Ecocriticism Unbound – serie
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 538 kr
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How do physical things differ from non-things—human subjects, animals, abstract ideas, or processes? Those questions, which are as old as philosophy itself, have inspired contemporary debates in ecocriticism, thing theory, and in the interdisciplinary field of new materialism. This book argues that contemporary narrative is well placed to map out and work through the spectrum of the material and the philosophical questions that underlie it. This is because narrative does not resolve the tensions at the heart of conceptions of materiality but rather reframes them, envisioning their implications and exploring their relevance to concrete contexts of human interaction. This monograph is structured around a number of novels, experimental fiction, films, and video games that imagine the inherent agency of things but also interrogate the affective and ethical significance of materiality in human terms. Its aim is to demonstrate the power of formal narrative analysis to foster conceptually and ethically sophisticated ways of thinking about thingness in times of ecological crisis—that is, times in which "stuff" can no longer be taken for granted.
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 558 kr
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As a conceptual framework, the Anthropocene has fostered transdisciplinary analyses of global anthropogenic impacts in diverse fields: Earth system sciences, conservation biology, and the environmental humanities. The transdisciplinarity of these analyses reflects a paradigm shift in critiquing the duality of humankind as both a global change agent and just another species affecting, and being affected by, dynamic planetary systems. The duality in theorizing global anthropogenic harms presents an opportunity to decenter the human. Yet while rethinking anthropocentrism illuminates inequities in human populations and acknowledges agency among nonhuman actors, examining anthropogenic impacts nevertheless raises ethical questions, effectively recentering the human. Is there an obligation to witness and account for their disparate causes and effects? What does such accounting look like? This ethical issue is evident in affective responses to threats to biodiversity and ecosystems. Focusing on responses to these threats in conservation practices, heritage management, the visual arts, and scenarios of human futures, this book examines the productive ambivalence of such responses to the challenge of the Anthropocene paradigm shift.