Ursula K Heise
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 179168 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ursula K Heise |
| PRENOMES | Ursula K |
| SOBRENOME | Heise |
| ASSINATURA | HEISE U K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 276 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Environment and Narrative in Vietnam
Novela negra, ciencia ficción y futuros climáticos
Este ensayo explora los retos narrativos de la ficción climática con respecto a escalas temporales, espaciales y sociales. Tras una breve discusión teórica, el ensayo se centra en el género de la "novela negra" en combinación con la ciencia ficción como estrategia narrativa específica para la ficción climática. Se analizan dos novelas españolas sobre el cambio climático, El secreto del agua de Arturo Arnau Tarín (2007) y 2065 de José Miguel Galla…
Conservation Humanities and Multispecies Justice
This article argues that biodiversity conservation is primarily a social and cultural issue and only secondarily a scientific one. It explains the proxy logic of narratives about endangered species, which typically serve as proxies for community identities and the changes communities have undergone through processes of modernization and colonization. Polar bears, whose endangerment is interpreted differently by North American and European audienc…
Grand Theft Eco
Grand Theft Eco Ursula K. Heise (bio) and Daniel Scott Snelson (bio) When you try to imagine the environmentally friendly city of the future, Grand Theft Auto doesn’t leap to mind. To be successful in the cities where this video game series has been set over the last two decades, players need to win car races, rob banks, deal or steal drugs, and survive shoot-outs with cops, security guards, and rivals. Violence and vulgarity are routine, often t…
Multispecies Justice in the Wetlands
This essay discusses the rise of "justice" as a central concept around which environmental thought and debates have been organized over the last thirty years, and briefly places the notions of environmental justice and multispecies justice into the more general context of theories of justice since John Rawls. It uses the case of the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve in Los Angeles, whose future is hotly contested between different environmental…
Science Fiction and the Time Scales of the Anthropocene
Science Fiction and the Time Scales of the Anthropocene Ursula K. Heise i. scale and the study of narrative Questions of scale have been widely discussed in studies of literature in general and narrative in particular over the last two decades. These discussions have revolved around three complexes of issues: the broadening of canons, the use of digital tools, and the ability of existing narrative forms to engage with large scales of space and ti…
Stories for a multispecies future
Comparative literature and the environmental humanities
Ecocriticism exemplifies the diffusion of comparatist assumptions and perspectives into other fields of literary study that Haun Saussy portrayed as characteristic of comparative literature in 2004. Ecocriticism and the environmental humanities form part of an array of new interdisciplinary areas that have emerged across the humanities and qualitative social sciences over the last two decades. For comparative ecocritics, the emergence of the envi…
Futures of Comparative Literature
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting-edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics a…
Imagining Extinction
Realism, Modernism, and the Future
Realism, Modernism, and the Future:An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson Ursula K. Heise (bio) and Kim Stanley Robinson (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Most current attempts to envision the commons of the future in fiction and film are relentlessly dystopian. From cormac mccarthy's The Road (2006) to paolo bacigalupi's The Windup Girl (2009) and from roland emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow (2004) to neill blomkamp's District 9 …
The Environmental Humanities and the Futures of the Human
The environmental humanities have emerged over the last decade as a new interdisciplinary matrix that connects environmentally oriented research in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. This new area of research defines ecological issues as social and cultural rather than scientific and technological. In the process, controversies have emerged around the concept of the Anthropocene, whose emphasis on the planetary agency of the human sp…
Developing a Sense of Planet
Plasmatic Nature
Animated film is one of the principal aesthetic forms through which modern societies engage with the agency of nonhumans and objects. Beyond their particular themes or characters, animated films rely as a matter of principle on setting objects in motion; this principle has close affinities with environmentalist perspectives that attribute value, animatedness, and agency to the natural world. Such affinities emerge even in nonenvironmentalist anim…
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons
Haruo Shirane's breathtaking survey of more than 1,000 years of nature representations in Japan immediately calls to mind Raymond Williams's The Country and the City (1973), his seminal analysis of 500 years of pastoral in British literature. Both Williams and Shirane focus on literary portrayals of nature that helped to shape national identity, and whose stylizations of landscapes and seasons overwrote alternative perspectives on the human uses …
Developing a Sense of Planet
From the 1960s to the mid-1990s, explorations of contemporary society and culture in the humanities and social sciences were centrally organised around the category of ‘postmodernism’. While this term was often attacked for its inherent vagueness or the multiplicity of its meanings, it helped to focus discussions about the legacies of modernity as a social, political and economic set of structures, and about the legacies of Modernism, understood …
The Invention of Eco-Futures
Introduction to guest-edited section
Journeys through the Offset World
In his classic Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson explores the challenge that globalization poses for individuals’ sense of situatedness through contemporary architecture. In a chapter entitled “Spatial Equivalents in the World System,” he focuses on the Frank Gehry House in Santa Monica, a building that consists of a new architectural envelope superimposed on an older structure so as to create spaces not ad…
Literature and Environment
Since prehistory, literature and the arts have been drawn to portrayals of physical environments and human-environment interactions. The modern environmentalist movement as it emerged first in the late-nineteenth century and, in its more recent incarnation, in the 1960s, gave rise to a rich array of fictional and nonfictional writings concerned with humans' changing relationship to the natural world. Only since the early 1990s, however, has the l…
The World in Which We Occur
Lost Dogs, Last Birds, and Listed Species
Humankind is currently confronted with what some biologists call the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, and the first one triggered by humans. This essay places the narrative that usually accompanies scientific accounts of biodiversity loss in relation to the long tradition of environmentalist stories about the decline of nature. It demonstrates how elegiac and tragic story templates turn accounts of the decline of …
Adventures in the Global Amazon
This chapter, building on Ch. 1, explores how a sense of globally connected places develops from innovative aesthetic techniques in two works that focus on the Amazon rainforest as an icon of environmentalist concern. German installation artist Lothar Baumgarten’s experimental nature documentary The Origin of the Night: Amazon Cosmos presents images and sounds that ostensibly portray the Brazilian jungle, but are revealed as images of the river R…
Conclusion
This brief chapter concludes the book by looking at the to-date relatively sparse output of novels and films on the issue of climate change. It investigates the narrative and cinematographic difficulties of representing global risk and the transnational communities it generates in cultural forms that evolved historically to represent individuals, families, and in some cases nations, but rarely the planet as a whole. In the analysis of works that …
Toxic Bodies, Corporate Poisons
This chapter, building on Ch. 4, analyzes the representation of local risk scenarios in two American novels that focus on exposure to chemical toxins, Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Richard Powers’s Gain. DeLillo’s novel, which reflects on a wide range of chemical risks from industrial toxins all the way to psychopharmaceuticals, uses postmodern satire to shed light on the difficulties of telling reality apart from cultural perception in the conte…
Among the Everywheres
Building on Ch. 1, this chapter analyzes scientific texts, novels, films and poems between the 1960s and the 1990s that explore the relationship between local, national, and global forms of identity and community through portrayals of population growth and urban spaces. Works from the 1960s and 1970s represent “overpopulation” in the form of urban crowding that forces individuals to remain confined to the local. Works from the 1990s, by contrast,…
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
This book analyzes the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing from the 1960s to the present. Part I critically examines the emphasis on local identities and communities in North American environmentalism by establishing conceptual connections between environmentalism and ecocriticism, on one hand, and theories of globalization, transnationalism, and cosmop…
Literature and Environment
Since prehistory, literature and the arts have been drawn to portrayals of physical environments and human-environment interactions. The modern environmentalist movement as it emerged first in the late-nineteenth century and, in its more recent incarnation, in the 1960s, gave rise to a rich array of fictional and nonfictional writings concerned with humans' changing relationship to the natural world. Only since the early 1990s, however, has the l…
Lost Dogs, Last Birds, and Listed Species
Humankind is currently confronted with what some biologists call the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, and the first one triggered by humans. This essay places the narrative that usually accompanies scientific accounts of biodiversity loss in relation to the long tradition of environmentalist stories about the decline of nature. It demonstrates how elegiac and tragic story templates turn accounts of the decline of …
The Environmental Humanities and the Futures of the Human
The environmental humanities have emerged over the last decade as a new interdisciplinary matrix that connects environmentally oriented research in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. This new area of research defines ecological issues as social and cultural rather than scientific and technological. In the process, controversies have emerged around the concept of the Anthropocene, whose emphasis on the planetary agency of the human sp…
Local Rock and Global Plastic
For several decades, the best-known slogan of the environmentalist movement has been "Think globally, act locally." This double imperative derives from environmentalists' attempts to propagate images of global ecology that might help to make the functioning of the planet as a whole accessible to average citizens, as well as to connect such an understanding with the experience of local places. 1 From the enormous ease and frequency with which this…
Science Fiction and the Time Scales of the Anthropocene
Science Fiction and the Time Scales of the Anthropocene Ursula K. Heise i. scale and the study of narrative Questions of scale have been widely discussed in studies of literature in general and narrative in particular over the last two decades. These discussions have revolved around three complexes of issues: the broadening of canons, the use of digital tools, and the ability of existing narrative forms to engage with large scales of space and ti…
Unnatural Ecologies
The concept of "media ecology" relies on a metaphorical transfer that media theorists took over from urban sociology, where "human ecology" had in its turn developed out of a translation of categories from biological ecology. I would like to begin by exploring some of the implications of this double transfer obliquely, by way of a literary rather than a theoretical text: Gary Snyder's poem "Walking the New York Bedrock" (1987). In this poem, Snyd…
The Invention of Eco-Futures
Introduction to guest-edited section
Futures of Comparative Literature
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting-edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics a…
Toxins, Drugs, and Global Systems
Research Article| December 01 2002 Toxins, Drugs, and Global Systems: Risk and Narrative in the Contemporary Novel Ursula K. Heise Ursula K. Heise Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 747–778. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-747 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ursula K. Heise; Toxins, Drugs, and Global Systems: Risk and…
Transvestism and the Stage Controversy in Spain and England, 1580-1680
Recent historicist criticism has brought to the forefront of discussion an aspect of English Renaissance theatre that had previously most often been taken for granted: namely, that in opposition to continental Europe, the English public stage remains all male until the closing of the theatres in 1642. Critics such as Stephen Orgel have pointed out that although women form an important part of the audience, and actresses do appear on stage when fo…
Plasmatic Nature
Animated film is one of the principal aesthetic forms through which modern societies engage with the agency of nonhumans and objects. Beyond their particular themes or characters, animated films rely as a matter of principle on setting objects in motion; this principle has close affinities with environmentalist perspectives that attribute value, animatedness, and agency to the natural world. Such affinities emerge even in nonenvironmentalist anim…
Journeys through the Offset World
In his classic Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson explores the challenge that globalization poses for individuals’ sense of situatedness through contemporary architecture. In a chapter entitled “Spatial Equivalents in the World System,” he focuses on the Frank Gehry House in Santa Monica, a building that consists of a new architectural envelope superimposed on an older structure so as to create spaces not ad…
Realism, Modernism, and the Future
Realism, Modernism, and the Future:An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson Ursula K. Heise (bio) and Kim Stanley Robinson (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Most current attempts to envision the commons of the future in fiction and film are relentlessly dystopian. From cormac mccarthy's The Road (2006) to paolo bacigalupi's The Windup Girl (2009) and from roland emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow (2004) to neill blomkamp's District 9 …
Becoming Postmodern
Postmodern Culture - Volume 2, Number 3, May 1992
Transvestism and the Stage Controversy in Spain and England, 1580-1680
Recent historicist criticism has brought to the forefront of discussion an aspect of English Renaissance theatre that had previously most often been taken for granted: namely, that in opposition to continental Europe, the English public stage remains all male until the closing of the theatres in 1642. Critics such as Stephen Orgel have pointed out that although women form an important part of the audience, and actresses do appear on stage when fo…
Unnatural Ecologies
The concept of "media ecology" relies on a metaphorical transfer that media theorists took over from urban sociology, where "human ecology" had in its turn developed out of a translation of categories from biological ecology. I would like to begin by exploring some of the implications of this double transfer obliquely, by way of a literary rather than a theoretical text: Gary Snyder's poem "Walking the New York Bedrock" (1987). In this poem, Snyd…
Toxins, Drugs, and Global Systems
Research Article| December 01 2002 Toxins, Drugs, and Global Systems: Risk and Narrative in the Contemporary Novel Ursula K. Heise Ursula K. Heise Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 747–778. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-747 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ursula K. Heise; Toxins, Drugs, and Global Systems: Risk and…
Local Rock and Global Plastic
For several decades, the best-known slogan of the environmentalist movement has been "Think globally, act locally." This double imperative derives from environmentalists' attempts to propagate images of global ecology that might help to make the functioning of the planet as a whole accessible to average citizens, as well as to connect such an understanding with the experience of local places. 1 From the enormous ease and frequency with which this…
Afterglow
This essay examines the literary representation of risk scenarios in two German novels written in the immediate aftermath of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986. Christa Wolf’s Störfall: Nachrichten eines Tages (1987) and Gabriele Wohmann’s Der Flötenton (1987) both portray the tenuous relationship between a moment of environmental crisis and the routines of ordinary people’s everyday lives. This relationship can be described by drawing on …
Adventures in the Global Amazon
This chapter, building on Ch. 1, explores how a sense of globally connected places develops from innovative aesthetic techniques in two works that focus on the Amazon rainforest as an icon of environmentalist concern. German installation artist Lothar Baumgarten’s experimental nature documentary The Origin of the Night: Amazon Cosmos presents images and sounds that ostensibly portray the Brazilian jungle, but are revealed as images of the river R…
Conclusion
This brief chapter concludes the book by looking at the to-date relatively sparse output of novels and films on the issue of climate change. It investigates the narrative and cinematographic difficulties of representing global risk and the transnational communities it generates in cultural forms that evolved historically to represent individuals, families, and in some cases nations, but rarely the planet as a whole. In the analysis of works that …
Toxic Bodies, Corporate Poisons
This chapter, building on Ch. 4, analyzes the representation of local risk scenarios in two American novels that focus on exposure to chemical toxins, Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Richard Powers’s Gain. DeLillo’s novel, which reflects on a wide range of chemical risks from industrial toxins all the way to psychopharmaceuticals, uses postmodern satire to shed light on the difficulties of telling reality apart from cultural perception in the conte…
Among the Everywheres
Building on Ch. 1, this chapter analyzes scientific texts, novels, films and poems between the 1960s and the 1990s that explore the relationship between local, national, and global forms of identity and community through portrayals of population growth and urban spaces. Works from the 1960s and 1970s represent “overpopulation” in the form of urban crowding that forces individuals to remain confined to the local. Works from the 1990s, by contrast,…
Narrative in the World Risk Society
This chapter establishes connections between ecocriticism and risk theory. It gives a survey of theories of risk perception and the knowledge theoretical questions they have raised from the 1970s to the present, as well as of theories about the connection between modernization, globalization and risk. These theories, the chapter argues, are crucial for environmentalist and ecocritical approaches that seek to transform public awareness of ecologic…
From the Blue Planet to Google Earth
This chapter traces environmentalist visions of the planet from the 1960s to the present. In the 1960s and 1970s, environmentalist thought combined utopian visions of global ecological connectedness with fears of world-wide corporate domination; as the extremes of both visions vanished, they were gradually replaced by the perceptions of ongoing risk and uncertainty summarized in Beck's concept of the “risk society.” These ambivalent views of the …
Afterglow
This chapter, building on Chs. 4 and 5, focuses on two German novels about the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Christa Wolf’s Accident: A Day’s News and Gabriele Wohmann’s Sound of the Flute. Both texts portray this transnational risk scenario in its impact on the local, ordinary lives of protagonists in East Germany and West Germany, respectively. Wolf emphasizes the way in which transnational technological risk of the kind instantiated by Cherno…
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
This book analyzes the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing from the 1960s to the present. Part I critically examines the emphasis on local identities and communities in North American environmentalism by establishing conceptual connections between environmentalism and ecocriticism, on one hand, and theories of globalization, transnationalism, and cosmop…
The World in Which We Occur
Lost Dogs, Last Birds, and Listed Species
Humankind is currently confronted with what some biologists call the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, and the first one triggered by humans. This essay places the narrative that usually accompanies scientific accounts of biodiversity loss in relation to the long tradition of environmentalist stories about the decline of nature. It demonstrates how elegiac and tragic story templates turn accounts of the decline of …
Literature and Environment
Since prehistory, literature and the arts have been drawn to portrayals of physical environments and human-environment interactions. The modern environmentalist movement as it emerged first in the late-nineteenth century and, in its more recent incarnation, in the 1960s, gave rise to a rich array of fictional and nonfictional writings concerned with humans' changing relationship to the natural world. Only since the early 1990s, however, has the l…
Developing a Sense of Planet
From the 1960s to the mid-1990s, explorations of contemporary society and culture in the humanities and social sciences were centrally organised around the category of ‘postmodernism’. While this term was often attacked for its inherent vagueness or the multiplicity of its meanings, it helped to focus discussions about the legacies of modernity as a social, political and economic set of structures, and about the legacies of Modernism, understood …
The Invention of Eco-Futures
Introduction to guest-edited section
Journeys through the Offset World
In his classic Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson explores the challenge that globalization poses for individuals’ sense of situatedness through contemporary architecture. In a chapter entitled “Spatial Equivalents in the World System,” he focuses on the Frank Gehry House in Santa Monica, a building that consists of a new architectural envelope superimposed on an older structure so as to create spaces not ad…
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons
Haruo Shirane's breathtaking survey of more than 1,000 years of nature representations in Japan immediately calls to mind Raymond Williams's The Country and the City (1973), his seminal analysis of 500 years of pastoral in British literature. Both Williams and Shirane focus on literary portrayals of nature that helped to shape national identity, and whose stylizations of landscapes and seasons overwrote alternative perspectives on the human uses …
Developing a Sense of Planet
Plasmatic Nature
Animated film is one of the principal aesthetic forms through which modern societies engage with the agency of nonhumans and objects. Beyond their particular themes or characters, animated films rely as a matter of principle on setting objects in motion; this principle has close affinities with environmentalist perspectives that attribute value, animatedness, and agency to the natural world. Such affinities emerge even in nonenvironmentalist anim…
Imagining Extinction
Realism, Modernism, and the Future
Realism, Modernism, and the Future:An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson Ursula K. Heise (bio) and Kim Stanley Robinson (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Most current attempts to envision the commons of the future in fiction and film are relentlessly dystopian. From cormac mccarthy's The Road (2006) to paolo bacigalupi's The Windup Girl (2009) and from roland emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow (2004) to neill blomkamp's District 9 …
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