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{"title":"Credits 11.1","authors":"Irene Sanz Alonso","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3669","url":null,"abstract":"Credits 11.1","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"820 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130465279","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":"Cultures of Climate. On Bodies and Atmospheres in Modern Fiction: An Introduction","authors":"S. Nitzke, E. Horn","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3639","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127715849","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":"“She Moves Through Deep Corridors”: Mobility and Settler Colonialism in Sharon Doubiago’s Proletarian Eco-Epic Hard Country","authors":"Judith Rauscher","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3297","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEste articulo presenta un analisis del extenso poema americano “Hard Country” (1982) de Sharon Doubiago, combinando la perspectiva ecocritica con la de los estudios de movilidad. El argumento principal es que “Hard Country” es una epopeya ecologica proletaria que reconsidera las relaciones entre los seres humanos y la naturaleza desde una perspectiva de la clase obrera, influida por diferentes tipos de (in)movilidad. En mi analisis, demuestro como el texto revisa la tradicion epica americana, focalizando el deseo de la gente de clase obrera de tener relaciones significativas con el lugar ante las historias de injusticia medioambiental y de desplazamiento. El texto de Doubiago fomenta nociones de arraigo tradicionales basadas en el lugar, pero tambien cuestiona ideas sobre que sentido del lugar puede ser medioambientalmente sugerente. Asi permite la emergencia de una “ecopoetica de movilidad” (Gerhardt) proletaria que enfatiza tanto las experiencias corporales de la narradora movil de Doubiago, como historias y culturas de movilidad estadounidenses. Entre estas culturas de movilidad, el colonialismo de los asentamientos destaca como un sistema de dominacion violenta y como una forma de injusticia medioambiental (Whyte) que cuestiona el deseo de gente obrera de moverse o de establecerse en tierras arrebatadas a los indigenas. De esta forma, el colonialismo de asentamiento plantea un desafio para la ecopoetica de movilidad proletaria de Doubiago, que debe comprometerse con el hecho de que la gente blanca de clase obrera en los Estados Unidos siempre haya sido tanto victima como responsable tanto de la injusticia medioambiental como de la injusticia de movilidad. EnglishThis article analyzes Sharon Doubiago’s American long poem “Hard Country” (1982) from the joined perspectives of ecocriticism and mobility studies. It argues that “Hard Country” is a proletarian ecoepic that rethinks human-nature relations from a working-class perspective shaped by different kinds of (im)mobility. In my analysis, I show how the text revises the American epic tradition by foregrounding working-class people’s desire for meaningful relationships to place in light of histories of environmental injustice and displacement. Doubiago’s text promotes traditional place-based notions of belonging, but it also challenges ideas about what kind of sense of place can be environmentally suggestive. In doing so, it allows for the emergence of a proletarian “ecopoetics of mobility” (Gerhardt) that emphasizes the bodily experiences of Doubiago’s mobile narrator as well as U.S.-American histories and cultures of mobility. Among these cultures of mobility, settler colonialism stands out as a system of violent domination and form of environmental injustice (Whyte) that calls into question working-class people’s desire to move or settle on dispossessed indigenous lands. As such, settler colonialism poses a challenge to Doubiago’s proletarian ecopoetics of mobility, which must engage ","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131384931","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 Allegories of the Anthropocene","authors":"Giulia Champion","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3625","url":null,"abstract":"Book review.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127526724","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":"More Virulent Than Disease","authors":"S. Gage","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3191","url":null,"abstract":"            “More Virulent than Disease” is a chapter from the historical novel, Painted Butterflies. This excerpt is written through the voice of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852 – 1934), Nobel Prize Winner, who is credited with being “The Father of Modern Neuroscience.” In this piece, Santiago is in his mid-twenties recounting the four years since his return from the Separatist War in Cuba (Ten Years War), where he served as a head physician in a remote jungle hospital. Here, he ruminates about his recovery from illnesses which he acquired in the tropics, from which he barely survived. His hopefulness, his need for artistic expression, his passion for the natural world and the courage he observed from others brought Santiago through one of the darkest periods of his life.  Painted Butterflies follows the life and scientific work of Santiago Ramon y Cajal through his journal entries. His story is expressed through his 19th century lens, but is also seen through the eyes of a modern, fictional neuroscientist, Rebecca Calhoun, who is navigating graduate school in the United States. Across two centuries and continents, these scientists discover themselves and what drives their passions for living deeply and the excitement of discovery. When Santiago’s journal falls mysteriously into Rebecca’s hands, they become connected by a scientific theory, spurned by Santiago’s prescience into how memory works. As if Santiago is whispering in her ear, Rebecca pursues her idea on how to enhance the brain’s capacity for memory (and succeeds), but there is a caveat that takes her findings to an unexpected and more personal place.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128982392","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 Climate and Literature","authors":"Leonardo Nolé","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3624","url":null,"abstract":"Book review.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121020653","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":"Talking about the Weather. Roland Barthes on Climate, Everydayness, the Feeling of Being, and Poetics","authors":"Urs Buettner","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3190","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEl articulo ofrece una lectura de las reflexiones de Roland Barthes sobre el tiempo y el clima en su ultimo ciclo de obras “La Preparation du Roman” contextualizando estas breves observaciones con pensamientos previos acerca del tema. Barthes desarrolla un concepto fenomenologico del clima demostrando como la experiencia de habitar un lugar en el transcurso de las estaciones del ano forma ciertos habitos que se manifiestan en distintas expectativas, percepciones, rutinas diarias y un cierto lenguaje. El texto se centra, especificamente, en el modo de recuperar una experiencia existencial del clima en su contingencia. Ademas, Barthes investiga como la poesia trata de capturar la especificidad y singularidad de ciertos fenomenos climaticos sin retornar a los modelos narrativos del clima anclados en el sistema linguistico. EnglishThe paper reads Rolands Barthes’ considerations on weather and climate in his last lecture cycle “La Preparation du Roman” by contextualizing its brief remarks with his previous discussions on this topic. Barthes develops a phenomenological concept of climate, showing how experiences of place across the seasons shape certain habits. These manifest in expectations, perceptions, daily routines, and language. However, his particular interest is devoted to the question of how an existential experience of weather in its contingency can be regained. Furthermore, he investigates how poetry tries to capture the uniqueness and singularity of respective weather appearances against the patterns and narratives of the climate sedimented in the language system.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123200494","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":"Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Ecology and Human Rights in Gioconda Belli’s Waslala","authors":"Nancy J. Gates Madsen","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3242","url":null,"abstract":"espanol“Waslala”, novela futuristica de Gioconda Belli, revela las multiples tensiones que surgen cuando se exploran los derechos humanos en el contexto de la crisis ecologica global. Mientras la novela critica la explotacion humana de recursos naturales y la resultante desigualdad de desarrollo humano y economico, a la vez afirma el acceso a y control de los recursos como un derecho humano fundamental. Haciendo uso de las teorias de Steve Stern y Scott Straus sobre “la paradoja de los derechos humanos” y del concepto del “Capitaloceno” de Jason Moore, postulo que “Waslala” demuestra dos tensiones fundamentales entre los derechos humanos y los problemas ambientales. Primero, la novela muestra como atender a los principios universales del balance ecologico global puede socavar los derechos humanos de individuos limitados por razones geograficas o economicas. Segundo, demuestra como el derecho humano a la propiedad esta implicado en la crisis ecologica global. Aunque “Waslala” intenta situar los derechos humanos por encima de los temas medioambientales, al mismo tiempo hace hincapie en la imposibilidad de separar a los dos, lo cual provoca que se reconsidere la definicion y practica de los derechos humanos dentro del contexto de la ecologia global. EnglishGioconda Belli’s futuristic novel “Waslala” reveals the many tensions that arise when one explores human rights within a context of planetary ecological crisis. While the novel criticizes human exploitation of natural resources and the resultant differential development and economic inequality, at the same time it affirms access to and control of resources as a fundamental human right. Using Steve Stern and Scott Straus’s framework of the “human rights paradox” and Jason Moore’s description of the “Capitalocene,” I argue that “Waslala” demonstrates two fundamental tensions between human rights and environmental issues. First, the novel shows how attention to the universal principles of global ecological balance may undermine the human rights of individuals constrained by geography or economic class. Second, it demonstrates how the human right to property is implicated in global ecological crisis. Although “Waslala” purports to privilege human rights over ecological concerns, at the same time it highlights the impossibility of separating the two, prompting a rethinking of the definition and practice of human rights within the context of global ecology.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130771133","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":"Landscapes of Extraction and the Memories of Extinction in Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz and El botón de nácar","authors":"J. Figueroa","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3325","url":null,"abstract":"espanolBasandome en los ensayos filmicos “Nostalgia de la luz” (2010) y “El boton de nacar” (2015) de Patricio Guzman, en este articulo sostengo que la ambiguedad entre referencia y abstraccion que caracteriza la representacion visual del paisaje en el capitalismo tardio ofrece un mecanismo productivo para mapear los procesos de extincion causados por historias continuas de extraccion. Esta ambiguedad no solo revela los limites de la forma-paisaje para comunicar la degradacion de la naturaleza, sino que tambien expone la progresiva desaparicion del sujeto humano del centro de la historia en aquellos espacios donde el capital busca una y otra vez resolver sus contradicciones internas a traves de nuevas formas de extraccion de recursos. De esta manera, la aspiracion totalizadora de Guzman de representar el pasado historico, arqueologico e incluso cosmologico a traves de los paisajes del desierto de Atacama y la Patagonia se convierte en una forma de explicar como el capital se ha desplazado de lo humano hacia lo planetario, lo que implica una mayor alteracion del equilibrio ecologico y de paso transforma la extincion en el unico horizonte historico. Concluyo senalando que la memoria de aquellos procesos pasados de extraccion y extincion inscritos en el paisaje puede funcionar como una prolepsis de un futuro sin nosotros, presentando asi una oportunidad para reactivar el potencial historico del sujeto para cambiar nuestro modo de relacionarnos con la naturaleza. EnglishFocusing on Guzman's essay films “Nostalgia de la luz” (2010) and “El boton de nacar” (2015), in this article I argue that the ambiguity between reference and abstraction that pervades the visual representation of landscape in late capitalism offers a productive way to map out the processes of extinction caused by continual histories of extraction. This ambiguity not only reveals the limits of the landscape-form to convey the degradation of nature, but also the progressive disappearance of the human subject from the center of history in such spaces where capital seeks time and time again to resolve its internal contradictions through new forms of resource extraction. In this fashion, Guzman’s totalizing aspiration to represent the historical, archaeological, and even cosmological pasts through the landscapes of the Atacama Desert and Patagonia becomes a way to explain how capital has moved from the human to the planetary, which entails a larger alteration of ecological metabolism and transforms extinction into the only historical horizon. I conclude that the memory of past processes of extraction and extinction inscribed in these landscapes can also function as a prolepsis of a future without us, thus presenting an opportunity to reactivate the subject’s historical potential to change the way we relate to nature.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"387 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131935282","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":"Nichts als Katastrophen? Klimawandel als Herausforderung für die utopische Tradition","authors":"E. Herold","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3189","url":null,"abstract":"Aktuelle klimapolitische Debatten sind von einem apokalyptischen Denken durchdrungen. Auch Bewegungen wie Fridays for Future sind davon gepragt – positive Zielsetzungen bleiben dagegen abstrakt, utopische Bilder einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft stehen nicht im Vordergrund der offentlichen Auseinandersetzungen. Ich mochte dafur argumentieren, dass eine Vergegenwartigung und Fortschreibung der Tradition der literarischen Utopie Potentiale fur alternative Zukunftskonstruktionen bieten. Ich mochte der Frage nachgehen, wie literarische Utopien Momente eines besseren Lebens in einer vom Klima verwandelten Zukunftswelt aufzeigen konnen. Dazu werde ich (1.) aktuelle literaturwissenschaftliche Diskussionen zum sogenannten „Cli-fi“-Boom betrachten. Insbesondere die zeitlichen Dimensionen des Klimawandels erweisen sich als eine beachtliche Schwelle fur seine gelingende Literarisierung. Allerdings, so werde ich (2.) darlegen, grundet gerade die Wandelbarkeit literarischer Utopien auf ihrer Fahigkeit, Zeitlichkeit zu modellieren. Vor diesem Hintergrund werde ich (3.) mit Kim Stanley Robinsons New York 2140 einen aktuellen Text analysieren, der die utopische Tradition vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Debatten um Klimawandel und Anthropozan fortschreibt. Ich werde nachzeichnen, mit welchen Strategien es ihm gelingt, individuelle, soziale und klimatische Zeitebenen miteinander zu verknupfen. Abschliesend (4.) werde ich kurz diskutieren, weshalb eine kritische Reflexion der zeitgenossischen Dominanz apokalyptischen Denkens fur aktuelle klimapolitische Debatten wichtig ist: Die Fixierung auf potentielle Verwustungen und uberambitionierte Reduktionsziele bergen die Gefahr, dass die derzeit mobilisierten Krafte allzu schnell frustriert werden und in eine zynische Haltung umkippen.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123038035","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}