Ecological Exile: Spatial Injustice & Environmental Humanities

ISBN-13: 9781138189683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 214 str.

Derek Gladwin

Opis

Spatial justice is a facet of social justice that looks at unjust circumstances as a phenomenon of space. Ecological Exile: Spatial Injustice & Environmental Humanities explores how spatial injustices result from geographical and environmental circumstances in the North Atlantic - from population displacement and uneven development to pollution and climate change - through creative works in the environmental humanities. Writers, poets, documentary filmmakers, and visual artists are often among the first to anticipate and respond to pertinent social crises in complex and sophisticated ways. In addition to asking what creates environmentally linked spatial injustices, this book explores who responds to these unjust circumstances in society, in what cultural forms and geographical areas, and why. Ecological Exile: Spatial Injustice & Environmental Humanities examines interdisciplinary approaches to literature, film and visual culture that address ecological concerns through perspectives of spatial justice, and focuses particularly on the interplay among space, justice, and environments in the contemporary period (post-1960). Largely drawing from emergent geographical and social theories beginning in the 1960s, this book investigates transatlantic and transnational networks of the North Atlantic - a geo-political area of growing concern for environmentalists in the 21^st century.

O autorze

Derek Gladwin is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He was an Environmental Humanities Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His authored and co-edited books include Contentious Terrains (2016), Unfolding Irish Landscapes (2016), and Eco-Joyce (2014). Please visit derekgladwin.com.