This book addresses the intersections between the interdisciplinary realms of Ecocriticism and Indigenous and Native American Studies, and between academic theory and pragmatic eco-activism conducted by multiethnic and indigenous communities. It illuminates the multi-layered, polyvocal ways in which artistic expressions render ecological connections, drawing on scholars working in collaboration with Indigenous artists from all walks of life, including film, literature, performance, and other forms of multimedia to expand existing conversations. Both local and global in its focus, the volume includes essays from multiethnic and Indigenous communities across the world, visiting topics such as Navajo opera, Sami film production history, south Indian tribal documentary, Maori art installations, Native American and First Nations science-fiction literature and film, Amazonian poetry, and many others. Highlighting trans-Indigenous sensibilities that speak to worldwide crises of environmental politics and action against marginalization, the collection alerts readers to movements of community resilience and resistance, cosmological thinking about inter- and intra-generational multi-species relations, and understandings of indigenous aesthetics and material ecologies. It engages with emerging environmental concepts such as multispecies ethnography, cosmopolitics, and trans-indigeneity, as well as with new areas of ecocritical research such as material ecocriticism, biosemiotics, and media studies. In its breadth and scope, this book promises new directions for ecocritical thought and environmental humanities practice, providing thought-provoking insight into what it means to be human in a locally situated, globally networked, and cosmologically complex world.
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This book visits the intersections between Ecocriticism and Indigenous and Native American Studies, and between academic theory and pragmatic eco-activism conducted by multiethnic and indigenous communities. It illuminates how artistic expressions render ecological connections, drawing on scholars working with Indigenous artistsin film, literatu
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Foreword by Simon OrtizAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Cosmovisions, Ecocriticism and Indigenous StudiesJoni Adamson and Salma MonaniPart I: ResilienceChapter One: Negotiating the Ontological Gap: Place, Performance, and Media Art Practices in Aotearoa/New ZealandJanine Randerson and Amanda YatesChapter Two: Science Fiction, Westerns, and the Vital Cosmo-ethics of The 6th WorldSalma MonaniChapter Three: Long Environmentalism: After the Listening SessionSubhankar BanerjeeChaoter Four: Grounded in Spiritual Geography: Restoring Naabaahi in Enemy Slayer, a Navajo OratorioLaura TohePart II: ResistanceChapter Five: Dancing at the End of the World: The Poetics of the Body in Indigenous ProtestJanet FiskioChapter Six: New Media, Activism, and Indigenous Environmental Governance: Politics and the Minnesota-Wisconsin Wolf HuntClint Carroll and Angelica LawsonChapter Seven: Cyclical Conceptualizations of Time: Ecocritical Perspectives on Sami Film CulturePietari KääpäChapter Eight: Resistance and Hope in Mohawk Cinema: Iroquois Cosmologies and HistoriesShelley Niro and Salma MonaniPart III: Multi-Species RelationsChapter Nine: A "Network of Networks": Multispecies Stories and Cosmopolitical Activism in Solar Storms and People of the FeatherYalan ChangChapter Ten: Tinai-Documentation as Ecocultural Ethnography: My Experience with Mudugar Rayson AlexChapter Eleven: The Tangibility of Maize: Indigenous Literature, Bioart, and Violence in MexicoAbigail Perez AguileraChapter Twelve: Why Bears, Yakumama (Mother Water), and other Transformational Beings are (Still) Good to Think Joni Adamson and Juan Carlos Galeano, with Illustrations by Solmi AngaritaList of ContributorsIndex
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ISBN
9780367668129
Publisert
2020-09-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
820 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Om bidragsyterne

Joni Adamson is Professor of English and Environmental Humanities and Senior Sustainability Scholar at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, USA.

Salma Monani is Associate Professor in the Environmental Studies department at Gettysburg College, USA.