Nature as Resource, Aesthetic Experience, and Ecological Challenge
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Herta Nagl-Docekal
About this book
Approaching concepts of nature through a multidisciplinary lens, Nature as Resource, Aesthetic Experience, and Ecological Challenge assembles essays by scholars from the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Bringing together perspectives in philosophy, theology, literary studies, cultural ecology, art history, and the bio-sciences, the volume engages with crucial concerns regarding perceptions of nature in the Anthropocene and the increasing social and ethnic inequalities in the wake of environmental damage. The essays address aesthetic and ethical questions about nature, providing novel perspectives on representations of nature in literature and the visual and performative arts. They investigate nature as threatened by human interference and resulting issues of social (in)justice, and they explore the potential of decolonial approaches to nature. The volume treads new ground by combining expertise from a wide spectrum of research fields and cultural backgrounds, with the aim of fostering the development of new ethical principles and ways of planetary thinking. It thus adds an innovative perspective to existing discourses on ecologically sustainable forms of coexistence between human and nonhuman – or more-than-human – nature.
Author / Editor information
Herta Nagl-Docekal, University of Vienna, Austria; Maria Löschnigg, University of Graz, Austria.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Nature as Resource, Aesthetic Experience, and Ecological Challenge
1 - Part I: Visions of Nature and Landscape
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Visions of Sublime Nature across the Globe in Anglophone Poetry and Thought from the Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
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What Do We Mean When We Use the Term ‘Nature’? Exploring Immanuel Kant’s Multi-Faceted Approach
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Migrant Images: The American Romantic Landscape as International Imperial Style
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The Power of Water and the Mighty Mississippi
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Gardeners of the World …
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Morning as a Painter: Ethics Meets Aesthetics
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The Human “Language Animal” and Its Varied Relations to Nonhuman Nature
129 - Part III: Troubled Nature
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The Unnatural Nature at Hanford Engineering Works, or: Hot Bunnies at a Cold War Legacy Site
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Soil Resources in the Galápagos Islands:The Tension between Nature Reserve, Population Growth and Tourism
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“In the Tar Sands – Going Down”: Literary Responses to the Canadian Oil Industry
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Planetarity, Resilience, and Climate Change in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future
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Environmental Pollution as a Social Metaphor in the Literature of the La Plata Region
207 - Part IV: Decolonial Approaches
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Cultural and Decolonial Ecology: Prospects of an Emerging Dialogue
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Neo-Colonialism and Extractivism in the Amazon Biome: Its Inherent Logic, Consequences and Challenges for Earth and Peoples
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An Ubu-Ntu Defence of the Wholeness of Life in the Unfolding Destruction of the Environment
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“Cosmovision”: On Anita Ekman’s Forest Art
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List of Contributors
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Index of Authors
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Index of Subjects
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