Environmental Humanities – serie
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24 produkter
Animal Subjects
An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World
Häftad, 2008
504 kr
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Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory farming, product testing, and laboratory experimentation, as well in zoos, rodeos, circuses, …
Open Wide a Wilderness
Canadian Nature Poems
Häftad, 2009
531 kr
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The first anthology to focus on the rich tradition of Canadian nature poetry in English, Open Wide a Wilderness is a survey of Canada's regions, poetries, histories, and peoples as these relate to the natural world. The poetic responses included here range from the heights of the sublime to …
Technonatures
Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-first Century
Av Damian F. White, Chris Wilbert
Häftad, 2010
504 kr
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Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the ""politics of ecology"" is that we increasingly find ourselves …
Ecologies of Affect
Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope
Av Tonya K. Davidson, Ondine Park m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
504 kr
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Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, and hope in forming the identity and tone of places. The critical intervention this collection of …
Ornithologies of Desire
Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay
Inbunden, 2013
861 kr
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Ornithologies of Desire develops ecocritical reading strategies that engage scientific texts, field guides, and observation. Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending to specific details about the physical world when reading environmentally conscious poetry …
Avatar and Nature Spirituality
Av Bron Taylor
Häftad, 2013
515 kr
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Avatar and Nature Spirituality explores the cultural and religious significance of James Cameron's film Avatar (2010), one of the most commercially successful motion pictures of all time. Its success was due in no small measure to the beauty of the Pandora landscape and the dramatic, …
Ecologies of the Moving Image
Cinema, Affect, Nature
Häftad, 2013
650 kr
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This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies - material, social, and perceptual relations - within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. If cinema takes us on mental and emotional journeys, the …
Sustaining the West
Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments
Av Liza Piper, Lisa Szabo-Jones
Häftad, 2015
612 kr
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Western Canada's natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex nature of the problems being …
Found in Alberta
Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene
Av Robert Boschman, Mario Trono
Häftad, 2014
497 kr
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Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene is a collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is a casebook on Alberta from which emerges a far wider set of implications for North America and for …
Moving Environments
Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film
Häftad, 2014
532 kr
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In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such films act upon their viewers' emotions. Emotion and affect are the basic mechanisms that connect us to our …
Animal Subjects 2.0
Av Jodey Castricano, Lauren Corman
Häftad, 2016
532 kr
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Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (WLU Press, 2008) challenged cultural studies to include nonhuman animals within its purview. While the ""question of the animal"" ricochets across the academy and reverberates within the public sphere, Animal Subjects 2.0 builds on the …
Downstream
Reimagining Water
Av Dorothy Christian, Rita Wong
Häftad, 2017
447 kr
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downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building peace and good relationships with one another and the planet. This book explores the key roles that …
On Active Grounds
Agency and Time in the Environmental Humanities
Av Robert Boschman, Mario Trono
Häftad, 2019
532 kr
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On Active Grounds considers the themes of agency and time through the burgeoning, interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. Fourteen essays and a photo album cover topics such as environmental practices and history, temporal literacy, graphic novels, ecocinema, ecomusicology, animal …
Ornithologies of Desire
Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay
Häftad, 2018
579 kr
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Ornithologies of Desire develops ecocritical reading strategies that engage scientific texts, field guides, and observation. Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending to specific details about the physical world when reading environmentally conscious poetry …
Multispecies Modernity
Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature
Inbunden, 2021
1270 kr
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Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature considers relationships between animals and humans in the iconic spaces of postcolonial India: the wild, the body, the home, and the city. Using a diverse range of texts, including fiction, journalism, life writing, film, and visual …
Ecologies in Practice
Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada
Av Elysia French, Amanda White
Häftad, 2024
528 kr
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What is the responsibility, or the task of the arts as we face environmental crisis? Ecologies in Practice is an edited collection of dynamic and multi-formatted contributions that explore the ways in which cultural production informs perceptions, communications, and knowledge of environmental …
Anthropozäne Literatur
Poetiken – Themen – Lektüren
Av Gabriele Dürbeck, Simon Probst m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
787 kr
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Der sich seit 2000 etablierende Anthropozän-Diskurs begreift die Menschheit als geophysikalische Kraft. Wesentliche Strukturmerkmale dieses Diskurses und seiner Narrative sind das Einnehmen einer planetarischen Perspektive auf die globale Umweltkrise, eine tiefenzeitlich konstituierte Historizität, …
Instauration der Erde
Konstitutives Erzählen im Anthropozän und die kritischen Zonen der Literatur
Av Simon Probst
Häftad, 2022
845 kr
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Mit dem Anthropozän wird oft das Entstehen einer planetaren Universalität und die ‚Wiederkehr der großen Erzählungen‘ verknüpft. Die Verflechtungen von Menschen und Erde werden hier zur Grundlage kultureller Selbstverständigung. Das Buch untersucht strukturelle Merkmale und Problemkonstellationen …
Gaia-Ästhetiken im zeitgenössischen Spielfilm
Das Wahrnehmbar-Werden der Erde in der filmischen Post/Apokalypse
Häftad, 2024
787 kr
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Gaia-Ästhetiken entwerfen Figurationen der Erde und ihrer Lebensformen, welche die Menschen dezentrieren und den Fokus auf die Verbindungen zwischen Lebewesen untereinander und dem Unbelebten richten. Diese Ästhetiken sind der Gaia-Theorie entlehnt. In den 1970er Jahren bei der NASA entwickelt, …
Ökologische Petrofiction
Verschmutzungskrisen in der Gegenwartsliteratur
Häftad, 2024
901 kr
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In den letzten Jahren hat sich die Petrofiction als eine neue Strömung der Gegenwartsliteratur herausgebildet. Diese hat in der ökologisch orientierten Literaturwissenschaft und seiner Erweiterung, dem Material Ecocriticism, als Teilbereich der Environmental Humanities, einen neuen Zweig begründet: …
Narratives of Resilience / Narrative der Resilienz
Häftad, 2025
484 kr
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Resilienz hat sich in den Environmental Humanities und darüber hinaus als Schlüsselbegriff etabliert. Dieser Open Access-Band lotet aus, wie die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften die Resilienzforschung erweitern können und entwickelt Konzepte kultureller und literarischer Resilienz im Angesicht …
Earth Matters
The Aesthetics and Politics of Soil
Av Kassandra Nakas, Jessica Ullrich
Häftad, 2027
1353 kr
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This book addresses the increasing social, scientific and, above all, artistic discussion of soil(s) in current cultural-societal contexts. The end of the „International Decade of Soils“ (2015-2024) marked a development that has focussed on the central importance of the earth for life, biodiversity …
Writing in Dust
Reading the Prairie Environmentally
Av Jenny Kerber
Häftad, 2011
526 kr
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Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers the ways in which prairie writers have negotiated processes of ecological and cultural change in …
