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Contesting Environmental Imaginaries
Nature and Counternature in a Time of Global Change
Series: - Studies in Environmental Humanities, Volume: 4
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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.
Steven Hartman, Ph.D. (2003), is Professor in the Department of Tourism and Geography at Mid Sweden University, Chair of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Co-Convenor of the Humanities for the Environment Circumpolar Observatory based at Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland.
Introduction
Steven Hartman: Naturalizing Culture and Countering Nature in Discourses of the Environment
Part 1: Re-contextualizing Nature
Klaus Benesch: Day and Night: Topography and Renewal in Thoreauâs Walden and Douglassâs Narrative
Tatiani G. Rapatzikou: James Schuylerâs Flower Poems and the Urban Pastoral Aesthetic
Ãyunn Hestetun: Palimpsest of Subjugation: Inscriptions of Domination on the Land and the Human Body in Jane Smileyâs A Thousand Acres
Mark Luccarelli: Reframing American Naturism? Space, History and the Rise of Environmental Discourse
Part 2: Challenging Nature and Envisioning Counternatures
Lawrence Buell: Uses and Abuses of Environmental Memory
Ursula K. Heise: Environment, Technology and Modernity in Contemporary Japanese Animation
Torben Huus Larsen: A Harmony of Murder: Transatlantic Visions of Wilderness in Werner Herzogâs Grizzly Man
Marcus Nordlund: Literary Appreciation: A Biocultural View
Part 3: Applying Counternatures
Henrik Otterberg: Dark Darwin: (D)evolutionary Theory and the Logic of Vampirism in Bram Stokerâs Dracula
Torsten Pettersson: Why Should We Respect Nature? An Appropriation of Nietzsche
Karen Lykke Syse: Histories and Ideologies of Nature in Argyll
Adriana Méndez Rodenas: âPicturing Edenâ: Contesting Fredrika Bremerâs Tropics
HÃ¥kan Sandgren: Life Under Water: Narratives of Deep Sea Counternatures
David E. Nye: Superfund Sites as Anti-Landscapes
Index
Steven Hartman: Naturalizing Culture and Countering Nature in Discourses of the Environment
Part 1: Re-contextualizing Nature
Klaus Benesch: Day and Night: Topography and Renewal in Thoreauâs Walden and Douglassâs Narrative
Tatiani G. Rapatzikou: James Schuylerâs Flower Poems and the Urban Pastoral Aesthetic
Ãyunn Hestetun: Palimpsest of Subjugation: Inscriptions of Domination on the Land and the Human Body in Jane Smileyâs A Thousand Acres
Mark Luccarelli: Reframing American Naturism? Space, History and the Rise of Environmental Discourse
Part 2: Challenging Nature and Envisioning Counternatures
Lawrence Buell: Uses and Abuses of Environmental Memory
Ursula K. Heise: Environment, Technology and Modernity in Contemporary Japanese Animation
Torben Huus Larsen: A Harmony of Murder: Transatlantic Visions of Wilderness in Werner Herzogâs Grizzly Man
Marcus Nordlund: Literary Appreciation: A Biocultural View
Part 3: Applying Counternatures
Henrik Otterberg: Dark Darwin: (D)evolutionary Theory and the Logic of Vampirism in Bram Stokerâs Dracula
Torsten Pettersson: Why Should We Respect Nature? An Appropriation of Nietzsche
Karen Lykke Syse: Histories and Ideologies of Nature in Argyll
Adriana Méndez Rodenas: âPicturing Edenâ: Contesting Fredrika Bremerâs Tropics
HÃ¥kan Sandgren: Life Under Water: Narratives of Deep Sea Counternatures
David E. Nye: Superfund Sites as Anti-Landscapes
Index
Anyone interested in ecocriticism, environmental history, environmental ethics, environmental aesthetics, cultural representations of nature and environment, the history of environmental thought and perceptions (19th-21st centuries), environmentalism, and interdisciplinary environmental humanities.