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Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) by Scott Slovic; Swarnalatha Rangarajan; Vidya Sarveswaran; Karen Thornber; Gang Yue; Cheng Li; Yanjun Liu; Tsutomu Takahashi; Jyotirmaya Tripathy; Pamod Nayar; Laura A. White; Inna Sukhenko; Salma Monani; Dora Alicia Ramírez; Aarti Madan; George B. Handley is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) about?
"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
Who reads Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Scott Slovic; Swarnalatha Rangarajan; Vidya Sarveswaran; Karen Thornber; Gang Yue; Cheng Li; Yanjun Liu; Tsutomu Takahashi; Jyotirmaya Tripathy; Pamod Nayar; Laura A. White; Inna Sukhenko; Salma Monani; Dora Alicia Ramírez; Aarti Madan; George B. Handley
- Publisher
- Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780739189085
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, Literary Fiction
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