Title & Author:

On active grounds : agency and time in the environmental humanities / Robert Boschman and Mario Trono, editors.

Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

ix, 366 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Series:

Environmental humanities series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of images -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Ecocritical agency in time / Mario Trono, Robert Boschman -- I: Eco-temporal literacies. "The clock's wound up": Critical reading practices in the time of social acceleration and ecological collapse / Paul Huebener -- A better distribution deal: Ecocinematic viewing and montagist reply / Mario Trono -- Allô, ici la terre: Agency in ecological music composition, performance, and listening / Sabine Feisst -- The environmental vampire: Terror, time, and territory after 9/11 / Robert Boschman -- II:Timelines and indigeneity. "We are key players...": Creating Indigenous engagement and community control at Blackfoot Heritage sites in time / Geneviève Susemihl -- Mapping the mining legacy of Navajo Nation / Lea Rekow -- Photo essay. Agency and time on active grounds: A memoir of Bruno Latour and Gaïa Global Circus / Robert Boschman -- III: Animal agents and human/non-human interactions. The gaze of predators and the redefinition of human / Karla Armbruster -- Anim-oils: Wild animals in petro-cultural landscapes / Pamela Banting -- Reacting to wolves: The historical construction of identity and value / Morgan Zedalis, Sean Gould -- IV: Systems change in time. Declarations of interdependence: Unexpected human-animal conflict and Bhutanese non-linear policy / Randy Schroeder, Kent Schroeder -- Effective environmental action in Canada: The German Energiewende as a model of public agency / Mishka Lysack -- Culture as vector: (Re)locating agency in social-ecological systems change / Nancy C. Doubleday -- About the contributors -- Index.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"On Active Grounds considers the themes of agency and time through the burgeoning, interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. Fourteen essays and a photo album cover topics such as environmental practices and history, temporal literacy, graphic novels, ecocinema, ecomusicology, animal studies, Indigeneity, wolf reintroduction, environmental history, green conservatism, and social-ecological systems change. The book also speaks to the growing concern regarding environmental issues in the aftermath of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) and the election of Donald Trump in the United States. This collection is organized as a written and visual appeal to issues such as time (how much is left?) and agency (who is active? what can be done? what does and does not work?). It describes problems and suggests solutions. On Active Grounds is unique in its explicit and twinned emphasis on time and agency in the context of the Environmental Humanities and a requisite interdisciplinarity."-- From publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781771123396 paperback
1771123397 paperback
(pdf)
9781771123402
(epub)
9781771123419

Subject:

Environmental sciences Philosophy.
Humanities Philosophy.
Sciences de l'environnement Philosophie.
Sciences humaines Philosophie.

Added entries:

Boschman, Robert, 1961- editor.
Trono, Mario, 1962- editor.
Environmental humanities.

Agency and time in the environmental humanities

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304860
Call No.: BIB 250607
Status: Available