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* This book provides a framework and guidance on facilitating an
awareness of the links between historic and current oppression,
self-identity, and trauma, and creating a transformative learning
experience through mindfulness. * Contributors come from a range of
geographical and disciplinary standpoints representing a range of
identities, including African-American, Asian-American, Asian,
LGBTQA+, and international colleagues from the fields of Humanities
(Art, Literature, History, Philosophy), Science (Chemistry,
Environmental Science), and Social Sciences (Psychology,
Counselling). * Chapters describe classroom or institutional
practices, qualitative and/or quantitative outcomes assessments,
and strategies for utilizing and adapting practices of
contemplative pedagogy to existing courses, offering resources,
assignments, and exercises for readers to use and adapt
* This book provides a framework and guidance on facilitating an
awareness of the links between historic and current oppression,
self-identity, and trauma, and creating a transformative learning
experience through mindfulness. * Contributors come from a range of
geographical and disciplinary standpoints representing a range of
identities, including African-American, Asian-American, Asian,
LGBTQA+, and international colleagues from the fields of Humanities
(Art, Literature, History, Philosophy), Science (Chemistry,
Environmental Science), and Social Sciences (Psychology,
Counselling). * Chapters describe classroom or institutional
practices, qualitative and/or quantitative outcomes assessments,
and strategies for utilizing and adapting practices of
contemplative pedagogy to existing courses, offering resources,
assignments, and exercises for readers to use and adapt
Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective,
this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches
to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of
a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and
science. Feminist ecocriticism has a substantial history, with
roots in second- and third-wave feminist literary criticism,
women's environmental writing and social change activisms, and
eco-cultural critique, and yet both feminist and ecofeminist
literary perspectives have been marginalized. The essays in this
collection build on the belief that the repertoire of violence
(conceptual and literal) toward nature and women comprising our
daily lives must become central to our ecocritical discussions, and
that basic literacy in theories about ethics are fundamental to
these discussions. The book offers an international collection of
scholarship that includes ecocritical theory, literary criticism,
and ecocultural analyses, bringing a diversity of perspectives in
terms of gender, sexuality, and race. Reconnecting with the
histories of feminist and ecofeminist literary criticism, and
utilizing new developments in postcolonial ecocriticism, animal
studies, queer theory, feminist and gender studies, cross-cultural
and international ecocriticism, this timely volume develops a
continuing and international feminist ecocritical perspective on
literature, language, and culture.
Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective,
this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches
to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of
a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and
science. Feminist ecocriticism has a substantial history, with
roots in second- and third-wave feminist literary criticism,
women's environmental writing and social change activisms, and
eco-cultural critique, and yet both feminist and ecofeminist
literary perspectives have been marginalized. The essays in this
collection build on the belief that the repertoire of violence
(conceptual and literal) toward nature and women comprising our
daily lives must become central to our ecocritical discussions, and
that basic literacy in theories about ethics are fundamental to
these discussions. The book offers an international collection of
scholarship that includes ecocritical theory, literary criticism,
and ecocultural analyses, bringing a diversity of perspectives in
terms of gender, sexuality, and race. Reconnecting with the
histories of feminist and ecofeminist literary criticism, and
utilizing new developments in postcolonial ecocriticism, animal
studies, queer theory, feminist and gender studies, cross-cultural
and international ecocriticism, this timely volume develops a
continuing and international feminist ecocritical perspective on
literature, language, and culture.
This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty
in the human experience of place, interactions with other species,
and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to
themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity,
environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility
for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is
not only a meaningful dimension of our experience, but also a
powerful strategy for inspiring cultural transformation. Taken as a
whole, they underscore the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to the
ecocritical project and the concern for beauty that motivates
effective social and political engagement.
This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty
in the human experience of place, interactions with other species,
and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to
themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity,
environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility
for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is
not only a meaningful dimension of our experience, but also a
powerful strategy for inspiring cultural transformation. Taken as a
whole, they underscore the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to the
ecocritical project and the concern for beauty that motivates
effective social and political engagement.
With twelve original essays that characterize truly international
ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a
compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory,
ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical
texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream
ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations,
postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer
ecologies. It develops new perspectives on literature, culture, and
the environment. The essays, written by contributors from the
United States, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Spain, China, India, and
South Africa, cover novels, drama, autobiography, music, and
poetry, mixing traditional and popular forms. Popular culture and
the production and circulation of cultural imaginaries feature
prominently in this volume-how people view their world and the
manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way
these perspectives challenge each other globally and locally. In
this sense the book also probes borders, border transgression, and
border permeability. By offering diverse ecocritical approaches,
the essays affirm the significance and necessity of international
perspectives in environmental humanities, and thus offer unique
responses to environmental problems and that, in some sense, affect
many beginning and established scholars.
Drawing on the insights of ecology, feminism, and socialism,
ecofeminism's basic premise is that the ideology that authorizes
oppression based on race, class, gender, sexuality, physical
abilities, and species is the same ideology that sanctions the
oppression of nature. In this collection of essays, feminist
scholars and activists discuss the relationships among human
begins, the natural environment, and nonhuman animals. They reject
the nature/culture dualism of patriarchal thought and locate
animals and humans within nature. The goal of these twelve articles
is to contribute to the evolving dialogue among feminists,
ecofeminists, animal liberationists, deep ecologists, and social
ecologists in an effort to create a sustainable lifestyle for all
inhabitants of the earth. Among the issues addressed are the
conflicts between Green politics and ecofeminism, various
applications of ecofeminist theory, the relationship of animal
liberation to ecofeminism, harmful implications of the romanticized
woman-nature association in Western culture, and cultural
limitations of ecofeminism. In the series Ethics and Action, edited
by Tom Regan.
Australian feminist philosopher Val Plumwood coined the term
"critical ecofeminism" to "situate humans in ecological terms and
non-humans in ethical terms," for "the two tasks are
interconnected, and cannot be addressed properly in isolation from
each other." Variously using the terms "critical ecological
feminism," "critical anti-dualist ecological feminism," and
"critical ecofeminism," Plumwood's work developed amid a range of
perspectives describing feminist intersections with ecopolitical
issues-i.e., toxic production and toxic wastes, indigenous
sovereignty, global economic justice, species justice, colonialism
and dominant masculinity. Well over a decade before the emergence
of posthumanist theory and the new materialisms, Plumwood's
critical ecofeminist framework articulates an implicit posthumanism
and respect for the animacy of all earthothers, exposing the
linkages among diverse forms of oppression, and providing a
theoretical basis for further activist coalitions and
interdisciplinary scholarship. Had Plumwood lived another ten
years, she might have described her work as "Anthropocene
Ecofeminism," "Critical Material Ecofeminism," "Posthumanist
Anticolonial Ecofeminism"-all of these inflections are present in
her work. Here, Critical Ecofeminism advances upon Plumwood's
intellectual, activist, and scholarly work by exploring its
implications for a range of contemporary perspectives and
issues--critical animal studies, plant studies, sustainability
studies, environmental justice, climate change and climate justice,
masculinities and sexualities. With the insights available through
a critical ecofeminism, these diverse eco-justice perspectives
become more robust.
With twelve original essays that characterize truly international
ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a
compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory,
ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical
texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream
ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations,
postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer
ecologies. It develops new perspectives on literature, culture, and
the environment. The essays, written by contributors from the
United States, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Spain, China, India, and
South Africa, cover novels, drama, autobiography, music, and
poetry, mixing traditional and popular forms. Popular culture and
the production and circulation of cultural imaginaries feature
prominently in this volume-how people view their world and the
manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way
these perspectives challenge each other globally and locally. In
this sense the book also probes borders, border transgression, and
border permeability. By offering diverse ecocritical approaches,
the essays affirm the significance and necessity of international
perspectives in environmental humanities, and thus offer unique
responses to environmental problems and that, in some sense, affect
many beginning and established scholars.
Ecofeminist Literary Criticism is the first collection of its kind:
a diverse anthology that explores both how ecofeminism can enrich
literary criticism and how literary criticism can contribute to
ecofeminist theory and activism. Ecofeminism is a practical
movement for social change that discerns interconnections among all
forms of oppression: the exploitation of nature, the oppression of
women, class exploitation, racism, colonialism. Against binary
divisions such as self/other, culture/nature, man/woman,
humans/animals, and white/non-white, ecofeminist theory asserts
that human identity is shaped by more fluid relationships and by an
acknowledgment of both connection and difference. Once considered
the province of philosophy and women's studies, ecofeminism in
recent years has been incorporated into a broader spectrum of
academic discourse. Ecofeminist Literary Criticism assembles some
of the most insightful advocates of this perspective to illuminate
ecofeminism as a valuable component of literary criticism.
Discusses ecofeminism in the context of the social, political and
ecological consequences of globalization. The book includes case
studies, essays, theoretical works, and articles on ecofeminist
movements from many of the world's regions including Taiwan,
Mexico, Kenya, Chile, India, Brazil, Canada, England and the United
States.
Australian feminist philosopher Val Plumwood coined the term
"critical ecofeminism" to "situate humans in ecological terms and
non-humans in ethical terms," for "the two tasks are
interconnected, and cannot be addressed properly in isolation from
each other." Variously using the terms "critical ecological
feminism," "critical anti-dualist ecological feminism," and
"critical ecofeminism," Plumwood's work developed amid a range of
perspectives describing feminist intersections with ecopolitical
issues-i.e., toxic production and toxic wastes, indigenous
sovereignty, global economic justice, species justice, colonialism
and dominant masculinity. Well over a decade before the emergence
of posthumanist theory and the new materialisms, Plumwood's
critical ecofeminist framework articulates an implicit posthumanism
and respect for the animacy of all earthothers, exposing the
linkages among diverse forms of oppression, and providing a
theoretical basis for further activist coalitions and
interdisciplinary scholarship. Had Plumwood lived another ten
years, she might have described her work as "Anthropocene
Ecofeminism," "Critical Material Ecofeminism," "Posthumanist
Anticolonial Ecofeminism"-all of these inflections are present in
her work. Here, Critical Ecofeminism advances upon Plumwood's
intellectual, activist, and scholarly work by exploring its
implications for a range of contemporary perspectives and
issues--critical animal studies, plant studies, sustainability
studies, environmental justice, climate change and climate justice,
masculinities and sexualities. With the insights available through
a critical ecofeminism, these diverse eco-justice perspectives
become more robust.
As long as humans have been around, we?ve had to move in order to
survive.? So arises that most universal and elemental human longing
for home, and so begins Greta Gaard's exploration of just precisely
what it means to be at home in the world. Gaard journeys through
the deserts of southern California, through the High Sierras, the
Wind River Mountains, and the Northern Cascades, through the
wildlands and waterways of Washington and Minnesota, through snow
season, rain season, mud season, and lilac season, yet her essays
transcend mere description of natural beauty to investigate the
interplay between place and identity. Gaard examines the earliest
environments of childhood and the relocations of adulthood,
expanding the feminist insight that identity is formed through
relationships to include relationships to place. ?Home? becomes not
a static noun, but an active verb: the process of cultivating the
connections with place and people that shape who we become.
Striving to create a sense of home, Gaard involves herself
socially, culturally, and ecologically within her communities,
discovering that as she works to change her environment, her
environment changes her. As Gaard investigates environmental
concerns such as water quality, oil spills, or logging, she touches
on their parallels to community issues such as racism, classism,
and sexism, uncovering the dynamic interaction by which ?humans,
like other life on earth, both shape and are shaped by our
environments.? While maintaining an understanding of the complex
systems and structures that govern communities and environments,
Gaard's writing delves deeper to reveal the experiences and
realities we displace through euphemisms or stereotypes, presenting
issues such as homelessness or hunger with compelling honesty and
sensitivity. Gaard's essays form a quest narrative, expressing the
process of letting go that is an inherent part of an impermanent
life. And when a person is broken, in the aftermath of that letting
go, it is a place that holds the pieces together. As long as we are
forced to move by economics, by war, by colonialism the strategies
we possess to make and redefine home are imperative to our
survival, and vital in the shaping of our very identities.
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