Susie O'Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4539748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susie O'Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susie |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Brien |
| SIGNATURE | BRIEN S O |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dehumanist resilience in Tracy Sorensen’s The vitals
This paper looks to Tracy Sorensen’s 2023 novel, The vitals, to help answer the question: what do we hope for –which bodies, which worlds– when we hope for resilience? The vitals narrates the experience of cancer from the perspective of the author’s abdominal organs and tumours. It is also, less obviously, an intervention into the cultural politics of climate change, informed by Sorensen’s many years as a climate activist. The book also reflects …
Multispecies Resilience After Word(s)
Multispecies Resilience After Word(s) Susie O'Brien (bio) How should we think about multispecies resilience? It might be easier to think about what it isn't. As the Anthropocene has ushered in a wave of mass extinctions, it has also given rise to new concepts. Words like "snarge," the grisly term used by forensic ornithologists to describe the remains of birds hit by airplanes. "Snarge," environmental historian Gary Kroll observes, is "a horrible…
Popular Culture: A User's Guide, International Edition
A History of Environmental Futurity: Special Issue Introduction
A History of Environmental FuturitySpecial Issue Introduction Susie O’Brien (bio) and Cheryl Lousley (bio) Political struggles of all sorts are formed and fought over the power to shape “the future”—usually the future of a place or a people. Environmentalism has a somewhat different relationship to futurity than other social and political movements, because it is engaged with safeguarding the future of the future in presenting ecological viabilit…
Resilience Stories: Narratives of Adaptation, Refusal, and Compromise
Resilience StoriesNarratives of Adaptation, Refusal, and Compromise Susie O’Brien (bio) A common way to imagine environmental futurity in the early decades of the twenty-first century is through stories about resilience. At a time when the concept of sustainability has largely given way to a sense of recurrent crisis, narratives of successful adaptation have powerful currency. The United Nations’ Rio + 20 Conference on Sustainable Development, he…
Survival Strategies for Global Times: The Desert Walk for Biodiversity, Health and Heritage
Focusing on the 2000 Desert Walk for Biodiversity, Health and Heritage, this paper considers possibilities for countering the temporal logic of economic globalization with a different understanding of time shaped by the politics of environmentalism and anti-colonial resistance.In 2000, a group of about twenty people, mainly Seri and Tohono O'odham Indians, took part in a 12-day, 230-mile walk from El Desemboque, Mexico, to Tucson, Arizona. During…
Introduction: The Globalization of Fiction/the Fiction of Globalization
Forms such as the fabliau, Mennipean satire, and autobiography provide evidence of cultural migrations dating as far back as the medieval period; literature was global, then, before it was ever national.3 And as Stephen Greenblatt points out, ''English literature was always an unsteady amalgam of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Cornish, and other voices of the vanquished, along with the voices of the dominant English regions, and the English language its…
Horsetarts, Mullets and Slurries: Sexual subject positions available to young women at Roseworthy College
The Micropolitics of Slow Living
A review of Wendy Parkins and Geoffrey Craig, Slow Living (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006
Introduction: The Globalization of Fiction/the Fiction of Globalization
Forms such as the fabliau, Mennipean satire, and autobiography provide evidence of cultural migrations dating as far back as the medieval period; literature was global, then, before it was ever national.3 And as Stephen Greenblatt points out, ''English literature was always an unsteady amalgam of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Cornish, and other voices of the vanquished, along with the voices of the dominant English regions, and the English language its…
Resilience Stories: Narratives of Adaptation, Refusal, and Compromise
Resilience StoriesNarratives of Adaptation, Refusal, and Compromise Susie O’Brien (bio) A common way to imagine environmental futurity in the early decades of the twenty-first century is through stories about resilience. At a time when the concept of sustainability has largely given way to a sense of recurrent crisis, narratives of successful adaptation have powerful currency. The United Nations’ Rio + 20 Conference on Sustainable Development, he…
Survival Strategies for Global Times: The Desert Walk for Biodiversity, Health and Heritage
Focusing on the 2000 Desert Walk for Biodiversity, Health and Heritage, this paper considers possibilities for countering the temporal logic of economic globalization with a different understanding of time shaped by the politics of environmentalism and anti-colonial resistance.In 2000, a group of about twenty people, mainly Seri and Tohono O'odham Indians, took part in a 12-day, 230-mile walk from El Desemboque, Mexico, to Tucson, Arizona. During…
Horsetarts, Mullets and Slurries: Sexual subject positions available to young women at Roseworthy College
The Micropolitics of Slow Living
A review of Wendy Parkins and Geoffrey Craig, Slow Living (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006
Horsetarts, Mullets and Slurries: Sexual subject positions available to young women at Roseworthy College
Introduction: The Globalization of Fiction/the Fiction of Globalization
Forms such as the fabliau, Mennipean satire, and autobiography provide evidence of cultural migrations dating as far back as the medieval period; literature was global, then, before it was ever national.3 And as Stephen Greenblatt points out, ''English literature was always an unsteady amalgam of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Cornish, and other voices of the vanquished, along with the voices of the dominant English regions, and the English language its…
Survival Strategies for Global Times: The Desert Walk for Biodiversity, Health and Heritage
Focusing on the 2000 Desert Walk for Biodiversity, Health and Heritage, this paper considers possibilities for countering the temporal logic of economic globalization with a different understanding of time shaped by the politics of environmentalism and anti-colonial resistance.In 2000, a group of about twenty people, mainly Seri and Tohono O'odham Indians, took part in a 12-day, 230-mile walk from El Desemboque, Mexico, to Tucson, Arizona. During…
Popular Culture: A User's Guide, International Edition
A History of Environmental Futurity: Special Issue Introduction
A History of Environmental FuturitySpecial Issue Introduction Susie O’Brien (bio) and Cheryl Lousley (bio) Political struggles of all sorts are formed and fought over the power to shape “the future”—usually the future of a place or a people. Environmentalism has a somewhat different relationship to futurity than other social and political movements, because it is engaged with safeguarding the future of the future in presenting ecological viabilit…
Resilience Stories: Narratives of Adaptation, Refusal, and Compromise
Resilience StoriesNarratives of Adaptation, Refusal, and Compromise Susie O’Brien (bio) A common way to imagine environmental futurity in the early decades of the twenty-first century is through stories about resilience. At a time when the concept of sustainability has largely given way to a sense of recurrent crisis, narratives of successful adaptation have powerful currency. The United Nations’ Rio + 20 Conference on Sustainable Development, he…
Multispecies Resilience After Word(s)
Multispecies Resilience After Word(s) Susie O'Brien (bio) How should we think about multispecies resilience? It might be easier to think about what it isn't. As the Anthropocene has ushered in a wave of mass extinctions, it has also given rise to new concepts. Words like "snarge," the grisly term used by forensic ornithologists to describe the remains of birds hit by airplanes. "Snarge," environmental historian Gary Kroll observes, is "a horrible…
Dehumanist resilience in Tracy Sorensen’s The vitals
This paper looks to Tracy Sorensen’s 2023 novel, The vitals, to help answer the question: what do we hope for –which bodies, which worlds– when we hope for resilience? The vitals narrates the experience of cancer from the perspective of the author’s abdominal organs and tumours. It is also, less obviously, an intervention into the cultural politics of climate change, informed by Sorensen’s many years as a climate activist. The book also reflects …
Sociology (7 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · Anthropocene (2 works) · Art (2 works)