Poetry and the Global Climate Crisis

Creative Educational Approaches to Complex Challenges
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-50854-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: Research and Teaching in Environmental Studies

This book demonstrates how humans can become sensitized to, and intervene in, environmental degradation by writing, reading, analyzing, and teaching poetry. It offers both theoretical and practice-based essays, providing a diversity of approaches and voices that will be useful in the classroom and beyond.

The chapters in this edited collection explore how poetry can make readers climate-ready and climate-responsive through creativity, empathy, and empowerment. The book encompasses work from or about Oceania, Africa, Europe, North America, Asia, and Antarctica, integrating poetry into discussions of specific local and global issues, including the value of Indigenous responses to climate change; the dynamics of climate migration; the shifting boundaries between the human and more-than-human world; the ecopoetics of the prison-industrial complex; and the ongoing environmental effects of colonialism, racism, and sexism. With numerous examples of how poetry reading, teaching, and learning can enhance or modify mindsets, the book focuses on offering creative, practical approaches and tools that educators can implement into their teaching and equipping them with the theoretical knowledge to support these.

This volume will appeal to educational professionals engaged in teaching environmental, sustainability, and development topics, particularly from a humanities-led perspective.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ede, Amatoritsero

Kleppe, Sandra Lee

Sorby, Angela

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Perspectives on Indigenous Poetries  1. Embodiment and Solace: The Entanglement of Culture with Nature in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand Ecopoetry  2. From Burning Beds to Rising Seas: Environmental Issues in the Song Lyrics of Midnight Oil 3. From Standing Rock to Flint, Michigan: How Indigenous Poets Contextualise the Fight for Clean Water Part II: Perspectives on the More-than-Human 4. Last Migrations: The Poetry of Migratory Birds 5. Animal Politics and Ecological Haiku 6. Greeting a Ginkgo: How Anthropomorphism in Poetry Can Inspire Eco-Empathy 7. Of Jellyfish, Lichen, and Other More-Than-Human Matter: Ecopoethical Writing Research as Transformative Politics 8. Using Poetry to Learn from the Animals We Brought to Antarctica Part III: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives 9. Imaging the Real in Times of Crisis: Empowerment and Ecosophy in Shaun Tan’s Tales from The Inner City 10. Vegetal Relationality: Three Australian [Eco]poets 11. Carceral Climates: Poetry, Ecology, and the U.S. Prison System 12. Black Ecologies, the “Weather,” and “Renegade” Poetic Sensorium 13. “Everything depends on us:” The Ecofeminist Vision in Naomi Shihab Nye’s Honeybee Part IV: Global  Juxtapositions  14. Mitigating Ecological Threats: Amplifying Environmental Activism in Gabeba Baderoon’s Poetry  15. Capitalism and Environmental Activism in Selected Nigerian Poetry  16.  Bugtong, or the Philippine Riddle as an Ecopoem  17. Poetry and Ecological Awareness: Inspiration from Pierluigi Cappello’s Poetry Conclusion: From Poetry to the World

Über Autor(innen)

Amatoritsero Ede is an international award-winning poet who was born in Nigeria, and he is a literary scholar and Assistant Professor of English at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada.

Sandra Lee Kleppe is a Professor of English-Language Literature at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Angela Sorby is an award-winning poet and a Full Professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.