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Authors:Slovic S. Pages: 1 - 3 Abstract: Here in North Idaho, we’re in the midst of the most difficult winter weather in recent memory—vast drifts of snow, streets encased in ice 6 inches deep, gales of freezing fog, temperatures well below freezing for weeks on end. Welcome to “global warming,” a time of general planetary warming trends, often manifested as climatic volatility … including dangerous cold and violent storms. PubDate: 2017-06-23 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx003 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Estok SC. Pages: 4 - 21 Abstract: What reasonable human being wouldn't be galvanized by the potential destruction of everything they've ever known or loved. How do you think this vision was received, how do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom' They gobbled it up… like a chocolate eclair! They didn't fear their demise, they repackaged it—it can be enjoyed as video games, as TV shows, books, movies, the entire world wholeheartedly embraced the apocalypse, and sprinted toward it with gleeful abandon. (Governor David Nix, Tomorrowland) PubDate: 2017-02-11 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isw087 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Krell J. Pages: 22 - 46 Abstract: [O]n their own and without trying, animals have never ceased to make the border-boundary between humans and beasts an unsettled one.– Jean-Christophe Bailly, The Animal Side 5One cannot be a humanist if one is not an ecologist; … one cannot be an ecologist if one is not also a humanist.– Philippe Desbrosses, interviewed by Denis Cheissoux, CO2 mon amour, 16 May 2015 PubDate: 2017-03-31 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isw084 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Seger M. Pages: 47 - 65 Abstract: In his ambulatory reflections on Italy’s Po valley just after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986, Gianni Celati writes: “il mondo esterno ha bisogno che lo osserviamo e raccontiamo, per avere esistenza” (126).11 The English translation of that statement is something like the following: “the external world needs for us to observe and recount it, so that it may have existence.” I cite the original Italian for the particular verb used, raccontare, which can be translated as “to narrate,” or even “to tell the story of,” just as easily as “to recount.” Motivated by an ethical commitment to both place and people, Celati is an avid narrator of the lived world, what he calls the mondo esterno in the citation above. Through observation he bears witness to existence, thus acquiring a certain responsibility to the thing observed just as he confirms its truth. By then telling the story of that external world, by translating “knowing into telling,” as Hayden White once defined narrative, Celati ensures that others who might not have seen the thing observed may still also know it—thus translating knowing into telling into knowing (5). PubDate: 2017-02-11 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isw086 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Withers J. Pages: 66 - 74 Abstract: Environmentalism has almost always privileged what geographer Tim Cresswell refers to as a “sedentarist metaphysics.” Cresswell defines this perspective as one that promotes “place, rootedness, spatial order, and belonging” (26), and one in which “mobility is seen as a threat” (42). The genre often referred to as nature writing often flaunts environmentalism’s affinity with a sedentarist metaphysics in, for example, its sanctification of Henry David Thoreau ensconced in his austere cabin beside Walden Pond; of Robinson Jeffers in his lithic Tor House and Hawk Tower overlooking the Pacific Ocean; of Edward Abbey in his ramshackle trailer in the Utah desert; of Annie Dillard in her house “clamped to the side of Tinker Creek,” a dwelling that she compares to an “anchorite's hermitage” (4). This house, Dillard states, “holds me at anchor to the rock bottom of the creek itself and it keeps me steadied in the current, as a sea anchor does” (4). “Clamped to the side,” “holds me at anchor,” “steadied in the current,” “anchorite’s hermitage”: Dillard’s phrases embody perfectly a sedentarist metaphysics. PubDate: 2017-03-30 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx001 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Schaberg C. Pages: 75 - 91 Abstract: Toward the end of Ecocriticism on the Edge, Timothy Clark argues: “Environmental criticism in the Anthropocene is likely to be more and more about unacknowledged denial. An environmental critic who still thinks it normal or even prestigious to take an international flight to attend an academic conference would be one trivial example of this” (160). This is a passing moment of Clark’s descriptive analysis of the complex problem of the Anthropocene for environmental critics, and yet as “trivial” as Clark himself suggests this example is, it beckons for further inquiry. How does contemporary air travel pass as “normal or even prestigious”—beyond academic circles, and removed from the scope of environmental criticism' And how might this normalization—or we might say naturalization—of flight turn out to have implications for ecological thought' PubDate: 2017-03-29 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isw090 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Thompson K. Pages: 92 - 112 Abstract: In September 2016, nine activists chained themselves together on a runway of London City Airport with a sign that read “Climate Crisis is a Racist Crisis.” Black Lives Matter UK activists claimed responsibility in a series of tweets that linked climate change to structural forms of oppression, including: “7/10 of the countries most affected by climate change are in sub-Saharan Africa” and “At London City Airport a small elite is able to fly, in 2016 alone 3176 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean #Shutdown.” Their action grounded airplanes and 9000 passengers at the airport for several hours. They were arrested and charged with “obstructing a person engaged in lawful activity,” to which they all pled guilty. Nevertheless, all were granted a “conditional discharge” and faced no immediate punishment for their actions. PubDate: 2017-03-31 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isw091 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Pangborn MH. Pages: 130 - 144 Abstract: If, as so many writers have insisted, walking is thinking, then its relative rarity as an elective mode of travel would seem to explain a lot about our current crises.11 And yet we should not single out our own Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World for censure, for if walking is thinking, it is of a kind that has been avoided—and even held in something like contempt—for two and a half centuries.22 In his famous pedestrian journey across England in 1782, for example, Carl Moritz, a German minister, reports being derided by innkeepers and constantly offered assistance from passing coachmen. He concludes, “A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man, or an out-of-the-way-being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him” (qtd in Solnit 83). In England already entering the modern transportation revolution, the reverend observes, “any person undertaking so long a journey on foot, is sure to be looked upon, and considered as either a beggar, or a vagabond, or some necessitous wretch, which is a character not much more popular than that of a rogue” (qtd in Jarvis 24). PubDate: 2017-02-15 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isw089 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Shea DP. Pages: 145 - 158 Abstract: After publishing his experimental and intellectually far-reaching first three novels, The Time Machine (1895), The Wonderful Visit (1895), and The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), H.G. Wells published The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll (1896). Readers who had come to expect from Wells harrowing escapes from troglodytic Morlocks thousands of years in the future, an angel falling to earth after being shot by a vicar, and a deranged, sadistic vivisectionist creating human–animal hybrid ‘Beast Folk’ on a remote tropical island found in The Wheels of Chance a rather less dynamic story: the tale of one Mr Hoopdriver, a London draper’s assistant who saves his money and buys a second-hand bicycle then takes it on a holiday tour of southern England. Hoopdriver rides from London into the country, visits some quaint villages and stays in some charming inns, walks barefoot in a stream, picks flowers, observes a weasel, and befriends a fellow cyclist, a young woman whom he helps to escape an undesirable suitor. He then pedals back to his job and his everyday life in London.1 PubDate: 2017-03-29 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isw092 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Nolan S. Pages: 165 - 166 Abstract: Anthem for a Burnished Land: What We Leave in This Desert of Work and Words. By GriffinShaun T.. Cedar City: Juniper P, 2016. 255 pp. Cloth $28.95. Paper $17.95. PubDate: 2017-05-09 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx015 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Gonder P. Pages: 166 - 167 Abstract: Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen. By MurrayRobin L. and HeumannJoseph K.. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2016. 270 pp. Cloth $50.00. PubDate: 2017-06-23 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx016 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Branch MP. Pages: 170 - 171 Abstract: Exceptional Mountains: A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes. By WeltzienO. Alan. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2016. 246 pp. Cloth $40.00. PubDate: 2017-05-08 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx019 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Guignard J. Pages: 172 - 173 Abstract: Culture on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Literature and Film. Edited by WithersJeremy and SheaDaniel P.. Foreword by FurnessZack. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2016. 366 pp. Cloth $50.00. PubDate: 2017-05-08 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx020 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017)
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