Greg Garrard

Biographic Data

ID830064
NAMEGreg Garrard
GIVEN NAMESGreg
FAMILY NAMEGarrard
SIGNATUREGARRARD G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of British Columbia
ORCID0000-0003-3027-2720
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS138
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT13
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX8

  • The Species at Risk Act (2002) and Transboundary Species Listings along the US–Canada Border

    Open AccessSarah Raymond, Sarah E Perkins et al.ARTICLEHumanities2024

    This paper is a collaborative interdisciplinary examination of the scientific, political, and cultural determinants of the conservation status of mammal species that occur in both Canada and the USA. We read Canada’s Species at Risk Act as a document of bio-cultural nationalism circumscribed by the weak federalism and Crown–Indigenous relations of the nation’s constitution. We also provide a numerical comparison of at-risk species listings either…

  • Ecocriticism

    Greg GarrardBOOKEcocriticism2023

    Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler. Greg Garrard’s animated and accessible volume responds to the diversity of the field today and …

  • Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures

    Open AccessGreg Garrard, Marco Caracciolo et al.BOOKContemporary Fiction and Climate…2022Cited by: 11

    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Ghent. This book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming to terms with the loss of the feeling of living a grounded existence where the future remains relatively stable and predictable. Faced with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the future-a w…

  • Imagining the Plains of Latin America: An Ecocritical Study

    Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz, Greg Garrard et al.BOOKImagining the Plains of Latin…2021

    From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the continent. Bringing these landscapes into focus as a major subject of Latin American culture, this book outlines innovative new ecocritcial readings of canonical literary texts from the 19th century to the present. Tracing these natural landscapes acros…

  • Brexit ecocriticism

    Greg GarrardARTICLEGreen Letters2020References: 2

    A range of possible ecocritical responses to the June 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendum decision are reviewed. English nationalism is identified as a key factor in Leavers’ cultural identity, which motivates close attention to contemporary defences of the English countryside and depictions of English ethnic identity and pastoral loss. The potential for empathetic and depolarising treatment of conservative cultures of nature is assessed

  • Climate Change Scepticism: A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis

    Open AccessGreg Garrard, Axel Goodbody et al.BOOKClimate Change Scepticism2019

    Climate Change Scepticism is the first ecocritical study to examine the cultures and rhetoric of climate scepticism in the UK, Germany, the USA and France. Collaboratively written by leading scholars from Europe and North America, the book considers climate skeptical-texts as literature, teasing out differences and challenging stereotypes as a way of overcoming partisan political paralysis on the most important cultural debate of our time

  • Never too soon, always too late: Reflections on climate temporality

    Open AccessGreg GarrardARTICLEWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…2019Cited by: 5References: 3

    The “scientisation” of climate change, which placed the issue beyond democratic debate by declaring it a matter for the scientific expertise of the IPCC, has not provoked the required political and economic action to resolve it. “Tipping point” rhetoric and apocalyptic fictions, conveying increased urgency and shaming the present‐day, appear also to yield diminishing returns. Instead of representing the present as a binary choice—catastrophe or s…

  • Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour

    Greg GarrardCHAPTERHandbook of Ecocriticism and…2016

  • Memories of Snow: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Re-Reading

    Open AccessGreg GarrardCHAPTERMemory in the Twenty-First Century2016

    The 1952 audio recording of Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales is, for all my family, an object of nostalgia. The nostalgia of the lyrical memoir itself is obvious enough: it harks back to a childhood of guttering gas lamps, paper bags bulging with humbugs, and moustachioed men puffing on pipes as they take their ‘constitutional’ along the ‘Swansea prom’. Thomas’s prose self-consciously amplifies the immemorial quality of the story: Year…

  • Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts

    Open AccessGreg Garrard, Hubert Zapf et al.BOOKLiterature as Cultural Ecology2016Cited by: 14

    Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity’s relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the import…

  • Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation

    Open AccessGreg Garrard, Serenella Iovino et al.BOOKEcocriticism and Italy2015Cited by: 16

    Written by one of Europe’s leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death in Venice as a literary trope and petrochemical curse, through the volcanoes of Naples to wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont, Serenella Iovino explores Italy as a text where ecology and imagination meet. Examining texts where justice, society and politics interlace with stories of land and…

  • Reading and Writing Climate Change

    Hayden Gabriel, Greg GarrardCHAPTERTeaching Ecocriticism and Green…2014

  • Barrier Beach

    Rob Nixon, Greg GarrardBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism2014

    This article combines personal reflections on the segregation of space in apartheid-era South Africa with a discussion of the place, imagined and real, of African-Americans in the national parks of the United Space.

  • Extinctions

    Lisa Paravisini-Gebert, Greg GarrardBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism2014

    This article examines the extinction of some animals in colonial and postcolonial Caribbean region, including the Caribbean monk seal and the Creole pig, which became victims of human predatory behavior, unchecked coastal development, and the ecological changes unleashed by colonialism and postcolonial tourism development in the Caribbean basin. This article also discusses the ecological revolution measured in terms of biodiversity losses that ha…

  • Media Moralia

    Andrew McMurry, Greg GarrardBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism2014

    This article gives ecocritical consideration to digital media. It discusses Elizabeth Kolbert’s work which highlights how a technological society is destroying itself. It suggests that while humans have the power to modify their surroundings to suit their needs, they do not have the wisdom to suit their needs to their surroundings. The chapter considers the possibility that digital media have less environmental impact than their analogue predeces…

  • Talking About Climate Change

    Ursula Kluwick, Greg GarrardBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism2014

    This article examines the issue of climate change in the context of ecocriticism. It analyzes some of the narrative forms employed in the mediation of climate change science, focusing on those used by mediators who are not themselves scientists in the transmission of scientific information to a nonspecialist readership or audience. It reviews four relevant works that combine the communication of scientific theories and facts with pedagogical and …

  • Pataphysics and Postmodern Ecocriticism

    Adam Dickinson, Greg GarrardBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism2014Cited by: 1

    This article examines the potential role of pataphysics, the “science of imaginary solutions”, in postmodern ecocriticism. It explains that pataphysics exemplifies an ecocritical approach that owes more to poetics than it does to traditional analytical methodologies and describes a number of recent examples of pataphysical research projects with distinct ecocritical dimensions. It argues that pataphysics has much to offer to postmodern ecocritici…

  • Deconstruction and/as Ecology

    Timothy Morton, Greg GarrardBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism2014Cited by: 1

    This article examines the relevance of the concept of deconstruction to ecocriticism. It discusses Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction and contends that deconstruction is not nominalism because it tells us something profound about our actual universe. It argues that deconstruction is the ‘secret best friend’ of ecocriticism, despite how some versions of ecocriticism want to rough up deconstruction, and explains that, like evolution, deconstruction r…

  • Romanticism and Ecocriticism

    Kate Rigby, Greg GarrardBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism2014Cited by: 1

    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…

  • Ecocriticism and Modernism

    Anne Raine, Greg GarrardBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism2014Cited by: 2

    This article examines the historical relation between modernist studies and ecocriticism. It contends that modernist literature offers rich resources for ecocriticism because it responds to the changing environment of industrial modernity in ways that sometimes affirm but more often productively question conventional romantic and realist ideas about nature. It also argues that reading modernism ecocritically requires careful attention to how mode…

  • Queer Life? Ecocriticism After the Fire

    Catriona Sandilands, Greg GarrardBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism2014Cited by: 2

    This article examines the relevance of queer theory and “queer ecological” trajectories to ecocriticism. It analyzes Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner’s formative thoughts in “Sex in Public” and proposes some “radical aspirations” of queer nature building. It outlines a “queer life” for ecocriticism and provides a reading of Jane Rule’s novel After the Fire , which engages directly with both the ontological and the political dimensions of queer e…

  • Images Adequate to Our Predicament: Ecology, Environment and Ecopoetics

    Open AccessSusanna Lidström, Greg GarrardARTICLEEnvironmental Humanities2014Cited by: 2References: 23

    This paper discusses the idea of 'ecopoetry' by outlining its development from drawing on Romantic and deep ecological traditions in the 1980s to reflecting complex environmental concerns in the 2010s. We identify a distinction between definitions that focus on poetry's ability to heighten individual readers' awareness of their physical surroundings on the one hand, and definitions that look for how poems can engage with difficult and complex env…

  • Introduction: Imagining Anew: Challenges of Representing the Anthropocene

    Open AccessGreg Garrard, Gary Handwerk et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Humanities2014Cited by: 10References: 1

  • A New Agenda for Ecocriticism

    Greg GarrardARTICLEResilience A Journal of the…2014

  • Ecocritical Approaches to Literary Form and Genre

    Richard Kerridge, Greg GarrardBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism2013

    This article examines the relationship among the issues of urgency, depth, provisionality, and temporality in ecocritical approaches to evaluating literary form and genre. It analyzes the criteria by which ecocritical judgments about texts are reached and suggests that ecocritics should evaluate texts from the viewpoint of environmental concern and be able to introduce environmental criteria into general cultural debate. It highlights the fact th…