Sustaining the West - Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments

Western Canada's natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex nature of the problems being addressed calls for productive interdisciplinary solutions. In this book, arts and humanities scholars and literary and visual artists tackle these pressing environmental issues in provocative and transformative ways. Their commitment to environmental causes emerges through the fields of environmental history, environmental and ecocriticism, ecofeminism, ecoart, ecopoetry, and environmental journalism.

This indispensable and timely resource constitutes a sustained cross-pollinating conversation across the environmental humanities about forms of representation and activism that enable ecological knowledge and ethical action on behalf of Western Canadian environments, yet have global reach. Among the developments in the contributors' construction of environmental knowledge are a focus on the power of sentiment in linking people to the fate of nature, and the need to decolonize social and environmental relations and assumptions in the West.

Sommario

• Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments, edited by Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: What if the Problem is People? Liza Piper
• Part 1: Acting on Behalf Of
• Chapter 1: Grass Futures: Possibilities for a Re-engagement with Prairie Trevor Herriot
• Chapter 2: Wastewest: A State of Mind Warren Cariou
• Chapter 3: Sustaining Collaboration: The Woodhaven Eco Art Project Nancy Holmes
• Chapter 4: A Natural History and Dioramic Performance: Restoring Camosun Bog in Vancouver, British Columbia Lisa Szabo-Jones and David Brownstein
• Chapter 5: A Subtle Activism of the Heart Beth Carruthers
• Chapter 6: Sublime Animal Maria Whiteman
• Chapter 7: The Becoming-Animal of Being Caribou: Art, Ethics, Politics Dianne Chisholm
• Interlude: Creating Metaphors for Change Lyndal Osborne
• Part 2: Constructing Knowledge
• Chapter 8: Poetry, Science, and Knowledge of Place: A Dispatch from the Coast Nicholas Bradley
• Chapter 9: Deception in High Places: The Making and Unmaking of Mounts Brown and Hooker Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon
• Chapter 10: Escarpments, Agriculture, and the Historical Experience of Certainty in Manitoba and Ontario Shannon Stunden Bower and Sean Gouglas
• Chapter 11: Whatever Else Climate Change Is Freedom: Frontier Mythologies, the Carbon Imaginary, and British Columbia Coastal Forestry Novels Richard Pickard
• Chapter 12: Endangered Species, Endangered Spaces: Exploring the Grasslands of Trevor Herriot's Grass, Sky, Song and the Wetlands of Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge Angela Waldie
• Chapter 13: What Should We Sacrifice for Bitumen? Literature Interrupts Oil Capital's Utopian Imaginings Jon Gordon
• Interlude: Symphony for a Head of Wheat Burning in the Dark Harold Rhenisch
• Part 3: Maternal Expressions
• Chapter 14: Propositions from Under Mill Creek Bridge: A Practice of Reading Christine Stewart
• Chapter 15: Understory Enduring the Sixth Mass Extinction, ca 2009-11 Rita Wong
• Chapter 16: Seeding Coordinates, Planting Memories: Here, There, & Elsewhere in W.H. New's Underwood Log Travis V. Mason
• Chapter 17: Re-Envisioning epic in Jon Whyte's Rocky Mountain Poem The fells of brightness Harry Vandervlist
• Chapter 18: Ware's Waldo: Hydroelectric Development and the Creation of the Other in British Columbia Daniel Sims
• Afterword: Humming Along With the Bees: A Few Words on Cross-Pollination Pamela Banting
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index




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Liza Piper is an associate professor at the University of Alberta, where she teaches environmental and Canadian history. She researches and writes about the relations between people and the rest of nature in the past, primarily in northern environments and with a particular focus on the roles of science and industry and the consequences for diet and health. She is the author of The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada (2009).

Lisa Szabo-Jones, a photographer and Trudeau Foundation Scholar, holds a PhD from the University of Alberta and teaches literature at John Abbott College. She is co-editor of Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments (WLU Press, 2015).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Liza Piper (Editore), Lisa Szabo-Jones (Editore)
• Editore: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.03.2015
• EAN: 9781554589234
• ISBN: 978-1-55458-923-4
• Pagine: 365
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 226 mm x 25 mm
• Peso: 590 g
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia