Imaginative Ecologies

Inspiring Change Through the Humanities
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50126-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Reihe: Nature, Culture and Literature

Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities highlights the role literature and visual arts play in fostering sustainability. It weaves together contributions by international scholars, practitioners and environmental activists whose insights are brought together to illustrate how creative imaginations can inspire change. One of the most outstanding characteristic of this volume is its interdisciplinarity and its varied methods of inquiry. The field of environmental humanities is discussed together with ideas such as the role of the public intellectual and el buen vivir. Examples of ecofiction from the UK, the US and Spain are analysed while artistic practices aimed at raising awareness of the effects of the Anthropocene are presented as imaginative ways of reacting against climate change and rampant capitalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Villanueva-Romero, Diana

Kerslake, Lorraine

Flys-Junquera, Carmen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Introduction: Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities

Diana Villanueva-Romero, Lorraine Kerslake and Carmen Flys-Junquera

PART 1: Humanists in Conversation

1 Environmental Humanities and the Public Intellectual

Scott Slovic

2 Humanities in Transition in the European Context

Interview with Christof Mauch

Diana Villanueva-Romero

3 “El Buen Vivir” is Harmony with the Earth

Interview with Rafael Chanchari Pizuri

Juan Carlos Galeano

PART 2: Interpreting Eco-Visions

4 Environmental Imagination and Wonder in Beatrix Potter

Lorraine Kerslake

5 Foregrounding Ecosystems: Thinking with the Work of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison

Chris Fremantle and Anne Douglas

6 New Worlds Beyond Reality: Imagined Futures in Laura Gallego’s

Las hijas de Tara

Irene Sanz-Alonso

7 Simon Ortiz’s Narrative and Joy Harjo’s Poems: Towards Regenerative Societies and New Worlds

Imelda Martín-Junquera

8 When Mater Takes a Position

Post-Anthropocentric Landscapes in Contemporary Art

Bárbara Fluxá Álvarez-Miranda

PART 3: Inspiring Change

9 Sense of Place as an Enhancer of Empathy and Ecological Consciousness in the Baix Llobregat

Carma Casulá

10 Building Stories to Change the World: Interview with Starhawk

Carmen Flys-Junquera and Beatriz Lindo-Mañas

11 Eco-Interactions: Art and Community

Elena Sánchez-Vizcaíno and Lucía Loren Atienza

Epilogue: Chickens like Celebrities: A Short Story

José Manuel Marrero-Henríquez

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Diana Villanueva-Romero is a Lecturer in the English Department of the Universidad de Extremadura (Spain) and a member of the research groups “Lenguas y culturas en la Europa moderna: discurso e identidad” (CILEM; Universidad de Extremadura) and “Grupo de investigación en ecocrítica” (GIECO; Franklin Institute, Universidad de Alcalá).

Lorraine Kerslake is a Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Alicante (Spain) and a member of GIECO. She is also a member of the Research Institute for Gender Studies at Alicante University and author of The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes’s Writing for Children (2018).

Carmen Flys-Junquera has recently retired as Senior Lecturer of American Literature and Ecocriticism from the University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. She was the founder and now member of the GIECO ecocritical research group and head researcher of the funded grant underlying this publication. She founded and continues as Editor in Chief of Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment.