Contesting Environmental Imaginaries
Subtitle: Nature and Counternature in a Time of Global Change
Publisher: BRILL; Brill/Rodopi; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9789004335073
Subjects: Humanities
Description: "Contesting Environmental Imaginaries foregrounds a question central to humanistic environmental studies: How is nature to be perceived and understood in a time of global environmental crisis? A challenge was issued to imagine counter natures, past or present, casting nature as a normative concept into productive relief. One ambition was to highlight shifting perspectives on nature and the environment that may help account for the rise of the environmental humanities; another was to invite challenges to orthodoxies, including those that animate this burgeoning field. Contributions emerged from the study areas of Environmental History, Ecocriticism, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Media Studies, and the History of Ideas. This volume draws together the fruits of this thought experiment"--Provided by publisher.