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Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development - Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (Paperback)
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Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development - Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (Paperback)
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
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Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development takes stock of cultural
and environmental contexts in many different regions of the world
by exploring literature and film. Artists and scholars working in
the social ecology, environmental justice, and postcolonial arenas
have long recognized that as soon as we tug on a thread of
"ecodegradation," we generally find it linked to some form of
cultural oppression. The reverse is also often true. In the spirit
of postcolonial ecocriticism, the studies collected by Scott
Slovic, R. Swarnalatha, and Vidya Sarveswaran emphasize the
impossibility of disentangling environmental and cultural problems.
While not all the authors explicitly invoke Karen Thornber's term
"ecoambiguity" or the concepts and terminology of postcolonial
ecocriticism, their articles frequently bring to light various
ironies. For example, the fact that Ukrainian environmental
experience in the twenty-first century is defined by one of the
world's most infamous industrial disasters, the Chernobyl nuclear
accident of 1986, yet Ukrainian culture, like many throughout the
world, actually cherishes a profound, even animistic, attachment to
the wonders of nature. The repetition of this and other paradoxes
in human cultural responses to the more-than-human world reinforces
our sense of the congruities and idiosyncrasies of human culture.
Every human culture, regardless of its condition of economic and
industrial development, has produced its own version of
"environmental literature and art"-but the nuances of this work
reflect that culture's precise social and geophysical
circumstances. In various ways, these stories of community and
development from across the planet converge and diverge, as told
and explained by distinguished scholars, many of whom come from the
cultures represented in these articles.
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