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{"title":"Ecocriticism and \"Thinking with Writing\": An Interview with Tim Ingold","authors":"Antonia Spencer, T. Ingold","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3666","url":null,"abstract":"      Over the course of an influential career spanning several decades, Tim Ingold, Professor Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen, has established himself as a preeminent voice in the field of Social Anthropology. Author of studies including The Perception of the Environment (2000), Being Alive (2011) and The Life of Lines (2015), this interview was inspired by the potential of his wide-ranging scholarship to unearth some fascinating avenues for research in literary studies. The breadth of his writing on habitation, perception and skilled practice, suggests myriad applications for his thinking beyond the purely anthropological, and particularly for bridging the concerns of literary and environmental studies. The philosophical depth of his work, apparent in his analyses of processes of growth and formation in both biological and socio-cultural domains (indeed questioning the supposed divisions between these fields), proves that his scholarship provides a refreshing counter-narrative to many prevailing schools of thought in current literary theory, especially to much of the discourse of New Materialism and Speculative Realism. In addition, this interview contains his views regarding certain emerging issues in literary studies, such as the material practices of reading, and the ascendency of the computer screen over the printed book, areas where his anthropological perspective is both stimulating and revealing. As a renowned scholar who has recently surveyed the changes in the academy and in disciplinary relationships throughout his long career, his observations provide valuable insights into the capability of the arts to guide us into a wider, more interconnected world. Crucially, his responses also speak to the world of academia, and how we can foster a practical awareness of ecological issues within the often-rarefied spheres of academic research and practice.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132837922","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":"Vegetal Scale in the Anthropocene: The Dark Green","authors":"Heather I. Sullivan","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3480","url":null,"abstract":"When exploring the problem of delineating possible “scales” useful to describe the Anthropocene’s ecological changes, I suggest plant-human relations as the basis of our models rather than solely Human impact with a capital “H” as if a stand-alone species. Instead, human beings are a species within the photosynthesis-shaped, oxygen-infused atmosphere, and countering the ongoing industrial ecocide means seeking multispecies justice. One may claim that the “vegetal” stands as the ontological antithesis of being “animal,” but that view expresses a one-dimensional disregard for the essential work and bodies of plants and their fellow photosynthesizers that produce oxygen, drive the carbon cycle, feed terrestrial life, and influence water cycles. Indeed, “animal” is an emergence from the vegetal context. But our plant stories are shifting with the anthropocenic inflection. This dark green project explores narratives, both scientific and creative, of plant-human interactions in time of planetary change; and these interactions are not always peaceful or on an easily comprehended scale. As an example, I consider the 2015 short science-fiction story from Alan Dean Foster, “That Creeping Sensation,” that portrays how plant-human relations take on frightening new forms in a climate-changed world altered by heat, carbon dioxide, and the not-alwayssupportive activities of plants. With all the heat and carbon dioxide, plant life explodes and produces a massive increase in oxygen. In response, insects grow enormous and specialized first-responders must battle the bugs. Foster’s texts portray scales of non-human agency larger than the human whose power encompasses, enables, and sometimes threatens human life. His “cli fi” tale of giant bugs presents human beings as inextricably enmeshed in a plant-dominated existence. To paraphrase Derrida, there is no outside the vegetal.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114958695","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":"Multispecies Justice in the Wetlands","authors":"U. Heise, J. Christensen","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3566","url":null,"abstract":"This essay discusses the rise of \"justice\" as a central concept around which environmental thought and debates have been organized over the last thirty years, and briefly places the notions of environmental justice and multispecies justice into the more general context of theories of justice since John Rawls. It uses the case of the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve in Los Angeles, whose future is hotly contested between different environmentalist groups, as a case study to illustrate the complex trade-offs that environmental decision-making currently confronts, and to suggest in what ways the invocation of multispecies justice changes the participants in the community of justice and the way in which their claims on humans' moral consideration should be weighed.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126575996","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":"Itinerant Ecocriticism, Southern Thought, and Italian Cinema on Foot","authors":"Elena Past","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3501","url":null,"abstract":"      This short essay explores an impulse guiding Italian ecocriticism, and also a recurrent trend in Italian cinema: that of thinking on foot. Drawing on the work of sociologist and philosopher Franco Cassano, I consider why contemporary philosophers seek to understand Italy at a pace that works strategically (sometimes defiantly) against petroleum-fueled speed.  Brief examples from three recent Italian films that proceed on foot (Basilicata Coast to Coast [2010], La lunga strada gialla [2016], and Il cammino dell’Appia antica [2016]) attempt to reanimate southern Italian landscapes as “vehicles of identity, solidarity, and development” (Cassano xxxvi). Each film represents a socio-political project enabled by its walking pace; each, in turn, has the potential to unveil how these projects depend on the naturalcultural health of the landscapes being traversed. Against the “slow violence” being perpetrated on Italian landscapes—a slow violence of toxic contamination at the hand of ecomafias, of the cementification of agricultural lands and delicate coasts—and against the speed of turbocapitalism, thinking on foot enables modes of ethics and aesthetics simultaneously attuned to historical depth and ecological crisis. In this view, Italy is no longer a “bel paese,” but rather an ecocultural landscape in which the seeds for meaningful change are deeply embedded.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116971772","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":"Naming the Unknown, Witnessing the Unseen: Mediterranean Ecocriticism and Modes of Representing Migrant Others","authors":"S. Iovino, Pasquale Verdicchio","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3559","url":null,"abstract":"In continuity with the theoretical explorations of Mediterranean Ecocriticism, this essay deals with modes of representation of \"migrant others.\" Often de-personified and reduced to statistical data, these “invisible” migrants are in fact parts of a larger ecology, where the fates of humans and nonhumans are interlaced, prompting deep ethical questions. Such invisibility is challenged by the many artists, writers, filmmakers, and thinkers that bring the migrant question to the center stage of their work, suggesting that the only response to the dehumanization of migrants is the humanization of nonhumans caught in the same predicaments of borders and violence. The essay includes an analysis of Jason deCaires Taylor's submarine artworks and of the documentary Asmat, \"Names,\" by director Dagmawi Yimer.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114501855","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":"Ecocriticism in Turkey","authors":"M. Ergi̇n","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3489","url":null,"abstract":"      Ecocriticism has gained visibility in Turkish academia in the early 2000s. This essay offers a brief analysis of the status of the field in Turkey and sheds light on the growing interest in ecology in both academic and non-academic circles. I first overview the academic conventions and publications that provided the initial momentum for the birth of Turkish ecocriticism. I examine past and current trends in ecocritical studies by surveying the latest academic publications, literary works and traditions that lend themselves to ecocritical analyses, and specific ecological questions pertinent to Turkey’s geography. I then address future directions for research in the field and investigate the expanding interest in ecology across different disciplines such as film, visual arts and media. I conclude the essay by highlighting the interdisciplinary platforms that bring together researchers and practitioners to enable new forms of environmental criticism and activism at a time of immense neoliberal growth.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"2144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130013259","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":"The New Nature Writing","authors":"Josefine Smith","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3549","url":null,"abstract":"Review essay.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125105049","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":"From Ecocriticism to Environmental Humanities: A Brief Overview of Publications in Spain","authors":"Beatriz Lindo","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3543","url":null,"abstract":"Since its beginnings in the 1990s, ecocriticism has undoubtedly been a constantly evolving academic field that addresses one of the most relevant topics of recent years: human relationship to/with the environment, or the lack thereof. This review essay offers an overview of relevant publications regarding ecocriticism, and its corollary, environmental humanities, with a specific focus on Spain, through three main publications that cover a period of ten years. Starting with Ecocríticas. Literatura y medio ambiente published in 2010, going through Visiones ecocríticas del mar en la literatura in 2016, to finish with Humanidades ambientales: pensamiento, arte y relatos para el siglo de la gran prueba, published in 2018. This review essay will moreover mention other relevant publications, most of which have been reviewed in this journal. Edited by Carmen Flys Junquera, José Manuel Marrero Henríquez and Julia Barella Vigal, the main objective of Ecocríticas (2010) at the time was to open the doors of ecocriticism to the Spanish-speaking world—a subject barely known beyond Englishspeaking countries back then—and establish the foundation of this field in a language other than English.1 This volume was the first major publication by GIECO2, a research group devoted to investigating the interconnections among literature, culture, and the","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127917836","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":"Ecocriticism in German Literary Studies","authors":"Anna-Marie Humbert","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3528","url":null,"abstract":"Without a doubt, environmental concerns are currently among the most pressing of our time, as the “Fridays for Future” movement resonating across the globe over the past two years has astonishingly shown. In recent years, this broad interest in ecological issues has also found expression in the German literary market. Peter Wohlleben’s popular science book The Hidden Life of Trees (2015) as well as Maja Lunde’s bestselling novel The History of Bees (2015) have been overwhelmingly successful; to mention just two prominent examples from the wealth of literature talking about the suspenseful and strained relationship between humankind and nature as well as increasingly dramatic environmental changes. Issues of this kind are also discussed in less popular, or rather, less mainstream literary genres such as contemporary German poetry, frequently with recourse to the multifaceted concept of the Anthropocene (Bayer/Seel 2016, Falb 2019). Over the two past decades, ecological issues have also taken a firm hold in the fields of German literary and cultural studies. This essay aims to present a brief overview of the evolution of ecocritical research within German literary studies in Germany in recent years. It will show that this field of research—unlike American studies and comparative literary studies in Germany (cf. for instance the thematic focus Ecocriticism in Komparatistik 2013)—tends to address such issues under the key term of ecology rather than ecocriticism (cf. e.g. Detering). Ecological questions are indeed highly present within German literary studies, but are not united under the terminological umbrella of ecocriticism. Apart from re-readings and new editions of canonical texts that draw more attention to ecological concerns—one might consider, for example, the most recent publications occasioned by the Humboldt Year in 2019, which discussed Alexander von Humboldt as one of the first German ecological authors—relevant lexica and handbooks from the discipline of German literary studies usually contain entries on the relationship between nature, ecology, and literature. However, these contributions do discuss but rarely employ the term ecocriticism, since there is, in contrast to the Anglophone world, no long-standing research tradition in Germany that bears its name. There are mainly three reasons for this. First of all, even though nature writing has been imported from the Anglophone world and launched in recent years as a successful genre on the German literary market,1 there is no long-standing tradition for this kind of physiographic genre in Germany. Even though currently gaining momentum (see for","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"151 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122625356","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":"Ecozon@ Editorial 11.1","authors":"A. Goodbody","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3663","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial for Ecozon@ 11.1.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129222968","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}