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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.

Teaching Environmental Justice

Author : Sikina Jinnah
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789905060
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Environmental Justice written by Sikina Jinnah and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This ground-breaking book explores ways to integrate environmental justice modules into courses across a wide variety of disciplines. Recommending accessible, flexible, and evidence-based pedagogical approaches designed by a multidisciplinary team of scholars, it centers equity and justice in student learning and course design and presents a model for faculty development that can be communicated across disciplines.

Shifting Interfaces

Author : Hava Aldouby
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 946270225X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Interfaces written by Hava Aldouby and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early 21st century media arts are addressing the anxieties of an age shadowed by ubiquitous surveillance, big-data profiling, and globalised translocations of people. Altogether, they tap the overwhelming changes in our lived experience of self, body, and intersubjective relations. Shifting Interfaces addresses current exciting exchanges between art, science, and emerging technologies, highlighting a range of concerns that currently prevail in the field of media arts. This book provides an up-to-date perspective on the field, with a considerable representation of art-based research gaining salience in media art studies. The collection attends to art projects interrogating the destabilisation of identity and the breaching of individual privacy, the rekindled interest in phenomenology and in the neurocognitive workings of empathy, and the routes of interconnectivity beyond the human in the age of the Internet of Things. Offering a diversity of perspectives, ranging from purely theoretical to art-based research, and from aesthetics to social and cultural critique, this volume will be of great value for readers interested in contemporary art, art-science-technology interfaces, visual culture, and cultural studies.

Longing for the Future

Author : Rosetta G. Caponetto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100380764X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Longing for the Future written by Rosetta G. Caponetto and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on a longing projected mostly toward the past (mal d’Afrique) alongside a longing toward the future (afro-optimism), and the different manifestations, shifting meanings, and potential points of contact of these two stances. The volume introduces a new perspective into the discussion of Somalia in Italian Studies. This is an intersectional work of Italian Studies scholarship, whose contributors help re-imagine the field and its relationship to Somalia with their diverse backgrounds, unique insights, and global breadth. The book integrates the current scholarship on Somalia with the most recent theoretical studies on nostalgia, visionary affect, colonial ruins, silenced archives, melancholy, ecology, food and diaspora, classical studies and performativity, storytelling, afro-fabulation and queer literature, media and humanitarianism, and afro optimism. The book will serve as an invaluable reference in multidisciplinary programs such as Global History, Africana Studies, Diaspora Studies, Migration Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Integrity and Global Studies, as well as Italian Studies and various core courses. Because of its interdisciplinary discussion of Somalia, the volume will draw the interest of a large readership among scholars, and non-scholars, from different disciplines and geographic affiliation.

Toxic Timescapes

Author : Simone M. Müller
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821447874
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Toxic Timescapes written by Simone M. Müller and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet. While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining, monitoring, or generally coming to terms with them. This volume’s contributors argue that the source of this difficulty lies in the struggle to make sense of the intersecting temporal and spatial scales working on the human and more-than-human body, while continuing to acknowledge race, class, and gender in terms of global environmental justice and social inequality. The term toxic timescapes refers to this intricate intersectionality of time, space, and bodies in relation to toxic exposure. As a tool of analysis, it unpacks linear understandings of time and explores how harmful substances permeate temporal and physical space as both event and process. It equips scholars with new ways of creating data and conceptualizing the past, present, and future presence and possible effects of harmful substances and provides a theoretical framework for new environmental narratives. To think in terms of toxic timescapes is to radically shift our understanding of toxicants in the complex web of life. Toxicity, pollution, and modes of exposure are never static; therefore, dose, timing, velocity, mixture, frequency, and chronology matter as much as the geographic location and societal position of those exposed. Together, these factors create a specific toxic timescape that lies at the heart of each contributor’s narrative. Contributors from the disciplines of history, human geography, science and technology studies, philosophy, and political ecology come together to demonstrate the complex reality of a toxic existence. Their case studies span the globe as they observe the intersection of multiple times and spaces at such diverse locations as former battlefields in Vietnam, aging nuclear-weapon storage facilities in Greenland, waste deposits in southern Italy, chemical facilities along the Gulf of Mexico, and coral-breeding laboratories across the world.

Critical Zones of Technopower and Global Political Ecology

Author : Peter C. Little
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666901105
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Critical Zones of Technopower and Global Political Ecology written by Peter C. Little and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the political, economic, social, and environmental health relations and politics of the global tech and electronics industry. Peter Little argues that, in the digital age, we need greater synthesis of political ecology, ethnography, and technocapital critique"--

Handbook on Inequality and the Environment

Author : Michael A. Long
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800881134
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Inequality and the Environment written by Michael A. Long and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative Handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of the complex relationship between inequality and the environment and illustrates the myriad ways in which they intersect. Featuring over 30 contributions from leading experts in the field, it explores the ways in which inequality impacts three of the most pressing contemporary environmental issues: climate change, natural resource extraction, and food insecurity.

Life in Plastic

Author : Caren Irr
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452964270
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Life in Plastic written by Caren Irr and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age Since at least the 1960s, plastics have been a defining feature of contemporary life. They are undeniably utopian—wondrously innovative, cheap, malleable, durable, and convenient. Yet our proliferating use of plastics has also triggered catastrophic environmental consequences. Plastics are piling up in landfills, floating in oceans, and contributing to climate change and cancer clusters. They are derived from petrochemicals and enmeshed with the global oil economy, and they permeate our consumer goods and their packaging, our clothing and buildings, our bodies and minds. Plastic reshapes our cultural and social imaginaries. With impressive breadth and compelling urgency, the essays in Life in Plastic examine the arts and literature of the plastic age. Focusing mainly on post-1960s North America, the collection spans a wide variety of genres, including graphic novels, superhero comics, utopic and dystopic science fiction, poetry, and satirical prose, as well as vinyl records and visual arts. Essays by a remarkable lineup of cultural theorists interrogate how plastic—as material and concept—has affected human sensibilities and expression. The collection reveals the place of plastic in reshaping how we perceive, relate to, represent, and re-imagine bodies, senses, environment, scale, mortality, and collective well-being. Ultimately, the contributors to Life in Plastic think through plastic with an eye to imagining our way out of plastic, moving toward a postplastic future. Contributors: Crystal Bartolovich, Syracuse U; Maurizia Boscagli, U of California, Santa Barbara; Christopher Breu, Illinois State U; Loren Glass, U of Iowa; Sean Grattan, U of Kent; Nayoung Kim, Brandeis U; Jane Kuenz, U of Southern Maine; Paul Morrison, Brandeis U; W. Dana Phillips, Towson U in Maryland and Rhodes U in Grahamstown, South Africa; Margaret Ronda, UC-Davis; Lisa Swanstrom, U of Utah; Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Pennsylvania State U; Phillip E. Wegner, U of Florida; Daniel Worden, Rochester Institute of Technology.

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History

Author : Emily O'Gorman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003801951
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History written by Emily O'Gorman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-term shifts in the field, and charts potential new directions for study. It focuses on five key areas: Theories and concepts related to changing considerations of social justice, including postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist approaches, and the field’s growing emphasis on multiple human voices and agencies. The roles of non-humans and the more-than-human in the telling of environmental histories, from animals and plants to insects as vectors of disease and the influences of water and ice, the changing theoretical approaches and the influence of concepts in related areas such as animal and discard studies. How changes in theories and concepts are shaping methods in environmental history and shifting approaches to traditional sources like archives and oral histories as well as experiments by practitioners with new methods and sources. Responses to a range of current complex problems, such as climate change, and how environmental historians can best help mitigate and resolve these problems. Diverse ways in which environmental historians disseminate their research within and beyond academia, including new modes of research dissemination, teaching, and engagements with stakeholders and the policy arena. This is an important resource for environmental historians, researchers and students in the related fields of political ecology, environmental studies, natural resources management and environmental planning. Chapters 9, 10 and 26 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

For Nature/With Nature: New Sustainable Design Scenarios

Author : Claudio Gambardella
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031531221
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book For Nature/With Nature: New Sustainable Design Scenarios written by Claudio Gambardella and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Ecocritical Methods

Author : Camilla Brudin Borg
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666937894
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Ecocritical Methods written by Camilla Brudin Borg and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecocriticism has grown into one of the most innovative and urgent fields of the humanities, and many useful ecocritical approaches for addressing our environmental crisis have been developed, discussed, and reconsidered during the last decade. From various perspectives, ecocriticism both adopts and criticizes traditional analytical and theoretical models, resulting in an impressive methodological diversity, pushing the boundaries of the humanities. Contemporary Ecocritical Methods exemplifies this methodological variety and serves as a practical entry into the field. Fourteen chapters, written by scholars from various ecocritical sub-fields of environmental humanities, introduce a rich set of perspectives and their analytical tools.

Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices

Author : Damiano Benvegnù
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648895301
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices written by Damiano Benvegnù and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis? 'Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices' focuses on how Italian writers, activists, visual artists, and philosophers engage with real and fictional environments and how their engagements reflect, critique, and animate the approach that Italian culture has had toward the physical environment and its ecology since late antiquity. Through a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the essays collected in this volume explore topics including climate change, environmental justice, animal ethics, and socio-environmental degradation to provide a cogent analysis of how Italian ecological narratives fit within the current transnational debate occurring in the Environmental Humanities. The aim of 'Italy and the Ecological Imagination' is thus to explore non-anthropocentric modes of thinking and interacting with the nonhuman world. The goal is to provide accounts of how Italian historical records have potentially shaped our environmental imagination and how contemporary Italian authors are developing approaches beyond humanism in order to raise questions about the role of humans in a possible (or potentially) post-natural world. Ultimately, the volume will offer a critical map of Italian contributions to our contemporary investigation of the relationships between human and nonhuman habitats and communities.

Visualizing Loss in Latin America

Author : Gisela Heffes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031288319
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Visualizing Loss in Latin America written by Gisela Heffes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism as a theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses the following crucial question: How do we construct a conceptual theoretical apparatus to address issues of value, meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that contributes substantially to environmental thinking, and that is part and parcel of Latin America? The book draws attention to ecological inequality and establishes a biopolitical, ethics-based reading of Latin American art, film, and literature that operates at the intersection of the built environment and urban settings. Heffes suggests that the aesthetic praxis that emerges in/from Latin America is permeated with a rhetoric of waste—a significant trait that overwhelmingly defines it.

Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments

Author : Marco Armiero
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000624145
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments written by Marco Armiero and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile’s expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. Mountaintops and Arctic environments are the settings of social encounters, political strategies, individual enterprises, geopolitical tensions, decolonial practises, and scientific experiments. Concentrating on mountaineering and Arctic exploration between 1880 – 1960, contributors to this volume show how environmental marginalisation has been discursively implemented and materially generated by foreign and local actors. It examines to what extent the status and identity of extreme environments has changed during modern times, moving them from periphery to the centre and discarding their marginality. The first section looks at ways in which societies have framed remoteness, through the lens of commercialization, colonialism, knowledge production and sport, while the second examines the reverse transfer, focusing on how extreme nature has influenced societies, through international network creation, political consensus and identity building. This collection enriches the historical understanding of exploration by adopting a critical approach and offering multidimensional and multi-gaze reconstructions. This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in environmental history, geography, colonial studies and the environmental humanities.

The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa

Author : Obert Bernard Mlambo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031407547
Total Pages : 1161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa written by Obert Bernard Mlambo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Author : Loretta Lees
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800883498
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography written by Loretta Lees and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 78 specially commissioned entries written by a diverse range of contributors, this essential reference book covers the breadth and depth of human geography to provide a lively and accessible state of the art of the discipline for students, instructors and researchers.

Legal Geography

Author : Matteo Nicolini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031194101
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Legal Geography written by Matteo Nicolini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book invites readers to critically rethink the interrelations between geography and the law. Traditionally, legal-geographical interrelations have been dominated by scholars with backgrounds in geopolitics, economics, or geography. More recently, a new interdisciplinary approach has been developed with the aim of offering a fresh perspective on how law and geography intersect. There has been a steady growth in cross-disciplinary research in this field; how legal-geographical taxonomies interrelate has attracted attention from scholars and academics with a diverse range of backgrounds – namely, law, anthropology, and human/physical geography –, thus giving rise to several publications. Against this backdrop, the book adopts a legal comparative perspective and assesses ‘normative spatialities’, which are the outcomes of processes of legal-spatial production. In addition, the comparative analysis offers readers new insights on some traditional geographic features which are essential to legal studies (territorial identity, regional demarcation, territorial alternation, and place-name policy). Examples are drawn from several jurisdictions (both from the Global North and the Global South) and partly employ a diachronic perspective. As its subversive character is ideally suited to revealing policies and agendas, comparative law is used to identify the ethnocentric and colonial biases underpinning the use (and misuse) of legal geographic devices by policymakers and academics. In sum, the book presents legal geography as an interdisciplinary undertaking in which geographers and legal scholars can jointly examine common concepts in the historical, cultural, political and social contexts in which law is practised. The book transcends the boundaries between disciplines to engage in a fruitful dialogue on how the law can help to address the current socio-geographic and ecological crises.