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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Louise Green (Associate Professor of English, Stellenbosch University)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Volume: 5 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780271087016ISBN 10: 0271087013 Pages: 204 Publication Date: 02 April 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Nature Industry 2. Nature in Fragments 3. Living in the Subjunctive 4. The Primitive Accumulation of Nature 5. The Cult of the Wild 6. Privatizing Nature 7. Living at the End of Nature Notes References IndexReviewsWhat if the Anthropocene means the end of Third World futures, a shift from freedom to responsibility? In Fragments from the History of Loss, Louise Green shows how nature is produced as concept, commodity, and alibi for exploitation. With bracing nuance and salutary attention to inequality and immiseration, this scintillating book sifts through slices of time and fragments of nature in order to assemble shards of wisdom for living-lightly, with less-in the Anthropocene. An indispensable rejoinder to depoliticizing, universalist accounts of environmental crisis. -Jennifer Wenzel, author of The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature Louise Green has compiled an important collection of analyses, focusing on the problem of nature in the age of climate change, and relating this to cultural circumstances in colonial and postcolonial Africa. These fascinating, well-researched, and surprisingly original studies show how nature is produced as a cultural relic in late capitalist society. Her book is an important contribution to the fields of Anthropocene studies, African studies, and cultural studies. -John Noyes, author of Herder: Aesthetics Against Imperialism What if the Anthropocene means the end of Third World futures, a shift from freedom to responsibility? In Fragments from the History of Loss, Louise Green shows how nature is produced as concept, commodity, and alibi for exploitation. With bracing nuance and salutary attention to inequality and immiseration, this scintillating book sifts through slices of time and fragments of nature in order to assemble shards of wisdom for living-lightly, with less-in the Anthropocene. An indispensable rejoinder to depoliticizing, universalist accounts of environmental crisis. -Jennifer Wenzel, author of Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond Louise Green has compiled an important collection of analyses, focusing on the problem of nature in the age of climate change, and relating this to cultural circumstances in colonial and postcolonial Africa. These fascinating, well-researched, and surprisingly original studies show how nature is produced as a cultural relic in late capitalist society. Her book is an important contribution to the fields of Anthropocene studies, African studies, and cultural studies. -John Noyes This brief but thought-provoking study challenges readers to view nature through a broad constellation . . . of historical and contemporary elements that illustrate the ways humans created a nature industry to reflect their interests rather than as something objectively natural. -A. S. MacKinnon, Choice What if the Anthropocene means the end of Third World futures, a shift from freedom to responsibility? In Fragments from the History of Loss, Louise Green shows how nature is produced as concept, commodity, and alibi for exploitation. With bracing nuance and salutary attention to inequality and immiseration, this scintillating book sifts through slices of time and fragments of nature in order to assemble shards of wisdom for living-lightly, with less-in the Anthropocene. An indispensable rejoinder to depoliticizing, universalist accounts of environmental crisis. -Jennifer Wenzel, author of The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature Louise Green has compiled an important collection of analyses, focusing on the problem of nature in the age of climate change, and relating this to cultural circumstances in colonial and postcolonial Africa. These fascinating, well-researched, and surprisingly original studies show how nature is produced as a cultural relic in late capitalist society. Her book is an important contribution to the fields of Anthropocene studies, African studies, and cultural studies. -John Noyes, author of Herder: Aesthetics Against Imperialism Author InformationLouise Green is Associate Professor of English at Stellenbosch University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |