Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique: Scott Slovic: Lexington Books

Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics

A Green Critique

Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics

A Green Critique

Description

Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique focuses on the interface of the Anthropocene, sustainability, ecological aesthetics, multispecies relationality, and the environment as reflected in literature and culture. This book examines how writers have addressed ecological crises and environmental challenges that transcend national, cultural, political, social, and linguistic borders. It demonstrates how, as the environmental humanities developed and emerged as a critical discipline, it generated a diverse range of interdisciplinary fields of study such as ecographics, ecodesign, ecocinema, ecotheology, ecofeminism, ethnobotany, ecolinguistics, and bioregionalism, and formed valuable, interdisciplinary networks of critique and advocacy—and its contemporary expansion is exceptionally salient to social, political, and public issues today.

Acknowledgments

Foreword

-Scott Slovic

Critiquing the Green Studies: Introductory Thoughts

-Krishanu Maiti and Soumyadeep Chakraborty (Editors)

Part- I: The Anthropocene, Sustainability and Policy

1. Eco-criticism in a Changing Policy Landscape

-Frederick Gordon

2. Learning to think in the Anthropocene: What can Deleuze-Guattari teach us?

-David R. Cole

3. Solar Power in the Anthropocene: Narrative and its Discontents

-Susan Haris

Part- II: Ecological Aesthetics and Intermediality

4. The Plasto(s)cene: Ecographics in Rachel Hope Allison’s I’m Not a Plastic Bag

-Pramod K. Nayar

5. Ted Hughes, Ecology and the Arts

-Ann Skea

6. Representation in Media Texts: Shaping Contemporary Perceptions of the Anthropogenic Climate Change in Documentaries

-Asmae Ourkiya

7. Defeating the Charges of Denialism: Confronting the Climate Change Crisis in Nila Madhab Panda’s Kadvi Hawa

-Sk Tarik Ali

8. Aesthetics vs. Functionality of Ecodesign: Exploring Sustainable Architectural Models Based on Ecological and Bioclimatic Design Principles

-Stephen Poon

9. “Imag(e)ining” along a Himalayan Trekking Trail

-Apratim Kundu

Part- III: Imagining Nature, Writing Ecology

10. Language Ecology in the Mythic Narrative of Easterine Kire’s Son of the Thundercloud

-Shruti Das

11. E. M. Forster’s Bioregional Sense of Place: “Only Connect…”

-Gulsah Gocmen

12. Salvaging Nature from Ruins of Development in Mamang Dai’s Poetry

-Neeraj Sankhyan and Suman Sigroha

13. Re-membering the Coyolxauhqui: Conocimiento as Environmental activism in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God and Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus.

-Lakshmi Chithra and Swarnalatha Rangarajan

14. The Panchavati and the Green Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

-Debdas Roy

Part- IV: Woman, Nature and Culture

15. Malignancy of Goneril: Nature’s Powerful Warrior

-Nicole Dittmer

16. Escape to Nature in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho

-Shelby Heathcoat

17. The Realms of the ‘Natural’ and the ‘Female’: A study of Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown

-Raktima Bhuyan and Hemanga Dutta

Part- V: Multispecies / Interspecies Relationalities

18. Towards Literary Ethnobotany: Burmese Poetry and Biocultural Knowledge of Plants

-John Charles Ryan

19. Preventing Invasion: Stopping the Spread of Quagga Mussels to Bear Lake

-Chelsea Adams

20. “You Will See What It Is to Be a King”: The Power of a Fish in The Sword in the Stone

-Justine Breton

21. Silent Translators: The Role of the Animal as a Mediator in Medieval Human Relationships

-Heather Dail

About the Contributors

Product details

Published	31 Dec 2019
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	288
ISBN	9781498598231
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	16 b/w photos; 2 tables
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Krishanu Maiti

Anthology Editor

Soumyadeep Chakraborty

Contributor

Krishanu Maiti

Contributor

Soumyadeep Chakraborty

Contributor

Frederick Gordon

Contributor

David R. Cole

Contributor

Susan Haris

Contributor

Pramod K. Nayar

Contributor

Ann Skea

Contributor

Asmae Ourkiya

Contributor

Sk Tarik Ali

Contributor

Stephen Poon

Contributor

Apratim Kundu

Contributor

Shruti Das

Contributor

Gulsah Gocmen

Contributor

Neeraj Sankhyan

Contributor

Suman Sigroha

Contributor

Lakshmi Chithra

Contributor

Swarnalatha Rangarajan

Contributor

Debdas Roy

Contributor

Nicole C. Dittmer

Contributor

Shelby Heathcoat

Contributor

Raktima Bhuyan

Contributor

Hemanga Dutta

Contributor

John Charles Ryans

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Chelsea Adams

Contributor

Justine Breton

Contributor

Heather Dail

Foreword

Scott Slovic

Echoing Walt Whitman, I suggested many years ago that ecocriticism was 'large and it contain[ed] multitudes.' Well, the field continues to grow and now contains multitudes of ideas, texts, and vocabularies my colleagues and I never imagined when we worked to establish the field. Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique is diverse and rich in so many ways—culturally, disciplinarily, and even in the varying degrees of aesthetic adventurousness and ethical urgency described by the contributors. This collection showcases the true vibrancy of contemporary work in the environmental humanities.

Scott Slovic, Oregon Research Institute
Discourses on ecology and environmental humanities have helped us see beyond borders and frontiers and this book, with its global perspectives and multicultural view-points, is a welcome addition. The contributors proffer a variant spectrum of academic studies on imagining nature and narrating ecology.

Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Pondicherry University
Environment is a ‘process,’ as Lawrence Buell implies, rather than a ‘constant.’ Buell’s implication gives a dynamic direction to environmental studies. In the twenty-first century, ‘environmental humanities’ has evolved out of environmental studies and speaks of cross-fertilization of this domain by multiple disciplines including politics, ethics, aesthetics, linguistics, and others. A wonderful collection of well-researched essays, this book not only draws our attention to the emergent areas of ecocriticism like ecographics, ecotheology, bioregionalism, and multi-species studies but at the same time vividly marks the passage from ecocriticism to environmental humanities.

Joyjit Ghosh, Vidyasagar University