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An unprecedented compilation of critical and creative essays and
visual texts from leading international scholars, Unfolding Irish
landscapes presents cross-disciplinary studies of the prose,
cartography, visual art and cultural legacy of the award-winning
work of cartographer and writer Tim Robinson. This book explores
the process in which Robinson has addressed the historical and
geographical tensions that suffuse the landscapes of Ireland.
Robinson's distinctive methods of map-making and topographical
writing capture the geographical and cultural consciousness of not
only Ireland, but also of the entire North Atlantic archipelago.
Through both topographic prose and cartography Robinson undertakes
one of the greatest explorations of the Irish landscape by a single
person in recent history, paralleling, if not surpassing, Robert
Lloyd Praeger's extensive catalogue of writings and natural
histories of western Ireland. -- .
Ecological Exile explores how contemporary literature, film, and
media culture confront ecological crises through perspectives of
spatial justice - a facet of social justice that looks at unjust
circumstances as a phenomenon of space. Growing instances of
flooding, population displacement, and pollution suggest an urgent
need to re-examine the ways social and geographical spaces are
perceived and valued in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Maintaining that ecological crises are largely socially produced,
Derek Gladwin considers how British and Irish literary and visual
texts by Ian McEwan, Sarah Gavron, Eavan Boland, John McGrath, and
China Mieville, among others, respond to and confront various
spatial injustices resulting from fossil fuel production and the
effects of climate change. This ambitious book offers a new spatial
perspective in the environmental humanities by focusing on what the
philosopher Glenn Albrecht has termed 'solastalgia' - a feeling of
homesickness caused by environmental damage. The result of
solastalgia is that people feel paradoxically ecologically exiled
in the places they continue to live because of destructive
environmental changes. Gladwin skilfully traces spatially produced
instances of ecological injustice that literally and imaginatively
abolish people's sense of place (or place-home). By looking at two
of the most pressing social and environmental concerns - oil and
climate - Ecological Exile shows how literary and visual texts have
documented spatially unjust effects of solastalgia. This
interdisciplinary book will appeal to students, scholars, and
professionals studying literary, film, and media texts that draw on
environment and sustainability, cultural geography, energy
cultures, climate change, and social justice.
Ecological Exile explores how contemporary literature, film, and
media culture confront ecological crises through perspectives of
spatial justice - a facet of social justice that looks at unjust
circumstances as a phenomenon of space. Growing instances of
flooding, population displacement, and pollution suggest an urgent
need to re-examine the ways social and geographical spaces are
perceived and valued in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Maintaining that ecological crises are largely socially produced,
Derek Gladwin considers how British and Irish literary and visual
texts by Ian McEwan, Sarah Gavron, Eavan Boland, John McGrath, and
China Mieville, among others, respond to and confront various
spatial injustices resulting from fossil fuel production and the
effects of climate change. This ambitious book offers a new spatial
perspective in the environmental humanities by focusing on what the
philosopher Glenn Albrecht has termed 'solastalgia' - a feeling of
homesickness caused by environmental damage. The result of
solastalgia is that people feel paradoxically ecologically exiled
in the places they continue to live because of destructive
environmental changes. Gladwin skilfully traces spatially produced
instances of ecological injustice that literally and imaginatively
abolish people's sense of place (or place-home). By looking at two
of the most pressing social and environmental concerns - oil and
climate - Ecological Exile shows how literary and visual texts have
documented spatially unjust effects of solastalgia. This
interdisciplinary book will appeal to students, scholars, and
professionals studying literary, film, and media texts that draw on
environment and sustainability, cultural geography, energy
cultures, climate change, and social justice.
An unprecedented compilation of critical and creative essays and
visual texts from leading international scholars, Unfolding Irish
landscapes presents cross-disciplinary studies of the prose,
cartography, visual art and cultural legacy of the award-winning
work of cartographer and writer Tim Robinson. This book explores
the process in which Robinson has addressed the historical and
geographical tensions that suffuse the landscapes of Ireland.
Robinson's distinctive methods of map-making and topographical
writing capture the geographical and cultural consciousness of not
only Ireland, but also of the entire North Atlantic archipelago.
Through both topographic prose and cartography Robinson undertakes
one of the greatest explorations of the Irish landscape by a single
person in recent history, paralleling, if not surpassing, Robert
Lloyd Praeger's extensive catalogue of writings and natural
histories of western Ireland. -- .
Rewriting Our Stories: Education, empowerment and well-being
harnesses the therapeutic power of storytelling to convert feelings
of fear and powerlessness into affirmative life narratives. Rather
than seeing fear as an outcome, we can view it as a feeling in the
moment largely governed by narratives. Many of our fears are
stories we tell ourselves, even if they are largely fictional and
rooted in sociocultural belief systems. The result is that we often
feel helpless in the face of those fears. This transformational
book considers a potent antidote: by recognising our recurring
negative stories, we can rewrite and transform them to achieve
greater empowerment and well-being in our lives. Storytelling is an
antidote to fear. Throughout human existence, no matter where our
place of origin or when in history, storytelling shapes our
societies, influencing personal, sociocultural, educational, and
public discourses that impact how we live. Creating and
communicating the language of stories - to ourselves and others -
enhances our innate voices and can empower us to engage in greater
empathy, compassion, and possibility. Intended for educators,
leaders, therapists, mental health professionals, change
management, or youth organisations, as well as the general public,
Derek Gladwin offers practical and positive tools for everyone to
re-author their lives.
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