Overview

In the face of what seems like a concerted effort to destroy the only planet that can sustain us, critique is an important tool. It is in this vein that most scholars have approached environmental crisis. While there are numerous texts that chronicle contemporary issues in environmental ills, there are relatively few that explore the possibilities and practices which work to avoid collapse and build alternatives. The keyword of this book’s full title, 'Perma/Culture,' alludes to and plays on 'permaculture', an international movement that can provide a framework for navigating the multiple 'other worlds' within a broader environmental ethic. This edited collection brings together essays from an international team of scholars, activists and artists in order to provide a critical introduction to the ethico-political and cultural elements around the concept of ‘Perma/Culture’. These multidisciplinary essays include a varied landscape of sites and practices, from readings from ecotopian literature to an analysis of the intersection of agriculture and art; from an account of the rewards and difficulties of building community in Transition Towns to a description of the ad hoc infrastructure of a fracking protest camp. Offering a number of constructive models in response to current global environmental challenges, this book makes a significant contribution to current eco-literature and will be of great interest to students and researchers in Environmental Humanities, Environmental Studies, Sociology and Communication Studies.

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Author:   Molly Wallace ,  David Carruthers
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367152444

ISBN 10:   0367152444
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   17 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Poem ""Seeds of Aleppo"" Tiffany Higgins Introduction Perma/Culture Molly Wallace and David Carruthers PART I: Pattern Languages Ch 1. A Pain in the Neck and Permacultural Subjectivity Andrea Most Ch 2. Bringing Forth an Ecotopian Future: The Production of Imagined Futures through Contemporary Cultural Practices Stephen Zavestoski and Andrew Weigert Ch 3. Reclaiming Accountability from Hypertechnocivility, to Grow Again the Flowering Earth Patrick Jones Ch 4. Murray River Country: Challenging Water Management Practices to (Re)invent Place Camille Rouliere Ch 5. Wild Urban Green Spaces as Seen through Montreal’s ""Wild City Mapping"" Project Dominique Ferraton PART II: Transitions in Practice Ch 6. The Art of Permatravel Nina Gartrell Ch 7. Momentum in the Age of Sustainability: Building Up and Burning Out in a Transition Town Emily Polk Ch 8. ""Fracking Is Stoppable, Another World is Possible"" Claire Males Ch 9. The Problem with Money: Possibilities for Alternative, Sustainable, Non-monetary Economies George Price PART III: REVOLUTION DISGUISED AS GARDENING Ch 10: A War Against Weeds: Combating Climate Change with Polycultural Pacifism David Carruthers Ch 11. Regeneration: Loss and Reclamation in African American Agrarianism Leah Penniman Ch 12. Defining the Process of Re-indigenization through Soil Communities Ruth Lapp and Robert Lovelace Ch 13. Sharing Food, Sharing Knowledge: Food and Agriculture in Contemporary Art Practices Amanda White Ch 14. The End(s) of Freeganism and the Cultural Production of Food Waste Leda Cooks Poem The gleaner difference Natalie Joelle Afterword Gleanings Molly Wallace"

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Molly Wallace is Associate Professor of English at Queen’s University, Canada. She writes about and teaches contemporary literature and ecocultural studies. David Carruthers is a PhD candidate in English at Queen’s University, Canada. His recent work appears in Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature.

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