|
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning)
|
Buy Now
Environmentalism and Contemporary Heterotopia - Novel Encounters with Waste (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,513
Discovery Miles 25 130
|
|
|
Environmentalism and Contemporary Heterotopia - Novel Encounters with Waste (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Where is the space for contemporary environmentalism when both the
utopian promises of a clean and pure earthly Eden and the dystopian
prophecies of an environmental apocalypse have failed to be fully
realized? Rather than falling into one of these familiar
environmental categories, contemporary space is configured, as this
book outlines, as heterotopia, an in-between space of dissonance,
where encounters with waste are a daily occurrence and where dirty
matter refuses to submit to human demands and intentions. Through
an exploration of a series of spaces in which acts of leisure and
recreation are configured alongside vibrant dirty matter, this book
explores how contemporary heterotopia offer entanglements with a
dirty other that promote novel opportunities for humans to
ethically respond and be responsible to the continued presence of
waste and to generate a sense of ecological care for a dirty world.
In doing so, the book urges readers away from a utopian vision of
what the environment should be and instead asks how we can
ethically exist within and around the dirtied environment as it is.
This book will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies,
environmental rhetorics, and environmental ethics.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
