Local Rock and Global Plastic
World Ecology and the Experience of Place
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8097414 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ursula K Heise (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 126-152 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Literature Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4132 • E-ISSN: 1528-4212 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cls.2004.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2015503726 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 9 |
For several decades, the best-known slogan of the environmentalist movement has been "Think globally, act locally." This double imperative derives from environmentalists' attempts to propagate images of global ecology that might help to make the functioning of the planet as a whole accessible to average citizens, as well as to connect such an understanding with the experience of local places. 1 From the enormous ease and frequency with which this popular slogan is quoted, one might assume that it proposes a smooth conceptual connection between the experience of particular places and an understanding of planet-wide ecological systems. In fact, however, different types of environmentalist thought diverge quite substantially in the ways in which they envision the global and its relation to the local; how the global and the local can and should be considered and experienced together remains as much of an open question for an ecological perspective as it does for other approaches to globalization. The objective of this essay is to explore how literary texts negotiate the juncture between ecological globalism and localism and how, from a comparatist viewpoint, they link issues of global ecology with those of transnational culture
Biology · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Globalism · Globalization · Localism · Negotiation · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Slogan · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Ecology · Law
More Real than Real
Of Hemispheres and Other Spheres
Nonhuman Narrators and Multinatural Worlds
Commodifying Art, Media, and Identity
Seeing the Nation for the Trees
From Colonization to Revolution
Crossroads of Cultures
New Directions for Ecofeminism
Accumulating and Realizing the Radical Potential of Catastrophe in Karen Tei Yamashita’sThrough the Arc of the Rain Forest
We are the world (but only at the end of the world)
Petromodernity, petro-finance and plastic in Karen Tei Yamashita'sThrough the Arc of the Rainforest
Webs of Legitimacy and Discredit
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |