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Book SynopsisThis book applies the analytical methods of third-wave ecocriticism to selected twenty-first century Italian literary works. Turning abstract issues into narrative form, literary writing increases awareness of environmental issues as well as exerting a deep emotive influence on its readership. The author analyses Roberto Saviano's «Gomorra», Kai Zen's «Delta blues», Wu Ming's «Previsioni del tempo», Simona Vinci's «Rovina», Giancarlo di Cataldo's «Fuoco!», Laura Pugno's «Sirene», and Alessandra Montrucchio's «E poi la sete». He demonstrates that these works offer an invaluable opportunity to communicate meaningfully and accessibly the discomforting truths of global environmental change.Table of ContentsChemical Pollution – Changes in Land Use – Translocality

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Book SynopsisThis study focuses on the relationship between environment, history, politics, and rhetorical discourses in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Delving into different aspects of Joyce’s use of nature and linguistic discourses in orchestrating a specific dynamic of eco-politics, it adopts an interdisciplinary approach that includes cultural politics, historiographical poetics, and genetic criticism with close reading of the text. The first of the two sessions of the book addresses the environmental questions of land and consumption through discussions on co-operative politics, garden city movement, and the eco-politics of waste. The second section moves to examine the diverse ways in which nature and nation are (re)imagined exemplarily in Joyce’s composition of the forest and the marketplace. By examining several thematic environmental issues addressed in Ulysses with the evidence of historical and archival resources, this study has demonstrated that Joyce is after all a writer with the environment in mind, and that the imagination of nature in Ulysses is inseparable from that of the emergent nation of fin-de-siècle Ireland.Table of ContentsEco-political reading of Ulysses – Nature – Nation – Consumption – Garden – Waste – Ecosystem – Trees – Pastoral

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Book SynopsisHispanic Ecocriticism finds a rich soil in the main topics of environmental concern in the literature of Latin America and Spain, not only as a source for renewing critical analysis and hermeneutics, but also for the benefit of global environmental awareness. In a renewed exchange of transatlantic relationships, Hispanic Ecocriticism intermingles Latin American ecocritical issues of interest — the oil industry; contamination of forests and rivers; urban ecologies; African, Andean, and Amazonian biocultural ecosystems — with those of interest in Spain — animal rights and the ecological footprints of human activity in contemporary narratives of eco-science fiction, in dystopias, and in literature inspired by natural or rural landscapes that conceal ways of life and cultures in peril of extinction.Table of ContentsEcocriticism – Hispanism – Poetics of Breathing – Amazonian Studies – Latin American Gender Studies – Literature of the Enlightenment – Pluriculturalism – Spanish Contemporary Narrative – Latin American Studies – Animal Studies – Petrofiction – Maya Poetry – Cuban Literature – Víctor Montejo – Juan José Saer – Urban Ecology – Hispanic Literature.

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Book SynopsisFür über 600 soziokulturelle Zentren und Kulturinitiativen in Deutschland liegen kaum fundierte Handlungsansätze für eine nachhaltige Ausrichtung vor, weder auf Landes- noch auf Bundesebene. Zu fragen ist: Wie können zukunftsweisende Wege der Kulturbetriebe gestaltet werden? Welche Kriterien sind heranzuziehen? Welche Beiträge zur Nachhaltigkeit sind wesentlich und leistbar? Die hier vorliegende qualitative Studie untersucht beispielhaft 13 soziokulturelle Zentren aus Hessen und Nordrhein-Westfalen unter Berücksichtigung bundesweiter Erhebungen. Offenbart werden deutliche Desiderate und nicht genutzte Entwicklungspotentiale. Sie bietet erste Starthilfen, Wegweiser und Positionslichter, die für eine strategische, zukunftsweisende Perspektive förderlich sein können nicht nur für soziokulturelle Zentren.

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Book SynopsisThe history of urbanization was inseparably connected with the exploitation of the environment and the subjugation of rivers. Today we experience the effects of this expansion in the form of escalating water problems. The book outlines the processes of transformation of anthropogenic, natural and waterborne structures in urban environment, which were presented in three historical phases: the period of Respect, Conquest and Return. River-friendly cities require integrated water management in entire catchments from the source to the recipient. The key to the success of the Return strategy is the recovery of space for greenery and water, responsible spatial planning, circular economy and rainwater management as well as continuous raising of awareness of the whole society. Table of ContentsHistorical changes in relations between cities and urban rivers – The periods of Respect, Conquest and Return – Transformations of urban waterbodies and catchment areas – Water-responsible urbanisation – Adaptation and resilience to climate change – Integrated urban water management – Coexistence with floods

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Book SynopsisHow will we deal with manmade climate change? Can the bioeconomy, whose foundation is no longer fossil — but rather bio-based raw materials, play a key role in coping with the climate crisis? Must we not instead scrutinise our social mentalities themselves? The art project Bio Bio SUV of Sebastian Jung and the research group flumen addresses these questions. The starting point for the artistic research is Sebastian Jung’s series of drawings of a car stunt show. The possibilities and impossibilities of a new economy are outlined by an eight-person think tank. In the interventions Jeder Vogel hat ein Auto (Every Bird Has a Car) and Die Pinguine am Starnberger See sind beinahe ausgestorben (The Penguins on Lake Starnberg Have Almost Become Extinct) Sebastian Jung devotes himself to the human view of nature and home. He creates productive irritations and invites viewers to interact with them. Texts by Viola Bronsema, Dennis Eversberg, Holger Gerdes, Alex Giurca, Franz-Theo Gottwald, Christiane Grefe, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Sebastian Jung, Zoritza Kiresiewa, Monica Navas Males, Sophia Pietryga, Ulrich Schurr. Text in English and German.

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Book SynopsisThe concept of framing has long intrigued and troubled scholars in fields including philosophy, rhetoric, media studies and literary criticism. But framing also has rich implications for environmental debate, urging us to reconsider how we understand the relationship between humans and their ecological environment, culture and nature. The contributors to this wide-ranging volume use the concept of framing to engage with key questions in environmental literature, history, politics, film, TV, and pedagogy. In so doing, they show that framing can serve as a valuable analytical tool connecting different academic discourses within the emergent interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. No less importantly, they demonstrate how increased awareness of framing strategies and framing effects can help us move society in a more sustainable direction.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Framing Nature  Hannes Bergthaller and Peter Mortensen Part 1: Literary Frames 2 Framing in Literary Energy Narratives  Axel Goodbody 3 Narrating in Fluid Frames: Overcoming Anthropocentrism in Zora Neale Hurston’s Early Short Fiction on Rivers  Matthias Klestil 4 320 Million Years, a Century, a Quarter of a Mile, a Couple of Paces: Framing the ‘Good Step’ in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran  Pippa Marland Part 2: History, Politics, and National Frames 5 Ghosts, Power, and the Natures of Nature: Reconstructing the World of Jón Guðmundsson the Learned  Viðar Hreinsson 6 Reframing Sacred Natural Sites as National Monuments in Estonia: Shifts in Nature-Culture Interactions  Ott Heinapuu 7 Animals in Norwegian Political Party Programs: A Critical Reading  Morten Tønnessen 8 Chemical Unknowns: Preliminary Outline for an Environmental History of Fear  Michael Egan 9 Czeching American Nature Images in the Work of Robinson Jeffers and John Steinbeck  Petr Kopecký Part 3: Framing Nature on Screen 10 Black-and-White Telecasting? Water Pollution on Finnish and Estonian Television during the Cold War  Ottoaleksi Tähkäpää and Simo Laakkonen 11 Who’s Framing Whom? Surrealism and Science in the Documentaries of Jean Painlevé  Kathryn St. Ours 12 Cognitivist Film Theory and the Bioculturalist Turn in Eco-Film Studies  David Ingram Part 4: Teaching Frames 13 Framing the Alien, Teaching District 9  Roman Bartosch 14 The Nature Study Idea: Framing Nature for Children in Early Twentieth Century Schools  Dorothy Kass 15 Matter, Meaning, and the Classroom: A Case-Study  Isabel Hoving 16 Postscript: Framing the Environmental Humanities  Hannes Bergthaller and Peter Mortensen

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Book SynopsisLand Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era positions the long Renaissance and eighteenth century as being vital for understanding how many of the concerns present in contemporary debates on climate change and sustainability originated in earlier centuries. Traversing three physical and intellectual domains, Land Air Sea consists of case studies examining how questions of environmentalism were formulated in early modern architecture and the built environment. Addressing emergent technologies, indigenous cultural beliefs, natural philosophy, and political statecraft, this book aims to recast our modernist conceptions of what buildings are by uncovering early modern epistemologies that redefined human impact on the habitable world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on Contributors Introduction: Climatic Effects—Environmental Genealogies before Contemporary Crisis  Jennifer Ferng and Lauren Jacobi Part 1: Land 1 Land, War, and Castles: The Management of Landed Wealth  Katie Jakobiec 2 The Paradoxical Colosseum: A Mesocosm for Early Modern Rome  Kristi Cheramie and Robert John Clines 3 Flood Mitigation, Territory, and Time: Girolamo di Pace da Prato in Early Ducal Florence  Caroline E. Murphy Part 2: Air 4 Sleeping under the Hazardous Dome of the Sky An Intertextual Study of Representation of Corporeality in Seventeenth Century Architecture and Poetry of Safavid Isfahan  Mahroo Moosavi 5 Forced Air: Artificial Power and Environmental Control in Eighteenth-Century Britain  Aleksandr Bierig 6 Cosmogenic Histories: Aboriginal Observations on Catastrophe and Climate  Jennifer Ferng Part 3: Sea 7 Left on Shore: Iron and Fish in the North Atlantic  Christy Anderson 8 Sea Levelling: Britain’s Early Modern Port Infrastructure as Environmental Context  William M. Taylor Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn her detailed retelling of three iconic movements in India, Professor Emerita Krishna Mallick, PhD, gives hope to grassroots activists working toward environmental justice. Each movement deals with a different crisis and affected population: Chipko, famed for tree-hugging women in the Himalayan forest; Narmada, for villagers displaced by a massive dam; and Navdanya, for hundreds of thousands of farmers whose livelihoods were lost to a compact made by the Indian government and neoliberal purveyors of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Relentlessly researched, Environmental Movements of India: Chipko, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Navdanya presents these movements in a framework that explores Hindu Vedic wisdom, as well as Development Ethics, Global Environment Ethics, Feminist Care Ethics, and the Capability Approach. At a moment when the climate threatens populations who live closest to nature – and depend upon its fodder for heat, its water for life, and its seeds for food – Mallick shows how nonviolent action can give poor people an effective voice.Trade Review"Highlighting key environmental movements and persons, including Chipko, Medha Patkar, and Vandana Shiva, Krishna Mallick examines both traditional Hindu ethics and eco-feminism, noting linkages and affinities. Excellent for courses on religions and ecology, as well as Hinduism." . Christopher Key Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles "Krishna Mallick’s book is a welcome addition to a growing list of books on Indian environmental movements inspired by Hindu and Jain traditions and the three case-studies in this book are connected with case-studies of Bishnois, Swadhyayis, and Bhils, and others." . Pankaj Jain, Professor and Head, Indic Studies, FLAME University, Pune, IndiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword (Frances Moore Lappé) Glossary Introduction: Three Grassroots Movements That Made a Global Impact Principles of Environmental Philosophy (1) Environmental Justice (2) Intergenerational Equality (3) Respect for Nature 1 Historical and Cultural Contexts in India 1.1 ‘Legal’ Destruction of India’s Forests 1.1.1 Acts Spark Peasant Protests 1.2 A Cultural Leader Emerges 1.2.1 Nonviolence and Gandhi’s Truth 1.2.2 How Chipko Followed Hinduism through Gandhi 1.2.3 How NBA Followed Hinduism through Gandhi 1.2.4 How Navdanya Followed Hinduism through Gandhi 1.2.5 Ecology and Social Justice 1.3 Conclusion 2 Chipko (Hug the Trees) Movement 2.1 A Physical Act of Survival 2.1.1 Sacred Texts and Social Justice 2.2 Preconditions and Formation of the Chipko Movement 2.2.1 Workers Organize for Nonviolent Action 2.2.2 Suffering by Means of Fasting and Foot March 2.3 Laudable Leaders 2.3.1 Women’s Role in the Chipko Movement 2.4 Critical Reception of the Chipko Movement 2.4.1 Questions about Chipko’s Popularity and Success 2.5 Conclusion 3 Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA): Save the Narmada 3.1 The Common Good in a Cost-Benefit Analysis 3.1.1 A Recursive History of Dam-Building 3.2 Regional Tensions from the Start 3.2.1 Amid Unrest, NGOs Align to Form NBA 3.2.2 National and Global Ramifications 3.3 Gender and the Narmada Case 3.3.1 Roles for Displaced Women 3.4 Gendered Dimensions of Neoliberal Capitalist Development 3.5 Reasons for the Success of the NBA 3.6 Conclusion 4 Navdanya (Nine Seeds) Movement 4.1 The Terrible Human Toll of GM Crops 4.1.1 Shifting Economics 4.2 Emergence of Anti-GM Movements 4.2.1 KRRS: Fiery Fields of Protest 4.2.2 Gene Campaign: Secure Food and Climate 4.2.3 Navdanya’s Holistic Approach 4.3 Food Sovereignty 4.3.1 Biodiverse Organic Farming 4.4 Biodiversity and Climate Change 4.4.1 Entrepreneurial Renewal 4.5 Navdanya and Social Justice 4.5.1 Civil Disobedience 4.5.2 Human Right to Food 4.5.3 Protecting the Global South 4.6 Shiva’s View of Earth Democracy 4.7 Genetically Modified Crops and the Future 4.8 Conclusion 5 Moral Implications of Environmental Movements 5.1 The Mesmerizing Power of Nonviolence 5.1.1 An Ecological Warrior 5.1.2 Truth at All Costs 5.2 Defining Views of Globalism 5.2.1 Technological Prowess 5.3 Core Values of Development Ethics 5.3.1 Environmental Justice for All 5.4 Ecofeminism: Ethics of Mutual Care and Connection 5.4.1 Ecofeminist Roots in the Chipko Movement 5.4.2 Southern Materialist Ecofeminism 5.5 Conclusion 6 Hindu Ethics and Ecology 6.1 Historical Background of Hinduism 6.2 Comparison of Hindu Dharma and Ethics in the West 6.2.1 The Gita and Dharma 6.2.2 The Ramayana and Dharma 6.2.3 The Yogasutra and Dharma 6.3 Hindu Dharma, Ecology, and Sustainability 6.3.1 Hindu Dharma and Applications in Ecologically Sustainable Development 6.4 Ways Hindus Connect to Nature 6.5 Influence of Symbolic Traditions on Some Environmental Cases 6.6 Is Hinduism Eco-Friendly? 6.7 Influence of Hinduism and Other Literature on Gandhi 6.8 Conclusion Conclusion: The Symbiosis of Natural Resources and Local Needs Theoretical Views of the Global South Global Environmental Theory Feminist Care Ethics The Capabilities Approach Ethics of Nonviolence Index

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Book SynopsisEarly Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature. If Descartes spoke of humans as being ‘masters and possessors of Nature’ in the seventeenth century, the writers taken up in this volume arguably demonstrated a more complex and urgent understanding of the human relationship to our shared planet. Opening up a rich archive of literary and non-literary texts produced by Montaigne and his contemporaries, this volume foregrounds not how ecocriticism renews our understanding of a literary corpus, but rather how that corpus causes us to re-think or to nuance contemporary eco-theory. The sparsely bilingual title (an acute accent on écologies) denotes the primary task at hand: to pluralize (i.e. de-Anglophone-ize) the Environmental Humanities. Featuring established and emerging scholars from Europe and the United States, Early Modern Écologies opens up new dialogues between ecotheorists such as Timothy Morton, Gilles Deleuze, and Bruno Latour and Montaigne, Ronsard, Du Bartas, and Olivier de Serres.Trade Review"Early Modern Écologies is a welcome addition to dialogue on ecology and ecocriticism in early modern studies. It enriches contemporary ecocriticism with a sturdy array of essays, each offering a reading or readings of canonical texts of early modern French literature."- Rebecca Zorach, Northwestern University, H-France Review, Vol. 21 (July 2021), No. 121 "Given the predominance of modern and contemporary British models in this critical field, focusing on early modern French texts represents a most welcome move. Through its many close readings, the volume demonstrates that early modern ecological thinking was much more than a simple meditation on environmental issues. [...] This is fascinating material."- Giulia Pacini, William & Mary, L'Esprit Créateur, Spring 2021Table of Contents1. Avant-Propos Bruno Latour 2. Introduction Pauline Goul (Cornell U.) and Phillip John Usher (New York U.) 3. Nonhuman Humanism Phillip John Usher (New York U.) 4. Off the Human Track: Montaigne, Deleuze, and the Materialization of Philosophy Hassan Melehy (U. of North Carolina) 5. Human and Vegetal Gestures: French Material Sympathies Antónia Szabari (U. of Southern California) 6. Du Bellay's Geological Time Victor Velázquez (Biola U.) 7. Is Ecology Absurd? Diogenes and the End of Civilization Pauline Goul (Cornell U.) 8. Weird Ecological Time: After Ronsard's Franciade (1572) Kat Addis (New York U.) 9. Nature/Culture: The Integrated Ecology of Renaissance "Climate Theories" Sara Miglietti (Johns Hopkins U.) 10. Olivier de Serres on Ecology and Economy Tom Conley (Harvard U.) 11. Du Bartas, Responding to Morton's Milton Stephanie Shifflett (Boston U.) 12. Is there Nature? Jean Bodin's Treasure Seekers Oumelbanine Zhiri (U. of California, San Diego) 13. Nature Without Theology: Montaigne's neither Deep, nor Dark, Ecology Richard E. Keatley (Georgia State U.) 14. Epilogue Louisa Mackenzie (U. of Washington)

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