Graeme Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graeme Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graeme |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: Food Futures
Introduction:Food Futures Nora Castle (bio) and Graeme Macdonald (bio) Near the beginning of Frant Gwo's 2019 blockbuster film adapted from Liu Cixin's short story "The Wandering Earth" (2000), the perspective opens onto the streets of underground city "No. 3," constructed five kilometers below the ice-wracked Beijing of the 2070s. The camera tracks around a public square, where preparations for the Chinese New Year are underway. It follows two s…
Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature
A pivotal scene in the 2019 reinvention of Bill Forsyth’s 1983 film Local Hero into musical theatre involves a hangover[...]
Cities in Flux
From Singapore to New York, via New Delhi, Johannesburg, London, Glasgow and Buenos Aires, “Cities in Flux” registers some of the most profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities around the world. Narrated in different styles, the individual pieces draw on theories of global cities in neoliberal times as well as on the phenomenological truths of inhabiting these disparate places bound together by a global crisis. The pieces make use of a …
Food Futures: A Special Issue of SFS
Monstrous transformer: Petrofiction and world literature
This article presents a comparative study of two significant novels of oil-encounter modernization, George Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe (1972) and Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of Salt (1984), in order to argue that such petrofiction both demands and enables consideration of the world-ecological regimes and environmental ramifications of dynamic oil frontiers. These hitherto unconnected novels are brought together via recent arguments for a refurbished n…
Oil and World Literature
Oil and World Literature Graeme Macdonald (bio) In a 1992 New Republic review of the first two novels in Abdelrahman Munif's renowned petro-quintet Cities of Salt (1984), Amitav Ghosh pondered the absence of the Great American Oil Novel (GAON). Why, he asked, in the nation where oil is virtually sacrosanct and where the industry remains a prodigious force, had literary responses to its significance for American life been so scant? For Ghosh, the …
Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives
Substance, Form and Equity in Taxation and Accounting
Monstrous transformer: Petrofiction and world literature
This article presents a comparative study of two significant novels of oil-encounter modernization, George Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe (1972) and Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of Salt (1984), in order to argue that such petrofiction both demands and enables consideration of the world-ecological regimes and environmental ramifications of dynamic oil frontiers. These hitherto unconnected novels are brought together via recent arguments for a refurbished n…
Oil and World Literature
Oil and World Literature Graeme Macdonald (bio) In a 1992 New Republic review of the first two novels in Abdelrahman Munif's renowned petro-quintet Cities of Salt (1984), Amitav Ghosh pondered the absence of the Great American Oil Novel (GAON). Why, he asked, in the nation where oil is virtually sacrosanct and where the industry remains a prodigious force, had literary responses to its significance for American life been so scant? For Ghosh, the …
Substance, Form and Equity in Taxation and Accounting
Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives
Oil and World Literature
Oil and World Literature Graeme Macdonald (bio) In a 1992 New Republic review of the first two novels in Abdelrahman Munif's renowned petro-quintet Cities of Salt (1984), Amitav Ghosh pondered the absence of the Great American Oil Novel (GAON). Why, he asked, in the nation where oil is virtually sacrosanct and where the industry remains a prodigious force, had literary responses to its significance for American life been so scant? For Ghosh, the …
Monstrous transformer: Petrofiction and world literature
This article presents a comparative study of two significant novels of oil-encounter modernization, George Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe (1972) and Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of Salt (1984), in order to argue that such petrofiction both demands and enables consideration of the world-ecological regimes and environmental ramifications of dynamic oil frontiers. These hitherto unconnected novels are brought together via recent arguments for a refurbished n…
Food Futures: A Special Issue of SFS
Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature
A pivotal scene in the 2019 reinvention of Bill Forsyth’s 1983 film Local Hero into musical theatre involves a hangover[...]
Cities in Flux
From Singapore to New York, via New Delhi, Johannesburg, London, Glasgow and Buenos Aires, “Cities in Flux” registers some of the most profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities around the world. Narrated in different styles, the individual pieces draw on theories of global cities in neoliberal times as well as on the phenomenological truths of inhabiting these disparate places bound together by a global crisis. The pieces make use of a …
Introduction: Food Futures
Introduction:Food Futures Nora Castle (bio) and Graeme Macdonald (bio) Near the beginning of Frant Gwo's 2019 blockbuster film adapted from Liu Cixin's short story "The Wandering Earth" (2000), the perspective opens onto the streets of underground city "No. 3," constructed five kilometers below the ice-wracked Beijing of the 2070s. The camera tracks around a public square, where preparations for the Chinese New Year are underway. It follows two s…
Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works)