- Ankara-Turkey
- Hacettepe University, English Language and Literature, Department MemberUniversity of Nevada, Reno, Literature and Environment, Department Memberadd
- Poststructuralism, Postmodern Fiction, Ecofeminism, Postmodernism, Ecocriticism, Environmental Studies, and 18 moreCultural Theory, Environmental Philosophy, Quantum Theory, Philosophy, Literary Theory, History of the Mediterranean, Bruno Latour, Timothy Morton, Material Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, Posthumanism, Ecocritical Theory, New Materialism, Agential Realism, Environmental Humanities, Anthropocene, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, and Donna Harawayedit
- Director of Environmental Humanities Center, Cappadocia University Immediate Past President of EASLCE (European Assoc... moreDirector of Environmental Humanities Center, Cappadocia University
Immediate Past President of EASLCE (European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment) -2016-2018
Member of the Advisory Board of Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism / Interconnexions: revue de posthumanisme (https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/posthumanismstudies/about/editorialTeam)
Member of the Editorial Board of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and Environment (www.isle.oxfordjournals.org) (2007-2020)
Member of the Advisory Board of Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature and Environment (www.ecozona.eu)
Member of the Advisory Board of PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature (http://www.panjournal.net/)
Member of the Advisory Board of Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism (http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/)
Member of the Advisory Board of American Journal of Mediterranean Studies
Member of the Advisory Board of the "Ecocritical Theory and Practice" Series of Lexington Books.
Advisory Board Cambridge University Press, Elements Series in Environmental Humanities
Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınevi Çevreci Beşeri Bilimler Serisi Danışma Kurulu (Cappadocia University Press, Environmental Humanities Series)
ORGANIZATIONS:
SLSA.eu: European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (Sister Organization of the International, USA-based Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts). Ambassador of Turkey (2014-present)
The Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, Linköping University-Sweden (Sept 2015-present) http://www.theseedbox.se/radgivande-kommitte?l=en
METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Advisory Council
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Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Environmental Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, and 15 moreEnvironmental Anthropology, Environmental Ethics, Biosemiotics, Critical Posthumanism, Ecocriticism, Environmental Sustainability, Ecopoetics, Environmental Humanities, Anthropocene studies, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, Environmental Cultural Studies, Anthropocene, Culture and the Anthropocene, Ecospirituality, and Ecological Applications
As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, environmental concerns dominate the media headlines, from rampant poverty in the developing world to nuclear accidents in industrialized nations. How did human civilization arrive... more
As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, environmental concerns dominate the media headlines, from rampant poverty in the developing world to nuclear accidents in industrialized nations. How did human civilization arrive at its current predicaments, and what can we do to temper our habits of mind and mitigate society's environmentally (and socially) destructive behaviors? The field of ecocriticism (also sometimes called "environmental criticism") attempts to grapple with such issues. A branch of literary and cultural studies that essentially began in North America in the 1970s, ecocriticism is currently one of the most quickly developing areas of environmental research and teaching. The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons brings together thirty-two of the latest articles in the field, including work by some of the leading scholars from around the world. Although ecocriticism has been particularly active in North America, Western Europe, and East Asia...
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"Gezegenimizin sonu mu geliyor Bu soru ekolojik krizin zirve yaptığı günümüzde sıkça sorulur oldu. Endişeye mahal yok. Ancak acele edelim. Bizi saran ve kucaklayan doğanın dünya üzerindeki tüm canlılara hayat verdiğini hepimiz... more
"Gezegenimizin sonu mu geliyor Bu soru ekolojik krizin zirve yaptığı günümüzde sıkça sorulur oldu. Endişeye mahal yok. Ancak acele edelim. Bizi saran ve kucaklayan doğanın dünya üzerindeki tüm canlılara hayat verdiğini hepimiz biliriz. Peki ya biz insanlar bin yıllardır bize ev sahipliği yapmakta olan bu gezegene karşı yeterince nazik ve duyarlı mıyız Farkında olduğumuz ya da olmadığımız çevre hareketlerinin sözcüleri aktivistler ve bilim insanları uzunca bir süredir bizi bekleyen küresel felaketler konusunda uyarılarda bulunuyorken gerçekte bunların ne kadarını ciddiye alıyoruz Yaşam biçimimizi ve doğayla olan ilişkimizi değiştirmek bizi karanlık bir sondan kurtarabilir mi Elinizde tuttuğunuz bu kitap belki de bu sorulara cevap verebilir. Belki de daha fazlasını yaparak sizi doğa için düşünmeye okumaya yazmaya ve başkalarını aydınlatmaya yöneltebilir. Yıllardır doğa insan ilişkisine dair düşünüp cevaplayamadığınız soruları tıpkı sizin sorduğunuz biçimiyle sorarak sizi birlikte bir yanıt bulmaya davet eden Ekoeleştiri Çevre ve Edebiyat kitabının yazarları edebiyat kültür ve ekolojiye olan ilgilerini çevreye karşı duydukları sorumluluk hissi ile birleştirmiş dokuz genç akademisyenden oluşuyor. Ekoeleştiri Çevre ve Edebiyat çevresel sorunlara ve doğaya bakış açınızı değiştirecek yeni yaklaşımlar sunarken çevre ve edebiyat arasındaki ilişkinin kuramsal temeli olan ekoeleştiriyi Türk okuruna tanıtmayı hedefliyor. Ekoeleştiri alanında uluslararası birçok yayını bulunan ekoeleştirmen Prof. Dr. Serpil Oppermann önderliğindeki bir grup genç akademisyenin araştırma inceleme ve gözlemlerini güncel kuramlar ışığında derledikleri bu kitap Türkiye'den ve dünyadan örneklerle çevre ve edebiyat kapsamına giren pek çok farklı alanda kuram ve uygulamayı birleştiriyor."
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By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet’s troubled seas and distressed... more
By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and
limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental
humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the
planet’s troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various
sociocultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical
perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene are
overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls for transdisciplinary
cooperation and encourages thinking with water and thinking together
beyond the conventions of tentacular anthropocentric thought.
Working across many disciplines, the blue humanities, then, challenges
the cultural primacy of standard sea and freshwater narratives and
promotes disanthropocentric discourses about water ecologies.
Engaging with the most pressing water problems, this Element
contributes to those new discursive practices froma material ecocritical
perspective. The author’s hypothesis is that fluid-storied matter and the
new stories we tell can change the game by changing our mindset.
limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental
humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the
planet’s troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various
sociocultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical
perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene are
overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls for transdisciplinary
cooperation and encourages thinking with water and thinking together
beyond the conventions of tentacular anthropocentric thought.
Working across many disciplines, the blue humanities, then, challenges
the cultural primacy of standard sea and freshwater narratives and
promotes disanthropocentric discourses about water ecologies.
Engaging with the most pressing water problems, this Element
contributes to those new discursive practices froma material ecocritical
perspective. The author’s hypothesis is that fluid-storied matter and the
new stories we tell can change the game by changing our mindset.
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Summary Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene is a tour de force. With transdisciplinarity and theoretical lucidity, it rethinks the Anthropocene from a material ecocritical perspective, envisioning innovative modes of... more
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Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene is a tour de force. With transdisciplinarity and theoretical lucidity, it rethinks the Anthropocene from a material ecocritical perspective, envisioning innovative modes of knowledge for deeper understandings of Anthropocene ecologies. Focusing on nonhuman agencies, Serpil Oppermann shows in fascinating detail how to better imagine an ecological future on our storied planet that has suffered enormously from an anthropocentric mindset.
See:https://wvupressonline.com/ecologies-of-a-storied-planet?page=2
Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene is a tour de force. With transdisciplinarity and theoretical lucidity, it rethinks the Anthropocene from a material ecocritical perspective, envisioning innovative modes of knowledge for deeper understandings of Anthropocene ecologies. Focusing on nonhuman agencies, Serpil Oppermann shows in fascinating detail how to better imagine an ecological future on our storied planet that has suffered enormously from an anthropocentric mindset.
See:https://wvupressonline.com/ecologies-of-a-storied-planet?page=2
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This is the Introduction to Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes, edited by Serpil Oppermann and Sinan Akilli. This collection explores the values, perceptions, and transformations of the environment, ecology,... more
This is the Introduction to Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes, edited by Serpil Oppermann and Sinan Akilli. This collection explores the values, perceptions, and transformations of the environment, ecology, and nature in Turkish culture, literature, and the arts. Through these themes, it examines historical and contemporary environmentally engaged literary and cultural traditions in Turkey. The volume re-imagines Turkey in its geo-social and ecocultural narratives of multiple connections and complexities, in its multi-faceted webs of histories, and in its rich multispecies stories.
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Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to... more
Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This broad-ranging reflection on contemporary human experience and expression provokes new understandings of the planet to which we are intimately connected.
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"An extremely valuable resource for anyone seeking an advanced introduction to the conversations and controversies animating the new ‘material’ turn in ecocriticism." —Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
"This book is not an extension of spirituality to the boring domain of materiality, and it is not the opposite either, the humbling appeal to material infrastructure in order to dampen the dreams of scholars, priests, ecologists, and militants for a more uplifting world of meanings and beauties. It is the exploration of how many dimensions—many indeed spiritual—have been lost in not taking materiality seriously enough. A move that meets scientists half way to help them profit from their science so as to explore in common what geophysicitsis now call "critical zones." Critical zones indeed!" —Bruno Latour, Université Sciences Po Paris
"References and engages with the major works and writers on the new materialism with its focus on material entanglements and material agency. . . . The quality of the essays ensures that this will be a useful volume for both undergraduate and graduate courses." —Anne Elvey, Monash University
"The contributions to this collection are consistently well-written, balancing technical language, poetic vividness, and accessibility. Of interest to literary scholars and readers throughout the environmental humanities and theoretical sciences." —Scott Slovic, Idaho State University
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"An extremely valuable resource for anyone seeking an advanced introduction to the conversations and controversies animating the new ‘material’ turn in ecocriticism." —Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
"This book is not an extension of spirituality to the boring domain of materiality, and it is not the opposite either, the humbling appeal to material infrastructure in order to dampen the dreams of scholars, priests, ecologists, and militants for a more uplifting world of meanings and beauties. It is the exploration of how many dimensions—many indeed spiritual—have been lost in not taking materiality seriously enough. A move that meets scientists half way to help them profit from their science so as to explore in common what geophysicitsis now call "critical zones." Critical zones indeed!" —Bruno Latour, Université Sciences Po Paris
"References and engages with the major works and writers on the new materialism with its focus on material entanglements and material agency. . . . The quality of the essays ensures that this will be a useful volume for both undergraduate and graduate courses." —Anne Elvey, Monash University
"The contributions to this collection are consistently well-written, balancing technical language, poetic vividness, and accessibility. Of interest to literary scholars and readers throughout the environmental humanities and theoretical sciences." —Scott Slovic, Idaho State University
Research Interests: Critical Theory, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Comparative Literature, and 34 moreGerman Literature, English Literature, Italian Studies, Disability Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Posthumanism, Environmental Studies, Literary Criticism, Cultural Theory, Computer Networks, The Body, Literary Theory, Gilles Deleuze, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Biosemiotics, Ecofeminism, Ecocriticism, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Bruno Latour, Cultural Ecology, Environmental Humanities, Goethean Science, Niklas Luhmann, Databases, Feminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies, Ecofeminist Theology, Donna Haraway, Software, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, New Materialism, Material Ecocriticism, Goethean epistemology, New Materialisms, and Science and Technology Studies
With twelve original essays that characterize truly international ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory, ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of... more
With twelve original essays that characterize truly international ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory, ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations, postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer ecologies. It develops new perspectives on literature, culture, and the environment. The essays, written by contributors from the United States, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Spain, China, India, and South Africa, cover novels, drama, autobiography, music, and poetry, mixing traditional and popular forms. Popular culture and the production and circulation of cultural imaginaries feature prominently in this volume—how people view their world and the manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way these perspectives challenge each other globally and locally. In this sense the book also probes borders, border transgression, and border permeability. By offering diverse ecocritical approaches, the essays affirm the significance and necessity of international perspectives in environmental humanities, and thus offer unique responses to environmental problems and that, in some sense, affect many beginning and established scholars.
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Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in... more
Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has a substantial history, with roots in second- and third-wave feminist literary criticism, women’s environmental writing and social change activisms, and eco-cultural critique. Reconnecting with the histories of feminist and ecofeminist literary criticism, and utilizing new developments in postcolonial ecocriticism, animal studies, queer theory, feminist and gender studies, cross-cultural and international ecocriticism, this timely volume develops a continuing and international feminist ecocritical perspective on literature, language, and culture.
Gezegenimizin sonu mu geliyor Bu soru ekolojik krizin zirve yaptığı günümüzde sıkça sorulur oldu. Endişeye mahal yok. Ancak acele edelim. Bizi saran ve kucaklayan doğanın dünya üzerindeki tüm canlılara hayat verdiğini hepimiz biliriz.... more
Gezegenimizin sonu mu geliyor Bu soru ekolojik krizin zirve yaptığı günümüzde sıkça sorulur oldu. Endişeye mahal yok. Ancak acele edelim.
Bizi saran ve kucaklayan doğanın dünya üzerindeki tüm canlılara hayat verdiğini hepimiz biliriz. Peki ya biz insanlar bin yıllardır bize ev sahipliği yapmakta olan bu gezegene karşı yeterince nazik ve duyarlı mıyız Farkında olduğumuz ya da olmadığımız çevre hareketlerinin sözcüleri aktivistler ve bilim insanları uzunca bir süredir bizi bekleyen küresel felaketler konusunda uyarılarda bulunuyorken gerçekte bunların ne kadarını ciddiye alıyoruz Yaşam biçimimizi ve doğayla olan ilişkimizi değiştirmek bizi karanlık bir sondan kurtarabilir mi Elinizde tuttuğunuz bu kitap belki de bu sorulara cevap verebilir. Belki de daha fazlasını yaparak sizi doğa için düşünmeye okumaya yazmaya ve başkalarını aydınlatmaya yöneltebilir. Yıllardır doğa insan ilişkisine dair düşünüp cevaplayamadığınız soruları tıpkı sizin sorduğunuz biçimiyle sorarak sizi birlikte bir yanıt bulmaya davet eden Ekoeleştiri Çevre ve Edebiyat kitabının yazarları edebiyat kültür ve ekolojiye olan ilgilerini çevreye karşı duydukları sorumluluk hissi ile birleştirmiş dokuz genç akademisyenden oluşuyor.
Ekoeleştiri Çevre ve Edebiyat çevresel sorunlara ve doğaya bakış açınızı değiştirecek yeni yaklaşımlar sunarken çevre ve edebiyat arasındaki ilişkinin kuramsal temeli olan ekoeleştiriyi Türk okuruna tanıtmayı hedefliyor. Ekoeleştiri alanında uluslararası birçok yayını bulunan ekoeleştirmen Prof. Dr. Serpil Oppermann önderliğindeki bir grup genç akademisyenin araştırma inceleme ve gözlemlerini güncel kuramlar ışığında derledikleri bu kitap Türkiye'den ve dünyadan örneklerle çevre ve edebiyat kapsamına giren pek çok farklı alanda kuram ve uygulamayı birleştiriyor.
Bizi saran ve kucaklayan doğanın dünya üzerindeki tüm canlılara hayat verdiğini hepimiz biliriz. Peki ya biz insanlar bin yıllardır bize ev sahipliği yapmakta olan bu gezegene karşı yeterince nazik ve duyarlı mıyız Farkında olduğumuz ya da olmadığımız çevre hareketlerinin sözcüleri aktivistler ve bilim insanları uzunca bir süredir bizi bekleyen küresel felaketler konusunda uyarılarda bulunuyorken gerçekte bunların ne kadarını ciddiye alıyoruz Yaşam biçimimizi ve doğayla olan ilişkimizi değiştirmek bizi karanlık bir sondan kurtarabilir mi Elinizde tuttuğunuz bu kitap belki de bu sorulara cevap verebilir. Belki de daha fazlasını yaparak sizi doğa için düşünmeye okumaya yazmaya ve başkalarını aydınlatmaya yöneltebilir. Yıllardır doğa insan ilişkisine dair düşünüp cevaplayamadığınız soruları tıpkı sizin sorduğunuz biçimiyle sorarak sizi birlikte bir yanıt bulmaya davet eden Ekoeleştiri Çevre ve Edebiyat kitabının yazarları edebiyat kültür ve ekolojiye olan ilgilerini çevreye karşı duydukları sorumluluk hissi ile birleştirmiş dokuz genç akademisyenden oluşuyor.
Ekoeleştiri Çevre ve Edebiyat çevresel sorunlara ve doğaya bakış açınızı değiştirecek yeni yaklaşımlar sunarken çevre ve edebiyat arasındaki ilişkinin kuramsal temeli olan ekoeleştiriyi Türk okuruna tanıtmayı hedefliyor. Ekoeleştiri alanında uluslararası birçok yayını bulunan ekoeleştirmen Prof. Dr. Serpil Oppermann önderliğindeki bir grup genç akademisyenin araştırma inceleme ve gözlemlerini güncel kuramlar ışığında derledikleri bu kitap Türkiye'den ve dünyadan örneklerle çevre ve edebiyat kapsamına giren pek çok farklı alanda kuram ve uygulamayı birleştiriyor.
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Book Description: As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, environmental concerns dominate the media headlines, from rampant poverty in the developing world to nuclear accidents in industrialized nations. How did human... more
Book Description:
As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, environmental concerns dominate the media headlines, from rampant poverty in the developing world to nuclear accidents in industrialized nations. How did human civilization arrive at its current predicaments, and what can we do to temper our habits of mind and mitigate society s environmentally (and socially) destructive behaviors? The field of ecocriticism (also sometimes called 'environmental criticism') attempts to grapple with such issues. A branch of literary and cultural studies that essentially began in North America in the 1970s, ecocriticism is currently one of the most quickly developing areas of environmental research and teaching. The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons brings together thirty-two of the latest articles in the field, including work by some of the leading scholars from around the world. Although ecocriticism has been particularly active in North America, Western Europe, and East Asia, important studies of traditional environmental thought, environmental communication strategies, and environmental aesthetics have begun to emerge in every region of this world. This new book, co-edited by three prominent Turkish scholars and a leading American ecocritic, offers a special cluster of Turkish ecocriticism, with a focus on environmental stories and ideas in this culture that bridges Europe and Asia. Another unique feature of The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons is the concluding dialogue among the four editors about the current state of the field.
As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, environmental concerns dominate the media headlines, from rampant poverty in the developing world to nuclear accidents in industrialized nations. How did human civilization arrive at its current predicaments, and what can we do to temper our habits of mind and mitigate society s environmentally (and socially) destructive behaviors? The field of ecocriticism (also sometimes called 'environmental criticism') attempts to grapple with such issues. A branch of literary and cultural studies that essentially began in North America in the 1970s, ecocriticism is currently one of the most quickly developing areas of environmental research and teaching. The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons brings together thirty-two of the latest articles in the field, including work by some of the leading scholars from around the world. Although ecocriticism has been particularly active in North America, Western Europe, and East Asia, important studies of traditional environmental thought, environmental communication strategies, and environmental aesthetics have begun to emerge in every region of this world. This new book, co-edited by three prominent Turkish scholars and a leading American ecocritic, offers a special cluster of Turkish ecocriticism, with a focus on environmental stories and ideas in this culture that bridges Europe and Asia. Another unique feature of The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons is the concluding dialogue among the four editors about the current state of the field.
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This essay argues that to understand coral communication, we need a new interpretive method that incorporates a creative insight into living oceans and aquatic species or a new conceptual viewpoint that considers their capacity for... more
This essay argues that to understand coral communication, we need a new interpretive method that incorporates a creative insight into living oceans and aquatic species or a new conceptual viewpoint that considers their capacity for creative expressions, marking the coming-to-voice of their significance. Since this method combines scientific research and creative engagement with oceanic ontologies in a context where nonhuman languages, creative expressions, and stories compellingly shape the life worlds of all aquatic beings, I name it “the scientific poetics of water.” It allows us to read corals and all aquatic agencies as part of the collective semiotic creativity of life, as storied beings.
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Research Interests: History, Human Ecology, Human Geography, Archaeology, Anthropology, and 15 moreEnvironmental Philosophy, Environmental Education, Climate Change, Literature, Political Ecology, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Ecocriticism, Biodiversity, Environmental Justice, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Humanities, Discipline, and Foregrounding
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:This essay both reflects upon ecocriticism's investment in cultivating environmental consciousness at a distance from critical reflexivity and explores its theoretical discontents. Arguing for the necessity of bringing theory into... more
:This essay both reflects upon ecocriticism's investment in cultivating environmental consciousness at a distance from critical reflexivity and explores its theoretical discontents. Arguing for the necessity of bringing theory into praxis, the essay suggests that ecocriticism needs to cross the threshold between discursivity and materiality, experience and representation.
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Foreword Linda Hogan Introduction Greta Gaard, Simon C. Estok, and Serpil Oppermann Part I: Feminist Ecocritical Theory 1. Feminist Ecocriticism: A Posthumanist Direction in Ecocritical Trajectory Serpil Oppermann 2. Toxic Epiphanies:... more
Foreword Linda Hogan Introduction Greta Gaard, Simon C. Estok, and Serpil Oppermann Part I: Feminist Ecocritical Theory 1. Feminist Ecocriticism: A Posthumanist Direction in Ecocritical Trajectory Serpil Oppermann 2. Toxic Epiphanies: Dioxin, Power, and Gendered Bodies in Laura Conti's Narratives on Seveso Serenella Iovino 3. Treating Objects Like Women: Feminist Ontology and the Question of Essence Timothy Morton 4. The Ecophobia Hypothesis: Re-membering the Feminist Body of Ecocriticism Simon Estok Part II: Feminist / Postcolonial / Environmental Justice 5. Streams of Violence: Colonialism, Modernization, and Gender in Maria Cristina Mena's "John of God, the Water-Carrier" Chiyo Crawford 6. Saving the Costa Rican Rainforest: Anacristina Rossi's Mad About Gandoca Regina Root 7. The Poetics of Decolonisation: Reading Carpentaria in a Feminist Ecocritical Frame Kate Rigby 8. Re-Imagining the Human: Ecofeminism, Affect, and Postcolonial Narration Laura White Part III: Species, Sexuality, and Eco-Activisms 9. Women and Interspecies Care: Dog Mothers in Taiwan Chia-Ju Chang and Iris Ralph 10. The Queer Vegetarian: Understanding Alimentary Activism Lauren Rae Hall 11. Sex, Population, and Environmental Eugenics in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood Rachel Stein 12. Down With People: Queer Tendencies and Troubling Racial Politics in Antinatalist Discourse Nicole Seymour Part IV: Apocalyptic Visions 13. Keep Moving: Place and Gender in a Post-Apocalyptic Environment Christa Grewe-Volpp 14. Queer Green Apocalypse: Tony Kushner's Angels in America Katie Hogan 15. In(ter)dependence Day: A Feminist Ecocritical Perspective on Fireworks Greta Gaard About the Contributors Index
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<p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay considers the messy intra-actions of the Anthropocene agencies using the lenses of material ecocriticism.</p>
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The foundational principle of quantum physics is the notion of entanglement, which can best be described as the ontological inseparability of subatomic particles in such a way that the measurement of one particle’s quantum state... more
The foundational principle of quantum physics is the notion of entanglement, which can best be described as the ontological inseparability of subatomic particles in such a way that the measurement of one particle’s quantum state determines the possible quantum states of all other particles. Supported by hard data in quantum physics, this nonlocal connectedness comprises the internal relatedness of all existence at all levels of reality, which is also an expressive (or, narrative) interconnectedness material ecocriticism labels as narrative agencies of storied matter. Matter’s expressive capacity is best observable in the subatomic particles that have a certain degree of creative expression when they communicate nonlocally. And this is, I argue that being part of this reality means being part of the entangled stories of life, which compels us to act responsibly and develop a new ethical attention toward our interconnections in the indivisible field of existence. Ethical responsibilit...
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Alev Alatl› is one of the most erudite of all the contemporary Turkish writers.3 Her novels are pervaded with a profound sense of philosophical inquiry and critical insight concerning the world we live in. She draws upon an ecclectic mix... more
Alev Alatl› is one of the most erudite of all the contemporary Turkish writers.3 Her novels are pervaded with a profound sense of philosophical inquiry and critical insight concerning the world we live in. She draws upon an ecclectic mix of Western modes of knowledge, Eastern philosophies, ancient and modern Turkish customs, folklore, and myths, and also displays a unique talent of fusing the intricate theories of Quantum physics with the socio-political ideologies of our time. She presents in her fiction a sense of living in a world whose foundations have been shaken, and where national and personal identity appears in wholly decentered forms. Her characters, trying to make sense of their anti-utopic world, and its violent forms of oppression, experience a process of disenchantment from traditional structures of belief. Had her work been translated she would, no doubt, have been acclaimed as one of the foremost thinkers of our time.
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The questions raised by the Anthropocene are intimately connected to reconfiguring our relationship to life on earth, not only to the biological workings of ecosystems but also our cognitive, emotional, perceptual, aesthetic, ideational,... more
The questions raised by the Anthropocene are intimately connected to reconfiguring our relationship to life on earth, not only to the biological workings of ecosystems but also our cognitive, emotional, perceptual, aesthetic, ideational, and cultural experiences of the prismatic living world of which we are part.
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... | Ayuda. A la búsqueda de conciencia medioambiental en la novela postmoderna. Autores:Serpil Oppermann; Localización: Nerter: Revista dedicada a la literatura, el arte y el conocimiento, ISSN 1575-8621, Nº 15-16, 2010 , pags. 59-71. ...
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Being more than a geological concept, the Anthropocene mirrors the worldly entanglements of many species in overlapping trajectories of social, ecological, and geological forces. In this perspective the Anthropos figure is no longer... more
Being more than a geological concept, the Anthropocene mirrors the worldly entanglements of many species in overlapping trajectories of social, ecological, and geological forces. In this perspective the Anthropos figure is no longer envisioned as an epoch-making subject operating across multispecies habitats in messy ways, but as an earth-bound being ultimately inseparable from other species and the environment. This article argues for a new Anthroposcenario in which the stories of earthly agencies can be told in what Donna Haraway calls “multispecies storytelling” practices. But it also contends that multispecies storytelling can be made more effective through the perspective of material ecocriticism, which explores the narrative potential embedded in all forms of matter, positing that humans are not the only beings capable of telling stories. In the new Anthroposcenario, everything that is more than human can reveal the intertwined narratives of interdependence, relation making, and coexistence
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espanolEste articulo pretende establecer un dialogo entre la metaficcion y la ecocritica con el objeto de hacer posible una fructifera crosfertilizacion entre las percepciones posmodernas y ecocriticas de la realidad. Se explora el... more
espanolEste articulo pretende establecer un dialogo entre la metaficcion y la ecocritica con el objeto de hacer posible una fructifera crosfertilizacion entre las percepciones posmodernas y ecocriticas de la realidad. Se explora el encuentro entre la ecocritica y la metaficcion centrandose principalmente en To Whom It May Concern (1990), de Raymond Federman. Este ensayo presenta algo que a primera vista puede resultar controvertido, una lectura ecocritica de un ejemplo caracteristico de la metaficcion, como lo es dicha novela. Aunque marcada por el juego linguistico, la obra intentar encontrar referencias a lo medioambiental, aunque en ella esto no va precisamente contra las concepciones posmodernas de Federman sobre la realidad, la identidad, la historia y la naturaleza como constructos discursivos. El argumento principal que se ofrece es que el paisaje como constructo textual no es en ella una abstraccion carente de sentido. Mas bien al contrario, al fundirse este con la historia ...
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中文摘要受到以地方作爲發展的生態文學批評概念所影響, 本論文旨在人與非人的關係和跨在地性(translocality) 兩個問題意識上, 試圖結合[跨在地] 議題與[量子非定域] 原則的概念, 重新探討土耳其最具生態觀點之現代主義作家即以哈利卡納瑟斯的漁夫(The Fisherman of ...
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Embodying ecocriticism’s basic ecological commitments, postcolonial ecocriticism has expanded the postcolonial foci towards more nuanced explorations of ecological conditions, ecological others, and environmental injustices in... more
Embodying ecocriticism’s basic ecological commitments, postcolonial ecocriticism has expanded the postcolonial foci towards more nuanced explorations of ecological conditions, ecological others, and environmental injustices in postcolonial cultures.It signals the commingling of postcolonial and ecocritical issues as a means of contesting ecological imperialism, biocolonization, environmental and social injustice, and environmental racism, speciesism, and anthropocentricism –matters of concern that are always intrinsically interwoven. This postcolonial ecocritical framework is important in understanding ecological otherness, which I analyze in the form of toxic bodies in this chapter. What perpetuates this form of othering are the dangerous material agencies (such as toxins, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals) that infiltrate bodies and make them permeable and vulnerable.
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The foundational principle of quantum physics is the notion of entanglement, which can best be described as the ontological inseparability of subatomic particles in such a way that the measurement of one particle’s quantum state... more
The foundational principle of quantum physics is the notion of entanglement, which can best be described as the ontological inseparability of subatomic particles in such a way that the measurement of one particle’s quantum state determines the possible quantum states of all other particles. Supported by hard data in quantum physics, this nonlocal connectedness comprises the
internal relatedness of all existence at all levels of reality, which is also an expressive (or, narrative) interconnectedness material ecocriticism labels as narrative agencies of storied matter. Matter’s expressive capacity is best observable in the subatomic particles that have a certain degree of
creative expression when they communicate nonlocally. I argue that being part of this reality means being part of the entangled stories of life, which compels us to act responsibly and develop a new ethical attention toward our interconnections in the indivisible field of existence. Ethical
responsibility here is accountable “becoming with each other” (Haraway 2008), which Karen Barad calls “ethics of worlding” (2007) necessary to sustain our storied existence (from the subatomic particles all the way up).
internal relatedness of all existence at all levels of reality, which is also an expressive (or, narrative) interconnectedness material ecocriticism labels as narrative agencies of storied matter. Matter’s expressive capacity is best observable in the subatomic particles that have a certain degree of
creative expression when they communicate nonlocally. I argue that being part of this reality means being part of the entangled stories of life, which compels us to act responsibly and develop a new ethical attention toward our interconnections in the indivisible field of existence. Ethical
responsibility here is accountable “becoming with each other” (Haraway 2008), which Karen Barad calls “ethics of worlding” (2007) necessary to sustain our storied existence (from the subatomic particles all the way up).
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Book review of Andreas Malm's The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World (2017). Resumen Reseña de The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World de Andreas Malm.
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The proliferation of studies bearing on the intellectual movement known as the "new materialisms" evinces that a material turn is becoming an important paradigm in environmental humanities. Ranging from social and... more
The proliferation of studies bearing on the intellectual movement known as the "new materialisms" evinces that a material turn is becoming an important paradigm in environmental humanities. Ranging from social and science studies, feminism, to anthropology, geography, environmental philosophies and animal studies, this approach is bringing innovative ways of considering matter and material relations that, coupled with reflections on agency, text, and narrativity, are going to impact ecocriticism in an unprecedented way. In consideration of the relevance of this debate, we would like to draw for Ecozon@'s readers an introductory map of the new paradigm and introduce what can be called "material ecocriticism." We will illustrate what we consider to be its main features, situating them in the conceptual horizons of the new materialisms. From this genealogical sketch, we will examine the re-definitions of concepts like matter, agency, discursivity, and in...
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Research Interests: History, Human Ecology, Human Geography, Archaeology, Anthropology, and 15 moreEnvironmental Philosophy, Environmental Education, Climate Change, Literature, Posthumanism, Political Ecology, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Political Science, Ecocriticism, Biodiversity, Environmental Justice, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sustainability, and Environmental Humanities
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Table of Contents Foreword by Scott Slovic Acknowledgments Introduction: New International Voices in Ecocriticism Serpil Oppermann Part I. New Ecocritical Trends Chapter 1. Selves at the Fringes: Expanding Material Ecocriticism Kyle... more
Table of Contents Foreword by Scott Slovic Acknowledgments Introduction: New International Voices in Ecocriticism Serpil Oppermann Part I. New Ecocritical Trends Chapter 1. Selves at the Fringes: Expanding Material Ecocriticism Kyle Bladow Chapter 2. "Global Subcultural Bohemianism": Postlocal Ecocriticism and Tim Winton's Breath William V. Lombardi Chapter 3. "What is it about you ... that so irritates me?": Northern Exposure's Sustainable Feeling Sylvan Goldberg Chapter 4. Bang Your Head and Save the Planet: Gothic Ecocriticism Basak Agin Donmez Part II. Nature and Human Experience Chapter 5. Un-Natural Ecopoetics: Natural/Cultural Intersections in Poetic Language and Form Sarah Nolan Chapter 6. "There's No Place like 'Home'": Susanna Moodie, Shelter Writing, and Dwelling on the Earth Elise Mitchell Chapter 7. Against Ecological Kitsch: Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage Project Guangchen Chen Chapter 8. Neo-Aranyakas: An Enquiry into Mahasweta Devi's Forest Fictions Anu T. Asokan Chapter 9. Ecoerotic Imaginations in the Early Modernity and Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure Abdulhamit Arvas Part III. Human-Nonhuman Relations Chapter 10. What Are We? The Human Animal in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape Christina Caupert Chapter 11. Familiar Animals: The question of human-animal relationships in Lauren Beukes's Zoo City Elzette Steenkamp Chapter 12. Dismantling "Conceptual Straitjackets" in Peter Dickinson's Eva Diana Villanueva Romero Afterword by Greta Gaard Contributors Index
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... theory which can explore the problematic relations between culture and the environment in their ... too, is noteworthy as it focuses on the convergence between ecocriticism and postcolonial ... which is another fine example exploring... more
... theory which can explore the problematic relations between culture and the environment in their ... too, is noteworthy as it focuses on the convergence between ecocriticism and postcolonial ... which is another fine example exploring the relationship between writing "nature" and cul ...
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... It thematizes the processes of natural and human interactions. Waterland is also a typical historio-graphic metafiction that directly addresses the narrative representations of both fiction and history and connects them to the natural... more
... It thematizes the processes of natural and human interactions. Waterland is also a typical historio-graphic metafiction that directly addresses the narrative representations of both fiction and history and connects them to the natural history of the Fenlands in eastern England. ...
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We, the humans, and the planet’s naturecultures are globally haunted today by an almost indelible pandemic, Covid-19, that has been wreaking havoc in our lifepaths for more than a year now. Like fallen leaves that fly through the wind... more
We, the humans, and the planet’s naturecultures are globally haunted today by an almost indelible pandemic, Covid-19, that has been wreaking havoc in our lifepaths for more than a year now. Like fallen leaves that fly through the wind before they land, we have been swaying in the forceful currents of its uncanny stories that are not just stories we tell but are materially embodied in our lifepaths. Our bodies, though not homogenous, are now becoming ghostly remnants of this Pandemic-Ridden Age of the Anthropocene, dwindling in the collapsing “world ecologies.” Swirling in the midst of a deadly pandemic and other ecological disasters, the wounded body of our planet, too, is suffering many forms of violence while we are all wandering through the complex tangles of a planetary disease, which embodies forms of violence most visible in domestic and public cruelty and social turbulences. Articulating how these violences matter as well as for whom they matter the most is the focus of this article. I argue that the Anthropocene’s new disease-filled trajectories and emerging cycles of violence unfold through multiple processes and scales making catastrophic times more deeply felt and experienced by the most vulnerable. What matters most, however, is our wounded planet battling the Anthropocene’s dark waves.
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Abstract This article focuses on the ecological dimension of British imperialism and its manifestations in British colonial fictions which rest on the closely linked Eurocentric and anthropocentric discourses. Ecological imperialism can... more
Abstract This article focuses on the ecological dimension of British imperialism and its manifestations in British colonial fictions which rest on the closely linked Eurocentric and anthropocentric discourses. Ecological imperialism can be defined as the intentional destruction, through ...
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Page 1. 1 ECOCRITICISM : NATURAL WORLD IN THE LITERARY VIEWFINDERSerpil Oppermann∗ (1999) Ecocriticism is the word on the recently published anthology entitled The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary ...
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This chapter focuses on this question: What if compost is thought about as something more than organic matter breaking down into soil nutrients? Compost carries within itself "the sedimented historialities" (Barad) of decay and fecundity,... more
This chapter focuses on this question: What if compost is thought about as something more than organic matter breaking down into soil nutrients? Compost carries within itself "the sedimented historialities" (Barad) of decay and fecundity, nature's way of resisting human desire to morph into perduring forms. Seen as ecological activity (think of manure composted on farms), composting signifies states of suspension, resists conceptual hallucinations (remember our overhyped Anthropocene identity), and supplements veer ecology in a more realistic way of theorizing the enmeshment of the human within the natural world. When the human composts with germs and bacteria in the Earth, something interesting happens: the human folds into the inhuman, an ontological metamorphosis that kindles literary imagination. "Behold this compost! behold it well!" writes Walt Whitman, "It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions;" while Raymond Federman quips in Return to Manure: "What a beautiful system nature is. It keeps jump-starting itself with shit."
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The traditional understanding of environmental communication is about the particular efficacy of human languages with their wealth of emotional registers, rich symbolism, rhetorical possibilities, and the alleged representational veracity... more
The traditional understanding of environmental communication is about the particular efficacy of human languages with their wealth of emotional registers, rich symbolism, rhetorical possibilities, and the alleged representational veracity to give accurate voice to nature. Nature here is thought to be “silent” and needs a human interlocutor to speak on its behalf, to recount effectively how it is breaking and tearing under the ongoing acts of exploitation. This chapter argues that this is a narrowly understood definition of environmental communication confined within the parameters of human signifying systems, disregarding the agency and eloquence of nonhuman beings. To contest this anthropocentric vision, the chapter proposes a material ecocritical approach that takes into account innate meanings and creative expressions produced by nonhuman species, as well as inorganic matter itself. Material ecocriticism claims that all agentic entities are expressive and have the ability to communicate intelligibly with other entities around them and with their immediate environments. All earthly agencies produce meaning-filled encounters with everything else in an ongoing process of communications. Possessing narrative potentialities, they emerge as narrative agencies to reveal astonishing storied articulations of the physical environments.
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Material ecocriticism invites us to rethink the traditional idea that storytelling is an exclusively human practice and that humans are the only species able to spin yarns and to make history. What if the world in which we live with... more
Material ecocriticism invites us to rethink the traditional idea that storytelling is an exclusively human practice and that humans are the only species able to spin yarns and to make history. What if the world in which we live with myriad nonhumans is never mute but instead filled with stories? How might our understanding of nature change if we recognize its stories? How might these stories encoded in material forms shed light on questions of gender and nature? What does gender have to do with storied matter? How might reading matter as storied help to collapse gender hierarchies and sexual binary oppositions? While addressing these questions this chapter discusses material ecocriticism’s approach to gender and nature, which in the material ecocritical account are part of the environmental embroilment densely sedimented with matter’s agency and eloquence. It posits that narrative agencies of storied matter provoke disanthropocentric readings of gender and nature, providing alternative conceptualizations beyond the regulatory humanist cultural framework. Gender, for example, is reconceived as an eloquent bodily nature interconnected with storied matter.
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Embodying ecocriticism’s basic ecological commitments, postcolonial ecocriticism has expanded the postcolonial foci towards more nuanced explorations of ecological conditions, ecological others, and environmental injustices in... more
Embodying ecocriticism’s basic ecological commitments, postcolonial ecocriticism has expanded the postcolonial foci towards more nuanced explorations of ecological conditions, ecological others, and environmental injustices in postcolonial cultures.It signals the commingling of postcolonial and ecocritical issues as a means of contesting ecological imperialism, biocolonization, environmental and social injustice, and environmental racism, speciesism, and anthropocentricism –matters of concern that are always intrinsically interwoven. This postcolonial ecocritical framework is important in understanding ecological otherness, which I analyze in the form of toxic bodies in this chapter. What perpetuates this form of othering are the dangerous material agencies (such as toxins, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals) that infiltrate bodies and make them permeable and vulnerable.
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In this essay, I argue that if “identity and self-awareness are ecological in essence” (Jagtenberg and McKie 124), Federman’s playfully constructed, polyphonic surfictional self can also be read as an ecological self embracing his... more
In this essay, I argue that if “identity and self-awareness are ecological in essence” (Jagtenberg and McKie 124), Federman’s playfully constructed, polyphonic surfictional self can also be read as an ecological self embracing his memories that are diffusely enacted in a postmodernized landscape. Return to Manure, in particular, signals a more emphatic sense of an ecological self than his other novels do by focusing on Federman’s childhood experiences in a farm in France. The farm environment with all of its details about domesticated animals in this decentered surfictional autobiography contests traditional environmentalism committed only to wildlife preservation. It enables us to rethink nature in terms of the ongoing drama between species by highlighting the mutual destiny that unfolds in Federman’s life story of suffering, injustice, violence, and survival.
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Describing what happens when compost is taken as a verb is tricky. Fastidiously camouflaged with "decomposing," "recycling," "returning," composting joins veer ecological activities and invites previously unthought modes of thinking... more
Describing what happens when compost is taken as a verb is tricky. Fastidiously camouflaged with "decomposing," "recycling," "returning," composting joins veer ecological activities and invites previously unthought modes of thinking environmentality.
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By highlighting the intersections between material ecocriticism and posthumanism,this chapter explores how ecocriticism is becoming more post-human and post-natural in its questioning of the entrenched notion of the human, as well as the... more
By highlighting the intersections between material ecocriticism and posthumanism,this chapter explores how ecocriticism is becoming more post-human and post-natural in its questioning of the entrenched notion of the human, as well as the blurred boundaries between inorganic and organic matter. Posthuman ecocriticism expands the material ecocritical vision of storied matter to critically discern the cultural implications of currently emerging posthuman agencies – such as synthetic matter responding to stimuli and exhibiting signs of spontaneous activity – that ostensibly transfigure human ecologies and material-discursive practices. With selected literary texts that are labeled posthuman novels, and bio-technological examples, the chapter aims to shed critical light on how posthuman ecologies accentuate the impact of bios-zoe-techno-eco-cultures in re-imagining what it means to be human, or nonhuman, in a world of hybrid configurations, strange natures, and stories.
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Of all the terms associated with the material turn, "ecomaterialism" is the most underdefined, leaving us in doubt as to its being just another label that did not turn into a catchphrase like " new materialisms " or " neomaterialism. " "... more
Of all the terms associated with the material turn, "ecomaterialism" is the most underdefined, leaving us in doubt as to its being just another label that did not turn into a catchphrase like " new materialisms " or " neomaterialism. " " Ecomaterialism " inevitably leaves us guessing whether it can or cannot be used as a mere synonym for either of these terms, as it not only intersects and overlaps with their discourse, but is also similarly accompanied by a flourish of redefined concepts: matter, agency, nature, human, nonhuman, inhuman, posthuman, objects, things, and relations. Despite this ambivalence, ecomaterialism is currently conceived as a project of theorizing the earth's human and other-than human dwellers in terms of multiple becomings with a detailed consideration of what, in fact, is the major concern of this approach: the global dynamic of crisis ecologies as a result of human-driven alterations of the planetary ecosystems, otherwise known as the compulsive powers of the Anthropocene.
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“Storied Matter” is one of the conceptual tools of material ecocriticism, which basically underlines the idea that matter is not only lively, agentic, and generative, as it is theorized in the new materialist paradigm, but also densely... more
“Storied Matter” is one of the conceptual tools of material ecocriticism, which basically underlines the idea that matter is not only lively, agentic, and generative, as it is theorized in the new materialist paradigm, but also densely storied.It describes the idea that from its deepest lithic and aquatic recesses to the atmospheric expanses, and from subatomic to cosmic realms, matter is capable of bringing forth a display of eloquence, which can be explained as the “ontological performance of the world in its ongoing articulation” (Barad, 2007: 149).
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Introduction to the volume Material Ecocriticism, co-edited with Serpil Oppermann. Besides illustrating the content of the volume, this essays summarizes and describes the principles and methods of "material ecocriticism".
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This chapter develops and theorizes the concept of "Narrative Agency"
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Although ecocriticism has always kept its initial emphasis on the "relationship between literature and the physical environment" (Glotfelty 1996), over the last decade it has "entered into fruitful interdisciplinary collaborations with... more
Although ecocriticism has always kept its initial emphasis on the "relationship between literature and the physical environment" (Glotfelty 1996), over the last decade it has "entered into fruitful interdisciplinary collaborations with other disciplines under the umbrella of the environmental humanities" (Goodbody, Flys Junquera, Oppermann 2020). It has expanded its boundaries, becoming more theoretical, translocal, and transcultural, as well as engaging more deeply with environmental justice issues, urban problems, environmental ethics, feminisms, global climate change, and non-western cultures and literatures. The role of literature, arts, and culture is still crucial in studying the philosophical and sociocultural implications of more-than-human environments and their multispecies entangled in numerous anthropogenic stressors. Since literature and arts are often set in dialogue with scientists, ecocriticism is constitutively a cross-disciplinary field of study. But the role played by literature in the development of human discourses, cultural practices, and ethical values about landscapes and waterscapes has never lost its central significance in ecocritical studies.
We are pleased to announce the inaugural issue of Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism / Interconnexions: revue de posthumanisme. Our peer-reviewed, international, bilingual, open-access, interdisciplinary journal is devoted to... more
We are pleased to announce the inaugural issue of Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism / Interconnexions: revue de posthumanisme. Our peer-reviewed, international, bilingual, open-access, interdisciplinary journal is devoted to theorizing what it means to think beyond both historical and current conceptions of 'the human' in ways that transcend the traditionally anthropocentric parameters of the humanities and social sciences. We seek to create a broad network of collaboration across disciplines, research areas, and language. We provide a forum for investigating problems and questions related to posthumanism and encourage contributors to devise tools and concepts to tackle the critical issues emerging within contemporary life that impact humans and nonhumans. We foster interdisciplinary engagement by publishing work that theorizes the interrelated workings of philosophy, politics, the arts, and the sciences. We seek contributions that move beyond Humanist frameworks and endeavour to construct theories and conceptual approaches that dismantle perceived hierarchies and categories of thought. Our journal is the expression of posthumanism's engagement and embrace of interconnections.