Hannah Boast
Biographic Data
| ID | 643555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Boast |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Boast |
| SIGNATURE | BOAST H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0658-2334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ghost nets and rusting machines”: Rivers in the contemporary Canadian long poem
Water has long been fundamental to settler efforts to expand resource frontiers in Canada. European fur traders used the region’s waterways to access animal populations in its interior, forming the basis of an ambivalent national reputation as “hewers of wood, drawers of water” (Innis 1930). More recently, the Trans-Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project and BC Hydro’s Site C Dam have threatened water and Indigenous sovereignty in the pursuit of ene…
Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity
This article identifies an 'environmental turn' in contemporary Palestinian arts and activism. It argues that environmentalism, mediated especially through food, is an increasingly important frame through which Palestinians and their supporters narrate the idea of Palestine and the Palestinian struggle to metropolitan audiences, and through which identification and solidarity are solicited and received. It outlines this turn through an examinatio…
Animal Nullius: Review of Irus Braverman, Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel (UMN, 2023)
Review of:Irus Braverman. Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.362 pp. 47 b&w photos.$116.00 (hb) ISBN 978-1-5179-1205-5$29.00 (pb) ISBN 978-1-5179-1526-1
Theorizing the Gay Frog
The gay frog has taken on a surprisingly prominent role in contemporary environmental culture. Primarily associated with American shock jock Alex Jones and the so-called alt-right, fears of frogs being turned gay by hormones in water have nevertheless entered the mainstream, while gay frog memes are shared online by users from across the political spectrum. This article offers a genealogy of the gay frog, situating this recent moment in the longe…
Borrowed waters: Water crisis and water justice in Rita Wong's undercurrent
In recent years ecocriticism and the environmental humanities have undergone a ‘hydrological turn’, sometimes referred to as the emergence of the ‘blue humanities’. This ‘turn’ has, however, typically focused on the maritime and oceanic rather than the fresh water essential for the reproduction of much life on earth. In this article I analyse contemporary Canadian poet Rita Wong’s 2015 collection undercurrent for thematic and formal insights into…
The Water Wars Novel
‘Water wars’ are back. Conflicts in Syrian, Yemen and Israel/Palestine are regularly framed as motivated by water and presented as harbingers of a world to come. The return of ‘water wars’ rhetoric, long after its 1990s heyday, has been paralleled by an increasing interest among novelists in water as a cause of conflict. This literature has been under-explored in existing work in the Blue Humanities, while scholarship on cli-fi has focused on sce…
To irrigate is to govern: Recent studies in hydropolitics
In April 2016, and in the face of notable police violence, Standing Rock Sioux “water protectors” and members of other Native American nations set up camps in the state of North Dakota to protest a
A river without water”: Hydropolitics and the River Jordan in Palestinian literature
In this article I examine the representation of the River Jordan and ecological crisis in recent works by two of Palestine’s best-known writers: the poem “A River Dies of Thirst” by Mahmoud Darwish, and Mourid Barghouti’s memoir I Saw Ramallah. Ecocritics have paid scant attention to these writers’ works, or to Palestinian literature in general; but the environment is a major domain of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, and ownership of …
Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity
This article identifies an 'environmental turn' in contemporary Palestinian arts and activism. It argues that environmentalism, mediated especially through food, is an increasingly important frame through which Palestinians and their supporters narrate the idea of Palestine and the Palestinian struggle to metropolitan audiences, and through which identification and solidarity are solicited and received. It outlines this turn through an examinatio…
Borrowed waters: Water crisis and water justice in Rita Wong's undercurrent
In recent years ecocriticism and the environmental humanities have undergone a ‘hydrological turn’, sometimes referred to as the emergence of the ‘blue humanities’. This ‘turn’ has, however, typically focused on the maritime and oceanic rather than the fresh water essential for the reproduction of much life on earth. In this article I analyse contemporary Canadian poet Rita Wong’s 2015 collection undercurrent for thematic and formal insights into…
A river without water”: Hydropolitics and the River Jordan in Palestinian literature
In this article I examine the representation of the River Jordan and ecological crisis in recent works by two of Palestine’s best-known writers: the poem “A River Dies of Thirst” by Mahmoud Darwish, and Mourid Barghouti’s memoir I Saw Ramallah. Ecocritics have paid scant attention to these writers’ works, or to Palestinian literature in general; but the environment is a major domain of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, and ownership of …
A river without water”: Hydropolitics and the River Jordan in Palestinian literature
In this article I examine the representation of the River Jordan and ecological crisis in recent works by two of Palestine’s best-known writers: the poem “A River Dies of Thirst” by Mahmoud Darwish, and Mourid Barghouti’s memoir I Saw Ramallah. Ecocritics have paid scant attention to these writers’ works, or to Palestinian literature in general; but the environment is a major domain of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, and ownership of …
To irrigate is to govern: Recent studies in hydropolitics
In April 2016, and in the face of notable police violence, Standing Rock Sioux “water protectors” and members of other Native American nations set up camps in the state of North Dakota to protest a
The Water Wars Novel
‘Water wars’ are back. Conflicts in Syrian, Yemen and Israel/Palestine are regularly framed as motivated by water and presented as harbingers of a world to come. The return of ‘water wars’ rhetoric, long after its 1990s heyday, has been paralleled by an increasing interest among novelists in water as a cause of conflict. This literature has been under-explored in existing work in the Blue Humanities, while scholarship on cli-fi has focused on sce…
Borrowed waters: Water crisis and water justice in Rita Wong's undercurrent
In recent years ecocriticism and the environmental humanities have undergone a ‘hydrological turn’, sometimes referred to as the emergence of the ‘blue humanities’. This ‘turn’ has, however, typically focused on the maritime and oceanic rather than the fresh water essential for the reproduction of much life on earth. In this article I analyse contemporary Canadian poet Rita Wong’s 2015 collection undercurrent for thematic and formal insights into…
Theorizing the Gay Frog
The gay frog has taken on a surprisingly prominent role in contemporary environmental culture. Primarily associated with American shock jock Alex Jones and the so-called alt-right, fears of frogs being turned gay by hormones in water have nevertheless entered the mainstream, while gay frog memes are shared online by users from across the political spectrum. This article offers a genealogy of the gay frog, situating this recent moment in the longe…
Animal Nullius: Review of Irus Braverman, Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel (UMN, 2023)
Review of:Irus Braverman. Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.362 pp. 47 b&w photos.$116.00 (hb) ISBN 978-1-5179-1205-5$29.00 (pb) ISBN 978-1-5179-1526-1
Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity
This article identifies an 'environmental turn' in contemporary Palestinian arts and activism. It argues that environmentalism, mediated especially through food, is an increasingly important frame through which Palestinians and their supporters narrate the idea of Palestine and the Palestinian struggle to metropolitan audiences, and through which identification and solidarity are solicited and received. It outlines this turn through an examinatio…
Ghost nets and rusting machines”: Rivers in the contemporary Canadian long poem
Water has long been fundamental to settler efforts to expand resource frontiers in Canada. European fur traders used the region’s waterways to access animal populations in its interior, forming the basis of an ambivalent national reputation as “hewers of wood, drawers of water” (Innis 1930). More recently, the Trans-Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project and BC Hydro’s Site C Dam have threatened water and Indigenous sovereignty in the pursuit of ene…
Political science (5 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · History (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)