Sapphire stories : disenchantment and sense of wonder in the underwater world / Karin Dirke -- Imaginings of water : anthropocene waters and the entanglement of the living / Claudia Egerer -- The blue anthropocene and the oceanic South : reading containerisation and inundation d…
"Located within the field of environmental humanities, this volume engages with one of the most pressing contemporary environmental challenges of our time: how can we shift our understanding and realign what water means to us? Water is increasingly at the centre of scientific an…
"Located within the field of environmental humanities, this volume engages with one of the most pressing contemporary environmental challenges of our time: how can we shift our understanding and realign what water means to us? Water is increasingly at the centre of scientific an…
Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses - and the opportunities it affords - for sensation, perception, inquiry, and fantasy. The Aesthetics of the Undersea draws case studies in such potencies from the subaqueous imaginings of Western cultur…
Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses - and the opportunities it affords - for sensation, perception, inquiry, and fantasy. The Aesthetics of the Undersea draws case studies in such potencies from the subaqueous imaginings of Western cultur…
Natur, Umwelt, Nachhaltigkeit: Perspektiven auf Sprache, Diskurse und Kultur
by Schmid, Ulrike, Goodbody, Axel, Fill, Alwin, Bartosch, Roman, Cardonno, Eric Leroy du, Crestani, Valentina, Grimm, Sieglinde, Haberl, Hildegard, Horst, Johan, Landschoff, Jöran, Mattfeldt, Anna, Moskopp, Werner, Reimann, Sandra, Reszke, Paul, Schmidt, Vasco Alexander, Schwegler, Carolin, Steen, Pamela, Wanning, Berbeli, Winiwarter, Verena
Spannungsverhältnisse zwischen Natur und Mensch prägen unseren Alltag, unsere Sprache und öffentliche Diskurse im Themenspektrum der Nachhaltigkeit. Letztere entfaltet normatives Potential, steht bildungs- und wirtschaftspolitisch im Zentrum und bildet sich in der Literatur ab. …
Environmental literacy and education is not simply a top-down process of disseminating correct attitudes, values and beliefs. Rather, it is one that incorporates and facilitates a dialogue with audiences of different persuasions and at all levels of engagement, to help highlight…
“Queer with the City” traces how urban and environmental context have shaped the commitments of queer cultural production in the United States. This dissertation articulates an urban environmental lineage of queer cultural production through a literary and visual approach to the…
This dissertation examines contemporary literary depictions of climate change induced disasters through a South–South axis, exploring the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of the U.S. regional South and the global South. There are two driving factors for devel…
This dissertation examines the explosion of the cultural field in Venezuela during the 1970s oil boom through the lens of nature-society relations. I argue that cultural production was an agent of state-led ecological transformation and, at the same time, a space where artists a…
Divulging temporal spaces and lost histories of identity in the midst of the desert, desierto desierto (2020) reimagines the gaps in passed down familial stories and my desire to preserve desert environments I have developed personal relationships to. I reposition fact and ficti…
From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this arc…
The dissertation is about power and the landscape that power produces. It explicates a paradox of modernity, which is this: how one of the most vulnerable places to sea-level rise organizes its economy and culture around extractive thinking and the production of fossil fuels. To…
The Unconstructable Earth: An Ecology of Separation
by Neyrat, Frédéric, Burk, Drew S.
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Winner, Grand Prize, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationThe Space Age is over? Not at all! A new planet has appeared: Earth. In the age of the Anthropocene, the Earth is a post-natural planet that can be remade at will, controlled and managed thanks…