Reading Cats and Dogs offers fifteen examples of ecocritical animal studies from around the world. The essays in this volume complicate the concept of "companion animals" by exploring our relationships with stray and feral animals, utilitarian relationships with other species, a…
Reading Cats and Dogs: Companion Animals in World Literature
by Slovic, Scott, Reynolds, Kev, Hong Chen, Bora, Zélia M., Kerslake, Lorraine, Marroum, Marianne, Adrahane, Athane, Armbruster, Karla, Cazejous-Auge, Claire, Çetin, Önder, Cheng, Qianqian, Gunasekera, Niroshini, Hatooka, Keita, Nsah, Kenneth Toah, Re, Anna, Woodward, Wendy
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Throughout the world, people spend much of their time with animal companions of various kinds, frequently with cats and dogs. What meanings do we make of these relationships? In the ecocritical collection Reading cats and Dogs, a diverse array of scholars considers the philosoph…
"We live in the age of Big Data, awash in a sea of ever-expanding information--a constant deluge of facts, statistics, models, and projections. The human mind is quickly desensitized by information presented in the form of numbers, and yet many important social and environmental…
Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism
by Slovic, Scott, Tripathy, Jyotirmaya, Rangarajan, Swarnalatha, Sarveswaran, Vidya, Yue, Gang, Li, Cheng, Liu, Yanjun, Takahashi, Tsutomu, White, Laura A., Sukhenko, Inna, Monani, Salma, Ramirez-Dhoore, Dora, Handley, George B., Thornber, Karen, Nayar, Pamod, Madan, Aarti
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Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development extends the energetic and socially important tradition of postcolonial ecocriticism to regions of the world not normally considered in the postcolonial context, such as southern Japan and eastern Europe. The text expands Karen Thornber's …
Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism
by Slovic, Scott, Tripathy, Jyotirmaya, Rangarajan, Swarnalatha, Sarveswaran, Vidya, Yue, Gang, Li, Cheng, Liu, Yanjun, Takahashi, Tsutomu, White, Laura A., Sukhenko, Inna, Monani, Salma, Ramirez-Dhoore, Dora, Handley, George B., Thornber, Karen, Nayar, Pamod, Madan, Aarti
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Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development extends the energetic and socially important tradition of postcolonial ecocriticism to regions of the world not normally considered in the postcolonial context, such as southern Japan and eastern Europe. The text expands Karen Thornber's …
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 recog…
Using the rubric of the "Global South," this volume allows scholars from underrepresented regions to offer commentary on the ecological conditions and environmental cultures in the developing world.
Using the rubric of the "Global South," this volume allows scholars from underrepresented regions to offer commentary on the ecological conditions and environmental cultures in the developing world.
The environmentalism of the hungry tide / Priya Kumar -- "The land was wounded" : war ecologies, commodity frontiers, and Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard -- Scenes from the global south in China : Zheng Xiaoqiong's poetic agency for labor and environmental justice / Zhou …
