Ecocriticism of the Global South

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Cover of the book Ecocriticism of the Global South by Benay Blend, Charles Dawson, Sharae Deckard, Christopher Lloyd de Shield, Dina El Dessouky, Eóin Flannery, Adrian Taylor Kane, Priya Kumar, James McElroy, Augustine Nchoujie, Senayon Olaoluwa, Zahra Parsapoor, Anthony Vital, Munazza Yaqoob, Zhou Xiaojing, Lexington Books
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Author: Benay Blend, Charles Dawson, Sharae Deckard, Christopher Lloyd de Shield, Dina El Dessouky, Eóin Flannery, Adrian Taylor Kane, Priya Kumar, James McElroy, Augustine Nchoujie, Senayon Olaoluwa, Zahra Parsapoor, Anthony Vital, Munazza Yaqoob, Zhou Xiaojing ISBN: 9780739189115
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: March 24, 2015
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Benay Blend, Charles Dawson, Sharae Deckard, Christopher Lloyd de Shield, Dina El Dessouky, Eóin Flannery, Adrian Taylor Kane, Priya Kumar, James McElroy, Augustine Nchoujie, Senayon Olaoluwa, Zahra Parsapoor, Anthony Vital, Munazza Yaqoob, Zhou Xiaojing
ISBN: 9780739189115
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: March 24, 2015
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

The vast majority of existing ecocritical studies, even those which espouse the “postcolonial ecocritical” perspective, operate within a first-world sensibility, speaking on behalf of subalternized human communities and degraded landscapes without actually eliciting the voices of the impacted communities. Ecocriticism of the Global South seeks to allow scholars from (or intimately familiar with) underrepresented regions to “write back” to the world’s centers of political and military and economic power, expressing views of the intersections of nature and culture from the perspective of developing countries. This approach highlights what activist and writer Vandana Shiva has described as the relationship between “ecology and the politics of survival,” showing both commonalities and local idiosyncrasies by juxtaposing such countries as China and Northern Ireland, New Zealand and Cameroon. Much like Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development, this new book is devoted to representing diverse and innovative ecocritical voices from throughout the world, particularly from developing nations. The two volumes complement each other by pointing out the need for further cultivation of the environmental humanities in regions of the world that are, essentially, the front line of the human struggle to invent sustainable and just civilizations on an imperiled planet.

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The vast majority of existing ecocritical studies, even those which espouse the “postcolonial ecocritical” perspective, operate within a first-world sensibility, speaking on behalf of subalternized human communities and degraded landscapes without actually eliciting the voices of the impacted communities. Ecocriticism of the Global South seeks to allow scholars from (or intimately familiar with) underrepresented regions to “write back” to the world’s centers of political and military and economic power, expressing views of the intersections of nature and culture from the perspective of developing countries. This approach highlights what activist and writer Vandana Shiva has described as the relationship between “ecology and the politics of survival,” showing both commonalities and local idiosyncrasies by juxtaposing such countries as China and Northern Ireland, New Zealand and Cameroon. Much like Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development, this new book is devoted to representing diverse and innovative ecocritical voices from throughout the world, particularly from developing nations. The two volumes complement each other by pointing out the need for further cultivation of the environmental humanities in regions of the world that are, essentially, the front line of the human struggle to invent sustainable and just civilizations on an imperiled planet.

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