Description: Ecoambiguity, Community, and DevelopmentToward a Politicized Ecocriticism Author(s): Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, Vidya Sarveswaran, Karen Thornber, Gang Yue, Cheng Li, Yanjun Liu, Tsutomu Takahashi, Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Pamod Nayar Format: Hardback Publisher: Lexington Books, United States Imprint: Lexington Books ISBN-13: 9780739189085, 978-0739189085 Synopsis 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. In various ways, these stories of community and development from across the planet converge and diverge, as told and explained by distinguished scholars, many of whom come from the cultures represented in these articles.
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Book Title: Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development
Number of Pages: 214 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism
Publisher: Gang Yue, Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Yanjun Liu, Cheng Li, Karen Thornber, Pamod Nayar, Tsutomu Takahashi, Lexington Books
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Engineering & Technology, Government
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 449 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Scott Slovic, Vidya Sarveswaran, Swarnalatha Rangarajan
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Item Width: 160 mm
Format: Hardcover
