Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines how literature shapes understandings of nature and can therefore be both complicit in environmental harm and part of an environmentalist practice. The book devotes particular attention to formerly colonized regions (e.g. Africa and South Asia) in order to understand the relationships among imperialism, globalization, and environmental injustice.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reading for the Planet | 1
Part I: Citizens and Consumers
1. Consumption for the Common Good? Commodity
Biography in an Era of Postconsumerism | 49
2. Hijacking the Imagination: How to Tell the Story
of the Niger Delta | 81
Part II: Resource Logics and Risk Logics
3. From Waste Lands to Wasted Lives: Enclosure
as Aesthetic Regime and Property Regime | 141
4. How Far Is Bhopal? Inconvenient
Forums and Corporate Comparison | 195
Epilogue: Fixing the World | 259
Acknowledgments | 265
Notes | 267
Bibliography | 303
Index | 327
