Local Rock and Global Plastic

World Ecology and the Experience of Place

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8097414
AutoresUrsula K Heise (autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen41
Número1
Páginas126-152
Fecha de publicación2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Literature Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0010-4132 • E-ISSN: 1528-4212
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/cls.2004.0003
OpenAlexW2015503726
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas9

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

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