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Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities highlights the role literature and visual arts play in fostering sustainability. It weaves together contributions by international scholars, practitioners and environmental activists whose insights are brought together to illustrate how creative imaginations can inspire change. One of the most outstanding characteristic of this volume is its interdisciplinarity and its varied methods of inquiry. The field of environmental humanities is discussed together with ideas such as the role of the public intellectual and el buen vivir. Examples of ecofiction from the UK, the US and Spain are analysed while artistic practices aimed at raising awareness of the effects of the Anthropocene are presented as imaginative ways of reacting against climate change and rampant capitalism.

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Author:   Diana Villanueva-Romero ,  Lorraine Kerslake ,  Carmen Flys-Junquera
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.528kg
ISBN:  

9789004501263

ISBN 10:   9004501266
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   09 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Introduction: Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities  Diana Villanueva-Romero, Lorraine Kerslake and Carmen Flys-Junquera PART 1: Humanists in Conversation 1 Environmental Humanities and the Public Intellectual  Scott Slovic 2 Humanities in Transition in the European Context  Interview with Christof Mauch  Diana Villanueva-Romero 3 “El Buen Vivir” is Harmony with the Earth  Interview with Rafael Chanchari Pizuri  Juan Carlos Galeano PART 2: Interpreting Eco-Visions 4 Environmental Imagination and Wonder in Beatrix Potter  Lorraine Kerslake 5 Foregrounding Ecosystems: Thinking with the Work of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison  Chris Fremantle and Anne Douglas 6 New Worlds Beyond Reality: Imagined Futures in Laura Gallego’s  Las hijas de Tara  Irene Sanz-Alonso 7 Simon Ortiz’s Narrative and Joy Harjo’s Poems: Towards Regenerative Societies and New Worlds  Imelda Martín-Junquera 8 When Mater Takes a Position  Post-Anthropocentric Landscapes in Contemporary Art  Bárbara Fluxá Álvarez-Miranda PART 3: Inspiring Change 9 Sense of Place as an Enhancer of Empathy and Ecological Consciousness in the Baix Llobregat  Carma Casulá 10 Building Stories to Change the World: Interview with Starhawk  Carmen Flys-Junquera and Beatriz Lindo-Mañas 11 Eco-Interactions: Art and Community  Elena Sánchez-Vizcaíno and Lucía Loren Atienza Epilogue: Chickens like Celebrities: A Short Story  José Manuel Marrero-Henríquez Index

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Diana Villanueva-Romero is a Lecturer in the English Department of the Universidad de Extremadura (Spain) and a member of the research groups “Lenguas y culturas en la Europa moderna: discurso e identidad” (CILEM; Universidad de Extremadura) and “Grupo de investigación en ecocrítica” (GIECO; Franklin Institute, Universidad de Alcalá). Lorraine Kerslake is a Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Alicante (Spain) and a member of GIECO. She is also a member of the Research Institute for Gender Studies at Alicante University and author of The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes’s Writing for Children (2018). Carmen Flys-Junquera has recently retired as Senior Lecturer of American Literature and Ecocriticism from the University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. She was the founder and now member of the GIECO ecocritical research group and head researcher of the funded grant underlying this publication. She founded and continues as Editor in Chief of Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment.

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