Myth and environmentalism : arts of resilience for a damaged planet
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Myth and environmentalism : arts of resilience for a damaged planet
（Routledge explorations in environmental studies）（Earthscan from Routledge）
Routledge, 2024
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Myth, disaster, and present-day views on ecological damage
- The afterlife of Chornobyl: apocalyptic mythology and environmentalism in the exclusion zone / Haley Laurila
- Myths of wilderness and motherhood in postapocalyptic narratives of the Anthropocene / Hope Jennings and Christine Junker
- Indigenous and Afro-diasporic myths and ecological knowledge
- Boundless water, boundless ice--arctic cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons / Sonja Ross
- Revisiting the wild: mythology and ecological wisdom in Shalan Joudry's Waking ground / Leonor María Martínez Serrano
- Myth, Afrodiasporic spirituality, and the oceanic archive in independent comics / Paul Humphrey
- Artistic practices, myth, and environmental resilience
- "Giant by thine own nature": Jean-Baptiste Débret and Antônio Parreiras' mythic Brazilian land(scape)s through a transatlantic gaze / Esther Lezra and Esther Sánchez-Pardo
- New cosmogonies of waste negotiated in the art of Mohamed Larbi Rahhali / María Porras Sánchez and Lhoussain Simour
- Death is life is death is life: continual regeneration in myth and the art of Maki Ohkojima / Keijiro Suga
- Coda: a radical evocation of seed / Jeanette Hart-Mann
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume traces the interconnections between myth, environmentalism, narrative, poetry, comics, and innovative artistic practice, using this as a framework through which to examine strategies for repairing our unhealthy relationship with the planet. Challenging late capitalist modes encouraging mindless consumption and the degradation of human-nature relations, this collection advocates a re-evaluation of the ethical relation to "living with" and sharing the Earth.
Myth and the environment have shared a rich common cultural history travelling as far back as the times of storytelling and legend, with the environment often the central theme. Following a robust introduction, the book is organized into three main sections-Myth, Disaster, and Present-Day Views on Ecological Damage; Indigenous and Afro-diasporic Myths and Ecological Knowledge; Art Practices, Myth, and Environmental Resilience-and concludes with a Coda from Jeanette Hart-Mann. The methodology draws from diverse perspectives, such as ecocriticism, new materialism, and Anthropocene studies, offering a truly interdisciplinary discussion that reflects on the dialogue among environment and myth, and a broad range of contributions are included from Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, Ukraine, Japan, Morocco, and Brazil. The book joins a long line of approaches on the interrelations between ecological and mythical thinking and criticism that goes back to the early 20th century.
This volume will be of interest to students, scholars, activists, and experts in environmental humanities, myth and myth criticism, literature and art on more-than human and nature interaction, ecocriticism, environmental activism, and climate change.
Table of Contents
Introduction: myth and environmentalism: entanglements, synergies, openings PART I: Myth, disaster and present-day views on ecological damage 1. The afterlife of Chornobyl: apocalyptic mythology and environmentalism in the Exclusion Zone 2. Myths of wilderness and motherhood in postapocalyptic narratives of the Anthropocene PART II: Indigenous and Afro-diasporic myths and ecological knowledge 3. Boundless water, boundless ice-Arctic cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons 4. Revisiting the wild: mythology and ecological wisdom in shalan joudry's Waking Ground 5. Myth, Afrodiasporic spirituality, and the oceanic archive in independent comics PART III: Artistic practices, myth and environmental resilience 6. "Giant by Thine Own Nature": Jean-Baptiste Debret and Antonio Parreiras' mythic Brazilian land(scape)s through a transatlantic gaze 7. New cosmogonies of waste negotiated in the art of Mohamed Larbi Rahhali 8. Death is life is death is life: continual regeneration in myth and the art of Maki Ohkojima 9. Coda: a radical evocation of seed
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