{"product_id":"sustaining-the-west-cultural-responses-to-canadian-environments-9781554589234","title":"Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWestern Canada's natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex nature of the problems being addressed calls for productive interdisciplinary solutions. In this book, arts and humanities scholars and literary and visual artists tackle these pressing environmental issues in provocative and transformative ways. Their commitment to environmental causes emerges through the fields of environmental history, environmental and ecocriticism, ecofeminism, ecoart, ecopoetry, and environmental journalism. This indispensable and timely resource constitutes a sustained cross-pollinating conversation across the environmental humanities about forms of representation and activism that enable ecological knowledge and ethical action on behalf of Western Canadian environments, yet have global reach. Among the developments in the contributors' construction of environmental knowledge are a focus on the power of sentiment in linking people to the fate of nature, and the need to decolonize social and environmental relations and assumptions in the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The editors and writers of these thoughtful, challenging essays--diverse examples of the best work in the environmental humanities--take seriously the cultural assumptions that create and perpetuate contemporary environmental crises. With a scope that considers the potential of the poetic to alter the West's exploitative relationship with nature alongside cases of deteriorating ecosystems, which illustrate the need for a new social contract with the land, these writers call for radical change.\" -- Deanna Reder, Department of First Nations Studies and Department of English, Simon Fraser University; co-editor, with Linda M. Morra of 'Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations' (WLU Press, 2010)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: What if the Problem is People?  Liza Piper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1: Acting on Behalf Of\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1: Grass Futures: Possibilities for a Re-engagement with Prairie  Trevor Herriot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2: Wastewest: A State of Mind  Warren Cariou\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3: Sustaining Collaboration: The Woodhaven Eco Art Project  Nancy Holmes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4: A Natural History and Dioramic Performance: Restoring Camosun Bog in Vancouver, British Columbia  Lisa Szabo-Jones and David Brownstein\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5: A Subtle Activism of the Heart  Beth Carruthers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6: Sublime Animal  Maria Whiteman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7: The Becoming-Animal of \u003ci\u003eBeing Caribou\u003c\/i\u003e: Art, Ethics, Politics  Dianne Chisholm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterlude: Creating Metaphors for Change  Lyndal Osborne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2: Constructing Knowledge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8: Poetry, Science, and Knowledge of Place: A Dispatch from the Coast  Nicholas Bradley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9: Deception in High Places: The Making and Unmaking of Mounts Brown and Hooker  Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10: Escarpments, Agriculture, and the Historical Experience of Certainty in Manitoba and Ontario  Shannon Stunden Bower and Sean Gouglas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11: Whatever Else Climate Change Is Freedom: Frontier Mythologies, the Carbon Imaginary, and British Columbia Coastal Forestry Novels  Richard Pickard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12: Endangered Species, Endangered Spaces: Exploring the Grasslands of Trevor Herriot's \u003ci\u003eGrass, Sky, Song\u003c\/i\u003e and the Wetlands of Terry Tempest Williams's \u003ci\u003eRefuge\u003c\/i\u003e  Angela Waldie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13: What Should We Sacrifice for Bitumen? Literature Interrupts Oil Capital's Utopian Imaginings  Jon Gordon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterlude: Symphony for a Head of Wheat Burning in the Dark  Harold Rhenisch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 3: Maternal Expressions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14: Propositions from Under Mill Creek Bridge: A Practice of Reading  Christine Stewart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15: Understory Enduring the Sixth Mass Extinction, ca 2009-11  Rita Wong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16: Seeding Coordinates, Planting Memories: Here, There, \u0026amp; Elsewhere in W.H. New's \u003ci\u003eUnderwood Log\u003c\/i\u003e  Travis V. Mason\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17: Re-Envisioning epic in Jon Whyte's Rocky Mountain Poem \u003ci\u003eThe fells of brightness\u003c\/i\u003e  Harry Vandervlist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 18: Ware's Waldo: Hydroelectric Development and the Creation of the Other in British Columbia  Daniel Sims\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword: Humming Along With the Bees: A Few Words on Cross-Pollination  Pamela Banting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188672061783,"sku":"9781554589234","price":38.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sustaining-the-west-cultural-responses-to-canadian-environments-9781554589234","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}