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{"title":"The promise of disaster: specters of Malthus in marxist dreams","authors":"Alex McCauley","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.1649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.1649","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers Malthus in the context of Marxist criticism and ecology. While these critics see Malthus as a proponent of austerity, this essay reads the Essay on the Principle of Population to suggest that Malthus establishes pain, rather than pleasure, as a primary political problem, and that the ecological apocalypse he predicts is mirrored by his concern for an intellectual apocalypse that derives from pain—his own toothache. It considers also the function of the French Revolution, and hunger, in Malthusian thought. Resumen Este articulo estudia a Malthus dentro del contexto de la critica marxista y la ecologia. Mientras que los criticos de estas escuelas ven a Malthus como un defensor de la austeridad, este texto analiza el Ensayo sobre el principio de la poblacion  con el objetivo de sugerir que Malthus establece el dolor, en vez del placer, como un problema politico primario, y que el apocalipsis ecologico que predice se refleja en su preocupacion por un apocalipsis intelectual que deriva del dolor—su propio dolor de muelas. Tambien se reflexiona la funcion de la Revolucion Francesa y del hambre en el pensamiento malthusiano.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"168 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":"122906533","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":"After the Cyclone // Después del ciclón","authors":"Louise Boscacci","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2272","url":null,"abstract":"A poem entitled \"After the Cyclone\". Resumen Poema titulado \"After the Cyclone\".","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"1 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":"123660725","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":"Land “under the Ditch”: channeling water through Owen Wister’s \"The Virginian\"","authors":"Jada Ach","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.1639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.1639","url":null,"abstract":"This paper combines envirotech history with elemental ecocriticism to examine the lively presence of water infrastructure in Owen Wister’s The Virginian (1902). In Wister’s novel, humans and animals assemble around channels of water, and the fight to divert and control water systems initiates both violence and new alliances. Instead of relegating water infrastructures to the inconsequential background, this paper asks what ditches, water storage containers, and reservoirs can contribute to our understanding of gender and human-environmental relations at the turn of the twentieth century. It argues that Progressive Era water development places “manliness” at risk at the same time that it defines it. Since thirst, aridity, and mobility contribute to the making of hard, manly men in Wister’s view, irrigation emerges as a potent challenge to the novel’s hard logic . Resumen Este trabajo combina perspectivas del campo de historia de la tecnologia medioambiental con la ecocritica elemental para examinar la vida asociada a la infraestructura hidraulica en The Virginian (1902) de Owen Wister. En esta obra de Wister, tanto seres humanos como animales se reunen alrededor de canales de agua, en los que la lucha para desviar y controlar los sistemas hidraulicos desencadenan episodios de violencia y nuevas alianzas. En lugar de relegar estas infraestructuras a un papel carente de significado, este texto cuestiona como han podido contribuir las acequias, los las balsas de agua, y los depositos a nuestra concepcion del genero y de las relaciones entre los seres humanos y medioambiente durante los inicios del siglo veinte. Por ultimo, este trabajo pretende establecer que el desarollo hidraulico durante la “epoca progresista” en los Estados Unidos ha definido “la masculinidad” y, al mismo tiempo, la ha puesto en riesgo. Puesto que, como sugiere la novela, la sed, la aridez, y la mobilidad contribuyen a la formacion de hombres duros y masculinos, el sistema de regadio se configura como un desafio potente a las logicas racionalistas de la novela","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"25 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":"134026616","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":"Costume Shop // Tienda de disfraces","authors":"Terry Trowbridge","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.1482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.1482","url":null,"abstract":"This poem is a meditation about distributive justice, belonging, and the habitat in my own backyard. Resumen Este poema es una meditacion sobre la justicia distributiva, la pertenencia y el habitat en mi propio patio trasero.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"23 3 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":"132898332","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 Change Fictions: Representations of Global Warming in American Literature\"","authors":"Tatiana Prorokova","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.1651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.1651","url":null,"abstract":"Book review of Antonia Mehnert's Climate Change Fictions: Representations of Global Warming in American Literature.Resumen  Resena de Climate Change Fictions: Representations of Global Warming in American Literature de Antonia Mehnert.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"1 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":"125874584","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":"\"Inferno\" unleashed: Dan Brown's uncomfortable solution to overpopulation","authors":"Irene Sanz Alonso","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2316","url":null,"abstract":"Dan Brown’s Inferno (2013) explores a controversial issue that is often forgotten in national policies and international debates despite its relevance for the world’s future: overpopulation. The effects of overpopulation in our environment can be seen in desertification, loss of diversity, or fresh water scarcity, and despite this, overpopulation remains a forgotten issue because of the difficulties of dealing with it at a large scale. Using Thomas Malthus’s theories on the growth of population, in Inferno Dan Brown proposes an uncomfortable situation that entails the creation of a virus. While in the film version the virus is never released and the heroes defeat the villains, the written version offers a different and more complex final that makes readers reflect on the possible ways of dealing with the problem of overpopulation. The aim of this article is to analyze some of the consequences of overpopulation regarding the environment, and to explore how the two versions of Inferno portray the topic. Resumen Inferno (2013) de Dan Brown explora un tema importante que a menudo se obvia en las politicas nacionales y en los debates internacionales, a pesar de lo relevante que es para el futuro del mundo: la sobrepoblacion. Los efectos de la sobrepoblacion en nuestro entorno pueden percibirse en la desertificacion, la perdida de diversidad o la escasez de agua. A pesar de ello, la sobrepoblacion continua siendo un problema olvidado debido a las dificultades que entrana abordar el problema a gran escala. Usando las teorias de Thomas Malthus sobre el crecimiento de la poblacion, en Inferno Dan Brown propone una situacion incomoda que conlleva la creacion de un virus. Mientras que en la version cinematografica nunca se libera el virus, y los heroes vencen a los villanos; la novela ofrece un final diferente y mas complejo que hace reflexionar al lector sobre las posibles maneras de lidiar con el problema de la sobrepoblacion. El objetivo de este articulo es analizar algunas de las consecuencias de la sobrepoblacion en lo que al medio ambiente se refiere, y explorar como las dos versiones de Inferno representan el tema.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"52 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":"127668323","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":"“No Forest, no water. No forest, no animals”: an ecocritical reading of Ekpe Inyang’s \"The Hill Barbers\"","authors":"Kenneth Toah Nsah","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.1581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.1581","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines Ekpe Inyang’s play entitled The Hill Barbers (2010) using postcolonial ecocriticism. Combining postcolonial theory and ecocriticism - in order to foreground the author’s postcolonial Cameroonian/African society, the article investigates some of the numerous ecology-related issues raised in the play, among which deforestation, exploitation, capitalism, agency for nature, and the apocalyptic trope. It emerges, from both the play and article, that humans are destroying nature and are consequently suffering from this very destruction. Among the many effects of environmental destruction felt by the Mbungoe human community of the play are acute shortages of drinking water and dwindling animal species on their hills and mountains. One of the major findings of this article is the author’s ability to reconcile hitherto opposing ideologies and practices, such as Judeo-Christianity and African religions and Western science and African traditions, in seeking ways of redressing the increasing ecological problems faced within Cameroonian/African communities and elsewhere around the globe, advocating sustainable behaviour and respect for nature. The paper joins ongoing research attempts to apply ecocriticism in reading literature from postcolonial African societies. Resumen Este articulo examina la obra teatral de Ekpe Inyang titulada The Hill Barbers (2010) a traves de la perspectiva de la ecocritica postcolonial. Combinando  teoria postcolonial y ecocritica, el articulo analiza algunas de las numerosas cuestiones relacionadas con la ecologia que se plantean en la obra, cuestiones como la deforestacion, la explotacion, el capitalismo, la preservacion de la naturaleza y el tropo apocaliptico. De la obra y del articulo se desprende que los seres humanos estan destruyendo la naturaleza y, por consiguiente, sufren los efectos de esta misma destruccion. Entre las muchas consecuencias de la destruccion ambiental sufridas por la comunidad Mbungoe en la pieza teatral estan la escasez aguda de agua potable y la disminucion de las especies animales en sus colinas y montanas. Uno de los principales hallazgos de este articulo es la capacidad del autor para conciliar ideologias y practicas hasta entonces opuestas, como el judeocristianismo, las religiones africanas, la ciencia occidental y las tradiciones africanas, apara dar solucion a los crecientes problemas ecologicos a los que se enfrentan tanto las comunidades camerunesas/africanas como otras en diversas partes del mundo. De esta manera, se aboga por un comportamiento sostenible y por el respeto hacia la naturaleza. El articulo supone una contribucion a los intentos actuales de hacer una lectura de la literatura producida en las sociedades postcoloniales africanas a traves del prisma de la ecocritica.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"46 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":"128433413","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":"Población, cambio climático y huella ambiental","authors":"M. P. Lorca","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2172","url":null,"abstract":"Resumen En 1679 Anthony van Leeuwenhoek fue el primero en especular acerca del numero de seres humanos que podria albergar la Tierra. Desde entonces y, sobre todo, desde que Thomas Malthus publico en 1798 su celebre ensayo, el debate demografico –particularmente exacerbado en la segunda mitad del siglo pasado, cuando la tasa de crecimiento poblacional duplicaba a la actual- se establecio en dos frentes, el de los boomsters , que sostienen que no hay limites para la explotacion de los recursos terrestres, y el de los doomsters, para los que los recursos del planeta tienen unos limites que estamos a punto de desbordar. La deteccion en la decada de 1990 de los primeros sintomas del calentamiento global ha marginado a unos y otros. Hoy, el debate no se centra en los limites de los recursos, sino en los excesos de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero con los que nuestro sistema economico consumista esta alterando el equilibrio global de la Tierra. La superpoblacion sigue siendo el problema, pero la unidad de medida de hoy es nuestra huella ambiental evaluada en terminos de produccion de gases de efecto invernadero, los responsables de la aceleracion del cambio climatico global. Abstract In 1679 Anthony van Leeuwenhoek was the first person speculating about the number of human beings that the Earth could harbour. Since then and, above all, since Thomas Malthus published his famous essay in 1798, the demographic debate—especially exacerbated in the second half of the last century, when the population growth rate doubled the current one—was established on two fronts, that of boomsters, who argue that there are no limits to the exploitation of the Erath resources; and that of doomsters, for whom the Earth resources have a limit that we are about to overflow. The detection in the 1990s of the first symptoms of global warming has marginalised ones and the others. Nowadays, the debate is not focused on the limits of resources, but on the excessive emissions of greenhouse gases with which our consumer economic system is altering the global balance of the Earth. Overpopulation is still the problem, but the current unit of measure is our environmental footprint assessed in terms of the production of greenhouse gases, which are responsible for the global climate change.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"246 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":"122062937","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":"Malthusian biopolitics, ecological immunity, and the anthropocene","authors":"Hannes Bergthaller","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2287","url":null,"abstract":"This essay argues that Michel Foucault’s original introduction of the concept of biopolitics should be seen as responding to Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie’s notion of a “Malthusian curse” which during medieval and early modern times kept the French population in check. Biopolitics was, in its original conception, the management of human and nonhuman populations, securing them against famine and disease so as to allow for continuous growth. During the second half of 20 th century, however, Neo-Malthusian thinkers pointed out that these strategies for immunizing human life against the vagaries of ecological existence had come to endanger the basic conditions of life precisely to the degree that they had been successful-ushering in the new geological epoch we have lately begun to refer to as the Anthropocene. This paradoxical dynamic can be understood in terms of what Roberto Esposito has described as an “immunitary double-bind”: existing immunitary defenses can no longer be dismantled without causing significant harm to human life, yet failure to dismantle them will increase the risk of incurring even greater harm in the future. Such an account, it is argued, yields a more ambivalent picture than the starkly negative views which continue to dominate biopolitical theory. Resumen Este ensayo sostiene que la introduccion original de Michel Foucault del concepto de biopolitica deberia entenderse como respuesta a la nocion de “maldicion malthusiana” de LeRoy Ladurie que durante la epoca medieval y moderna mantuvo bajo control a la poblacion francesa. La biopolitica era, en su concepcion original, la gestion de poblaciones humanas y no humanas, protegiendolas frente a la hambruna y la enfermedad, y permitiendo un crecimiento continuo. Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, sin embargo, los pensadores neo-malthusianos apuntaron que estas estrategias de inmunizacion de la vida humana frente a los antojos de la existencia ecologica habian terminado por poner en peligro las condiciones basicas de la vida precisamente hasta el punto de que habian tenido exito—marcando el inicio de la nueva epoca geologica que recientemente hemos denominado Antropoceno. Esta dinamica paradojica puede entenderse como lo que Roberto Esposito ha descrito como una “atadura doble inmunitaria”: las defensas inmunitarias existentes no pueden desmantelarse sin causar un dano significativo a la vida humana, pero fracasar en desmantelarlas aumentaria el riesgo de sufrir aun mas dano en el futuro. Tal explicacion, se argumenta, ofrece un retrato mas ambivalente que las vistas claramente negativas que continuan dominando la teoria biopolitica.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"72 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":"128371855","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 Explorations in Ecocriticism: Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design // Reseña de Explorations in Ecocriticism: Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design","authors":"Bénédicte Meillon","doi":"10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2018.9.1.2358","url":null,"abstract":"Book review of Paul Lindholdt's Explorations in Ecocriticism: Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design. Resumen Resena de Explorations in Ecocriticism: Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design de Paul Lindholdt.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"48 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":"129257264","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}