Tag: EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS

  • Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl and Fukushima by Hannah Klaubert

    Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl and Fukushima by Hannah Klaubert

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    Examining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms as important resources for understanding the material, environmental and social fallout of nuclear disasters. In a field that remains scientifically contested and, in the current moment of climate breakdown, highly politicized, Narrating Nuclear Disasters offers literature as an arena for exploring…

  • Sea More Blue, Ecozon@, Vol 17.1, eds Béné Meillon, Bertrands Guest and Marie-Pierre Ramouche

    Sea More Blue, Ecozon@, Vol 17.1, eds Béné Meillon, Bertrands Guest and Marie-Pierre Ramouche

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    This trilingual volume of Ecozon@ has emerged from the Sea More Blue EASLCE conference held in Perpignan in June 2024. It gathers papers that cross perspectives coming from different cultures, places, disciplines, and that are expressed via various forms of art and discourse. It is part of a larger effort to promote of a blue, interdisciplinary take…

  • Eco-Aesthetics: A Framework of Watery Bodies and Fog-Scapes in Art by Francesca Baroni

    Eco-Aesthetics: A Framework of Watery Bodies and Fog-Scapes in Art by Francesca Baroni

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    Water, besides being a central element of the environmental crisis, plays a profoundly symbolic and political role within contemporary societies. It is at the heart of numerous social struggles, embodying the demands of environmentalists, trade unions, and workers who oppose its privatization.

  • Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene master narrative by Chiara Xausa

    Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene master narrative by Chiara Xausa

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    Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene Master Narrative (Peter Lang, 2025; Ralahine Utopian Studies series) offers one of the first sustained analyses of climate fiction through an intersectional ecocritical framework. What happens when the dominant narrative of the Anthropocene is challenged from a feminist and decolonial perspective? How can speculative fiction reimagine environmental futures…

  • Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

    Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

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    Nopólemo does not take pleasure in the atrocities of war, and for that reason he rejects viewing everyday life as subject to opposing choices—either this or that, black or white, with me or against me, truth or lie, good or bad. Life is blurred and made up of countless shades of gray. The greater the…

  • Letteratura e Antropocene by Annamaria Elia

    Letteratura e Antropocene by Annamaria Elia

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    What happens to literature when the Anthropocene is no longer merely a descriptive category, but a profound transformation of the ways in which we know, feel, imagine and inhabit the world? How can the contemporary novel respond to a crisis that calls into question the boundaries between the human and the non-human, nature and culture,…

  • Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland by Katherine M. Huber

    Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland by Katherine M. Huber

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    The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—the place where many colonial methods were tested before being exported to the farther-flung portions of the empire. In Irish Ecomedia, Katherine M. Huber examines the environmental impacts of imperial rule and the various ways they…

  • Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities (2025)

    Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities (2025)

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    Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities (2025), edited by Gabriela Jarzębowska, Aleksandra Ross, and Krzysztof Skonieczny. This volume critically interrogates non-Western frameworks within environmental humanities, seeking to challenge and deconstruct dominant Western paradigms. Through a range of interdisciplinary contributions, the book explores alternative epistemologies, including Indigenous, postcolonial, and regional perspectives from Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the…

  • Per Esben Svelstad. Same Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature

    Per Esben Svelstad. Same Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature

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    This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as “unnatural.” Providing in-depth studies…

  • CFP Breaking New Grounds – Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries.

    CFP Breaking New Grounds – Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries.

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    Date: 27 September 2024 Venue: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. A one-day conference organised by Clémence Laburthe-Tolra (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3-EMMA) and Aurélien Wasilewski (Law & Humanities, CERSA, UMR 7106, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas). This conference stems from a reflection on the social and political dimensions of gardens and gardening in Great Britain ranging from the Victorian and Edwardian…