Environment and Narrative in Vietnam brings together essays
about Vietnam’s natural environments and environmental crises
from the perspective of culture, with particular attention to
narrative templates that have shaped perceptions and interactions
with nature on the part of different communities. The essays in
this volume explore theoretical problems in the assessment of
ecological stewardship and attitudes toward nature across cultures.
They focus on both majority (Kinh) and ethnic minority narratives
about nature and seek to outline how different ideas of
modernization, from the French colonial project to the Marxist
understanding of nature on the part of the Communist government,
have shaped perceptions, policies, and activism regarding the
environment. The essays also highlight the tensions and confluences
between nationalist nation-building projects and economic
integration into global markets for environmental thinking over the
last half-century, and they analyze how texts from literary fiction
to contemporary news media represent different environmental
cultures in Vietnam. Taken together, the essays in Environment and
Narrative in Vietnam begin to fill a significant gap in the
understanding of environmental cultures in Asia and in the
Environmental Humanities. This is an open access book.
General
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
|
Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
Series: |
Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
First published: |
2024 |
Editors: |
Ursula K. Heise
• Chi P. Pham
|
Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2024 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-141183-0 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
3-03-141183-8 |
Barcode: |
9783031411830 |
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