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This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the
new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular
on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a
special challenge to the representation of environmental issues.
Essays in this path-breaking collection examine the role that
narrative, visual, and aesthetic forms can play in drawing
attention to and shaping our ideas about long-term and catastrophic
environmental challenges such as climate change, militarism,
deforestation, the pollution and management of the global commons,
petrocapitalism, and the commodification of nature. The volume
presents a postcolonial approach to the environmental humanities,
especially in conjunction with current thinking in areas such as
political ecology and environmental justice. Spanning regions such
as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean,
Australasia and the Pacific, as well as North America, the volume
includes essays by founding figures in the field as well as new
scholars, providing vital new interdisciplinary perspectives on:
the politics of the earth; disaster, vulnerability, and resilience;
political ecologies and environmental justice; world ecologies; and
the Anthropocene. In engaging critical ecologies, the volume poses
a postcolonial environmental humanities for the twenty-first
century. At the heart of this is a conviction that a thoroughly
global, postcolonial, and comparative approach is essential to
defining the emergent field of the environmental humanities, and
that this field has much to offer in understanding critical issues
surrounding the creation of alternative ecological futures.
This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the
new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular
on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a
special challenge to the representation of environmental issues.
Essays in this path-breaking collection examine the role that
narrative, visual, and aesthetic forms can play in drawing
attention to and shaping our ideas about long-term and catastrophic
environmental challenges such as climate change, militarism,
deforestation, the pollution and management of the global commons,
petrocapitalism, and the commodification of nature. The volume
presents a postcolonial approach to the environmental humanities,
especially in conjunction with current thinking in areas such as
political ecology and environmental justice. Spanning regions such
as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean,
Australasia and the Pacific, as well as North America, the volume
includes essays by founding figures in the field as well as new
scholars, providing vital new interdisciplinary perspectives on:
the politics of the earth; disaster, vulnerability, and resilience;
political ecologies and environmental justice; world ecologies; and
the Anthropocene. In engaging critical ecologies, the volume poses
a postcolonial environmental humanities for the twenty-first
century. At the heart of this is a conviction that a thoroughly
global, postcolonial, and comparative approach is essential to
defining the emergent field of the environmental humanities, and
that this field has much to offer in understanding critical issues
surrounding the creation of alternative ecological futures.
A beautiful presentation of a new suite of works made for the Menil
Collection by Allora & Calzadilla The Puerto Rico-based
collaborative duo Allora & Calzadilla created Specters of Noon
as a group of seven large-scale works specifically for the Menil
Collection. The ensemble is orchestrated around the idea of solar
noon, a notion derived from Surrealist texts by Caillois, Cesaire,
and others that probe the transcultural mythology of noon-a time
when shadows vanish and delirious visions momentarily reign. The
works include light projections, guano, ship engines, live vocal
performance, and coal. Using the Menil's Surrealist holdings as a
point of departure, Specters of Noon is infused throughout with a
Caribbean perspective that addresses the instability of
environmental and colonial politics; one work is a power
transformer damaged in Hurricane Maria that is half-sheathed in
bronze. Filled with stunning installation photography and
insightful texts both commissioned and reprinted, this volume
captures the spirit of Jennifer Allora (b. 1974) and Guillermo
Calzadilla's (b. 1971) deeply researched and multifaceted work.
Distributed for the Menil Collection Exhibition Schedule: Menil
Collection, Houston (September 26, 2020-June 20, 2021)
The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a
necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers
rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans
and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the
Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning
to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial
writers, the diverse contributions highlight the literary
imagination as crucial to representing what Eduoard Glissant calls
the "aesthetics of the earth." The essays are organized around a
group of thematic concerns that engage culture and cultivation,
arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the
relationship between the military and the tourist industry. With
chapters that address works by J. M. Coetzee, Kiran Desai, Derek
Walcott, Alejo Carpentier, Zakes Mda, and many others, Postcolonial
Ecologies makes a remarkable contribution to rethinking the role of
the humanities in addressing global environmental issues.
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