Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development

Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
Cover of the book Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development by Karen Thornber, Gang Yue, Cheng Li, Yanjun Liu, Tsutomu Takahashi, Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Pamod Nayar, Laura A. White, Inna Sukhenko, Salma Monani, Aarti Madan, George B. Handley, Dora Alicia Ramírez, Lexington Books
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Author: Karen Thornber, Gang Yue, Cheng Li, Yanjun Liu, Tsutomu Takahashi, Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Pamod Nayar, Laura A. White, Inna Sukhenko, Salma Monani, Aarti Madan, George B. Handley, Dora Alicia Ramírez ISBN: 9780739189092
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: February 19, 2014
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Karen Thornber, Gang Yue, Cheng Li, Yanjun Liu, Tsutomu Takahashi, Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Pamod Nayar, Laura A. White, Inna Sukhenko, Salma Monani, Aarti Madan, George B. Handley, Dora Alicia Ramírez
ISBN: 9780739189092
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: February 19, 2014
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development takes stock of cultural and environmental contexts in many different regions of the world by exploring literature and film. Artists and scholars working in the social ecology, environmental justice, and postcolonial arenas have long recognized that as soon as we tug on a thread of “ecodegradation,” we generally find it linked to some form of cultural oppression. The reverse is also often true. In the spirit of postcolonial ecocriticism, the studies collected by Scott Slovic, R. Swarnalatha, and Vidya Sarveswaran emphasize the impossibility of disentangling environmental and cultural problems.
While not all the authors explicitly invoke Karen Thornber’s term “ecoambiguity” or the concepts and terminology of postcolonial ecocriticism, their articles frequently bring to light various ironies. For example, the fact that Ukrainian environmental experience in the twenty-first century is defined by one of the world’s most infamous industrial disasters, the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986, yet Ukrainian culture, like many throughout the world, actually cherishes a profound, even animistic, attachment to the wonders of nature. The repetition of this and other paradoxes in human cultural responses to the more-than-human world reinforces our sense of the congruities and idiosyncrasies of human culture. Every human culture, regardless of its condition of economic and industrial development, has produced its own version of “environmental literature and art”—but the nuances of this work reflect that culture’s precise social and geophysical circumstances. In various ways, these stories of community and development from across the planet converge and diverge, as told and explained by distinguished scholars, many of whom come from the cultures represented in these articles.

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Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development takes stock of cultural and environmental contexts in many different regions of the world by exploring literature and film. Artists and scholars working in the social ecology, environmental justice, and postcolonial arenas have long recognized that as soon as we tug on a thread of “ecodegradation,” we generally find it linked to some form of cultural oppression. The reverse is also often true. In the spirit of postcolonial ecocriticism, the studies collected by Scott Slovic, R. Swarnalatha, and Vidya Sarveswaran emphasize the impossibility of disentangling environmental and cultural problems.
While not all the authors explicitly invoke Karen Thornber’s term “ecoambiguity” or the concepts and terminology of postcolonial ecocriticism, their articles frequently bring to light various ironies. For example, the fact that Ukrainian environmental experience in the twenty-first century is defined by one of the world’s most infamous industrial disasters, the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986, yet Ukrainian culture, like many throughout the world, actually cherishes a profound, even animistic, attachment to the wonders of nature. The repetition of this and other paradoxes in human cultural responses to the more-than-human world reinforces our sense of the congruities and idiosyncrasies of human culture. Every human culture, regardless of its condition of economic and industrial development, has produced its own version of “environmental literature and art”—but the nuances of this work reflect that culture’s precise social and geophysical circumstances. In various ways, these stories of community and development from across the planet converge and diverge, as told and explained by distinguished scholars, many of whom come from the cultures represented in these articles.

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