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Lexington Books Critical Ecofeminism
Book SynopsisAustralian feminist philosopher Val Plumwood coined the term critical ecofeminism to situate humans in ecological terms and non-humans in ethical terms, for the two tasks are interconnected, and cannot be addressed properly in isolation from each other. Variously using the terms critical ecological feminism, critical anti-dualist ecological feminism, and critical ecofeminism, Plumwood's work developed amid a range of perspectives describing feminist intersections with ecopolitical issuesi.e., toxic production and toxic wastes, indigenous sovereignty, global economic justice, species justice, colonialism and dominant masculinity. Well over a decade before the emergence of posthumanist theory and the new materialisms, Plumwood's critical ecofeminist framework articulates an implicit posthumanism and respect for the animacy of all earthothers, exposing the linkages among diverse forms of oppression, and providing a theoretical basis for further activist coalitions and interdisciplinary scTrade ReviewCritical Ecofeminism extends the discussion of ecofeminism, a field of study that connects ecology with feminism, which in turn connects paternalism and capitalism with the domination of women and nature. Adding “critical” to the equation makes a big difference between tying sociopolitical hegemonies and the current climate change crisis. It emphasizes “reproduction” as opposed to “production,” and adds the critical steps to sustainability. Gaard (English, Univ. of Wisconsin, River Falls)—editor of Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature (CH, Dec'93, 31-2177) and author of Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (CH, Nov'98, 36-1540)—advances her argument in favor of a radical environmentalism that confronts, on all levels of culture, the meaning of a viable future for the Earth. Gaard mixes scholarly practice with creative writing and activism to extend the subject matter into many disciplines, including “ecocomposition.” She advocates a just ecofeminist sustainability for plants and animals and illustrates sociopolitical-economic factors present in the culture of milk, fireworks, and animals in space that need to change. She promotes climate justice, reevaluations of “cli-fi” (i.e., climate fiction) narratives, and queering the climate. The bibliography and references alone provide a map for future studies in technology, climatology, literary ecocriticism, and activism. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; faculty and researchers. * CHOICE *This is a phenomenal book, beautifully written, powerfully argued, and supported by an extraordinary range and depth of theory and evidence. I have been profoundly moved by this work and have been reminded once again that Greta Gaard is one of the most important thinkers and activist-scholars of our time. -- David Naguib Pellow, University of California Santa Barbara, author of Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth MovementAn engaging and highly readable monograph by one of ecofeminism’s most insightful scholars, Critical Ecofeminism is a stunning achievement. Gaard gives a reflective account of ecofeminism’s evolution as an intersectional framework for interrogating socio-environmental relations and a politics of solidarity that demands eco-justice for all species. Her book provides welcome vindication for those who have remained convinced of ecofeminism’s critical power despite thirty years of mischaracterization in most corners of the academy. -- Sherilyn MacGregor, The University of ManchesterTable of ContentsIntroduction: Critical Ecofeminism Theory Chapter 1: Just Ecofeminist Sustainability Chapter 2: Plants and Animals Illuminations Chapter 3: Milk Chapter 4: Fireworks Chapter 5: Animals in Space Climates Chapter 6: Climate Justice Chapter 7: Cli-Fi Narratives Chapter 8: Queering the Climate Epilogue
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Lexington Books Eco Culture
Book SynopsisThe edited collection, Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse, opens a conversation about the mediated relationship between culture and ecology. The dynamic between these two great forces comes into stark relief when a disasterin its myriad forms and narrativesreveals the fragility of our ecological and cultural landscapes. Disasters are the clashing of culture and ecology in violent and tragic ways, and the results of each clash create profound effects to both. So much so, in fact, that the terms ecology and culture are past separation. We are far removed from their prior historical binaric connection, and they coincide through a supplementary role to each other. Ecology and culture are unified. Trade ReviewWhat does ecocriticism have to say about crises as diverse as the Boston Marathon bombing, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe, and the ecological and social devastation caused by oil exploitation in the Niger Delta? Read this book and find out. This fascinating and insightful volume joins the growing number of ecocritical projects exploring risk, meaning, resistance, and recovery in the contexts of natural and technological disaster. Eco Culture is a valuable and timely collection. -- Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental CommunicationRobert Bell and Robert Ficociello’s Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse affirms the importance of narrative resistance to the prevalent discursive and material forms of oppression accompanying ecological disasters. Challenging the mainstream and often manipulative disaster narratives written from within neoliberal capitalist ideologies, the contributors in this volume seek alternative narrative paths for understanding the complex issues of disaster cultures: slow violence, resilience, vulnerability, crime, militarism, systems of control, colonialist practices, technological mastery, socio-emotional traumas, adaptive politics, socio-economic decay, and more. Since each chapter enacts 'narrative responsibility' as a strategy of resistance to the hegemonic discourses of human-induced ecological disasters, this volume will be enormously attractive for those who care about environmental issues. -- Serpil Oppermann, Professor of English, Hacettepe University, and President of EASLCETable of ContentsForeword Patrick Murphy Introduction Robert Bell and Robert Ficociello Part I: Mediation Chapter 1: “For $19.99, Terror at the Finish Line Can Be Yours!”: Creating Individual Identity Through Collective Tragedy in the Boston Marathon Bombings Amy Lantinga Chapter 2: Re-Telling Fukushima, Re-Shaping Citizenship: Women Netizens in Japan Nicole L. Freiner Chapter 3: The Locals do it better? The Strange Victory of Occupy Sandy Peer Illner Chapter 4: “Monsters in Human Form:” Representations of Looting in American Disaster Narratives Charles Byler Chapter 5: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster: Communicating Environmental Disaster in the Age of Technology Kristen Chamberlain and Marceleen Mosher Chapter 6: “The storm of the century”: Typhoon Yolanda, the Event, and the Project of U.S. Empire in the Philippines Danielle Crawford Part II: Remediation Chapter 7: “The Missing Element is the Human Element”: Ontological Difference and the World-Ecological Crisis of the Capitalocene Kirk Boyle Chapter 8: Challenging Developmentalist Narratives: Helon Habila’s Oil on Water as a Representation of the Extractivist Exploitation in the Niger Delta Region Minna Niemi Chapter 9: A Random Harvest: The Leftovers, Debt, and the “strange non-death” of Neoliberalism Liane Tanguay Chapter 10: Appropriating the Zombie Apocalypse: The Politics of Disaster Erik Trump Chapter 11: The Politics of Aesthetics in Beasts of the Southern Wild: Mapping the Ethical Limits of Filmic Narratives in the Wake of Epochal Disaster Cycles Stephanie Hankinson Chapter 12: Neohumanism in the Anthropocene: Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive Hannah Stark
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Lexington Books Confronting Climate Crises through Education
Book SynopsisConfronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward envisions the responsibility of public education to engage a citizenry more prepared to address the challenges of a changing world. Young advocates a paradigm shift that positions ecopedagogy as the central organizing principle of curriculum and assessment design. Each chapter outlines ways literature can serve as a cultural lens for examining the complex patterns of contexts behind our most pressing climate concerns, including potential solutions these patterns may illuminate. A focus on fiction and non-fiction exemplars that can provide such a lens illustrates practical steps educators can take to develop instruction around the immediately relevant environmental crises we are experiencing and to inspire more ecologically conscious, globally-minded problem-solvers prepared to confront them.Trade ReviewIf educators take Rebecca Young’s advice to harness the power of imaginative world-making and empathetic reading, perhaps we have a chance not only to confront climate crisis but to persuade young people to take tangible steps to repair and protect our environment. A first step would be to recover the original sense of empathy, with Einfühlung, a feeling-into the inanimate world upon which we depend. -- Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee UniversityThis book could not be more timely or more necessary. The most important questions the planet faces are changing quickly—all of a sudden, survival and fairness seem at least as crucial as that old standby, 'how can we grow bigger?' That world requires a new pedagogy, one whose outlines this volume helps you sense. -- Bill McKibben, Author of Deep EconomyTable of ContentsForeword by John Adams Introduction: A New Story Chapter 1: Literature and Empathy: A Rationale for Change Chapter 2: A Taker-Leaver Paradigm: Cultural Representations in Contemporary Fiction Chapter 3: Popular Science Fiction and Fantasy: Fostering International Perspectives Chapter 4: Let’s Share the Table: Building Ecoliterate Communities Chapter 5: Morality and Environmental Responsibility: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Franzen’s Freedom Chapter 6: Ecopsychology: Harmonizing Our Paths Afterword by David W. Orr Bibliography
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Lexington Books Confronting Climate Crises through Education
Book SynopsisConfronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward envisions the responsibility of public education to engage a citizenry more prepared to address the challenges of a changing world. Young advocates a paradigm shift that positions ecopedagogy as the central organizing principle of curriculum and assessment design. Each chapter outlines ways literature can serve as a cultural lens for examining the complex patterns of contexts behind our most pressing climate concerns, including potential solutions these patterns may illuminate. A focus on fiction and non-fiction exemplars that can provide such a lens illustrates practical steps educators can take to develop instruction around the immediately relevant environmental crises we are experiencing and to inspire more ecologically conscious, globally-minded problem-solvers prepared to confront them.Trade ReviewIf educators take Rebecca Young’s advice to harness the power of imaginative world-making and empathetic reading, perhaps we have a chance not only to confront climate crisis but to persuade young people to take tangible steps to repair and protect our environment. A first step would be to recover the original sense of empathy, with Einfühlung, a feeling-into the inanimate world upon which we depend. -- Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee UniversityThis book could not be more timely or more necessary. The most important questions the planet faces are changing quickly—all of a sudden, survival and fairness seem at least as crucial as that old standby, 'how can we grow bigger?' That world requires a new pedagogy, one whose outlines this volume helps you sense. -- Bill McKibben, Author of Deep EconomyTable of ContentsForeword by John AdamsIntroduction: A New StoryChapter 1: Literature and Empathy: A Rationale for ChangeChapter 2: A Taker-Leaver Paradigm: Cultural Representations in Contemporary FictionChapter 3: Popular Science Fiction and Fantasy: Fostering International PerspectivesChapter 4: Let’s Share the Table: Building Ecoliterate CommunitiesChapter 5: Morality and Environmental Responsibility: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Franzen’s FreedomChapter 6: Ecopsychology: Harmonizing Our Paths Afterword by David W. OrrBibliography
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Lexington Books Seeing Animals after Derrida
Book SynopsisThis volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida''s enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his seminal Cerisy Conference from 1997, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Building new proximities with the animal in and through - and at times in spite of - the visual apparatus, Seeing Animals after Derrida investigates how the recent turn in animal studies toward new materialism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology prompts a renewed engagement with Derrida''s animal philosophy. In taking up the matter of Derrida''s treatment of animality for the current epoch, the contributors to this book each present a case for new philosophical approaches and aesthetic paradigms that challenge the ocularcentrism of Western culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction Seeing Animals - Sarah Bezan & James Tink Part One: New Orientations in Derrida’s Philosophy The Wolves of the World: Derrida on the Political Symbolism of the Beast and the Sovereign - Gavin Rae The Loaded Cat - David Brooks Part Two: Posthumous Encounters “The Most Famous Dog in History”: Mourning the Animot in Abadzis’ Laika - José Alaniz The Anterior Animal: Derrida, Deep Time, and Immersive Vision of Paleoartist Julius Csotonyi - Sarah Bezan “The Dignity of Mankind”: Edward Tyson’s Anatomy of a Pygmie and the Ape-Man Boundary - Nicole Mennell Part Three: Beyond Ocularcentrism Chris Marker’s Alter Egos: The Camera and the Cat - Bonnie Gill Scenting Wild: Olfactory Panic and Jack London’s Ocular Dogs - David Huebert Do Androids Dream of Derrida’s Cat? The Unregulated Emotion of Animals in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Megan E. Cannella Part Four: New Arrivals Be/Holding Each Other: Transgenic Invisibilities, Anomaly, and Subjectivity in the GFP Bunny Project - Malin Palani The Surreal Gaze of the Animal Other: Uncanny Encounters in Magritte and Buñel - Kirsten Strom Becoming Animal and the Two Meanings of Animality: A Derridean Reading of Black Swan - Rodolfo Piskorski Approaching Apocalypse: The Typology of Animals in Nicola Barker’s In the Approaches - James Tink
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Lexington Books The Image of the River in Latino American
Book SynopsisAlthough fictionaland often fantasticrepresentations of nature have been a distinguishing feature of Latin American literature for centuries, ecocriticism, understood as the study of literature as it relates to depictions of the natural world, environmental issues, and the ways in which human beings interact and identify with their natural surroundings, did not emerge as a field of scholarly interest in the region until the end of the twentieth century. This volume employs an ecocritical lens in order to explore and question the use of the river imagery in Latino and Latin American literature from the colonial period to our modern world, creating a space in which to examine both its literal and figurative meanings, associated as much with processes of a personal nature as with those of the collective experience in the region. The slow, meandering streams of nostalgia, the raging currents of conflict or the stagnant waters of social decay are just a few of the ways in which the river haTable of ContentsIntroduction: Written in the Water: The Image of the River in Latin/o American Literature Part I: Memory of Water: Rivers and the Politics and Praxis of Remembrance 1 Along the River of Memory: Los fuegos de San Telmo by José Pedro Díaz Elizabeth G. Rivero 2 Floating Statues and Streams of Consciousness: Memory Work in Argentina's Río de la Plata and Río Salí Bridget V. Franco 3 From “Obstinate Memory” to Explosions of Recollections: Rivers as Cultural Sites of Remembrance Julia A. Kushigian Part II: Rivers at the Crossroads: Borders, Land/Cityscapes and Social Imaginaries as Contested Spaces 4 The River as Political Quagmire: Mempo Giardinelli's An Impossible Balance Jeanie Murphy 5 Rippling Borders in Latina Literature Rebeca L. Hey-Colón 6 Social and Geographical Landscapes: The River as Metaphor for Female Sexuality Kathryn Quinn-Sanchez 7 Myth and Reality: Imaging the River in Early Colonial Spanish Writing J. Manuel Gómez 8 Writing the Riverbanks in El libro flotante by Leonardo Valencia Renata Égüez About the Contributors
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Lexington Books Modernism and the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisModernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From more familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity's increasing domination of the natural world. Trade ReviewWithin the growing field of ecocritical modernist studies, examining literary modernism’s relationship to the Anthropocene is a particularly urgent task. By theorizing twentieth-century modernisms as literatures of an ‘emergent Anthropocene,’ this book opens an important conversation about the extent to which modernist aesthetic practices—from experimental novels and poetics to sci-fi, comics, and popular science writing—anticipate current concerns about the scale of human impact on the planet, the entanglement of human with more-than-human agencies, and the discrepancy between phenomenological, historical, and planetary timescales. Representing a range of critical perspectives, the chapters offer thought-provoking starting points for further investigation. -- Anne Raine, University of OttawaThis important volume spotlights modernist engagement with the nonhuman world. Scholars and students conscious of their unraveling natural setting and strained social context are focusing on just these tensions. Modernism and the Anthropocene succeeds by mingling the ecological turn in modernist studies with the cultural-historical experience of the Anthropocene. The result is a timely contribution for literary scholars, environmental humanists, and students of our unfolding climate emergency. -- Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy, University of UtahTable of ContentsIntroduction: Modernism and the Emergent AnthropocenePart I: Modernism-Anthropocene EncountersChapter 1: Revolt against the Anthropos: The Human-Environment Conflicts in D.H. Lawrence Chapter 2: Vorticism in an Age of Climate ChangeChapter 3: Hart Crane: A Poet of Our ClimateChapter 4: “What kind of creature uttered it…?”: A Stratigraphy of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett’s The UnnamablePart II: Planetary Time and SpaceChapter 5: “The Modernist Cosmos: Olaf Stapledon, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and the Crisis of SpeciesChapter 6: Modernist Planets and Planetary ModernismChapter 7: Early Ecology and Climate Change in the Future Histories of H.G. Wells and Olaf StapledonChapter 8: Second Modernism and the Aesthetics of Temporal ScalePart III: Writing MaterialsChapter 9: Comics: Art of the AnthropoceneChapter 10: Modernism on Ice: Marianne Moore and the Glacial ImaginationChapter 11: Modernism’s Plastic FuturesChapter 12: Sky and Smoke: Literary Atmospherics in Cary and Ibuse
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Lexington Books The HumanAnimal Boundary
Book SynopsisThroughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential differencerather than a porous transitionbetween the human and animal. Attempts to assign essential properties to humans (e.g., language, reason, or morality) often reflected ulterior aims to defend a privileged position for humans..This book shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the questions What is human? and What is animal? What makes this collection unique is that it fills a lacuna in critical animal studies and the growing field of ecocriticism. It is the first collection that establishes a productive encounter between philosophical perspectives on the humananimal boundary and those that draw on fictional literature. The objective is to establish a dialogue between those disciplines with the goal of expanding the imaginative scope of human-animal relationships. The contributions thus do not only trace and deconstruct the boundaries dividing humans and Trade ReviewFrom Aesop’s and Heidegger’s animals to McKibben’s and Bekoff’s anthropocene, the dividing line between homo sapiens and the world’s other species has been supported and abolished, attacked and embraced. As ecocriticism has developed into a discipline, scholars have seen this same human/animal distinction as central to our understanding of ecology and the rise of environmentalism. Batra and Wenning bring together essays that make clear why this debate is so central to our understanding of the role of animals in human life and the role of humans in the lives of animals. -- Ashton Nichols, Beach ’65 Distinguished Professor in Sustainability Studies and Professor of English, Dickinson College, and author of Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Urbanatural Roosting and Romantic Natural Histories: Wordsworth, Darwin and OthersTable of ContentsIntroduction Nandita Batra and Mario Wenning I. Contesting Exceptionalism 1. Bridging the Abyss: Re-interpreting Heidegger’s Animals as a Basis for inter-species Understanding Joshua A. Bergamin 2. Ramayana’s Hanuman—Animal, Human or Divine Sukanya B. Senapati 3. Aesop: Figuring the Human/Animal Boundary John Hartigan II. Representing the Human-Animal Boundary 4. ‘Zones of Non-Knowledge’: Facing The Open with R. M. Rilke, Martin Heidegger, and Giorgio Agamben Sabine Lenore Müller 5. The Avoidance of Moral Responsibility towards Animals: Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and the Human Animal Boundary Tomaž Grušovnik 6. The Cattle in the Long Cedar Springs Draw Gary Comstock 7. Re-writing the Human-Animal Divide: Humanism and Octavia Butler’s “Amborg” Aparajita Nanda 8. Milton’s Elephant James P. Conlan III. Re-Situating the Human/Animal Boundary 9. The Moral Duties of Dolphins Sara Gavrell Ortiz 10. Great Apes and Lesser Humans: Goodall and the Geographic Entangled in Uhuru Kristian Bjørkdahl 11. The Empress and the Beast: Finding a Philosophical Voice in Fiction Alison Suen 12. A Bestiary for the Anthropocene: The End of Nature and the Future of Animal Life on Planet Earth Eduardo Mendieta
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Lexington Books Rhetorical Animals
Book SynopsisRhetorical Animals explores what the study of communication and persuasion would look like if it included the voices of all persuasive species, from the microscopic gut bacteria to the charismatic megafauna we know so well.Trade ReviewIn the excellent collection Rhetorical Animals, Bjørkdahl and Parrish have collected a range of robust investigations on the persuasive capacities of animals. These chapters expand existing conversations on ethics, rhetorics, and materiality, while pointing to new directions for exploring intra-animal persuasions, human-animal relationships, and the biotic bases for persuasion. Further, the scholars assembled here trouble longstanding assumptions about what rhetoric is, how it functions, and who has access to it, all while being critical and personal in equal measure. -- Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: Expanding Boundaries – Internally Chapter 1: Multiple Rhetorical Animals: Motivation and Fairness in a Paradigm of Rhetoric as Emotive Consciousness David Gruber Chapter 2: A Humanimal Rhetorics of Biological Materiality Hayley Zertuche Chapter 3: Let’s Listen With Our Feet: Animals, Neurodivergence, Vulnerability, and Haptic Rhetoricity Kelin Loe Chapter 4: Human Boundary Seepage and Bacterial Rhetorics Jennifer Saltmarsh Part II: Expanding Boundaries – Externally Chapter 5: The Biotic Turn in Rhetoric: Ethical Internatural Communication as Suasory Peacebuilding Ellen Gorsevski Chapter 6: Towards an Ethological Rhetoric Dustin Greenwalt Chapter 7: Beyond a Patriarchal Rhetorical Economy: Nonhuman Animals as Agents in Turkic Legends and Political Culture Iklim Goksel Chapter 8: Human, Dolphins, and Other People Alex Parrish Part III: Further Expansion: Cross-Species and Across Cultures Chapter 9: Learning to Howl: An Exercise in Internatural Abduction Emily Plec and Susan Hafen Chapter 10: Touring the Sixth Persona: Dodos and the Rhetorical Effects of Missed Communication Jake Dionne Chapter 11: How Dogs (and Other Nonhuman Animals) Become Interesting) Marilyn Cooper Chapter 12: How to Understand a Parrot’s Words and What You Can Learn from Him: Early Indian Writers on Animal Speech Andrea Gutierrez Chapter 13: The Rhetoric of Nonanthropocentric Rhetoric Bjørkdahl, Kristian
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Lexington Books Rhetorical Animals
Book SynopsisFor this edited volume, the editors solicited chapters that investigate the place of nonhuman animals in the purview of rhetorical theory; what it would mean to communicate beyond the human community; how rhetoric reveals our "brute roots." In other words, this book investigates themes that enlighten us about likely or possible implications of the animal turn within rhetorical studies. The present book is unique in its focus on the call for nonanthropocentrism in rhetorical studies. Although there have been many hints in recent years that rhetoric is beginning to consider the implications of the animal turn, as yet no other anthology makes this its explicit starting point and sustained objective. Thus, the various contributions to this book promise to further the ongoing debate about what rhetoric might be after it sheds its long-standing humanistic bias.Trade ReviewIn the excellent collection Rhetorical Animals, Bjørkdahl and Parrish have collected a range of robust investigations on the persuasive capacities of animals. These chapters expand existing conversations on ethics, rhetorics, and materiality, while pointing to new directions for exploring intra-animal persuasions, human-animal relationships, and the biotic bases for persuasion. Further, the scholars assembled here trouble longstanding assumptions about what rhetoric is, how it functions, and who has access to it, all while being critical and personal in equal measure. -- Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: Expanding Boundaries – InternallyChapter 1: Multiple Rhetorical Animals: Motivation and Fairness in a Paradigm of Rhetoric as Emotive ConsciousnessDavid GruberChapter 2: A Humanimal Rhetorics of Biological MaterialityHayley Zertuche Chapter 3: Let’s Listen With Our Feet: Animals, Neurodivergence, Vulnerability, and Haptic RhetoricityKelin LoeChapter 4: Human Boundary Seepage and Bacterial RhetoricsJennifer Saltmarsh Part II: Expanding Boundaries – ExternallyChapter 5: The Biotic Turn in Rhetoric: Ethical Internatural Communication as Suasory PeacebuildingEllen Gorsevski Chapter 6: Towards an Ethological RhetoricDustin GreenwaltChapter 7: Beyond a Patriarchal Rhetorical Economy: Nonhuman Animals as Agents in Turkic Legends and Political CultureIklim GokselChapter 8: Human, Dolphins, and Other PeopleAlex Parrish Part III: Further Expansion: Cross-Species and Across CulturesChapter 9: Learning to Howl: An Exercise in Internatural AbductionEmily Plec and Susan HafenChapter 10: Touring the Sixth Persona: Dodos and the Rhetorical Effects of Missed CommunicationJake DionneChapter 11: How Dogs (and Other Nonhuman Animals) Become Interesting)Marilyn CooperChapter 12: How to Understand a Parrot’s Words and What You Can Learn from Him: Early Indian Writers on Animal Speech Andrea GutierrezChapter 13: The Rhetoric of Nonanthropocentric RhetoricBjørkdahl, Kristian
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Lexington Books Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment
Book SynopsisMany contemporary environmental risks and global environmental changes occurring today are unprecedented in the history of human life on earth. However, the images and narratives through which humans relate to these phenomena are built on existing cultural tropes and narrative models. Cultural, social, and historical contexts strongly influence how we construct images and narratives of nature and the environment. It is therefore highly important to study such narratives in works of literature, film, and other forms of cultural expression in relation to the specific circumstances from which they arise.Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first English language anthology that presents ecocritical research on northern European literatures and cultures. The contributors examine specifically Nordic narratives of nature and the environment, with a focus on the cultures and literatures of the modern northern European countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, including Trade ReviewNordic Narratives is a scintillating exploration of the Nordic countries’ green environmentalism, lands rich in fossil fuel funds yet nevertheless well-known for their quest to attain sustainable strategies in the snowy North. This beautifully conceived volume portrays a wide array of Scandinavian texts and films, demonstrating the complexity of the 'Postcolonial North' that celebrates its rugged landscapes while creating a culture in which agriculture is the norm so that the nomadic Sami—reindeer herders—are no longer able to access their once long-familiar routes across the land. The contributors provide essential and invaluable insights for ecocriticism and the environmental humanities with a well-needed and essential guide for views from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, and the Åland and Faroe Islands in the Anthropocene. -- Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity UniversityThe still largely Anglophone focus of ecocritical research is greatly enriched by this collection of twelve diverse and insightful essays focusing on the literature and cinema of the North, ranging from the land of the indigenous Sámi people and the polar expanses of northern Norway, down to Denmark and across Finland and Sweden. While the public policy narrative of the Nordic countries vaunts a strong environmentalism, these twelve cultural analyses explore more nuanced messages that reveal the complexity of the Nordic response to nature and the crisis of the Anthropocene. -- Linda Rugg, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment Reinhard Hennig, Anna-Karin Jonasson, and Peter Degerman Part I: Nordic Anthropocene Narratives 1. “The Safest Place on Earth”: Cultural Imaginaries of Safety in Scandinavia Lauren E. LaFauci 2. Moving Mountains: Cinema, Deep Time, and Climate Change in Hanna Ljungh’s I am Mountain, to Measure Impermanence Anna Sofia Rossholm 3. “Visionary Cartography”: The Aesthetic Mediation of the Anthropocene in Kaspar Colling Nielsen’s Mount Copenhagen Jørgen Bruhn 4. Nordic Nature on the Edge of the North Sea: Kjersti Vik’s Mandø Katie Ritson 5. The Tale of The Great Deluge: Risto Isomäki’s The Sands of Sarasvati as Climate Fiction Toni Lahtinen Part II: Language, Aesthetics, and the Non-Human in Nordic Environments 6. Of Wildflowers and Butterflies: Interrogating Species Names in Norwegian Poetry from the National Romantic to the Anthropocene Jenna Coughlin 7. From Anthropomorphism to Ecomorphism: Figurative Language in Tarjei Vesaas’ Fuglane and Stina Aronson’s Hitom himlen Beatrice G. Reed 8. Botanics in Dystopian Environments: Human-Plant Encounters in Contemporary Finnish-language Dystopian Fiction Hanna Samola 9. Interspecies Encounters – An Eco-Ethical Approach to Frida Nilsson’s Ishavspirater Nina Goga Part III: Environmental Justice and the Postcolonial North 10. The Nature of Hunger: Karl August Tavaststjerna’s Hårda tider Frederike Felcht 11. Scandinavian Wilderness and Violence: Two Women Travelling in Sápmi 1907–1916 Kari Haarder Ekman 12. ‘Extractivism’ in Sápmi: Elegiac Ecojustice in Liselotte Wajstedt’s Film Kiruna Space Road and Marja Helander’s Silence Photographs Cheryl J. Fish
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Lexington Books Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment
Book SynopsisMany contemporary environmental risks and global environmental changes occurring today are unprecedented in the history of human life on earth. However, the images and narratives through which humans relate to these phenomena are built on existing cultural tropes and narrative models. Cultural, social, and historical contexts strongly influence how we construct images and narratives of nature and the environment. It is therefore highly important to study such narratives in works of literature, film, and other forms of cultural expression in relation to the specific circumstances from which they arise.Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first English language anthology that presents ecocritical research on northern European literatures and cultures. The contributors examine specifically Nordic narratives of nature and the environment, with a focus on the cultures and literatures of the modern northern European countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, Trade ReviewNordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first collection of ecocritical research on northern European literatures written in the English language. . . . [it] is an intriguing and comprehensive collection that makes the complex field of Scandinavian ecocriticism accessible to an Anglophone audience. One can only hope that it will encourage further ecocritical research in Northern European literatures. * Ecozon@ *Nordic Narratives is a scintillating exploration of the Nordic countries’ green environmentalism, lands rich in fossil fuel funds yet nevertheless well-known for their quest to attain sustainable strategies in the snowy North. This beautifully conceived volume portrays a wide array of Scandinavian texts and films, demonstrating the complexity of the 'Postcolonial North' that celebrates its rugged landscapes while creating a culture in which agriculture is the norm so that the nomadic Sami—reindeer herders—are no longer able to access their once long-familiar routes across the land. The contributors provide essential and invaluable insights for ecocriticism and the environmental humanities with a well-needed and essential guide for views from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, and the Åland and Faroe Islands in the Anthropocene. -- Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity UniversityThe still largely Anglophone focus of ecocritical research is greatly enriched by this collection of twelve diverse and insightful essays focusing on the literature and cinema of the North, ranging from the land of the indigenous Sámi people and the polar expanses of northern Norway, down to Denmark and across Finland and Sweden. While the public policy narrative of the Nordic countries vaunts a strong environmentalism, these twelve cultural analyses explore more nuanced messages that reveal the complexity of the Nordic response to nature and the crisis of the Anthropocene. -- Linda Rugg, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Nordic Narratives of Nature and the EnvironmentReinhard Hennig, Anna-Karin Jonasson, and Peter DegermanPart I: Nordic Anthropocene Narratives1. “The Safest Place on Earth”: Cultural Imaginaries of Safety in ScandinaviaLauren E. LaFauci2. Moving Mountains: Cinema, Deep Time, and Climate Change in Hanna Ljungh’s I am Mountain, to Measure ImpermanenceAnna Sofia Rossholm3. “Visionary Cartography”: The Aesthetic Mediation of the Anthropocene in Kaspar Colling Nielsen’s Mount CopenhagenJørgen Bruhn 4. Nordic Nature on the Edge of the North Sea: Kjersti Vik’s MandøKatie Ritson5. The Tale of The Great Deluge: Risto Isomäki’s The Sands of Sarasvati as Climate FictionToni LahtinenPart II: Language, Aesthetics, and the Non-Human in Nordic Environments6. Of Wildflowers and Butterflies: Interrogating Species Names in Norwegian Poetry from the National Romantic to the AnthropoceneJenna Coughlin7. From Anthropomorphism to Ecomorphism: Figurative Language in Tarjei Vesaas’ Fuglane and Stina Aronson’s Hitom himlenBeatrice G. Reed8. Botanics in Dystopian Environments: Human-Plant Encounters in Contemporary Finnish-language Dystopian FictionHanna Samola9. Interspecies Encounters – An Eco-Ethical Approach to Frida Nilsson’s IshavspiraterNina GogaPart III: Environmental Justice and the Postcolonial North10. The Nature of Hunger: Karl August Tavaststjerna’s Hårda tiderFrederike Felcht11. Scandinavian Wilderness and Violence: Two Women Travelling in Sápmi 1907–1916Kari Haarder Ekman12. ‘Extractivism’ in Sápmi: Elegiac Ecojustice in Liselotte Wajstedt’s Film Kiruna Space Road and Marja Helander’s Silence PhotographsCheryl J. Fish
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Lexington Books Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent
Book SynopsisEcocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the devastating effects of the mining industries, to present concerns and futuristic visions of the effects of climate change. Of central concern in all of these contexts is the impact of settler colonialism and an increasing turn to indigenous knowledge systems. A number of chapters engage with questions of ecological imperialism in relation to specific sociohistorical moments and effects, probing early colonial encounters between settlers and indigenous people, or rereading specific forms of colonial literature. Other essays take issue with past and present constructions of indigeneity in different coTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Beate Neumeier Section 1: Politics of the Land and Indigenous Knowledge 1 The Museumesque in Pristine Wilderness Alexis Wright 2 The Smooth Space of the Nomads: Indigenous Outopia, Indigenous Heterotopia and the Example of Australia Norbert Finzsch 3 From Reverence to Rampage: Care for Country vs. Ruthless Exploitation Catherine Laudine Section 2: Colonial Legacies and Current Environmental Concerns 4 Australian Conservation Policies and the Owls of Lord Howe Island Helen Tiffin 5 Biological Colonisation in the Land of Flowers Anna Haebich 6 Moving Trees and Trading Melons: Reconstructing Local Knowledge and Settler Practices in 1840s South Australia Eva Bischoff Section 3: Ecocriticism and Fieldwork 7 Ecologies of the Otherwise: Glimpses of Australia after the Resources Boom Carsten Wergin 8 On The Beaten Track: Ambiguous Wilderness in the Tourist Space of Indigenous Australia Anke Tonnaer 9 Yan-nhaŋu Language of the Crocodile Islands: Anchoredness, Kin, and Country Dany Adone, Melanie Brück, Bentley James Section 4: Ecocritical Approaches to Colonial Art 10 Reconstructing Representations: ‘Australia’ as Ecocritical Andragogy CA Cranston 11 Killing and Sentiment in the Colonial Australian Kangaroo Hunt Narrative Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver 12 Marriage, Mining and Environmental Destruction in Nineteenth-Century Fiction about Australia Philip Mead Section 5: Ecocritical Concerns Across Contemporary Arts: Indigenous Voices in Fiction, Poetry and Performing Arts 13 Performing the Anthropocene: Marrugeku’s Cut the Sky Helen Gilbert 14 Corporate Interest and the Power of Mines in Indigenous Writing and Film: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria (2006) and Ivan Sen’s Goldstone (2016) Victoria Herche and David Kern 15 Defying the ‘Ecological Indian’: The Urban Ecopoetry of Samuel Wagan Watson Katrin Althans Section 6: Coda – Crossing Boundaries 16 Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: Two Personal Accounts Helen Tiffin and Sandra Williams About the Contributors
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Lexington Books Ecomasculinities
Book SynopsisWhile there exist numerous studies on ecocriticism and ecofeminism, much less has been written about ecomasculinities. This volume contributes to filling this gap by examining models of fictional ecomasculinity in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema. Our study examines ecomasculinities as practices of masculinity which are deeply conservationist and can embrace non-masculine traits. In this line of thought, a main goal of the volume is to interrogate the potential of ecomasculinities to elicit in men a desire to become engage in other practices of masculinity that are counter-hegemonic and have as main goal to achieve equality on different strata of society. Bridging the gap between the Social Sciences and the Humanities, the book interrogates intersections between ecomasculinities and masculinities beyond capitalism, ecomasculinities and aging, and ecomasculinities and queerness, among others.Trade ReviewIf American masculinity has been historically grounded in "taming" nature, and environmentalism synonymous with "feminized regulation," then how can men articulate a relationship with nature? We hardly need an eco-masculinist hero—"Eco-Man to the Rescue!"—and these careful readings of recent American fiction show men's fitful efforts to define a relationship as cohabitors on an increasingly fragile planet. Ecomascuinities, carefully constructed, are a necessary part of our survival. -- Michael Kimmel, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Stony Brook UniversityTo critically interrogate the historically ‘unmarked category’ of ecomasculinities is to strive for better understandings of the Western imagination and its ecological malaise. This rich volume highlights the importance of the literary in the urgent endeavour of reformulating relationships between men and the more-than-human. It will inform timely debates in ecocriticism, gender studies and cultural studies. -- Richard Twine, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, Co-Director of Centre for Human-Animal Studies (CfHAS), Edge Hill UniversityEcomasculinities addresses a significant gap in both the masculinities literature and eco-criticism. Informed by ecofeminist critiques of men’s exploitation of nature and the links between dominant forms of masculinity and ecological destruction, the editors and contributors draw upon fictional representations of diverse masculinities to envisage new non-exploitative relations between men and nature. In doing so, they provide inspiration for men in the real world to transform dominant masculinities and to foster a feminist-informed ethic of care for the environment and all living beings. -- Bob Pease, Honorary Professor, School of Humanities and Social Science, Deakin UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction Stefan L. Brandt & Rubén Cenamor Part I: The Birth of Literary Ecomasculinities 1. The Wild Ones: Ecomasculinities in the American Literary Imagination Stefan L. Brandt 2. Men in Nature: a critical analysis of the Mythopoetic Men’s Movement Paul M. Pulé and Martin Hultman 3. Eco-men from the Outer Space? Mars and Utopian Masculinities in Fin de Siècle Literature Alessandra Calanchi Part II: Ecomasculinities in American Literature from 1950s to 1990s 4. A New Man Emerges: Masculinities Beyond Capitalism and the Eco-Man in 1950s’ America Rubén Cenamor 5. Gender Blending and Psychic Phenomena: Forming Ecomasculinities in Gravity’s Rainbow Victoria Addis 6. Cormac McCarthy’s Eco-men: the loss of the natural world in the twentieth century American landscape Layla Hendow 7. Aging Men in Nature: Jane Smiley’s Ecocritical Exploration of Masculinities Across the Life Course in A Thousand Acres Teresa Requena Part III: The Eco-Man in Contemporary Cinema, TV and Media 8. The Film Star as Eco-warrior: Harrison Ford Saves the Planet (and this Time It is for Real) Virginia Luzón 9. True Detective: Not Flourishing yet, but Maybe Germinating. Bill Phillips 10. Polar Bears and Electric Plugs: Green Shopping and Twenty-First Century Queer American Masculinity Evangeline M. Heiliger About the Contributors
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Lexington Books The Earth Writes
Book SynopsisThis book extensively analyzes the literary works of fiction that draw on the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011. This disaster inspired literally hundreds of fictional works in Japan from the time of the events through 2017. This response represents a unique and perhaps unprecedented cultural phenomenon in the world. Since a variety of writers in different genres, and even amateurs, have written and published books inspired by their experiences of the disaster, it is extremely difficult to cover the entire body of Japanese post-3.11 literature. Because of the breadth of this literary response, there is a scarcity of research on the subject available. This book offers the first comprehensive review of Japan's recent post-disaster literary production to the English audience.Trade ReviewHaga shows how the massive earthquake of 3-11 unleashed not only a calamitous tsunami and the man-made nuclear disaster of Fukushima, it also shook to the foundations the form and content of contemporary Japanese fiction. Based on extensive research, the book is filled with fascinating insights that reveal the complex ways Japanese writers are reimagining what it means to live as humans on our volatile planet. -- Michael K. Bourdaghs, University of ChicagoKoichi Haga’s study of post-3.11 literature in Japan provides a fascinating and necessary glimpse for western readers into the Japanese experience of ecoprecarity in the wake of one of the most devastating natural-technological disasters in recent memory. While the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear meltdown received widespread attention, the cultural ramifications and interpretations of these events—and the lessons about nuclear risk that we can learn from this predictable and yet unexpected crisis—have scarcely been contemplated outside of Japan. I find this book to be a valuable contribution to risk criticism and ecocriticism. -- Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental CommunicationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Overview of Post 3.11 Cultural Production Part I: The Immediate Impact of the 3.11 Disaster on the Writers’ Consciousness Chapter One. Ecological Time-Space Emerging from the Encounter with the 3.11 Earthquake and Tsunami: The first phase of Post 3.11 literary production Chapter Two. Fissures Opened in Literary Ground: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Kenzaburō Ōe’s In Late Style Chapter Three. Animal Agencies in Post-3.11 Literature Part II: Acceleration of the Writers’ Ecological Consciousness Chapter Four. Remembrance of Postcolonial Conditions―The Earthquake’s Disclosure of Uncommon Ground: Tōhoku Area as the Other Within Chapter Five. Dystopian Novels Flourish in the Post-3.11 Period Chapter Six. The Emergence of a Planetary Sense Through Geographic Catastrophe Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author
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Lexington Books Ecofeminism in Dialogue
Book SynopsisThis anthology situates the cultural and literary theories of ecofeminism in an interdisciplinary and global dialogue. It brings ecofeminism into conversation with several areas of inquiry, including ecocriticism, postcolonialism, geography, environmental law, religion, geoengineering, systems thinking, family therapy, and environmental justice.Table of ContentsEditor’s Preface Sam Mickey Introduction Valerie Padilla Carroll Part I: Ecocritical Readings 1. Ecofeminist, Post-colonial, and Anti-capitalist Possibilities in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring Anna Bedford 2. “I Learnt All the Words and Broke Them Up / To Make a Single Word: Homeland”: An Eco-Postcolonial Perspective of Resistance in Palestinian Women’s Literature Benay Blend 3. Pylons, Playgrounds, and Power Stations: Ecofeminism and Landscape in Women’s Short Fiction from Wales Michelle Deininger 4. Angela Carter’s Postmodern Wolf Tales Karen Ya-Chu Yang Part II: Emerging Ecofeminisms 5. “If only I had petals, my situation would be different”: The Curious Case of Nature Reserves and Shelters for Battered Women Edna Gorney 6. Leaning into the Light: Towards an Ecofeminist Model of Family Therapy Gail Grossman Freyne 7. Technofeminism and Ecofeminism: An Analysis of Geoengineering Research Tina Sikka Part III: Religion and Spirituality 8. Weaving Ecofeminisms: Sharing the Reflections of Latin American Women Ann Hidalgo 9. Women, Water, and Ecofeminism: A Method to Respond to the Commodification of Water Rachel Hart Winter 10. Hope Over Powerlessness: McFague’s Meditation on the World as God’s Body Rebecca Meier-Rao Part IV: Mapping Spaces: Geography and International Perspectives 11. Dilemmas and Possibilities of Online Activism in a Gendered Space Jessica McLean 12. Mapping and Misrecognition: Ecofeminist Insights into Chicana Feminist Aesthetics Christina Holmes 13. Ecofeminist Potentials for International Environmental Law Kate Wilkinson Cross
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Lexington Books Ecofeminism in Dialogue
Book SynopsisThere are countless ways of thinking, feeling, and acting like an ecofeminist. Ecofeminism includes a plurality of perspectives, thriving in dialogue between diverse theories and practices involving ecological and feminist matters of concern. Deepening the dialogue, the contributors in this anthology explore critical and complementary interactions between ecofeminism and other areas of inquiry, including ecocriticism, postcolonialism, geography, environmental law, religion, geoengineering, systems thinking, family therapy, and more. This volume aims to further the cultural and literary theories of ecofeminism by situating them in conversation with other interpretations and analyses of intersections between environment, gender, and culture. This anthology is a unique combination of contemporary, interdisciplinary, and global perspectives in dialogue with ecofeminism, supporting academic and activist efforts to resist oppression and domination and cultivate care and justice.Table of ContentsEditor’s PrefaceSam Mickey IntroductionValerie Padilla CarrollPart I: Ecocritical Readings 1. Ecofeminist, Post-colonial, and Anti-capitalist Possibilities in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the RingAnna Bedford2. “I Learnt All the Words and Broke Them Up / To Make a Single Word: Homeland”: An Eco-Postcolonial Perspective of Resistance in Palestinian Women’s LiteratureBenay Blend 3. Pylons, Playgrounds, and Power Stations: Ecofeminism and Landscape in Women’s Short Fiction from WalesMichelle Deininger 4. Angela Carter’s Postmodern Wolf TalesKaren Ya-Chu Yang Part II: Emerging Ecofeminisms 5. “If only I had petals, my situation would be different”: The Curious Case of Nature Reserves and Shelters for Battered WomenEdna Gorney 6. Leaning into the Light: Towards an Ecofeminist Model of Family TherapyGail Grossman Freyne 7. Technofeminism and Ecofeminism: An Analysis of Geoengineering ResearchTina SikkaPart III: Religion and Spirituality 8. Weaving Ecofeminisms: Sharing the Reflections of Latin American WomenAnn Hidalgo 9. Women, Water, and Ecofeminism: A Method to Respond to the Commodification of WaterRachel Hart Winter 10. Hope Over Powerlessness: McFague’s Meditation on the World as God’s BodyRebecca Meier-Rao Part IV: Mapping Spaces: Geography and International Perspectives 11. Dilemmas and Possibilities of Online Activism in a Gendered SpaceJessica McLean 12. Mapping and Misrecognition: Ecofeminist Insights into Chicana Feminist AestheticsChristina Holmes 13. Ecofeminist Potentials for International Environmental LawKate Wilkinson Cross
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Lexington Books The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard
Book SynopsisHow do poets, writers and cultural critics contend with and represent the garden or their own gardening as they are changed by austerity? Gardening under austerity encompasses a diversity of places, spaces, practices, and actors: suburban allotments and zoological gardens, Victory diggers and urban foragers, human gardeners and the unruly more-than-human world. Theorizing the politics, poetics and practices of austerity gardening in twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone cultural texts, The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times explores the variegated impact of austerity in conjunction with the representation of the garden in the national context of England in the mid-century, and how garden imagery is embedded within and illuminates the political, economic, and social contexts of literary production.Trade ReviewWith its emphasis on gardening as a practical and political activity this is a timely collection of essays. Anglophone and post-twentieth century in focus, and ranging in approach from the literary historical to the autoethnographical, this incisive collection offers the fields of garden and plant studies a valuable new contribution. -- Shelley Saguaro, University of GloucestershireFrom fascinating accounts of the nefarious lives of petrochemically-propelled plants like the nettle (aka the `plant thug’) to critical dissections of the environmental impact of the push to intensive farming associated with Britain’s wartime Dig for Victory campaign, The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times is a must read for anyone interested in the cultural politics and history of austerity. Milthorpe should be congratulated on a beautifully curated collection of essays that offers widesweeping insights—from a range of disciplinary perspectives—into the crucial role and place of gardening and plants themselves at the intersection of environmentalism and austerity. -- Tania Lewis, RMIT UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. “Austerity Gardens: The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times.” Naomi Milthorpe Roots Chapter 2. “Sissinghurst: A Fantasy of Austerity” Rebecca Nagel Chapter 3. “Digging Up England: Subverting Austerity in Beverley Nichols’s Merry Hall” Naomi Milthorpe Plots Chapter 4. “Narratives of Nettle: Austerity, Medicinal Flora, and the Herb Garden as a Locus of Resistance.” John Charles Ryan Chapter 5. “Gardening in the Anthropocene: Wilding, Eco-Memoir and Biodiversity.” Jessica White Chapter 6. “Zoological Gardens, Austerity and the Extinction of the ‘Last’ Thylacine” Katrina Schlunke and Hannah Stark Paths Chapter 7. “Life on Pig Row: Living with Austerity.” Andrew and Carol Oldham Chapter 8. “A Poetics of Embodied Gardening” Judy Kendall About the Contributors
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Lexington Books Pragmatist and American Philosophical
Book SynopsisThe essays in Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience offer a survey of the ways that resilience is becoming a key concept for understanding our world, as well as providing deeper insight about its specific actual and proposed applications. From climate change preparedness to mental health, resilience has recently emerged as a central focus of a variety of disciplines grounded in theoretical approaches as disparate as environmental philosophy, psychology, safety engineering, political science, and urban planning. As an emerging concept with multiple theoretical and practical meanings, resilience promises considerable explanatory power. At the same time, current uses of the concept can be diverse and at times inconsistent. The American philosophical tradition provides tools uniquely suited for clarifying, extending, and applying emerging concepts in more effective and suggestive ways. From cultural figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Wendell Berry to philosopTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Resilience as a Philosophical Concept Kelly A. Parker Part I. Pragmatist Conceptions of Resilience 1. Resilience as Wisdom: A Metaphysical Groundwork Paul Benjamin Cherlin 2. Integrating Facts and Values in Explanations of Social-Ecological Resilience Zachary Piso 3. Catastrophe and the Beloved Community: Resources for Resilience in Josiah Royce and Martin Luther King, Jr. Kelly A. Parker and Daniel J. Brunson 4. Frugality and Resilience: A Pragmatist Meditation William M. Throop 5. Resilience Thinking and the Moral Imagination Raymond J. Davidson Jr. 6. ‘What Anything Is for’: Resilience-as-Pragmatism in Aldo Leopold’s ‘Living Democracy’ and Vandana Shiva’s ‘Earth Democracy’ John Hausdoerffer Part II. Developing Capacities for Resilience 7. Toward a Resilient Localism Jessica Hejny 8. Humanities as a Source of Resilience in Jane Addams’s Community Activism Judy D. Whipps 9. Pedagogies for Resilience: Intergroup Dialogue, Design Thinking, and the Integral Approach Danielle Lake 10. Habits of Resilience: Positive Psychology and the Philosophy of William James Heather E. Keith and Kenneth D. Keith Part III. Practical Applications and Case Studies 11. Resilience as a Systems Concept, with an Application to the American West Paul B. Thompson and Jared L. Talley 12. Justice and Agrarianism in Resilient Food Systems Tatiana Abatemarco 13. Crafting Rural Resilience Joanna Wozniak-Brown
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Lexington Books Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil
Book SynopsisNarratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature, edited by Zelia Bora and Murali Sivaramakrishnan, contextualizes the two subcontinents of India and Brazil and closely examines environmental issues from within and without. This collection focuses largely on the fate of forests and water in these two geographical terrains.This book explores narratives that reflect transformations: hitherto unprecedented demographic expansions, exploitation of natural resources, pollution and depletion of river and fresh water sources, uncontrollable demands on the energy front, waste and garbage disposal, drastic reduction of biodiversity. All of these are factors to research when one considers losing nature. In philosophical as well as theoretical terms the question of what is nature, what is gained and lost in human-nature interaction, what is the essential balance of nature, are all important queries on a similar scale. Societal reality in present day Brazil and India is reTable of ContentsSection 1: Contested Spaces: Resisting the Loss of Water and Forests 1.The Loss of Nature, Human and Non human Relationship in Tamil Nadu V.Arivudai Nambi 2.Human Intervention and the Depleting Well Springs of Nature A Case Study of Orange Poika Reinhart Phillip 3.Green Risk: Analyzing the Societal Harms in the Illegal Wood Trade of the Amazonian Rain Forest (Peru/Brazil) Siddharth Singh Monteiro Bora 4.Sabarimala: A Review of Development Threats to a Rare Forest Ecosystem Rajan Gurukkal Section 2: Speaking Nature: The Cultural Dimensions of Water and Land 5.The Amazonian Forest Revisited: a critical reading of the novels by Dalcídio Jurandir Zélia M. Bora 6.The Saga of Subalterns amidst Resource Crisis: An Analysis of “Drought: Mahesh” and Water Nibedita Bandyopadhyay 7.Re-reading Nature, Restoring Nature: “The Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai. Carmen Escobedo de Tapia 8.Nature, Religion and Ecological Sustainability in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Animesh Roy Section 3: The Voice of the Subaltern: Losing Nature 9.“Good God! The Tambochas”: Ants and Environmental Vengeance in José Eustasio Rivera’s The Vortex Frank Izaguirre 10.Around and Inside Amazonian Rainforest: The Literary Manifestos of Vicente Franz Cecim Heloisa Helena Siqueira Correia 11.Amazonian Mythology and the Theatre of A Rã Qi Ri Ligia Karina Martins de Andrade 12.Role of Women in the Early Environment Movements in India Rekha Pande
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Lexington Books Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature
Book SynopsisA friend and associate of the Transcendentalists in Concord, Nathaniel Hawthorne has rarely been taken seriously as a writer interested in the natural world. This book seeks to redress this omission by elucidating the sense of environmentality that emanates from Hawthorne's romances and other writings. Hawthorne's sense of kinship with the natural world runs deep in his work, particularly when his fiction is examined alongside his voluminous notebooks. Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature also contributes to the growing scholarly work aiming to illuminate Hawthorne as a writer deeply engaged in the issues of his day, particularly involving the environment, rather than an author simply interested in reinterpreting colonial history. Today's readers stand to gain a rich new understanding of Hawthorne by reassessing Hawthorne's attitude toward the natural world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Nature of Hawthorne’s Pastoral Romances Chapter One Investigating Hawthorne’s Nonfiction Nature Writing Chapter Two Observing “the Laboratory of Nature” in Hawthorne’s Short Fiction Chapter Three Reading Nature and the Human Body in The Scarlet Letter Chapter Four Mapping Blood and Biology in The House of the Seven Gables Chapter Five Et in Arcadia Ego: Adaptation and Natural Limits in The Blithedale Romance Chapter Six Exploring the Ruins of the Human Animal in The Marble Faun Chapter Seven Postscript: Hawthorne’s Unfinished Romances Bibliography About the Author
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Lexington Books Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature
Book SynopsisA friend and associate of the Transcendentalists in Concord, Nathaniel Hawthorne has rarely been taken seriously as a writer interested in the natural world. This book seeks to redress this omission by elucidating the sense of environmentality that emanates from Hawthorne's romances and other writings. Hawthorne's sense of kinship with the natural world runs deep in his work, particularly when his fiction is examined alongside his voluminous notebooks. Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature also contributes to the growing scholarly work aiming to illuminate Hawthorne as a writer deeply engaged in the issues of his day, particularly involving the environment, rather than an author simply interested in reinterpreting colonial history. Today's readers stand to gain a rich new understanding of Hawthorne by reassessing Hawthorne's attitude toward the natural world.Trade ReviewA much-needed and outstanding study of Hawthorne’s preoccupation with Nature, a neglected theme in Hawthorne studies. Steven Petersheim offers a comprehensive view of Hawthorne’s relationship to nature in his journals, correspondence, short fiction, travel sketches, and novels. With great verve, Petersheim describes Hawthorne’s ongoing fascination with nature from his college days onwards through his travels to Europe and shows unwitting similarities but ofttimes ruptures with his Transcendentalist neighbors in Concord in their assessment of nature. An indispensable resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century American literature and environmental studies. -- Monika Elbert, Prof. of English, Montclair State UniversityRethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature is a very welcome and long-needed contribution to ecocriticism and nineteenth-century American literary studies, unsettling the common (mis)conception of Hawthorne as the isolated writer and revealing him instead as a man deeply engaged with the natural world around him. In this first book-length ecocritical study of Hawthorne’s work, Petersheim brings insightful and wide-ranging analyses to the breadth of Hawthorne’s career, including not just the well-known stories and popular romances, but also his nonfiction writings, including his personal notebooks, and the unfinished late romances. Petersheim does an excellent job situating Hawthorne’s writing in its historical contexts, all the while bringing a fresh theoretical eye to many of these much studied works. -- Tom J. Hillard, Boise State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Nature of Hawthorne’s Pastoral Romances Chapter OneInvestigating Hawthorne’s Nonfiction Nature Writing Chapter TwoObserving “the Laboratory of Nature” in Hawthorne’s Short Fiction Chapter ThreeReading Nature and the Human Body in The Scarlet LetterChapter FourMapping Blood and Biology in The House of the Seven GablesChapter FiveEt in Arcadia Ego: Adaptation and Natural Limits in The Blithedale RomanceChapter SixExploring the Ruins of the Human Animal in The Marble FaunChapter SevenPostscript: Hawthorne’s Unfinished Romances BibliographyAbout the Author
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Lexington Books Seeing Like a Commons
Book SynopsisIn Seeing Like a Commons, Joshua P. Lockyer demonstrates how a growing group of people have, over the last 80 years, deliberately built the Celo Community, a communal settlement on 1,200 acres of commonly owned land in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Joshua P. Lockyer highlights the potential for intentional communities like Celo to raise awareness of global interconnectivity and structural inequalities, enabling people and communities to become better stewards and citizens of both local landscapes and global commons.Trade ReviewSeeing Like a Commons is the definitive study of the famous Celo community founded by TVA director Arthur Morgan. Now, after Celo’s first 80 years, Joshua Lockyer’s research reveals the processes that make it one of the longest enduring secular communal utopias in America. Lockyer’s effective application of the Community Design Principles identified by Nobel Prize winning political economist Elinor Ostrom provide both a practical and theoretical framework for his on-sight ethnographic observations, interviews, and for the book itself. Seeing Like a Commons is the first work to apply Ostrom’s commons concept to the field of communal studies. Lockyer’s own theory of transformative utopianism and use of the theory of developmental communalism also add to a deeper understanding of Celo’s success. Engaging vignettes, with which Lockyer opens chapters, personalize for the reader the inner workings of Celo’s governance and resolution of interpersonal conflicts. In all, Seeing Like a Commons is ethnography, history, and communal utopian studies at their best. -- Donald E. Pitzer, professor emeritus, University of Southern IndianaTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction and HistoryIntroduction: Intentional Community, Commons, and UtopiaChapter 1: Arthur Morgan, Utopianism, and the Founding of Celo CommunityChapter 2: Cultivating Intentional Community Commons: A History of Celo CommunityChapter 3: A Commons Community Today: Celo through the Lens of Transformative UtopianismPart II: Design Principles for a Commons CommunityChapter 4: Common Land and Community Membership: Celo’s Social and Spatial BoundariesChapter 5: Creating Our Own Commons RulesChapter 6: Governing Ourselves and Our CommonsChapter 7: Keeping Each Other HonestChapter 8: When One of Us is Not HonestChapter 9: Dealing with Disputes on the CommonsChapter 10: Gaining Official RecognitionChapter 11: The Commons and Larger Democratic SystemsChapter 12: Beyond the Design Principles: Other Factors that Make Celo WorkConclusion: Cultivating Commons Subjects in and Beyond Intentional Community
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Lexington Books Seeing Like a Commons
Book SynopsisIn Seeing Like a Commons, Joshua Lockyer demonstrates how a growing group of people have, over the last eighty years, deliberately built Celo Community, a communal settlement on 1,200 acres of commonly owned land in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Joshua Lockyer highlights the potential for intentional communities like Celo to raise awareness of global interconnectivity and structural inequalities, enabling people and communities to become better stewards and citizens of both local landscapes and global commons.Trade ReviewSeeing Like a Commons is a worthy addition to the scholarly literature on intentional communities. It focuses on Celo, an 80-year-old, 1,200-acre intentional community located in rural North Carolina…. Lockyer sees Celo as a dynamic, ongoing, and largely successful social experiment. He uses the concept of the community as a commons to explain Celo, defining the commons as both a resource (e.g., land) and as an internal social system for managing the resource by a group that shares values and feelings of community identity. He draws heavily on the work of Elinor Ostrom, discussing Celo’s implementation of several of her commons design principles. Lockyer’s book has relevance for students across the social sciences who are interested in social change as implemented by a long-standing alternative community. Recommended. General readers through faculty. * Choice Reviews *Seeing Like a Commons is the definitive study of the famous Celo community founded by Arthur Morgan, the Tennessee Valley Authority chairman. Now, after Celo’s first eighty years, Joshua Lockyer’s research reveals the processes that make it one of the longest enduring secular communal utopias in America. Lockyer’s effective application of the Community Design Principles identified by Nobel Prize winning political economist Elinor Ostrom provide both a practical and theoretical framework for his on-sight ethnographic observations, interviews, and for the book itself. Seeing Like a Commons is the first work to apply Ostrom’s commons concept to the field of communal studies. Lockyer’s own theory of transformative utopianism and use of the theory of developmental communalism also add to a deeper understanding of Celo’s success. Engaging vignettes, with which Lockyer opens chapters, personalize for the reader the inner workings of Celo’s governance and resolution of interpersonal conflicts. In all, Seeing Like a Commons is ethnography, history, and communal utopian studies at their best. -- Donald E. Pitzer, professor emeritus, University of Southern IndianaLockyer’s study goes into rich detail about the lives of Celo’s members and how Celo deals with such perennial community issues as decision-making, rule enforcement, new members, interactions with neighbors, and stewardship of natural resources. Seeing Like a Commons is much more than an ethnography, for Lockyer skillfully contextualizes Celo’s goals of creating a more just, resilient, and sustainable world. Lockyer’s hope that Celo can show all of us ‘a different way of living in the belly of the beast’ is sure to be realized in this excellent book. -- Jonathan G. Andelson, Grinnell CollegeWith rich ethnographical and historical material from Celo, North Carolina, this book illuminates efforts to re-animate heritages of long-term cooperation in contexts dominated by competitive individualism and utilitarian market relations. Drawing on Ostrom’s studies of commons that have evolved over millennia among place-based communities managing socio-ecosystems worldwide, Lockyer engages work by Bollier, Escobar, Scott, and Gibson-Graham to elegantly theorize contemporary practices of commoning and community. Lockyer motivates students and scholars to ally with endeavors to reestablish local commoning, arguing that, in a world facing deep socio-environmental crises, such efforts contribute toward sociocultural changes necessary to revive our global commons. -- Susan Paulson, University of FloridaTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction and HistoryIntroduction: Intentional Community, Commons, and UtopiaChapter 1: Arthur Morgan, Utopianism, and the Founding of Celo CommunityChapter 2: Cultivating Intentional Community Commons: A History of Celo CommunityChapter 3: A Commons Community Today: Celo through the Lens of Transformative UtopianismPart II: Design Principles for a Commons CommunityChapter 4: Common Land and Community Membership: Celo’s Social and Spatial BoundariesChapter 5: Creating Our Own Commons RulesChapter 6: Governing Ourselves and Our CommonsChapter 7: Keeping Each Other HonestChapter 8: When One of Us is Not HonestChapter 9: Dealing with Disputes on the CommonsChapter 10: Gaining Official RecognitionChapter 11: The Commons and Larger Democratic SystemsChapter 12: Beyond the Design Principles: Other Factors that Make Celo WorkConclusion: Cultivating Commons Subjects in and Beyond Intentional Community
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Lexington Books Portuguese Literature and the Environment
Book SynopsisPortuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all the way to the Romantic and post-Romantic nostalgia for a pristine natural or rural landscape under threat in the wake of industrialization, Portuguese literature has frequently reflected on the connection between humans and the natural world. More recently, the postcolonial turn in contemporary literature has highlighted the contrast between the environment of the former colonies and that of Portugal.Contributors to the collection examine how Portuguese writers engage with the environment and have incorporated nature in their texts not only to prompt social, political or philosophical reflections on human society, but also as a way to learn from non-humans.The book is organized into three sections. The first explores the relationship bTrade ReviewAn invitation to read anew many of the works that make up the canon of Portuguese literature, Portuguese Literature and the Environment represents the first concerted attempt to call attention to the ways in which literary representations create as much as are created by the natural environment in the horizon of which they emerge. Framed by brilliant philosophical and historical overviews of the state of the matter in present day Portugal, the ecocriticism that follows urges the question of how the local environment might have had global impact across the ages. -- Ana Paula Ferreira, University of MinnesotaA tour de force, this volume brings together reflections that span centuries and a marvelous range of materials. The critical approaches are as rich and varied as the literatures and environments that they engage. This is a timely and often brilliant book, and it should appeal to readers far and wide. -- Bruno Carvalho, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. A Portuguese Approach to the Environmental Crisis Chapter 2. Environment, Nature and Landscape: Conceptual Affinities and Distinctions in the Portuguese Context Chapter 3. Inter-, Multi- and Trans-Disciplinarity: New Horizons for Portuguese Environmental History Chapter 4. Elemental Portugal Chapter 5. “Songs of Stance” Chapter 6. Portuguese Environmental Perceptions of Brazil in the Sixteenth Century Chapter 7. Nature’s Literary Lessons: Júlio Dinis on Literature and the Environment Chapter 8. “On Borrowed ‘Women’s Time’: Ecological Female Bodies and the Re-Engendering of Nature in Eça de Queirós’s A Cidade e as Serras” Chapter 9. Hunters of Empire: João Teixeira de Vasconcelos’s Colonial Memoirs of African Hunting Chapter 10. Environmentalizing Fernando Pessoa's Modernism Chapter 11. The Posthuman Poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Chapter 12. The Environment and José Saramago’s Literary Program in Journey to Portugal. In Pursuit of Portugal’s History and Culture
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Lexington Books The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in
Book SynopsisThe Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures retraces the nature of hatred and the hatred of nature from the earliest traditions of Western literature including Biblical texts, Medieval Spanish literature, early Spanish Renaissance texts, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iberian and Latin American literatures. The nature of hate is neither hate in its weakened form, as in disliking or loving less, nor hate in its righteous form, as in I hate hatred, rather hate in its primal form as told and conveyed in so many culturally influential Bible stories that are at the root of hatred as it manifests itself today. The hatred of nature is not only contempt for the natural world, but also the idea of nature hating in return, thus inspiring even more hatred of nature. While some chapters, such as the one dedicated to La Celestina, focus more on the nature of hate and the hatred of love, they do address the hatred of nature, as when Celestina conjures Pluto, who happTrade ReviewIn The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures Beatriz Rivera-Barnes has made of that execrable feeling called hate a fascinating object of academic study and a thought-provoking trope for the ecocritical reading of Western civilization. -- José Manuel Marrero HenríquezTable of ContentsIntroductionPart One: The Iberian WorldChapter 1: Dark Alchemy: Celestina, or the Hatred of LoveChapter 2: Intimate Haters, Difficult LiteraturesChapter 3: Odium Dei: Miguel de Unamuno’s Abel SánchezPart Two: Diaries of the AmericasChapter 4: With Hate Leading the Way: Pieces of Aguirre and Other Doomed ExpeditionsChapter 5: Hating Crows: The Travels of Concolorcorvo! and of Ernesto GuevaraChapter 6: The Curse of Ham, The Malediction of Changó: Nature and Terror, Mackandal’s BroodChapter 7: Madness and Hatred. Rivera’s InfernoChapter 8: Canaima, Ecophobia, and the AnthropoceneChapter 9: Yes, it Isn’t (What Cannot be Said): Poetry to Guayama, Puerto Rico to Loisaida, New YorkChapter 10: Biophilia, Ecophobia, Eco-Odium: A Coupling with the Non-Human, Extinction, and a Loop of Vampiric Mosquitos Threatening the AnthropoceneChapter 11: Is there a Caliban in this Narrative? The Cooking and the Eating of HateBibliographyAbout the Author
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Lexington Books An Island in the Stream
Book SynopsisAn Island in the Stream, a collaboration between Cuban and American writers and scholars, is a diverse collection of ecocritical and literary responses to the natural environment in Cuba and to Cuban environmental culture. The essays explore Cuba's vibrant cultural history with particular attention to literature and the visual and performing arts, which are viewed through such lenses as ecofeminism, postcolonial ecocriticism, multiculturalism, and the nuclear imaginary, among others. American environmentalists have long viewed modern Cuba as a model of progressive environmental thinking. In the 1990s, the Cuban government made sustainability a centerpiece of national policy initiatives. This book explores some of the historical foundations of contemporary sustainability efforts in Cuba, while also describing the contemporary environmental situation in that part of the world. From José Martí to Excilia Saldaña, from Antonio Nuñez Jiménez to Lydia Cabrera, the articles here aim to providTrade ReviewThis hybrid collection of ecocritical and literary responses to the Cuban environment and to Cuban environmental culture offers a stimulating map of the ongoing process of mutual encouragement and support between academic and artistic communities located on the island and abroad. The variety of subjects and experiences—a complex network of literary and artistic traditions and ventures—shows a fruitful desire for connection beyond national borders, an authentic aspiration toward dialogue, which implies a polemic openness for American and Cuban participants alike. This book offers seeds of diverse, alternative environmentalisms in the context of dominant neoliberal fantasies: an invitation to overcome complicities with our respective systems and blind spots about our differences and resemblances. This is a powerful call not only for more innovative scholarly work, but also for expanding our quest for public debate over the meaning of the environment in our political and cultural lives. -- Roberto Forns-Broggi, Metropolitan State University of Denver, author of Knots like Stars: The ABC of Ecological Imagination in our AmericasThis refreshing collection of complementary essays brings to the fore, through translation, the often-neglected voice of Cuban artists and ecocritics, together with that of American hispanists and ecocritics: one more example of the growing strength and breadth of environmental humanities in non-English speaking cultures. -- Carmen Flys-Junquera, Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Alcalá, Editor of Ecozon@An Island in the Stream gathers a rich array of texts in an anthology of critical essays, short stories, memoir, travelogue, and poetry for an ecocritical examination of the scholarly and creative work of Cuban writers, artists, performers, and intellectuals. What is especially valuable about the collection is the way in which it functions as a corrective to the perception that Cuban texts have not been particularly concerned with the natural world. On the contrary, the book includes insightful ecocritical analysis of well-known literary figures such as Alejo Carpentier, Jose Martí, and Jose María Heredia while it also provides some needed exposure to the nature writing of lesser-known authors such as Lydia Cabrera and Antonio José Ponte. And, An Island in the Stream delves farther afield into “Green” Cuban cultural production with the inclusion of selected poetry and discussions of theater, painting, sculpture, even the environmental significance of a hand-carved spinning top. All of these elements come together for a particularly illuminating glimpse of current ecocritical thought from leading scholars in the field along with novel examples from a variety of unique and uniquely ecological Cuban imaginative work. -- Scott M. DeVries, Manchester UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Scott Slovic and David Taylor 1.“Dimensions of Nature and Ecofeminism in the narratives of Excilia Saldaña,” Mariana G. Serra Garcia 2.“Renewing Niagara Falls, Burning the Archive in the Cuban Poetic Tradition,” Gabriel Horowitz 3.“Men and Women of the Earth in the Texts of Marti’s Travels,” Mayra Beatriz Martinez 4.“Antonio Nuñz Jiménez, Oswaldo Guayasamín, and the Recovery of Cuba’s Progressive Intellectuals,” Susan E. Bender 5.“Lydia Cabrera and The Narrative of Nature,” Margarita Mateo Palmer 6.“The New World Baroque as Postcolonial Ecology in Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps.” This essay was originally published in Postcolonial Ecologies (Oxford UP 2011), George B. Handley 7.“Cuban Theatre and the Dilemma of Nature,” Karina Pino Gallardo 8.“Among the Ruins of Ecological Thought: Parasites, Trash, and Nuclear Imaginings in La fiesta vigilada,” Christina Maria Garcia Appendix: Literary Responses 9.“Of the African in Cuba,” Heriberto Feraudy Espino 10.“The Gardener’s Creed,” Alison Hawthorne Deming 11.“Weight,” Sylvia Torti 12.“The Cuba Poems,” Robert M. Pyle 13.“Restauración,” Laura Ruiz Montes 14.“Lessons from Cuba,” Blas Falconer 15.“El Trompo: In the Sierra Mountains with Guerilla de Teatreros,” David Taylor 16.“Something Wonderful and Surreal: American Ecocritics and Environmental Writers Contemplate Exile in Cuba as Donald Trump Eyes the White House,” Scott Slovic Contributor’s Biographies
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Lexington Books An Island in the Stream
Book SynopsisAn Island in the Stream, a collaboration between Cuban and American writers and scholars, is a diverse collection of ecocritical and literary responses to the natural environment in Cuba and to Cuban environmental culture. The chapters explore Cuba's vibrant cultural history with particular attention to literature and the visual and performing arts, which are viewed through such lenses as ecofeminism, postcolonial ecocriticism, multiculturalism, and the nuclear imaginary, among others. American environmentalists have long viewed modern Cuba as a model of progressive environmental thinking. In the 1990s, the Cuban government made sustainability a centerpiece of national policy initiatives. This book explores some of the historical foundations of contemporary sustainability efforts in Cuba, while also describing the current environmental situation in that part of the world. From José Martí to Excilia Saldaña, from Antonio Nuñez Jiménez to Lydia Cabrera, the chapters here aim to provide aTrade ReviewThis hybrid collection of ecocritical and literary responses to the Cuban environment and to Cuban environmental culture offers a stimulating map of the ongoing process of mutual encouragement and support between academic and artistic communities located on the island and abroad. The variety of subjects and experiences—a complex network of literary and artistic traditions and ventures—shows a fruitful desire for connection beyond national borders, an authentic aspiration toward dialogue, which implies a polemic openness for American and Cuban participants alike. This book offers seeds of diverse, alternative environmentalisms in the context of dominant neoliberal fantasies: an invitation to overcome complicities with our respective systems and blind spots about our differences and resemblances. This is a powerful call not only for more innovative scholarly work, but also for expanding our quest for public debate over the meaning of the environment in our political and cultural lives. -- Roberto Forns-Broggi, Metropolitan State University of Denver; author of Knots like Stars: The ABC of Ecological Imagination in our AmericasThis refreshing collection of complementary essays brings to the fore, through translation, the often-neglected voice of Cuban artists and ecocritics, together with that of American hispanists and ecocritics: one more example of the growing strength and breadth of environmental humanities in non-English speaking cultures. -- Carmen Flys-Junquera, Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Alcalá, editor of Ecozon@An Island in the Stream gathers a rich array of texts in an anthology of critical essays, short stories, memoirs, travelogues, and poetry for an ecocritical examination of the scholarly and creative work of Cuban writers, artists, performers, and intellectuals. What is especially valuable about the collection is the way in which it functions as a corrective to the perception that Cuban texts have not been particularly concerned with the natural world. On the contrary, the book includes insightful ecocritical analyses of well-known literary figures such as Alejo Carpentier, Jose Martí, and Jose María Heredia, while it also provides some needed exposure to the nature writing of lesser-known authors such as Lydia Cabrera and Antonio José Ponte. And, An Island in the Stream delves farther afield into “Green” Cuban cultural production with the inclusion of selected poetry and discussions of theater, painting, sculpture, even the environmental significance of a hand-carved spinning top. All of these elements come together for a particularly illuminating glimpse of current ecocritical thought from leading scholars in the field along with novel examples from a variety of unique and uniquely ecological Cuban imaginative work. -- Scott M. DeVries, Manchester UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionScott Slovic and David Taylor “Dimensions of Nature and Ecofeminism in the narratives of Excilia Saldaña,” Mariana G. Serra Garcia “Renewing Niagara Falls, Burning the Archive in the Cuban Poetic Tradition,”Gabriel Horowitz “Men and Women of the Earth in the Texts of Marti’s Travels,” Mayra Beatriz Martinez “Antonio Nuñz Jiménez, Oswaldo Guayasamín, and the Recovery of Cuba’s Progressive Intellectuals,” Susan E. Bender “Lydia Cabrera and The Narrative of Nature,” Margarita Mateo Palmer “The New World Baroque as Postcolonial Ecology in Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps.” This essay was originally published in Postcolonial Ecologies (Oxford UP 2011), George B. Handley “Cuban Theatre and the Dilemma of Nature,” Karina Pino Gallardo “Among the Ruins of Ecological Thought: Parasites, Trash, and Nuclear Imaginings in La fiesta vigilada,” Christina Maria Garcia Appendix: Literary Responses “Of the African in Cuba,” Heriberto Feraudy Espino “The Gardener’s Creed,” Alison Hawthorne Deming “Weight,” Sylvia Torti “The Cuba Poems,” Robert M. Pyle “Restauración,” Laura Ruiz Montes “Lessons from Cuba,” Blas Falconer “El Trompo: In the Sierra Mountains with Guerilla de Teatreros,” David Taylor “Something Wonderful and Surreal: American Ecocritics and Environmental Writers Contemplate Exile in Cuba as Donald Trump Eyes the White House,” Scott Slovic Contributor’s Biographies
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Lexington Books Urban Biodiversity
Book SynopsisWith large-scale, global declines in many species of plants and animals and other disruptions such as climate change and urbanization, we must learn how humans and other species can coexist with one another. In a case study of urban biodiversity, Erik Kiviat and Kristi MacDonald present two decades of data and assessment of the habitats and biota of the New Jersey Meadowlands. Urban Biodiversity: The Natural History of New Jersey Meadowlands documents the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, butterflies, bees, dragonflies, seed plants, mosses, and lichens of the Meadowlands region and the patterns of their occurrence. The work records the natural history of an urban-industrial region, helping decision makers foster the biodiversity that thrives in cities and giving planners tools to reduce the biological degradation that occurs with urbanization.Trade Review“It is a pleasure to read this book that documents the great variety of wonderful plants and animals that now call the Meadowlands home." -- Judith Weis, Rutgers University“This book presents a critically important case study of how biodiversity can be studied, monitored, and managed in our increasingly urban world. Kiviat and McDonald bring to vivid life the habitats and creatures that have survived, and some that have even thrived, in the New Jersey Meadowlands, amidst interstates, suburbs, factories, and malls—and all of the associated environmental damage that comes with them. This will be a critical reference for scientists and land managers interested in the Meadowlands but also an inspiring resource for anyone with an interest in the natural history of urban areas. The sheer scope of the biodiversity identified here is itself a paean to the extraordinary skills of natural historians in the field." -- Felicia Keesing, Bard College“Kiviat and MacDonald patiently lead us through the complexities of what is, in ecological terms, the center of the New York City region, the estuarine heart of the region. Just as the Meadowlands are a still too-secret defense against the devastating impact of climate change, so Urban Biodiversity is a vital tool in a battle that unchecked development threatens to win each and every day.” -- Robert Sullivan, author of The Meadowlands, A Whale Hunt, and My American Revolution,Table of ContentsTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Environmental Setting of the MeadowlandsChapter 2: Habitats: Marshes, Ponds, and ChannelsChapter 3: Uplands and Forested WetlandsChapter 4: Seed PlantsChapter 5: CryptogamsChapter 6: MammalsChapter 7: BirdsChapter 8: Reptiles and AmphibiansChapter 9: Fishes of the Meadowlands and Adjacent WatersRobert E. SchmidtChapter 10: InvertebratesConclusionAppendix 1. List of Seed Plants of the MeadowlandsAppendix 2. List of Birds of the MeadowlandsReferences
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Who Put People on Earth The True Origin of Humanity
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Gallery Books Manny the Frenchies Art of Happiness
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Cornell University Press Mosses Liverworts and Hornworts
Book SynopsisThis photo-based field guide to the more common or distinctive bryophytes of northeastern North America gives beginners the tools they need to identify most specimens without using a compound microscope.Trade ReviewA remarkable book that bridges the gap between dense technical manuals and superficial field guides and covers these interesting plants in remarkable depth and detail for such a compact volume.... More than being just a simple identification guide, this book is a thoughtful interpretation of the flora with a much greater wealth of biological, ecological, and bibliographic information that is found in most field guides. Its rigor and friendly tone should inspire botanists to enter the miniature world of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. * Castanea *The inclusion of some of the more commonly used technical terms makes the book a good educational tool that can help people transition from amateur bryology to more advanced study.... Pope’s inclusion of similar species in his species accounts and species lists eliminates some of the uncertainty that the user may be experiencing and maximizes the guide’s use for both amateurs and those seeking to delve a little deeper into bryology. * Rhodora *
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Cornell University Press A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden
Book SynopsisIn August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping expedition for some of America''s preeminent intellectuals to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks. Dubbed the Philosophers' Camp, the trip included the Swiss American scientist and Harvard College professor Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, the Republican lawyer and future U.S. attorney general Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, the Cambridge poet James Russell Lowell, and the transcendental philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, who would later pen a poem about the experience. News that these cultured men were living like Sacs and Sioux in the wilderness appeared in newspapers across the nation and helped fuel a widespread interest in exploring the Adirondacks.In this book, James Schlett recounts the story of the Philosophers' Camp, from the lives and careers ofand friendships and frictions amongthe participants to the extensive preparations for the expedition Trade ReviewOther scholars have paid glancing notice at this event but have confused its details or missed its importance. The most thorough scholarly account remains Paul Jamieson's "Emerson in the Adirondacks," published in New York History over a half-century ago and largely overlooked ever since.Until now.... Focusing primarily on the Follensby Pond expedition, Schlett uses it to develop a series of linked themes. The response of Stillman, Emerson, and others to the untouched wilderness of the central Adirondacks invites an assessment of how American culture was coping with the dramatic and often traumatic move away from its rural past and into an urban, industrial future. This is both an American and an Adirondack story (neither urban nor industrial, the Adirondacks is nonetheless what it is today because the rest of New York was becoming both), and Schlett employs it well. -- Philip Terrie * Adirondack Explorer *In his meticulous new history of the Philosophers' Camp,... the first book to focus exclusively on the event, Schlett tackles the subject with serious diligence, lending it a new kind of weight.... As readers will likely learn with some regret, Follensby Pond remains inaccessible to the public. In 2008, the Nature Conservancy purchased the 14,600-acre tract that includes the lake for $16 million from a private landowner. But after several unsuccessful attempts, Follensby has still not entered the state forest preserve, at which time the public will be permitted to visit. Neither is it a high priority. Nevertheless, it could be that Schlett's book redoubles those efforts. That is not something he intended with the book, yet he certainly wouldn't mind it either. -- James H. Miller * The Lake George Mirror *Many of us have heard the story of the Adirondacks' Philosophers' Camp near Follensby Pond that legendary getaway attended by such 19th-century dignitaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Russell Lowell. But it’s always remained just that: the stuff of lore and legend rather than real tangible history. Until now. Award-winning reporter James Schlett... has shined a journalist’s spotlight on this excursion. -- Susan Arbetter * Capital Pressroom *This book offers considerable depth on an important event. Devotees of Adirondack history will find it well worth their effort. -- Richard Frost * Adirondack Daily Enterprise *Schlett makes a convincing argument for its significance. His archival detective work illuminates how widespread the interest in the event was at the time and beyond and contributes to an understanding of its importance in the biographies of the participants, as well as telling a history of the Adirondacks. * New York History *Modern visitors who find retreat and rejuvenation in the Adirondacks will likely enjoy knowing a bit about the people who blazed the trail. But I think that the book will be even more valuable for people living inside the Adirondacks. This is a region whose economic fate depends on outside people and their capital—either visitors or, tragically, prisoners. And to move forward as a region, it is important for locals to learn the cultural history and vocabulary of "the philosophers," even if the favor is not always returned. * Environmental history *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Amid the RuinsPart I. Nature and Society 1. Path to the Adirondacks 2. Turning Points 3. The Crayon 4. "Adieu to the World" 5. The Artist Reborn 6. Trial Run 7. The Procession to the PinesPart II. The Camp and Club 8. Acclimating to the Wild 9. The Worthy Crew Chaucer Never Had 10. Ampersand [Color Plates] 11. The Inaugural MeetingPart III. Campfire Lore 12. War 13. Peace 14. The Ravages of Modern Improvement 15. The Old America and the NewConclusion: The Story RebornPostscriptNotes Select Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press The Eye of the Sandpiper
Book SynopsisIn The Eye of the Sandpiper, Brandon Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay Gould, and David Quammen, reporting from the frontiers of science while celebrating the natural world's wonders and posing new questions about our relationship to the rest of life on Earth. The stories in The Eye of the Sandpiper are arranged in four thematic sections. Each addresses nature through a different lens. The first is evolutionary and ecological dynamics, from how patterns form on butterfly wings to the ecological importance of oft-reviled lampreys. The second section explores the inner lives of animals, which science has only recently embraced: empathy in rats, emotions in honeybees, spirituality in chimpanzees. The third section contains stories of people Trade ReviewProvides accessible and beautifully written food for thought for ecologists. * The Quarterly Review of Biology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Trees of LifePart I. DynamicsOrganized Chaos Makes the Beauty of a ButterflyChickadees, Mutations, and the Thermodynamics of LifeThe Photosynthetic SalamanderHuman Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase"Parallel Universe" of Life Described Far beneath the Bottom of the SeaAt the Edge of Invasion, Possible New Rules for EvolutionA Mud-Loving, Iron-Lunged, Jelly-Eating Ecosystem SaviorRedeeming the LampreyDecoding Nature's SoundtrackPart II. Inner LivesBeing a SandpiperMonogamy Helps Geese Reduce StressWhat Pigeons Teach Us about LoveChimps and the Zen of Falling WaterHow City Living Is Reshaping the Brains and Behavior of Urban AnimalsReconsider the Rat: The New Science of a Reviled RodentMonkeys See Selves in Mirror, Open a Barrel of QuestionsThe New AnthropomorphismHoneybees Might Have EmotionsPart III. IntersectionsA Day in the Life of NYC’s Hospital for Wild BirdsNew Yorkers in Uproar over Planned Mass Killing of SwansAn Eel Swims in the BronxOn Waldman’s PondThe Return of the RiverA Chimp’s Day in Court: Inside the Historic Demand for Nonhuman RightsChimpanzee Rights Get a Day in CourtMedical Experimentation on Chimps Is Nearing an End. But What about Monkeys?I, CockroachPart IV. EthicsThe Improbable BeeThe Ethics of Urban BeekeepingThe Wild, Secret Life of New York CityEarth Is Not a GardenAdd a Few Species. Pull Down the Fences. Step Back.Feral Cats vs. Conservation: A TruceShould Animals Have a Right to Privacy?When Climate Change Blinds UsTo Bring Back Extinct Species, We’ll Need to Change Our OwnSeptember 11, Fall Migration, and Occupy Wall StreetMaking Sense of 7 Billion People
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Cornell University Press The Comstocks of CornellThe Definitive
Book SynopsisThe Comstocks of Cornell is the autobiography written by the naturalist educator Anna Botsford Comstock about her life and that of her husband, the entomologist John Henry Comstockboth prominent figures in the scientific community and in Cornell University history. A first edition was published in 1953, but it omitted key Cornellians, historical anecdotes, and personal insights. In this twenty-first-century edition, Karen Penders St. Clair restores the author''s voice by reconstructing the entire manuscript as Anna Comstock wrote itand thereby preserves Comstock''s memories of the personal and professional lives of the couple as she originally intended. The book includes an epilogue documenting the Comstocks'' last years and fills in gaps from the 1953 edition. Described as serious legacy work, this book is an essential part of the history of both Cornell University and its press.Trade ReviewCurrently an independent scholar based in Rochester, New York, St. Clair hopes the upcoming volume will give readers a better sense of what Anna was truly like, beyond the familiar tropes of her status as Cornell's first female professor, a leading scientific illustrator, and an early advocate of nature education. * Cornell Alumni Magazine *Table of Contents1. The Boyhood of John Henry Comstock, 1849-1865 2. A Sailor and a Scholar 3. Undergraduate Days at Cornell, 1870-1874 4. Anna Botsford-Childhood and Girlhood 5. A University Professorship and Marriage, 1876-1879 6. Entomologist to U.S. Department of Agriculture (Life in Washington as United States Entomologist, 1879-1881) 7. Return to Cornell 8. The Year 1888-1889; With a Winter in Germany 9. California and Stanford University 10. The Nature Study Movement at Cornell University; A Journey South to Study Spiders 11. "How to Know Butterflies" and the "Confessions to a Heathen Idol" 12. A Sabbatical Year Abroad-Egypt and Greece 13. Italy, Switzerland, and Home 14. Chapter 15: 1908-1912, Cornell's New Quarters for Entomology and Nature Study 15. The Two hundred and Fiftieth-anniversary Celebration of the Royal Society and The International Entomological Congress 16. The 65th Milestone and Retirement 17. Florida and Retirement 18. The Toronto Meeting of the A.A.A.S. 1922. A surprising election and voyage westward. 19. Honolulu and Happiness, A Voyage to Europe 20. Mentone Editor's Epilogue
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Cornell University Press Monteverde Arenal
Book SynopsisCosta Rica is much more than a verdant paradise. It''s a land of diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of regional guides reveals unknown facets of Costa Rica and helps travelers understand what makes this country so unique.From the magic of the cloud forestwith its quetzals and volcanoesto a birdwatcher''s paradise in the northern plains of the country, the twin destinations of Monteverde and Arenal offer more to see and do than any other pair of tourist destinations in Costa Rica.Includes a colorful fold-out map of key tourist destinations.Table of ContentsA Forest Among the Clouds The Volcano's Fate Headwaters of the Gods Index Credits
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Cornell University Press Caribbean Coast
Book SynopsisCosta Rica is much more than a verdant paradise. It''s a land of diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of regional guides reveals unknown facets of Costa Rica and helps travelers understand what makes this country so unique.This volume introduces the Caribbean coast, which offers an embarrassment of riches. Pristine rainforests, waterways, and turtle nesting sites attract tourists to Tortuguero in the north, while tropical waters, charming hotels, and Afro-Caribbean culture draw visitors to the south.Includes a colorful fold-out map of key tourist destinations.Table of ContentsBetween Two Waters The Land of Sibö The Railroad Index Credits
£13.29
Cornell University Press Bird Talk
Book SynopsisBird Talk delves into new scientific developments to reveal the complexities of how birds make, learn, and use sound in a bewildering array of songs and calls. The beauty of birdsong is one of the joys of nature, and this book reveals how songs are learnt and performed, why the quality of a male''s repertoire can affect his mating success, and how birds use song-matching and countersinging in territorial disputes. Bird Talk illustrates how birds communicate through visual signals too, from the dazzling feathers of a Peacock to the jumping displays a Jackson''s Widowbird performs to show off his long tail. Plumage features such as the red bill shield of a Pukeko can indicate dominance, and how aggressive wing-waving is used to ward off impostors.Bird Talk will help you understand how birds communicate in a range of situations, whether in harmony or in conflict, providing essential new insight into avian intelligence.Trade ReviewI highly recommend this book for anyone who is passionate about ornithology and birding, and interested in expanding their knowledge about the different ways that birds communicate, as well as the impacts of human activity on birdsong and other behavior. * San Francisco Book Review *Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication is a very good and surprisingly relatively inexpensive way to expand one's knowledge of birds and what we know about how they communicate by song, movement, physical appearance, and smell. [The book makes] scientific information easily available, effortless to read and process, primarily through the use of stunning visual material to engage our eyes and spike our interest. * 10,000 Birds *
£22.79
Cornell University Press Weeds of the Northeast
Book SynopsisThis fully updated second edition of the best-selling Weeds of the Northeast provides lavish illustrations for ready identification of more than 500 common and economically important weeds in the Northeast and in the Upper Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states. This new edition covers the region south to North Carolina, north to Maine and southern Canada, and west to Wisconsin. This practical guide includes descriptions and photos of floral and vegetative characteristics, giving anyone who works with plants the ability to identify weeds before they flower. A broadened range and prevalence of important weeds in the Northeast, as well as the Upper Midwest and Mid-Atlantic United States Standardized species descriptions with a wealth of information in a condensed and comprehensive formatmore than 200 new species accounts Easy identification through a dichotomous key, detailed descriptions, and images Comparison tables make it easy to diffTrade ReviewA detailed and user-friendly guide. * The American Gardener *Highly recommend. * Horticulture *Lavishly illustrated and exceptionally well-done. * Taxon 47 *This distinctive book will be welcomed in a library, school, garden club, as a gift for friends, and definitely as a copy for yourself. * News of the Federated Garden Clubs of New York State *
£24.69
Cornell University Press Lives of Weeds
Book SynopsisLives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essential, and how their ecological success is ensured by determined efforts to eradicate them. Linking botany, history, ecology, and evolutionary biology to the social dimensions of humanity's ancient struggle with feral flora, Cardina shows how weeds have shaped-and are shaped by-the way we live in the natural world. Weeds and attempts to control them drove nomads toward settled communities, encouraged social stratification, caused environmental disruptions, and have motivated the development of GMO crops. They have snared us in social inequality and economic instability, infested social norms of suburbia, caused rage in the American heartland, and played a part in perpetuating pesticide use worldwide. Lives of Weeds reveals how the technologies directed against weeds underlie ethical questions about agriculture and the environment, and leaves readers with a deeper understanding of how the weeds around us are entangled in our daily choices.Trade ReviewIn this expert debut, Cardina explores humans' 'long and ongoing relationship with weedy plants.' Focused and fascinating. * Publisher's Weekly *[John Cardina's] penetrating analysis disentangles botany from history by offering eight interwoven stories, each focused on one weed, some familiar, others less so. * Nature *Cardina weaves together autobiographical and historical anecdotes, precise explanations of plant biology, and speculative but startlingly plausible evolutionary scenarios involving human agency and facilitation for eight common plant species currently considered weeds, or "plants of disrepute." The result is a series of highly readable vignettes about agricultural weeds and their interaction with human culture. Students and researchers in agriculture and ecology will likely enjoy reading Cardina's witty natural history of weedy plants and should consider his suggestions for how and why to treat them with greater respect. * Choice *Blending personal anecdotes of eight weedy plants with research from a broad range of disciplines, Cardina covers a diversity of topics in a remarkably fluid and comprehensive manner. Drawing upon such fields as botany, ecology, evolutionary biology, conservation, and agriculture, the book is a captivating and accessible narrative of humanity's complex and intermingled relationship with the "botanical misfits" commonly referred to as weeds. * Economic Botany *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Clearing a Path 1. Dandelion 2. Florida Beggarweed 3. Velvetleaf 4. Nutsedge 5. Marestail 6. Pigweed 7. Ragweed 8. Foxtail Epilogue: What's 'Round the Bend
£19.99
Cornell University Press The Paradise Notebooks
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Setting Out Part I: Stone, Water, Fire Granite Obsidian Roof Pendants Brokenness Clouds Snow Glacier River Forest Fire Part II: Range of Life Bighorn Aspen Paintbrush Whitebark Pine and Clark's Nutcracker Pileated Woodpecker Belding's Ground Squirrel Mountain Chickadee Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog Western Tanager Sierra Nevada Parnassian Wolf Lichen Epilogue
£21.59
Adams Media Corporation Stuff Unicorns Love
Book SynopsisA whimsical, humorous imagining of what unicorns really think and what they truly love—including recipes for unicorn food, crafts, and the history of these mythical creatures.Glitter. Sparkles. Rainbows and shimmering manes. Sure, unicorns are magical, and their reputations have taken the world by storm, but how much do we know about what unicorns really think? What’s their favorite cookie? What about their favorite color? Would they really drink that pastel milkshake you found on Pinterest? They sure would! In Stuff Unicorns Love, you’ll get a guided tour of unicorns’ most treasured things straight from a unicorn’s mouth—from food recipes and crafts to beauty tips and their favorite activities. Learn the truth about these adorable (and painfully honest) creatures, as well as the facts behind their origins. With illustrations and tons of fascinating unicorn facts throughout, this is a perfect gift for unicorn lovers of all ages.Trade Review"Our society is a bit unicorn obsessed at the moment. But have you ever stopped and wondered what unicorns themselves love? This book contains a unicorn’s favorite recipes, beauty tips, favorite things, and more. What we’re saying is the unicorn-obsessed person in your life NEEDS it." * HelloGiggles *"Cleanse that palate—and your brain—while Jessie Oleson Moore drops some unicorn knowledge on you. Enough sly humor to keep you turning through pages of basic facts, recipes, and “unicorn-y jokes.” Stuff Unicorns Love is a comprehensive unicorn encyclopedia. If you want to attract unicorns or embrace the unicorn mindset in your own life, this book has the answers. Oleson Moore is a talent, who pulls off a pretty great feat with this one: engaging both a third-grader who loves glitter and tired 44-year-old who does not." * That’s Normal *"This delightfully fun read is perfect for younger readers as well as anyone who is young at heart, and wants to enjoy a bit of whimsy in their day. Stuff Unicorns Love is an adorable read that shares fun fictional facts about unicorns that will make you smile alongside perfect illustrations. The perfect way to add a bit of fun to your day. I can’t recommend it enough to anyone looking for a perfectly cute read." * The Nerdy Girl Express *"This comprehensive look at a wide range of things that interest unicorns is filled with everything tweens love--cartoon illustrations, bright colors, and lots of rainbows. A great handbook for friends to pore over on a rainy day and use to inform their own illustrations. A light hearted and entertaining romp through all the sugary sweet sparkly goodness that makes unicorns ‘tick.’ Unicorn hoodie optional while reading this, but highly encouraged!" * YA Books Central *"Even as an adult, I loved this book!" * SoCal City Kids *
£11.78
Adams Media Corporation Grounded: A Guided Journal to Help You Reconnect
Book SynopsisInteract with nature—both inside your home and out—with this beautifully illustrated, inspirational, and interactive journal to help you reconnect with the great outdoors.Contact with nature is good for our psychological and physical health and has been proven to reduce stress, restore attention fatigue, ease depression and anxiety, and foster creativity. Interacting with the outdoors can ground us, offer us a sense of security, deepen the roots of resilience, and enhance our sensory awareness that contributes to feeling fully alive. Grounded is an interactive journal full of calming art, photography, and inspirational quotes, offering prompts and activities that deepen your experience with nature. Engaging all five senses, this guide journal encourages you to bring the outdoors in, including displaying a collection of found objects such as shells and rocks, creating a simple leaf press to preserve fallen leaves, and growing low-maintenance house plants and edible herbs that perfume the air. Whether you live in a city or a wide-open space, this journal is perfect for anyone looking to make the most of what the world has to offer.Trade Review“Patricia Hasbach has invested the time and care over her career to now harvest well-crafted ingredients and applications, to prepare and distill them to their essence; a guide, which allows for meaningful and reciprocally rewarding nature experiences. Answering distress calls from Rachel Carson to the Lorax, the activities and meditations throughout this book offer you, the participant in life, a chance to explore and re-engage in being fully human—that is, a part of, and not separate from, nature. Follow along, discover with interest and awe the expansion of your ecological self, and breathe it in deeply. This is a self-study course in nature connection, facilitated by one of ecotherapy’s leading voices and practitioners, and a real treat to follow! Well done, Patricia.” —Nevin J. Harper, PhD, RCC, professor at the University of Victoria, coauthor of Nature-Based Therapy, and co-editor of Outdoor Therapies“Pat Hasbach is one of America’s—and the world’s—leading voices in ecopsychology. Her prescriptions here, delivered with kindness, are as ancient as they are new, and filled with the spirit of rebirth.” —Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, Vitamin N, and Our Wild Calling“What a beautiful and wonderful book! Ecotherapist Dr. Patricia Hasbach gifts us with a lovely treasure trove of doable daily practices to help us include essential nature connection activities in our everyday lives. Flip it open to a fresh page each morning, and awaken your senses to intimate, embodied awareness of our oneness with Earth and the cosmos.” —Linda Buzzell, coeditor of Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind “As I read Patricia Hasbach’s Grounded, I thought, ‘What if the ideas in Grounded became standard procedure for all legislators? What if they were required to spend as much time outside watching clouds as in dark wood–lined rooms; what if they all had plants on their desks, small altars made from meaningful natural objects? Imagine if they only met lobbyists outside while sitting around a fire. The result? Only life-affirming decisions.’ As Hasbach points out, these ideas have been around for our entire evolutionary history. I daresay our ability to thrive in the future is proportional to the number of people—legislators and otherwise—who incorporate into their lives the habits outlined in Grounded.” —Brooke Williams, author of Mary Jane Wild: Two Walks & a Rant“Dr. Hasbach’s gorgeous, easy-to-use journal helps all of us—no matter where we are—connect with the beauty and solace of nature and deepen our sense of calm, open-hearted belonging.” —Mary DeMocker, author of The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution"[A] rad new mindfulness journal." —TerraDrift
£14.44
Simon & Schuster Audio Lessons from Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old,
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£15.99
Pan Macmillan Poems on Nature
Book SynopsisThe poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by Helen Macdonald, author of the international bestseller, H is for Hawk.Since poetry began, there have been poems about nature; it’s a complex subject which has inspired some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. Poets from Andrew Marvell to W. B. Yeats to Emily Brontë have sought to describe the natural environment and our relationship with it. There is also a rich tradition of songs and rhymes, such as ’Scarborough Fair’, that hark back to a rural way of life which may now be lost, but is brought back to life in the lyrical verses included in this collection.Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Spring Poem - 1: ‘The year’s at the spring’ - Robert Browning Poem - 2: I so liked Spring - Charlotte Mew Poem - 3: There Will Come Soft Rains - Sara Teasdale Poem - 4: To a Snowdrop - William Wordsworth Poem - 5: February Twilight - Sara Teasdale Poem - 6: Spring - William Blake Poem - 7: Thaw - Edward Thomas Poem - 8: Spring - Christina Rossetti Poem - 9: Her Anxiety - W. B. Yeats Poem - 10: Invitation to the Country - George Meredith Poem - 11: To my Sister - William Wordsworth Poem - 12: ‘Dear March – Come In –’ - Emily Dickinson Poem - 13: The Lamb - William Blake Poem - 14: March - Anon Poem - 15: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - William Wordsworth Poem - 16: To Daffodils - Robert Herrick Poem - 17: Mothering Sunday - George Hare Leonard Poem - 18: I Watched a Blackbird - Thomas Hardy Poem - 19: Loveliest of trees - A. E. Houseman Poem - 20: The Cuckoo - Anon Poem - 21: The Cuckoo - Anon Poem - 22: The Woods and Banks - W. H. Davies Poem - 23: Little Trotty Wagtail - John Clare Poem - 24: Home Thoughts from Abroad - Robert Browning Poem - 25: On a Lane in Spring John Clare Poem - 26: Spring - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 27: The Starlight Night - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 28: Tall Nettles - Edward Thomas Poem - 29: ‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’ - William Shakespeare Poem - 30: Sonnet 98 - William Shakespeare Poem - 31: But These Things Also - Edward Thomas Poem - 32: The Argument of His Book Robert Herrick Poem - 33: The Song of Wandering Aengus - W. B. Yeats Poem - 34: A Brilliant Day - Charles Tennyson Turner Unit - 2: Summer Poem - 1: Summer - Christina Rossetti Poem - 2: The Happy Countryman - Nicholas Breton Poem - 3: A Day - Emily Dickinson Poem - 4: My Heart Leaps Up - William Wordsworth Poem - 5: The Merry Month of May - Thomas Dekker Poem - 6: ‘Sumer is icumen in’ - Anon Poem - 7: The Throstle - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 8: The Landrail - John Clare Poem - 9: The Lake Isle of Innisfree - W. B. Yeats Poem - 10: Seven Times One: Exultation - Jean Ingelow Poem - 11: This Lime-tree Bower my Prison - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem - 12: The Cow - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 13: The Frog - Anon. Poem - 14: Little Fish - D. H. Lawrence Poem - 15: Heaven - Rupert Brooke Poem - 16: To Make a Prairie - Emily Dickinson Poem - 17: The Unknown Bird - Edward Thomas Poem - 18: To a Skylark - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem - 19: Trees - Joyce Kilmer Poem - 20: The Sweet o’ the Year - George Meredith Poem - 21: Ladybird! Ladybird! - Emily Brontë Poem - 22: Daisies - Christina Rossetti Poem - 23: Where the Bee Sucks - William Shakespeare Poem - 24: The Gardener - Anon Poem - 25: The Cries of London - Anon Poem - 26: Scarborough Fair - Anon Poem - 27: from A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare Poem - 28: Summer Dawn - William Morris Poem - 29: Careless Rambles - John Clare Poem - 30: A Green Cornfield - Christina Rossetti Poem - 31: The Caterpillar - Christina Rossetti Poem - 32: To a Butterfly - William Wordsworth Poem - 33: Adlestrop - Edward Thomas Poem - 34: Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea - Christina Rossetti Poem - 35: Epitaph on a Hare - William Cowper Poem - 36: A London Plane-Tree - Amy Levy Poem - 37: In the Fields - Charlotte Mew Poem - 38: Meeting at Night - Robert Browning Unit - 3: Autumn Poem - 1: To Autumn - John Keats Poem - 2: Leisure - W. H. Davies Poem - 3: from Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun - Walt Whitman Poem - 4: Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 5: The Glory - Edward Thomas Poem - 6: The Rainy Day - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem - 7: Autumn Rain - D. H. Lawrence Poem - 8: Digging - Edward Thomas Poem - 9: Autumn Fires - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 10: Now is the Time for the Burning of the Leaves - Laurence Binyon Poem - 11: Moonlit Apples - John Drinkwater Poem - 12: The Lane - Edward Thomas Poem - 13: The Wild Swans at Coole - W. B. Yeats Poem - 14: ‘Western wind, when wilt thou blow?’ - Anon. Poem - 15: Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina Rossetti Poem - 16: from The Garden - Andrew Marvell Poem - 17: Autumn Birds - John Clare Poem - 18: The Windhover - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 19: The Owl - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 20: Sweet Suffolke Owle - Anon Poem - 21: Rural Evening - Lord De Tabley Poem - 22: The Hayloft - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 23: The Solitary Reaper - William Wordsworth Poem - 24: To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-No- W. B. Yeats Poem - 25: The Way through the Woods - Rudyard Kipling Poem - 26: The Fisherman’s Wife - Amy Lowell Poem - 27: Sign of the Times - Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem - 28: Fall, Leaves, Fall - Emily Brontë Poem - 29: Pleasant Sounds - John Clare Poem - 30: A Noiseless, Patient Spider - Walt Whitman Poem - 31: Something Told the Wild Geese - Rachel Field Unit - 4: Winter Poem - 1: To a Mouse - Robert Burns Poem - 2: Spellbound - Emily Brontë Poem - 3: Winter-Time - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 4: Winter - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 5: A Winter Night - William Barnes Poem - 6: Snow Storm - John Clare Poem - 7: No! - Thomas Hood Poem - 8: Sheep in Winter - John Clare Poem - 9: Snow - Edward Thomas Poem - 10: Out in the Dark - Edward Thomas Poem - 11: The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House - Thomas Hardy Poem - 12: from As You Like It - William Shakespeare Poem - 13: A Winter Bluejay - Sara Teasdale Poem - 14: Birds at Winter Nightfall - Thomas Hardy Poem - 15: The Darkling Thrush - Thomas Hardy Poem - 16: Little Robin Redbreast - Anon. Poem - 17: Frost at Midnight - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem - 18: Up in the Morning Early - Robert Burns Poem - 19: In Tenebris - Ford Madox Ford Poem - 20: The Holly and the Ivy - Anon. Poem - 21: The First Tree in the Greenwood - Anon. Poem - 22: The Oxen - Thomas Hardy Index - ii: Index of Poets Index - iii: Index of Titles Index - iv: Index of First Lines
£10.44
Skyhorse Publishing Letters to a Young Pug
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£12.74
Skyhorse Publishing The Adorable Circle of Life Adult Coloring Book
Book SynopsisPredators get a pretty bad rap. Sure, they prey on helpless animals that never stand a chance. But behind those jagged teeth, powerful jaws, and razor-sharp claws, every predator has a softer side. Maybe even an adorable one.Everyone has compassion for the cute bunny or lamb. But what about their predators who are working hard for their meal? Capturing their prey is a life or death game. Just think about the last time you had to hunt for food while hangry. You can understand, right?With thirty adorably dark scenes of nature, illustrator Alex Solis shares his sense of humor while giving you a chance to color in the most gruesome parts of life with a smile.It’s time to give theses predators a break! Because, in the end, both predators and their prey play a role. I mean, it’s not their fault they were made this way! They’re just living off of instincts; doing what comes naturally to them. So rather than turning away from nature, let’s celebrate all the animals who complete The Adorable Circle of Life Adult Coloring Book!
£8.93
Skyhorse Publishing The Adorable Circle of Life: A Cute Celebration
Book SynopsisSavage. Menacing. Ruthless.Predators get a pretty bad rap. Sure, they prey on helpless animals that never stand a chance, but behind those jagged teeth, powerful jaws, and razor-sharp claws, every predator has a softer side. Maybe even an adorable one.Everyone has compassion for the cute bunny or lamb. But what about their predators who are working hard for their meal? Capturing their prey is a life-or-death game. Just think about the last time you had to hunt for food while hangry. You can understand, right?Including famous quotes from history that give context to these disturbingly cute illustrations, Alex Solis shares his sense of humor while giving readers a way to enjoy the darkest parts of life with a smile.It’s time to give theses predators a break! Because, in the end, both predators and their prey play a role. I mean, it’s not their fault they were made this way! They’re just living off of instincts, doing what comes naturally to them. So rather than turning away from nature, let’s celebrate all the animals who complete The Adorable Circle of Life.
£8.81
