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This 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 Contents

Introduction: 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

The Disposition of Nature

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 3 December 2019
      ISBN-13 9780823286782
      978-0823286782
      ISBN-10 0823286789
      Also in:
      Human geography Social impact of environmental issues

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 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 Contents

      Introduction: 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

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