I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
Laurel Peacock on Brenda Hillman’s ecopoetic practice and how we can shift our understanding of our affective relationship to the environment.
Although medieval Scandinavian literary texts are heavily symbolic and thus cannot be used as reliable sources of information about environmental conditions of the past, they can shed valuable light on the ways premodern societies perceived and dealt with problems of scarcity and environmental change.
Weik von Mossner looks at how we currently tell stories about global environmental change and human agency in the Anthropocene, the limitations of such narratives, and how consumers of these narratives are affected by them.
Drawing on Continental theory and various cultural objects, On an Ungrounded Earth constructs an eclectic geosophy describing Earth as a dynamic engine materially invading and upsetting our attempts to reduce it to merely the ground beneath our feet.
Tabak explores the potential of novels for communicating about climate change.
Excerpt from RCC fellow Jemma Deer’s monograph Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Jemma Deer is interviewed on her new book, Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath. Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond to them in practice, Rigby also shows how works of narrative fiction invite ethical reflection on human relations with one another, with our often unruly earthly environs, and with other species in the face of eco-catastrophe.
An analysis of the book Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh.