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CALL FOR PAPERS: PETROCULTURES 2018: TRANSITIONS
The 2016 Paris Climate Agreement heralded unprecedented international consensus on the need to transition from fossil fuels within the next few decades. The uneven responses from state, corporate, and civil actors across the world clearly signify the challenges – and opportunities – that lie ahead. On the one hand, they demonstrate the enduring power of…
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EASLCE Webinar: Ecological Immunity and Biopolitics in the Anthropocene with Hannes Bergthaller
Environmentalist discourse has familiarized us with the idea that human beings are members of the “ecological community,” and that this membership comes with obligations that our species has sorely neglected…
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Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel Astrid Bracke
The challenge of rapid climate change is forcing us to rethink traditional attitudes to nature. This book is the first study to chart these changing attitudes in 21st-century British fiction.
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CFP: International Conference on Environmental Humanities
International Conference on Environmental Humanities Stories, Myths, and Arts to Envision a Change* Alcalá de Henares, July 3-6, 2018 Call for papers Environmental humanities entail a transdisciplinary and transnational critical framework that is rapidly emerging in the last decade. This framework challenges traditional divisions among human, social, and environmental sciences, since they have proven to…
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Ecocriticism and Italy Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation
Naples and the porous landscapes of ecomafia and volcanic eruptions; death in Venice as a literary trope and a petrochemical curse; earthquakes and political moves that shake territories, people, and ideas cross-country; the slow pace of wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont: these are some of the texts that this book narrates and analyses.…
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Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik von Mossner
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik von Mossner Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrative. Focusing on the American cultural context, Alexa Weik von Mossner develops an ecocritical approach that draws on the insights of affective science and cognitive narratology. This approach helps to…
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Voices from the Anthropocene: Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino
Environmental Humanities Voices from the Anthropocene Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures. At a time when the narrative and theoretical…
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French Ecocriticism: From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century
Daniel A. Finch-Race/Stephanie Posthumus (eds) French Ecocriticism: From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017 Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt/Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment – vol. 1 ISBN 9783631713242 EPUB/PDF/Hardback This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human…
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L’Esprit Créateur – Daniel A. Finch-Race/Julien Weber (eds)
Daniel A. Finch-Race/Julien Weber (eds) L’Esprit Créateur Volume 57, Issue 1 (2017) – French Ecocriticism/L’écocritique française The latest issue of the journal L’Esprit Créateur contains 10 essays that seek to broaden the horizons of the environmental humanities. The first issue of Volume 57, guest-edited by Daniel A. Finch-Race and Julien Weber, is now available online via…
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ANTHROPOSCENERIES: ECOLOGIES, LANDSCAPES, AND STORIES
Università degli Studi di Torino May 30-31, 2017 The Anthropocene is the epoch in which humanity has become a geological force. Never before had our activities affected planetary cycles on such a scale, influencing climate, biodiversity, and landscapes. The impact on society is huge, with extraordinary migration flows involving people and things, natures and cultures.…
