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Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global
Ursula K Heise
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Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet analyzes the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing from the 1960s to the present. Part One critically examines the emphasis on local identities and communities in North American environmentalism by establishing conceptual connections between environmentalism and ecocriticism, on one hand, and theories of globalization, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, on the other. It proposes the concept of "eco-cosmopolitanism" as a shorthand for envisioning these connections and the cultural and aesthetic forms into which they translate. Part Two focuses on conceptualizations of environmental ... Read more
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet analyzes the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing from the 1960s to the present. Part One critically examines the emphasis on local identities and communities in North American environmentalism by establishing conceptual connections between environmentalism and ecocriticism, on one hand, and theories of globalization, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, on the other. It proposes the concept of "eco-cosmopolitanism" as a shorthand for envisioning these connections and the cultural and aesthetic forms into which they translate. Part Two focuses on conceptualizations of environmental ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
260
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
405g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195335644
SKU
V9780195335644
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About Ursula K Heise
Ursula K. Heise is Associate Professor of English at Stanford University, where she teaches contemporary literature and literary theory. She specializes in twentieth-century literatures of the Americas and Western Europe, in theories of modernization, postmodernization, and globalization, and in ecocriticism. Her other areas of research and teaching interest include media theory, literature and science, science fiction, animal representations and urban ... Read more
Reviews for Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global
As Heise argues, ecocriticism very much needs to embrace, explore and test the representation of the global, and to do so without merely reproducing the green cliche that everything is connected. Specific connections need identifying: the ones that matter. This important book makes a superb beginning.
Richard Kerridge, Times Higher Education Supplement
Offers a wealth of theoretical insight ... Read more
Richard Kerridge, Times Higher Education Supplement
Offers a wealth of theoretical insight ... Read more