Anderson, dr scott brewster, dr kevin corstorphine, professor sara l. Prismatic ecology is a timely encouragement to think carefully about the symbols we use to represent the world, whilst finding within the colour spectrum a range of motifs to express and drive different ways of thinking about human and other thanhuman interaction. The editor of melus would like to thank the generous people who have helped us select articles during 2009. Prismatic ecology is a timely encouragement to think carefully about the symbols we use to represent the world, whilst finding within the colour spectrum a range of motifs to express and drive different ways. What does feminism have to say to the anthropocene. Writer and professor kerry madden was the previous editor until slaughter assumed the editorship of the renamed.
Just as you were perhaps starting to wonder if significant further breakthroughs might still be possible after two decades of rapid ecocritical advance from angloamerican cottage industry to worldwide movement, along comes this new book whose collective accomplishment any author would envy. Decentering the human, the essays collected in elemental ecocriticism provide important correctives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. Feminism, nature, and discursive ecologies electronic book. Stacy alaimo editor stacy alaimo is associate professor of english at the university of texas at arlington. Material feminisms by stacy alaimo overdrive rakuten.
Oct 25, 2010 stacy alaimo is professor of english at the university of texas at arlington. Space and editor with susan hekman of material feminisms iup, 2008. A recognition of how posthumans are, on multiple scales, embedded within the material world, enables new forms of activism, such as that of writer and. Stacy alaimo is professor of english at the university of texas at. Posthuman vulnerability, anthropocene dissolves as the anthropocene arises as a pivotal term in environmental discourse, it may be useful to consider how the novel category. Stacy alaimo s poststructuralist study blurs the boundaries of nature and culture and traces a tradition of american women writers who locate in nature an undomesticated ground of feminist possibility. The ambitious project of material feminisms is to inaugurate a. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read.
My editor s note for the for the fall 2012 issue of isle19. Blue ecologies stacy alaimo, and heather davis, whose work maintains that there are indeed still things we can do, ways we can think, stories we can tell, despite permanent damages done. The routledge companion to the environmental humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and. Recasting nature as feminist space and editor with susan hekman of. Readers wishing to respond to an essay in ebr may send ripostes or short glosses to the journals managing editor, will luers. Elemental ecocriticism university of minnesota press. Impressive in scope, sophistication, and imagination.
Buy material feminisms by stacy alaimo editor, susan hekman editor online at alibris. Stacy alaimo is professor of english and core faculty member in. Susan hekman is professor of political science and director of graduate humanities a. Recasting nature as feminist space and editor with susan hekman of material feminisms iup, 2008. She is also the editor, with susan hekman, of material feminisms 2008. Gender abolition and ecotone war 147 joshua clover and juliana spahr 8.
Afterword environmental humanities duke university press. Feminisms matter pdf download full pdf read book page. The scientific definition of mattersomething with mass and volume that occupies space would suggest. Stacy alaimo is a professor of english at the university of texas at arlington. Stacy alaimo professor of english core faculty, environmental studies university of oregon. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, stacy alaimo. Stacy alaimo resilience, the ability to snap back or soldier on after adversity, favors the cheery, the chipper, and the ignorant who dwell in bliss. Stacy alaimo academic editing books and book series. The editor of melus would like to thank the generous people who have helped us select articles during 2010. Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, material feminis. Id like to thank all my colleagues at uc santa barbara in the departments of english and film and media studies, especially bishnupriya.
Materiality, sustainability, and applicability professor scott slovic department of english university of idaho moscow, id 83844 usa. Stacy alaimo is associate professor of english at the university of texas at. New books in critical theory this is a book that should be read by anyone. This volume explores the history, application, and the future of ecocriticism. We encourage proposals that engage the work of these two distinguished guests. Jan 26, 2016 founded in 2001 by linda frost under the title poemmemoirstory, nelle is helmed by editor inchief lauren slaughter, poet, professor, and author of the poetry collection a lesson in smallness, and managing editor anamaria santiago. Please do not cite this draft paper without the permission of the author. Alaimo nature in the oxford handbook of feminist theory. Professor stacy alaimo researches and teaches across the environmental. Stacy alaimo and susan hekman, harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, material feminisms presents an entirely new way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality. Alaimos teaching can be found on her personal website university of texas arlington, department of english p. Stacy alaimo is associate professor of english at the university of texas at arlington.
The conference will feature guest scholar stacy alaimo university of texas at arlington and guest of honor jeff vandermeer. Elements, book series editor, with nicole starosielski and managing editor courtney berger, for duke university press, 2016 the elements series seeks texts attuned to the material specificity of their. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Stacy alaimo university of texas at arlington provocatively poised at the intersections of queer, feminist, disability, environmental, and critical race scholarship and justice movements, this book presents a welcome and necessary meditation on the meaning and temporality of disability. The routledge companion to the environmental humanities.
Science, environment, and the material self alaimo, stacy on. Material feminisms edited by stacy alaimo and susan hekman. International association for the fantastic in the arts. Stacy alaimo has developed a model of the transcorporeal body that is connected with the environment through. Anthropocene feminism university of minnesota press. Interdisciplinary studies in we use cookies to enhance your experience. How does the concept of the anthropocene impact feminism. Faculty editor elizabeth bohls assistant to the editor. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, stacy alaimo focuses on transcorporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. Material feminism, transcorporeality, and the new call to humannature coextensivenessthe first murmurs of an ecocritical fourth wave in 2008.
If barad is the goddess of material turn, stacy alaimo certainly deserves a place as its high priestess with her new book, bodily natures, a meticulously researched, deeply informed. Recasting nature as feminist space 2000 and bodily natures. Configurations, is seeking submissions for a special issue on science studies and the blue humanities, edited by stacy alaimo. This is an exlibrary book and may have the usual libraryusedbook markings inside. Box 19035 suite 203 carlisle hall arlington, tx 76019. It tells us to just keep shopping through the apocalypse. Displacing darwin and descartes the bodily transgressions of.
With apologies to anyone whose name might have been overlooked, we sincerely acknowledge their assistance. Pdf alaimo trans corporeality for the posthuman glossary. Interdisciplinary studies in we use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. Matter may appear to be a strange topic for a volume within a series of handbooks on gender.
Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, stacy alaimo focuses on transcorporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, alaimo. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Professor andrew smith, the university of sheffield. Cecilia asberg and rosi braidotti, editors, feminist companion to the posthumanities. We are interested in essays, position papers, provocations, and artist.
By coining and, for the first time, fully exploring the concept of anthropocene feminism, it highlights the alternatives feminism and queer theory can offer for thinking about the anthropocene. Stacy alaimo on environmental humanities in conversation with elizabeth bohls continues on page 2 eng english 201819 newsletter of the department of english stacy alaimo. Transcorporeality is a posthumanist mode of new materialism and material feminism. Stacy alaimo, university of texas at arlington, english department, faculty member. Displacing darwin and descartes the bodily transgressions of fielding burke, octavia butler, and linda hogan1, isle.
Bodily natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Download nature s chemicals ebook free in pdf and epub format. For scott slovic, it is stacy alaimo s discussion of transcorporeality in material feminisms that has helped to launch an entire new direction in contemporary ecocriticism 443. Displacing darwin and descartes the bodily transgressions. Material feminisms edited by stacy alaimo and susan. Adair gowaty, the editor of the only anthology specifically directed to exploring the. Feminisms matter available for download and read online in other formats.
Edited by stacy alaimo and susan heckman bloomington and indianapolis. Stacy alaimo is professor of english at the university of texas at arlington. Material feminisms by stacy alaimo editor, susan hekman. Transcorporeality means that all creatures, as embodied beings, are intermeshed with the dynamic, material world, which. Past the impasse, the new material feminisms carla lam, politics department, university of otago, dunedin, new zealand. Readers wishing to respond to an essay in ebr may send ripostes or short glosses to the journals managing editor. The transcorporeal ethicsof the protesting body from issue 20. Schneiderman anthropocene feminism book db 5 11817 11. Migrations, energies, limits at the university of kansas in lawrence was a resounding success, in part due to the plenaries delivered by rob nixon, stacy alaimo, and cary wolfe, among others thanks again to paul outka for his wonderful work organizing this conference. Bodily natures by stacy alaimo overdrive rakuten overdrive.
We are interested in essays, position papers, provocations, and artist statements that explore the significance of science studies for the development of the blue humanities. It traces the origins of and describes the practice of ecocriticism during the renaissance, medieval, and romantic period and. Professor stacy alaimo researches and teaches across the environmental humanities, science studies, animal studies, american literature, cultural studies, and critical theory, focusing, more specifically, on. This book is a daring and provocative response to the masculinist and technonormative approach to the anthropocene so often taken by technoscientists, artists, humanists, and social scientists. Professor stacy alaimo researches and teaches across the environmental humanities, science studies, animal studies, american literature, cultural studies, and critical theory, focusing, more specifically, on developing models of new materialism, material feminisms, environmental justice, and, most recently, the blue oceanic humanities. Science, environment, and the material self is sure to appeal to many students and scholars of literary studies and critical theory. Just as you were perhaps starting to wonder if significant further breakthroughs might still be possible after two decades of rapid ecocritical advance from angloamerican cottage industry to worldwide.
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