Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism

Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development takes stock of cultural and environmental contexts in many different regions of the world by exploring literature and film. Artists and scholars working in the social ecology, environmental justice, and postcolonial arenas have long recognized that as soon as we tug on a thread of �ecodegradation,� we generally find it linked to some form of cultural oppression. The reverse is also often true. In the spirit of postcolonial ecocriticism, the studies collected by Scott Slovic, R. Swarnalatha, and Vidya Sarveswaran emphasize the impossibility of disentangling environmental and cultural problems. While not all the authors explicitly invoke Karen Thornber�s term �ecoambiguity� or the concepts and terminology of postcolonial ecocriticism, their articles frequently bring to light various ironies. For example, the fact that Ukrainian environmental experience in the twenty-first century is defined by one of the world�s most infamous industrial disasters, the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986, yet Ukrainian culture, like many throughout the world, actually cherishes a profound, even animistic, attachment to the wonders of nature. The repetition of this and other paradoxes in human cultural responses to the more-than-human world reinforces our sense of the congruities and idiosyncrasies of human culture. Every human culture, regardless of its condition of economic and industrial development, has produced its own version of �environmental literature and art��but the nuances of this work reflect that culture�s precise social and geophysical circumstances.
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An aparitie	2014
Autor	Edited by Scott Slovic; R. Swarnalatha and Vidya Sarveswaran
Dimensiuni	9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
Editura	Lexington Books
Format	Hardback
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	214