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Authors:Slovic S. Pages: 385 - 388 Abstract: Earlier this summer I participated in a medley of lectures and workshops in Shanghai and Beijing with American writers Terry Tempest Williams and Brooke Williams. Many of Terry’s presentations about wildness and storytelling emerged from her beautiful 2016 publication The Hour of Land, while Brooke read from his mind-expanding new book Open Midnight and guided our Chinese students and colleagues through “ancestor visualization” exercises (“literary séances,” I teased). My own presentations on the current state of the environmental humanities tended to be more overtly political, as readers of ISLE might have guessed, judging my recent Editor’s Notes. I began my lecture titled “Reaching Out to ‘the great unwashed’: Ecocriticism, Environmental Writing, and the New World Order” with a slide showing a silhouette of “our dear leader” (as I like to call him, alluding to eerie and ironic resemblances between the “unhinged” American president and the dictator of North Korea). Many of our listeners in China were curious to know how Terry, Brooke, and I—and the rest of our countrymen—have been surviving during this new Dark Age of American democracy. The first thing to point out is that the inhabitants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue do not represent the majority of American voters. We consider the president a symbol of the worst elements in our society: ignorance, shallowness, selfishness and self-importance, xenophobia, misogyny, racism, patriarchy. We are living under the shadow of what we expect to be an ephemeral American regime, much as the moon eclipsed the sun on August 21, 2017, erasing daylight beneath a short-lived umbra. PubDate: 2017-11-20 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx050 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Authors:Gilmore T. Pages: 389 - 413 Abstract: I WISH TO SPEAK a word for nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and Culture merely civil,— to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization.11 PubDate: 2017-07-26 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx033 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Authors:Williams R. Pages: 432 - 456 Abstract: On 24 November 1822, William Cobbett (1763–1835), radical, campaigner, journalist, ranter, tireless observer and recorder of English rural life, was reporting one of his “rural rides” on horseback through the county of Hampshire when he remembered that:[I]n going from Hawkley to Greatham, the man, who went to show me the way, told me at a certain fork, “that road goes to Selburne [sic].” This put me in mind of a book, which was once recommended to me, but which I never saw, entitled “The History and Antiquities of Selburne [sic]” (or something of that sort) written, I think, by a parson of the name of White, brother of Mr White, so long a Bookseller in Fleet-street. (“Mr Canning” 657)11 PubDate: 2017-07-25 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx035 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Authors:Harrison S. Pages: 457 - 476 Abstract: Addressing the climate change “belief gap,” a recent study by law professor Dan Kahan suggests “there is in fact little disagreement among culturally diverse citizens on what science knows about climate change” (1). The source of the “climate-change controversy and like disputes” is, rather, “the contamination of education and politics with forms of cultural status competition” (1). The beliefs we form about scientific phenomena are influenced by our strong desire to “enjoy the sense of identity enabled by membership in a community defined by particular cultural commitments” (1). In other words, climate change denial is not caused primarily by a lack of information or knowledge, but by a lack of identification with the cultural community of climate change believers. PubDate: 2017-07-25 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx036 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Authors:Branch M. Pages: 561 - 564 Abstract: The other day, while driving down from the Sierra Nevada into the Great Basin on my way home to Ranting Hill, I noticed next to the local volunteer fire station one of those cell phone towers that is disguised to look like a tree—in this case, a vaguely ponderosa-ish pine. What strikes me as most odd about these cell towers costumed as trees is that they do not much resemble trees, at least not to anyone who paid any attention to real trees in the first place. You get the sense that the designers of these bizarre, fake trees are under the illusion that the towers actually look like real trees, which is both cute and somehow pathetic. PubDate: 2017-10-16 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx047 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Authors:Greenberg J. Pages: 565 - 591 Abstract: The sea is a tabula scriba whose story is written in the strands, if you know how to read them. PubDate: 2017-07-26 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx044 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Authors:Weltzien A. Pages: 592 - 593 Abstract: Gasping at dawn, I stumble into the labyrinthatop Veintimilla summit, tiredpilgrim amidst fields of penitentes,a thick procession of snow-ice figuresbent and slightly curved by prevailing winds. PubDate: 2017-09-05 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx045 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Authors:Hunt A. Pages: 598 - 599 Abstract: Walking the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place. By ArmitageShelley. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2016. 216 pp. Cloth $24.95. Paper $19.95. PubDate: 2017-10-07 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx053 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Authors:Keetley D. Pages: 599 - 601 Abstract: The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature. Edited by GaglianoMonica, RyanJohn C., and VieiraPatricia. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2017. 352 pp. Cloth $120.00. Paper $30.00. PubDate: 2017-10-12 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx054 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Authors:Brunvand A. Pages: 601 - 603 Abstract: Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears. Edited by KeelerJacqueline. Salt Lake City: Torrey House, 2017. 170 pp. Cloth $19.95. PubDate: 2017-09-27 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx055 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Authors:Everhart E. Pages: 608 - 609 Abstract: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Coexistence. By MortonTimothy. New York: Columbia UP, 2016. 208 pp. Cloth $30.00. PubDate: 2017-09-27 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx059 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Authors:Hogan P. Pages: 609 - 610 Abstract: Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data. Edited by SlovicScott and SlovicPaul. Corvallis: Oregon State UP, 2015. 272 pp. Paper $22.95. PubDate: 2017-09-26 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx060 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Pages: 611 - 612 Abstract: Mukherjee, Akaitab, and Rajni Singh. “From Postcolonial Vision of Nature to Ecocinema: A Study of Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri and Goutam Ghose’s Abar Aranye.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 24.2 (2017): 224–242. doi:10.1093/isle/isw045 PubDate: 2017-10-16 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx052 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
Pages: 612 - 613 Abstract: Joy Greenberg, “Silverstrand: An Ecocritique of Place and Creativity.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment first published online 26 July 2017. doi:10.1093/isle/isx044 PubDate: 2017-10-16 DOI: 10.1093/isle/isx062 Issue No:Vol. 24, No. 3 (2017)
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