“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, September 2, 2011

Ecocritical Theory Contents

As promised, the details of Axel and Kate's volume Ecocritical Theory. Feast your eyes:

Kate Rigby and Axel Goodbody, Introduction

Memory and Politics
Kate Soper, Passing Glories and Romantic Retrievals
Catriona Sandilands, Green Things in the Garbage
Martin Ryle, Raymond Williams
Axel Goodbody, Sense of Place and Lieu de Memoire

Culture, Society and Anthropology
Timo Müller, From Literary Anthropology to Cultural Ecology
Linda Williams, The Social Theory of Norbert Elias and the Question of the Nonhuman World
Laura Dassow Walls, From the Modern to the Ecological

Phenomenology
Trevor Norris, Martin Heidegger, D.H. Lawrence, and Poetic Attention to Being
Louise Westling, Merleau-Ponty's Ecophenomenology
Kate Rigby, Gernot Böhme's Ecological Aesthetics of Atmosphere

Ethics and Otherness
Patrick D. Murphy, Dialoguing with Bakhtin over Our Ethical Responsibility to One Another
Tim Morton, Coexistence and Coexistents
Anne Elvey, The Matter of Texts
Luce Irigaray, There Can Be No Democracy without a Culture of Difference
Christopher Cohoon, The Ecological Irigaray?


Models from Physics and Biology
Hannes Bergthaller, Cybernetics and Social Systems Theory
Serpil Opperman, Ecocentric Postmodern Theory
Heather I. Sullivan, Affinity Studies and Open Systems
Mark Lussier, Blake, Deleuze, and the Emergence of Ecological Consciousness
Wendy Wheeler, The Biosemiotic Turn

PS: Ever since 1986 when I read Xaviere Gauthier's essay on French Feminism, which talks about the “ecology of the sign,” I was wondering whether Irigaray would become more explicit about ecology. 

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