About the exhibition

This exhibit considers how different forms of representation have been used to influence public perceptions of environmental harm associated with US military bases and activities worldwide. Instead of attempting a comprehensive survey of all the images, monuments, and narratives that have been devoted to these environmental impacts, I have focused on significant modes of representation including maps, films, literature, photographs, and monuments.

Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization

This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.

Hsuan Hsu

About the author

Hsu, Hsuan L.

University of California, Davis, USA

is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis and the author of Literature and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge) and Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization (NYU, forthcoming). He has published articles on cultures of environmental risk in Jump Cut, Discourse, Daedalus, and New Literary History and co-edited a special issue of Discourse on the topic of “Environment, Race, and Representation.”

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Documentary film

Documentary films can be a means to disclose the elusive long-term effects of nuclear and chemical contamination. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” written and curated by literary scholar Hsu Hsuan.

Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization

This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.

Hsuan Hsu

About the author

Hsu, Hsuan L.

University of California, Davis, USA

is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis and the author of Literature and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge) and Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization (NYU, forthcoming). He has published articles on cultures of environmental risk in Jump Cut, Discourse, Daedalus, and New Literary History and co-edited a special issue of Discourse on the topic of “Environment, Race, and Representation.”

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"Nature as a You: Novalis' Philosophical Thought and the Modern Ecological Crisis"

This paper aims to introduce the German Romantic poet Novalis into the discussion of the modern ecological crisis.

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"Artefacts and Living Artefacts"

In this paper, Helena Siipi explores some parallels and dissimilarities between aesthetic appreciation that takes as its focus art objects and that which focuses on natural objects.

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"Aesthetic Appreciation in the Artworld and in the Natural World"

In this paper, David E. W. Fenner explores some parallels and dissimilarities between aesthetic appreciation that takes as its focus art objects and that which focuses on natural objects.

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What Would Indigenous Taxonomy Look Like? The Case of Blandowski's Australia

by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

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Arcadia, 2014, no. 12

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"Nature as Honorary Art"

Jay Appleton addresses the apparent difficulty experienced by philosophers in applying the methodology of art criticism to the aesthetics of nature and uses the idea of “narrative” to explore it.

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"Nature Humanised: Nature Respected"

Ronald Hepburn discusses the aesthetic appreciation of nature, arguing that not all humanising falsifies, and that we can respect nature as well as annex its forms and expressive qualities in our aesthetic appreciation.

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"Environmental Pollution and Professional Responsibility: Ibsen's A Public Enemy as a Seminar on Science Communication and Ethics"

Hub Zwart presents an environmental analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s A Public Enemy.

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Mandy Martin’s Artistic Explorations

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Perspectives Issue 2014/1

In this article, Jane Carruthers outline the merits of Mandy Martin’s artwork and the nature of her projects.