemporary environmental art / James Nisbet -- Slow food, low tech : environmental narratives of agribusiness and its alternatives / Allison Carruth -- Mattress story : on thing power, waste management rhetoric, and Francisco de Pájaro's trash art / Maite Zubiaurre -- Touching the senses : environments and technologies at the movies / Alexa Weik von Mossner -- Climate, design, and the status of the human : obstacles and opportunities for architectural scholarship in the environmental humanities / Daniel A. Barber -- Climate visualizations : making data experiential / Heather Houser -- Digital? environmental : humanities / Stéfan Sinclair and Stephanie Posthumus -- From the xenotext / Christian Bök -- The body and environmental history in the anthropocene / Linda Nash -- Material ecocriticism and the petro-text / Heather I. Sullivan -- Fossil freedoms : the politics of emancipation and the end of oil / Hannes Bergthaller -- Scaling the planetary humanities : environmental globalization and the arctic / Sverker Sörlin -- Some "f" words for the environmental humanities : feralities, feminisms, futurities / Catriona Sandilands -- Biocities : urban ecology and the cultural imagination / Jon Christensen and Ursula K. Heise -- Environmental humanities : notes towards a summary for policymakers / Greg Garrard -- The humanities after the anthropocene / Stephanie LeMenager

Myth and Environmentalism

Author : Esther Sánchez-Pardo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100090072X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Environmentalism written by Esther Sánchez-Pardo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the interconnections between myth, environmentalism, narrative, poetry, comics, and innovative artistic practice, using this as a framework through which to examine strategies for repairing our unhealthy relationship with the planet. Challenging late capitalist modes encouraging mindless consumption and the degradation of human–nature relations, this collection advocates a re-evaluation of the ethical relation to "living with" and sharing the Earth. Myth and the environment have shared a rich common cultural history travelling as far back as the times of storytelling and legend, with the environment often the central theme. Following a robust introduction, the book is organized into three main sections—Myth, Disaster, and Present-Day Views on Ecological Damage; Indigenous and Afro-diasporic Myths and Ecological Knowledge; Art Practices, Myth, and Environmental Resilience—and concludes with a Coda from Jeanette Hart-Mann. The methodology draws from diverse perspectives, such as ecocriticism, new materialism, and Anthropocene studies, offering a truly interdisciplinary discussion that reflects on the dialogue among environment and myth, and a broad range of contributions are included from Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, Ukraine, Japan, Morocco, and Brazil. The book joins a long line of approaches on the interrelations between ecological and mythical thinking and criticism that goes back to the early 20th century. This volume will be of interest to students, scholars, activists, and experts in environmental humanities, myth and myth criticism, literature and art on more-than human and nature interaction, ecocriticism, environmental activism, and climate change.