Kate Rigby
Biographic Data
| ID | 151464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Rigby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Rigby |
| SIGNATURE | RIGBY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bath Spa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5793-5366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0
Religion, Materialism and Ecology
On the Ecopoetics of Temporal Discernment
In this short article, I explore the ways in which literary studies, and in particular, the study of ecopoetry and ecopoetics, can contribute to current engagements with the temporal horizon of ‘deep’, geological, time. Drawing on the concept of ‘temporal discernment’ advanced by environmental philosopher, James Hatley, I argue for the cultivation of an appreciation for plural temporalities (including the historical, ethical, immemorial, creature…
Everyday Ecocide, Toxic Dwelling, and the Inability to Mourn
In responding to the spatiotemporally specific geographies of extinction charted in the articles in this special section, this article reflects on the sociocultural factors that inform the ways in which extinction is framed and impede recognition of the enormity of the anthropogenic extinction event in which we are all bound. This article argues that we are living in an era of ecocide, where the degradation of biodiversity and eradication of spec…
Reclaiming Romanticism
The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the "romanticising" of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion. Written by one of the leading ecocritics writing today, Reclaiming Romanticism rediscovers the importance of the European Romantic tradition to the ways that writers and critics engage with the environment in the Anthropocene era. Exploring the work of…
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critic…
Earth’s Poesy
This chapter undertakes an exploration of the pre-history of contemporary biosemiotics in Romantic ecopoetics, beginning with the ways in which Romantic natural philosophies, such as those of Schelling and Goethe, opened the way for a renewed appreciation of the subjective ‘worlds’ or Umwelten, as Jakob von Uexküll later termed them, along with the agency, communicative capacity, and, in some cases, ethical considerability of more-than-human bein…
Of Mice and Men and Aquatic Flows
Theodor Storm's novella Der Schimmelreiter is set in northwestern Germany, a region with a long history of dyke building and coastal flooding. Drawing on insights into material agency, complexity, and the entwinement of materiality and discourse that have emerged from science studies, I read this text as an exploration of distributed agency that challenges humanist assumptions about both "man" and "nature" by disclosing the limits of rational hum…
Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene
The recent 10,000 year history of climatic stability on Earth that enabled the rise of agriculture and domestication, the growth of cities, numerous technological revolutions, and the emergence of modernity is now over. We accept that in the latest phase of this era, modernity is unmaking the stability that enabled its emergence. Over the 21st century severe and numerous weather disasters, scarcity of key resources, major changes in environments,…
Dancing with Disaster
Spirits That Matter
Romanticism and Ecocriticism
This article examines the relevance of romanticism to ecocriticism. It analyzes some cases of contradictory trends and tendencies that can be traced in the thought and literature of the romantic period and considers some of the ways in which romanticism was taken up in the “new world.” It explores romantic conception of Nature and Freedom and the contrapuntal movement of secularization and resacralization. While the article emphasises the diversi…
Mapping Common Ground
The emergence of the environmental humanities presents a unique opportunity for scholarship to tackle the human dimensions of the environmental crisis. It might finally allow such work to attain the critical mass it needs to break out of customary disciplinary confines and reach a wider public, at a time when natural scientists have begun to acknowledge that an understanding of the environmental crisis must include insights from the humanities an…
Regarding the Earth
Special Issue editors, Professor Kate Rigby and Associate Professor Linda Williams, introduce papers arising from the 5th Biennial conference, ‘Regarding the Earth: Ecological Vision in Word and Vision'. Participants in this issue were asked to consider the ecological implications of different ways of perceiving, imagining, valuing and representing Earth, whether understood as planet, place or collective, comprising a multiplicity of more-than-hu…
Getting a Taste for the Bogong Moth
Dancing With Disaster
In light of the appalling suffering caused by the bad run of major natural, or more accurately, socio-ecological disasters that have assailed various parts of the world in recent years in the guise of sundry cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis and wildfires, my title might well strike some readers as offensively glib. Dancing with disaster? Surely this is a metaphor that only someone who has not had to bear the brunt of such catastrophes in their own…
Writing in the Anthropocene
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within
Tragedy, Modernity, and Terra Mater
Research Article| August 01 2007 Tragedy, Modernity, and Terra Mater: Christa Wolf Recounts the Fall Kate Rigby Kate Rigby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 115–141. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kate Rigby; Tragedy, Modernity, and Terra Mater: Christa Wolf Recounts the Fall. New German Critique 1 …
Looking for Blackfella's Point
Journal Article Looking for Blackfella's Point: An Australian History of Place Get access Looking for Blackfella's Point: An Australian History of Place. By Mark McKenna. Sydney: U of New South Wales P, 2002. 269 pp. Paper $29.95. Kate Rigby Kate Rigby Monash University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 11, Issue 2, Summer 2004, Pages 297–…
Earth, World, Text
Earth, World, Text:On the (Im)possibility of Ecopoiesis Kate Rigby (bio) Abstract This article is concerned with a key question of ecological aesthetics: that is, the potential of art speak (of) the earth. Following Jonathan Bate’s discussion of Heidegger’s late essays in the final chapter of his book The Song of the Earth (2000), the article revisits one of Heidegger’s earlier essays, “The Origin of the Work of Art”, in order to consider anew hi…
Ecstatic dwelling
Recovering From the Fall
Freeing the Phenomena
Ways of coping with excessive drug use in the family
This paper outlines an eight‐fold typology of coping actions based upon a qualitative analysis of the accounts provided by 50 close relatives of people with drug problems. In a number of different ways relatives draw attention to the contrasts between these distinguishable ways of coping. Emphasis is placed upon the provisional nature of this typology and upon the compromises between, and combinations of, ways of coping that are often used by rel…
Mapping Common Ground
The emergence of the environmental humanities presents a unique opportunity for scholarship to tackle the human dimensions of the environmental crisis. It might finally allow such work to attain the critical mass it needs to break out of customary disciplinary confines and reach a wider public, at a time when natural scientists have begun to acknowledge that an understanding of the environmental crisis must include insights from the humanities an…
Earth, World, Text
Earth, World, Text:On the (Im)possibility of Ecopoiesis Kate Rigby (bio) Abstract This article is concerned with a key question of ecological aesthetics: that is, the potential of art speak (of) the earth. Following Jonathan Bate’s discussion of Heidegger’s late essays in the final chapter of his book The Song of the Earth (2000), the article revisits one of Heidegger’s earlier essays, “The Origin of the Work of Art”, in order to consider anew hi…
Reclaiming Romanticism
The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the "romanticising" of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion. Written by one of the leading ecocritics writing today, Reclaiming Romanticism rediscovers the importance of the European Romantic tradition to the ways that writers and critics engage with the environment in the Anthropocene era. Exploring the work of…
Writing in the Anthropocene
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within
Of Mice and Men and Aquatic Flows
Theodor Storm's novella Der Schimmelreiter is set in northwestern Germany, a region with a long history of dyke building and coastal flooding. Drawing on insights into material agency, complexity, and the entwinement of materiality and discourse that have emerged from science studies, I read this text as an exploration of distributed agency that challenges humanist assumptions about both "man" and "nature" by disclosing the limits of rational hum…
Romanticism and Ecocriticism
This article examines the relevance of romanticism to ecocriticism. It analyzes some cases of contradictory trends and tendencies that can be traced in the thought and literature of the romantic period and considers some of the ways in which romanticism was taken up in the “new world.” It explores romantic conception of Nature and Freedom and the contrapuntal movement of secularization and resacralization. While the article emphasises the diversi…
Ecstatic dwelling
Ways of coping with excessive drug use in the family
This paper outlines an eight‐fold typology of coping actions based upon a qualitative analysis of the accounts provided by 50 close relatives of people with drug problems. In a number of different ways relatives draw attention to the contrasts between these distinguishable ways of coping. Emphasis is placed upon the provisional nature of this typology and upon the compromises between, and combinations of, ways of coping that are often used by rel…
Ways of coping with excessive drug use in the family
This paper outlines an eight‐fold typology of coping actions based upon a qualitative analysis of the accounts provided by 50 close relatives of people with drug problems. In a number of different ways relatives draw attention to the contrasts between these distinguishable ways of coping. Emphasis is placed upon the provisional nature of this typology and upon the compromises between, and combinations of, ways of coping that are often used by rel…
Freeing the Phenomena
Recovering From the Fall
Looking for Blackfella's Point
Journal Article Looking for Blackfella's Point: An Australian History of Place Get access Looking for Blackfella's Point: An Australian History of Place. By Mark McKenna. Sydney: U of New South Wales P, 2002. 269 pp. Paper $29.95. Kate Rigby Kate Rigby Monash University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 11, Issue 2, Summer 2004, Pages 297–…
Earth, World, Text
Earth, World, Text:On the (Im)possibility of Ecopoiesis Kate Rigby (bio) Abstract This article is concerned with a key question of ecological aesthetics: that is, the potential of art speak (of) the earth. Following Jonathan Bate’s discussion of Heidegger’s late essays in the final chapter of his book The Song of the Earth (2000), the article revisits one of Heidegger’s earlier essays, “The Origin of the Work of Art”, in order to consider anew hi…
Ecstatic dwelling
Tragedy, Modernity, and Terra Mater
Research Article| August 01 2007 Tragedy, Modernity, and Terra Mater: Christa Wolf Recounts the Fall Kate Rigby Kate Rigby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 115–141. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kate Rigby; Tragedy, Modernity, and Terra Mater: Christa Wolf Recounts the Fall. New German Critique 1 …
Dancing With Disaster
In light of the appalling suffering caused by the bad run of major natural, or more accurately, socio-ecological disasters that have assailed various parts of the world in recent years in the guise of sundry cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis and wildfires, my title might well strike some readers as offensively glib. Dancing with disaster? Surely this is a metaphor that only someone who has not had to bear the brunt of such catastrophes in their own…
Writing in the Anthropocene
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within
Getting a Taste for the Bogong Moth
Regarding the Earth
Special Issue editors, Professor Kate Rigby and Associate Professor Linda Williams, introduce papers arising from the 5th Biennial conference, ‘Regarding the Earth: Ecological Vision in Word and Vision'. Participants in this issue were asked to consider the ecological implications of different ways of perceiving, imagining, valuing and representing Earth, whether understood as planet, place or collective, comprising a multiplicity of more-than-hu…
Spirits That Matter
Romanticism and Ecocriticism
This article examines the relevance of romanticism to ecocriticism. It analyzes some cases of contradictory trends and tendencies that can be traced in the thought and literature of the romantic period and considers some of the ways in which romanticism was taken up in the “new world.” It explores romantic conception of Nature and Freedom and the contrapuntal movement of secularization and resacralization. While the article emphasises the diversi…
Mapping Common Ground
The emergence of the environmental humanities presents a unique opportunity for scholarship to tackle the human dimensions of the environmental crisis. It might finally allow such work to attain the critical mass it needs to break out of customary disciplinary confines and reach a wider public, at a time when natural scientists have begun to acknowledge that an understanding of the environmental crisis must include insights from the humanities an…
Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene
The recent 10,000 year history of climatic stability on Earth that enabled the rise of agriculture and domestication, the growth of cities, numerous technological revolutions, and the emergence of modernity is now over. We accept that in the latest phase of this era, modernity is unmaking the stability that enabled its emergence. Over the 21st century severe and numerous weather disasters, scarcity of key resources, major changes in environments,…
Dancing with Disaster
Earth’s Poesy
This chapter undertakes an exploration of the pre-history of contemporary biosemiotics in Romantic ecopoetics, beginning with the ways in which Romantic natural philosophies, such as those of Schelling and Goethe, opened the way for a renewed appreciation of the subjective ‘worlds’ or Umwelten, as Jakob von Uexküll later termed them, along with the agency, communicative capacity, and, in some cases, ethical considerability of more-than-human bein…
Of Mice and Men and Aquatic Flows
Theodor Storm's novella Der Schimmelreiter is set in northwestern Germany, a region with a long history of dyke building and coastal flooding. Drawing on insights into material agency, complexity, and the entwinement of materiality and discourse that have emerged from science studies, I read this text as an exploration of distributed agency that challenges humanist assumptions about both "man" and "nature" by disclosing the limits of rational hum…
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critic…
Everyday Ecocide, Toxic Dwelling, and the Inability to Mourn
In responding to the spatiotemporally specific geographies of extinction charted in the articles in this special section, this article reflects on the sociocultural factors that inform the ways in which extinction is framed and impede recognition of the enormity of the anthropogenic extinction event in which we are all bound. This article argues that we are living in an era of ecocide, where the degradation of biodiversity and eradication of spec…
Reclaiming Romanticism
The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the "romanticising" of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion. Written by one of the leading ecocritics writing today, Reclaiming Romanticism rediscovers the importance of the European Romantic tradition to the ways that writers and critics engage with the environment in the Anthropocene era. Exploring the work of…
On the Ecopoetics of Temporal Discernment
In this short article, I explore the ways in which literary studies, and in particular, the study of ecopoetry and ecopoetics, can contribute to current engagements with the temporal horizon of ‘deep’, geological, time. Drawing on the concept of ‘temporal discernment’ advanced by environmental philosopher, James Hatley, I argue for the cultivation of an appreciation for plural temporalities (including the historical, ethical, immemorial, creature…
Religion, Materialism and Ecology
Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0
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