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Sense of Place and Sense of Planet analyzes the relationship between
the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in
environmentalist thought and writing from the 1960s to the present.
Part One critically examines the emphasis on local identities and
communities in North American environmentalism by establishing
conceptual connections between environmentalism and ecocriticism, on one
hand, and theories of globalization, transnationalism and
cosmopolitanism, on the other.
It proposes the concept of
"eco-cosmopolitanism" as a shorthand for envisioning these connections
and the cultural and aesthetic forms into which they translate. Part Two
focuses on conceptualizations of environmental danger and connects
environmentalist and ecocritical thought with the interdisciplinary
field of risk theory in the social sciences, arguing that environmental
justice theory and ecocriticism stand to benefit from closer
consideration of the theories of cosmopolitanism that have arisen in
this field from the analysis of transnational communities at risk.
Both
parts of the book combine in-depth theoretical discussion with detailed
analyses of novels, poems, films, computer software and installation
artworks from the US and abroad that translate new connections between
global, national and local forms of awareness into innovative aesthetic
forms combining allegory, epic, and views of the planet as a whole with
modernist and postmodernist strategies of fragmentation, montage,
collage, and zooming.
About the Author
Ursula K. Heise is Associate Professor of English at Stanford
University, where she teaches contemporary literature and literary
theory. She is the author of Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and
Postmodernism.a
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Product Details
- Hardcover: 264 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0195335635
ISBN-13: 978-0195335637
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