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{"title":"Climate Art Projects // Proyectos de arte del clima","authors":"Andreco","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2423","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127423833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review of The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World // Reseña de The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World","authors":"S. Oppermann","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2075","url":null,"abstract":"Book review of Andreas Malm's The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World (2017). Resumen Resena de The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World  de Andreas Malm.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128926415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Population, Ecology, and the Malthusian Imagination: An Introduction // Población, ecología y la imaginación malthusiana: Una introducción","authors":"Hannes Bergthaller, Margarita Carretero González","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2484","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132137947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corpi di scarto : la vita in discarica narrata da Elisabetta Bucciarelli // Corpi di scarto : Life in a Landfill Narrated by Elisabetta Bucciarelli // Corpi di scarto : La vida en un vertedero narrada por Elisabetta Bucciarelli","authors":"Anna Chiafele","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1428","url":null,"abstract":"Riassunto In questo articolo si offre una lettura ecocritica di Corpi di scarto , romanzo noir della scrittrice italiana Elisabetta Bucciarelli. Bucciarelli descrive la vita all’interno di una discarica italiana in cui vengono scaricate illegalmente alcune sostanze nocive provenienti da un ospedale limitrofo. Partendo da alcuni principi cardine dell’ecocritica materiale, si dimostrera che lo scarto e dotato di forza agente e, per questo, interagisce con l’ambiente e con tutti gli esseri, umani e non. In questo romanzo, Bucciarelli si spinge oltre l’immaginario catastrofico alimentato dal discorso tossico. Nonostante le conseguenze nefaste del traffico illecito di rifiuti, Bucciarelli riesce a evidenziare la capacita dei rifiuti di cooperare con gli abitanti della discarica. Con Corpi di scarto , Bucciarelli ha scritto un noir coinvolgente che illustra l’illusione dell’essere umano di poter dominare l’ambiente e la materia attraverso diversi tipi di barriere. Invece di storie del disincanto, Bucciarelli ci propone una storia di compassione che nasce osservando i nostri rifiuti quotidiani. A volte, sono proprio i membri ridondanti della societa, abitanti della discarica, ad essere in grado di trasformare e riabilitare la spazzatura. Abstract In this article, I offer an ecocritical reading of Corpi di scarto , a noir novel written by the Italian writer Elisabetta Bucciarelli. Bucciarelli describes the life within an Italian landfill in which some illegal and toxic substances from a nearby hospital are dumped. Starting from some fundamental principles of material ecocriticism, I illustrate how trash is endowed with its own agency and, therefore, is interactive with the environment and with both human and non-human beings. In this novel, Bucciarelli goes beyond the catastrophic imagination fostered by the toxic discourse. Despite the nefarious consequences of illegal trafficking of trash, Bucciarelli succeeds in underlining the ability of trash to cooperate with the inhabitants of the landfill. With Corpi di Scarto , Bucciarelli wrote a captivating noir that illustrates the illusion human beings have of being able to dominate their environment through different kind of barriers. Instead of stories of disenchantment, Bucciarelli offers a story of compassion, which comes from observing our daily trash. Sometimes, it is those members of society seemingly the most redundant, the inhabitants of the landfill, who are able to transform and rehabilitate trash. Resumen En este articulo se plantea una lectura ecocritica de Corpi di scarto, una novela negra escrita por la italiana Elisabetta Bucciarelli. En ella, Bucciarelli describe el entorno de un vertedero italiano en el que se desechan sustancias y productos ilegales provenientes de un hospital cercano. Partiendo de los principios fundamentales de la ecocritica, se demostrara como los residuos interactuan con el medio ambiente y, por ende, con todos los seres que en el habitan. Bucciarelli navega por la ima","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134067858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Green Computer and Video Games: An Introduction // Vídeo juegos y juegos de ordenador verdes: Una introducción","authors":"Alenda Y. Chang, J. Parham","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132713691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review of \"Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies\"","authors":"L. Filipová","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1742","url":null,"abstract":"Book review of Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies. Resumen Resena de Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123959830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecomods: an ecocritical approach to game modification","authors":"K. Bohunicky","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1352","url":null,"abstract":"As systems that model complex relationships, digital games encourage players to enact Morton's \"ecological thought\" through the actions players perform within the game world. Yet these representations, as Alenda Chang (2011) has noted, \"commit at least one if not all of the following missteps in their realization of in-game environments: relegating environment to background scenery, relying on stereotyped landscapes, and predicating player success on extraction and use of natural resources\" (58). In other words, the flora and fauna players find are often reduced to non-interactive set pieces, thereby stripping actions of the ecological and environmental impact they could have. Despite these problems, ecocritical approaches to digital games have sought to re-assert the significance of connections between game ecologies and their environmental representations by tracing cultural associations (Bianchi, Barton), and by investigating problems with materiality and waste (Apperley and Jayemanne). This essay builds on these approaches by considering “modding,” short for “modifications,” as an area for ecocritical intervention in the flattening of games' environmental representations. Specifically, this essay examines the thriving environmental modding communities around Bethesda Softworks’ The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim . Although some of the mods released for Skyrim emphasize visual enhancements, others re-connect players to the game’s ecology and environment in meaningful ways. Resumen Como los sistemas que modelan las relaciones complejas, los juegos digitales animan a los jugadores a restablecer el “pensamiento ecologico” de Morton por medio de las acciones que los jugadores llevan a cabo dentro del mundo del juego. Pero estas representaciones, como Alenda Chang (2011) comenta, “cometen al menos uno de los errores en sus realizaciones de los entornos dentro del juego: relegando al medio ambiente al escenario del fondo, dependiendo de paisajes estereotipados, y afirmando el exito del jugador en la extraccion y uso de recursos naturales” (58). En otras palabras, la flora y fauna que se encuentran los jugadores a menudo quedan reducidas a piezas establecidas no-interactivas, de esta forma desmontando de las acciones el impacto ecologico y medioambiental que podrian tener. A pesar de estos problemas, el enfoque ecocritico a los juegos digitales ha buscado reafirmar la importancia de las conexiones entre las ecologias del juego y sus representaciones medioambientales trazando asociaciones culturales (Bianchi, Varton); e investigando los problemas sobre materialidad y basura (Apperley and Jayemanne). Este ensayo surge de estos enfoques considerando el “modding”, abreviatura de “modificaciones”, como una zona para intervencion ecocritica en la simplificacion de las representaciones medioambientales de los juegos.  En concreto, este ensayo examina las florecientes comunidades de modding medioambientales en torno a The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim de Bethesda Softwor","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129526243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Plotting Against Oil in American and Canadian Non-fiction // Conspirando contra el petróleo en la no-ficción americana y canadiense","authors":"Marta Wójcik-Czerwińska","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1068","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Stephanie LeMenager, literature professor and author of Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (2014), opens her study of America’s relationship with the resource by asserting that reports of its death have been exaggerated. Oil not only drive American modernity, but also inspire writers to explore it, in both fiction and non-fiction. While “petrofiction,” fiction with oil at its core, has received critical attention, certain new developments in non-fictional writing centred on petroleum call for more consideration. This article, therefore, probes representations of oil in contemporary American and Canadian non-fiction. It analyses William L. Fox’s essay “A Pipeline Runs through It” (2011), which is based on a trip along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and Andrew Nikiforuk’s article “Canadian Democracy: Death by Pipeline” (2012), which discusses the impact of the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia. Adopting an ecocritical perspective, the article puts to the test LeMenager’s thesis that journalists are “expert plotters against oil” and “conservationists.” To this aim, it analyses the specific means by which the two journalists expose the presence of oil, and highlight its micro and macro implications, from its impact on the landscape and the lives of people whose livelihoods and cultures have been shaped by the natural world, to that on democracy and our minds.  Resumen Stephanie LeMenager, profesora de literatura y autora de Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (2014), abre su estudio sobre la relacion de los Estados Unidos con el petroleo como recurso natural, mediante la afirmacion de que los informes de su muerte han sido exagerados. El petroleo no solo impulsa la modernidad americana sino tambien inspira a los escritores para explorarlo tanto en la ficcion como en la no-ficcion. Mientras que la “petroficcion,” ficcion centrada en el petroleo, ha sido objeto de atencion critica, algunos nuevos desarrollos en la escritura de no-ficcion centrada en el petroleo causan mayor interes. Este articulo trata de representar al petroleo en la no-ficcion contemporanea americana y canadiense. Analiza el ensayo de William L. Fox “A Pipeline Runs through It” (2011), basado en un viaje a lo largo del sistema de oleoducto Trans-Alaska, y el articulo de Andrew Nikiforuk “Canadian Democracy: Death by Pipeline” (2012), discutiendo el impacto de la propuesta del oleoducto del Norte desde Alberta hasta la Columbia Britanica. Adoptando una perspectiva ecocritica, el articulo pone a prueba las tesis de LeMenager de que los periodistas como “expertos conspiradores contra el petroleo” y “conservacionistas”. Para ello, analiza los medios especificos por los cuales los dos periodistas exponen la presencia de petroleo y destacan sus macro y micro implicaciones, desde su impacto en el paisaje y en las vidas de las personas cuyos medios de vida y culturas han sido moldeadas por el mundo natural, hasta su ","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"156 Suppl 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128525741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review of Umwelt-engagierte Literatur aus Island und Norwegen: Ein interdisziplinärer Beitrag zu den environmental humanities // Reseña de Umwelt-engagierte Literatur aus Island und Norwegen: Ein interdisziplinärer Beitrag zu den environmental humanities","authors":"Heather I. Sullivan","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1657","url":null,"abstract":"Book review of Reinhard Hennig's Umwelt-engagierte Literatur aus Island und Norwegen: Ein interdisziplinarer Beitrag zu den environmental humanities.Resumen      Resena de Umwelt-engagierte Literatur aus Island und Norwegen: Ein interdisziplinarer Beitrag zu den environmental humanities de Reinhard Hennig.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121268431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Games about the Materiality of Digital Games // Juegos digitales sobre la materialidad de los juegos digitales","authors":"Josef Nguyen","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1347","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the potential for digital games to advance environmentally responsible attitudes by attending to their own material conditions, since the production, consumption, and disposal of games and the platforms on which they run enact ecological harm. I examine how Tomorrow Corporation’s puzzle game Little Inferno (2012) and Molleindustria’s political mobile game Phone Story (2011) address their own participation in ecological harm through rendering visible the very games themselves being played as material commodities. In doing so, they acknowledge their own complicity as well as that of their players in existing processes of environmental degradation. Moreover, both games challenge conventional expectations of fun as harmless or inconsequential, since this environmental destruction results from digital entertainment. I argue that digital games advancing environmentally responsible attitudes must address the ecological devastation tied to their materiality as well as support players in accepting responsibility for and remedying the harm players enact. Consequently, digital games of environmental responsibility must also question the dominant mode of fun that drives ecological devastation by reminding us that we dwell in a world where we need to be responsible for the fun we choose to have. Resumen Este articulo investiga el potencial de los juegos digitales para fomentar actitudes responsables hacia el medioambiente atendiendo a sus propias condiciones materiales, ya que la produccion, el consumo, y el desecho de los juegos y de las plataformas en las que funcionan representan dano ecologico. Examino como el puzle Little Inferno (2012) de Tomorrow Corporation y el juego politico para movil Phone Story (2011) de Molleindustria abordan su propia participacion en el dano ecologico haciendo visible el que los juegos en si mismos sean productos materiales. Al hacerlo, reconocen su propia complicidad, asi como la de los jugadores en los procesos de degradacion medioambiental. Ademas, ambos juegos desafian las expectativas convencionales de la diversion como algo inofensivo e intrascendente, ya que esta destruccion medioambiental resulta del entretenimiento digital. Argumento que los juegos digitales que promueven actitudes responsables hacia el medioambiente deben abordar la devastacion ecologica vinculada a su materialidad, asi como animar a los jugadores a que acepten su responsabilidad y corrijan el dano que hacen. En consecuencia, los juegos digitales con responsabilidad medioambiental deben tambien cuestionar la forma dominante de diversion que conlleva devastacion ecologica recordandonos que vivimos en un mundo en el que necesitamos ser responsables de la diversion que elegimos tener.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126312262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}