1st Edition

Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited

Edited By Phaedra. C Pezzullo Copyright 2011
164 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

The environment is perhaps most misunderstood as a static place, somewhere "out there," separated from the practices of our everyday lives. Given this assumption, environmental movements and concerns have remained mostly marginalized or denigrated in cultural studies publications, conferences, and presentations. Recent global developments have made changing this oversight and, at times, direct... Read more

1. Overture: The Most Complicated Word - Phaedra C. Pezzulli

2. Speculative Visions and Imaginary Meals: Food and the Environment in (Post-Apocalyptic) Science Fiction Films - Jean. P. Retzinger

3. Tourism, Race and the State of Nature: On the Bio-Poetics of Government - Margaret Werry

4. Forest, Flows and Identities in Finland's Information Society - Eeva Berglund

5. Cat and Mouse: Iconographics of Nature and Desire - Jody Berland

6. Queering Ecocultural Studies - Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands

7. Resisting Ecocultural Studies - Jennifer Daryl Slack

8. From Water Crisis to Water Culture - Dr. Vandana Shiva, Independent Scholar and Activist, An Interview by Andy Opel

Biography

Phaedra C. Pezzullo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture, and adjunct faculty of Cultural Studies and American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. She authored Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice (University of Alabama, 2007) and co-edited Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement (MIT Press, 2007).