Daniel A Finch-Race
Biographic Data
| ID | 339435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel A Finch-Race |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel A |
| FAMILY NAME | Finch-Race |
| SIGNATURE | FINCH-RACE D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3884-0799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Petropower in Law‐Enforcement Advertising at Super Bowl LIX
This paper examines a recruitment commercial from the Super Bowl on 9 February 2025 in terms of its spectacularisation of petroleum's abiding yet volatile influence. The minute‐long piece on behalf of federal law enforcement indicates how the workings of power in the United States of America are entangled with the ubiquity of oil extraction, transportation and consumption. It is concluded that such marketing is an expression of insecurities about…
The art of marsh-thinking as ecological care
This article arises from me happening across paintings of marshlands at Pescara’s Museo dell’Ottocento. A four-part corpus is the focus of my visual analysis: Alberto Pasini’s ‘Twilight’ (1855); Giuseppe Castiglione’s ‘Landscape’ (1870); Charles-François Daubigny’s ‘Landscape with Lake’ (1872); Alceste Campriani’s ‘Sunset with Birds’ (1885). I question processes of value attribution and emotional attachment to do with a type of semi-aquatic ecosy…
Symptoms of Infrastructural Slow Violence in Adolfo Tommasi’s Allegory of Work
This analysis of a frieze in Livorno has a bipartite premise: first, it gives prominence to a creative source of insights about heavy industry from the long nineteenth century that is deserving of wider recognition; second, it provides a testing ground for a method of sensing infrastructural slow violence that is apt for shedding light on challenging circumstances from which no corner of the planet can hide forever. I dwell on how tangible herita…
Forms of unsiting in factory compositions by Leslie Kaplan and Joseph Ponthus
Leslie Kaplan's "Excess - The Factory" (1982, translated in 2018 by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap) and Joseph Ponthus's "On the Line: Notes from a Factory" (2019, translated in 2021 by Stephanie Smee) are rare poetic depictions of industrial environments. Kaplan dwells on the manufacturing setting as exemplifying overproduction, whereas Ponthus attends to how precarious work in globalized supply chains gives rise to localized pressures. The two fro…
Multisensorial hydrography with Venetian depictions from 1880 to 1895
This article, prompted by first-hand experience of considerable controversy over cruise ships in the Venetian Lagoon, seeks to take forward reasoning around archipelagic wateriness. In light of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals on ‘Clean Water and Sanitation’ and ‘Life below Water’, I shuttle between the twenty-first and nineteenth centuries on an experimental trajectory that brings more-than-human ecosystemic matters to the fore.…
Planetary gardening via female-led anthologies of women's poetry in French
This article showcases the fruitfulness of cross-fertilizing geographical and literary methods to address the complexities of women's poems being compiled into an anthology - a process of negotiation compounded by male domination of the canon. Inspired by Gilles Clément's reflections on the 'planetary garden', we radically posit female-edited poetry anthologies as a prism for rethinking ecosystem management. Focussing on three landmark collection…
Reclaiming provincialism
This article argues against the lingering pejorative usage of the term ‘provincialism’ in public discourse in particular. It engages with transnational debates emerging from Australia and French-speaking settings, where provincialism often denotes backwardness, isolation, and a lack of high culture. Through explorations of (a) the universalizing value of the provincial and (b) the diversifying concept of ‘provincializing’, the article advocates f…
Early Modern Écologies: Beyond English Ecocriticism
Early Modern Écologies: Beyond English Ecocriticism. Pauline Goul and Phillip John Usher, eds. Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 310 pp. €99. - Volume 75 Issue 1
Elemental Ecocritique of Normandy’s Industrial-Era Coast in Zola’s La joie de vivre
This article examines French ecological concerns around the time of the Industrial Revolution in Émile Zola’s La joie de vivre (1884) through the lens of elemental ecocriticism, founded on the four elements categorized in classical antiquity. More-than-human forces on Normandy’s shore are fundamental to Lazare Chanteau’s enterprises regarding L’usine du Trésor and flood defences for Bonneville in the twelfth novel of the Rougon-Macquart saga. An …
Anglo-, Franco- and Italophone Poetics of Place, 1819–2019
Editorial: Anglo-, Franco- and Italophone Poetics of Place, 1819–2019
Gritty Metropoetics in Ada Cambridge’s “London” and Émile Verhaeren’s “Londres”
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The Ecocritical Stakes of French Poetry from the Industrial Era
Ecocriticism explores the relationship between cultural production and its environment. The evolution of the field since the 1970s has been fuelled by growing concern about the reifying attitude of humanity towards nature, involving debates about sustainability and animal welfare. The environmental awareness spurring these theoretical advancements germinated in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, as natural scientists began to realize that the…
Elemental Ecocritique of Normandy’s Industrial-Era Coast in Zola’s La joie de vivre
This article examines French ecological concerns around the time of the Industrial Revolution in Émile Zola’s La joie de vivre (1884) through the lens of elemental ecocriticism, founded on the four elements categorized in classical antiquity. More-than-human forces on Normandy’s shore are fundamental to Lazare Chanteau’s enterprises regarding L’usine du Trésor and flood defences for Bonneville in the twelfth novel of the Rougon-Macquart saga. An …
Reclaiming provincialism
This article argues against the lingering pejorative usage of the term ‘provincialism’ in public discourse in particular. It engages with transnational debates emerging from Australia and French-speaking settings, where provincialism often denotes backwardness, isolation, and a lack of high culture. Through explorations of (a) the universalizing value of the provincial and (b) the diversifying concept of ‘provincializing’, the article advocates f…
The Ecocritical Stakes of French Poetry from the Industrial Era
Ecocriticism explores the relationship between cultural production and its environment. The evolution of the field since the 1970s has been fuelled by growing concern about the reifying attitude of humanity towards nature, involving debates about sustainability and animal welfare. The environmental awareness spurring these theoretical advancements germinated in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, as natural scientists began to realize that the…
The Ecocritical Stakes of French Poetry from the Industrial Era
Ecocriticism explores the relationship between cultural production and its environment. The evolution of the field since the 1970s has been fuelled by growing concern about the reifying attitude of humanity towards nature, involving debates about sustainability and animal welfare. The environmental awareness spurring these theoretical advancements germinated in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, as natural scientists began to realize that the…
Anglo-, Franco- and Italophone Poetics of Place, 1819–2019
Editorial: Anglo-, Franco- and Italophone Poetics of Place, 1819–2019
Gritty Metropoetics in Ada Cambridge’s “London” and Émile Verhaeren’s “Londres”
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Elemental Ecocritique of Normandy’s Industrial-Era Coast in Zola’s La joie de vivre
This article examines French ecological concerns around the time of the Industrial Revolution in Émile Zola’s La joie de vivre (1884) through the lens of elemental ecocriticism, founded on the four elements categorized in classical antiquity. More-than-human forces on Normandy’s shore are fundamental to Lazare Chanteau’s enterprises regarding L’usine du Trésor and flood defences for Bonneville in the twelfth novel of the Rougon-Macquart saga. An …
Reclaiming provincialism
This article argues against the lingering pejorative usage of the term ‘provincialism’ in public discourse in particular. It engages with transnational debates emerging from Australia and French-speaking settings, where provincialism often denotes backwardness, isolation, and a lack of high culture. Through explorations of (a) the universalizing value of the provincial and (b) the diversifying concept of ‘provincializing’, the article advocates f…
Early Modern Écologies: Beyond English Ecocriticism
Early Modern Écologies: Beyond English Ecocriticism. Pauline Goul and Phillip John Usher, eds. Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 310 pp. €99. - Volume 75 Issue 1
Forms of unsiting in factory compositions by Leslie Kaplan and Joseph Ponthus
Leslie Kaplan's "Excess - The Factory" (1982, translated in 2018 by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap) and Joseph Ponthus's "On the Line: Notes from a Factory" (2019, translated in 2021 by Stephanie Smee) are rare poetic depictions of industrial environments. Kaplan dwells on the manufacturing setting as exemplifying overproduction, whereas Ponthus attends to how precarious work in globalized supply chains gives rise to localized pressures. The two fro…
Multisensorial hydrography with Venetian depictions from 1880 to 1895
This article, prompted by first-hand experience of considerable controversy over cruise ships in the Venetian Lagoon, seeks to take forward reasoning around archipelagic wateriness. In light of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals on ‘Clean Water and Sanitation’ and ‘Life below Water’, I shuttle between the twenty-first and nineteenth centuries on an experimental trajectory that brings more-than-human ecosystemic matters to the fore.…
Planetary gardening via female-led anthologies of women's poetry in French
This article showcases the fruitfulness of cross-fertilizing geographical and literary methods to address the complexities of women's poems being compiled into an anthology - a process of negotiation compounded by male domination of the canon. Inspired by Gilles Clément's reflections on the 'planetary garden', we radically posit female-edited poetry anthologies as a prism for rethinking ecosystem management. Focussing on three landmark collection…
Symptoms of Infrastructural Slow Violence in Adolfo Tommasi’s Allegory of Work
This analysis of a frieze in Livorno has a bipartite premise: first, it gives prominence to a creative source of insights about heavy industry from the long nineteenth century that is deserving of wider recognition; second, it provides a testing ground for a method of sensing infrastructural slow violence that is apt for shedding light on challenging circumstances from which no corner of the planet can hide forever. I dwell on how tangible herita…
Petropower in Law‐Enforcement Advertising at Super Bowl LIX
This paper examines a recruitment commercial from the Super Bowl on 9 February 2025 in terms of its spectacularisation of petroleum's abiding yet volatile influence. The minute‐long piece on behalf of federal law enforcement indicates how the workings of power in the United States of America are entangled with the ubiquity of oil extraction, transportation and consumption. It is concluded that such marketing is an expression of insecurities about…
The art of marsh-thinking as ecological care
This article arises from me happening across paintings of marshlands at Pescara’s Museo dell’Ottocento. A four-part corpus is the focus of my visual analysis: Alberto Pasini’s ‘Twilight’ (1855); Giuseppe Castiglione’s ‘Landscape’ (1870); Charles-François Daubigny’s ‘Landscape with Lake’ (1872); Alceste Campriani’s ‘Sunset with Birds’ (1885). I question processes of value attribution and emotional attachment to do with a type of semi-aquatic ecosy…
Art (7 works) · History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Ecocriticism (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)