The ecology of liberation
Animals, nature, geography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Celinscak (University of Nebraska at Omaha, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-55 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2024.2320528 |
| OpenAlex | W4393161706 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This work offers an ecocritical reading of the Holocaust from the perspective of liberator accounts concerning the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. It focuses on how Allied military personnel expressed their descriptions in two distinct ways. First, liberators offer a unique spatial orientation in their narratives, communicating values that are presented through geography and ecology. Second, the survivors were repeatedly viewed by liberators through the lens of animal metaphors, a type of zoomorphic language. This paper argues that the horrific suffering experienced by the survivors in Bergen-Belsen created a linguistic frontier or divide between themselves and Allied military personnel
Biology · Environmental ethics · Geography · Liberation · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Ecology
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Landscapes of the Mind
The Body Social
Belsenitis”
The Survivors
Belsen in History and Memory
The body social
The origins of totalitarianism
The Holocaust as an Environmental Problem
The Green Matzevah
The Environmental History of the Holocaust
Expanding (Environmental) Histories of the Holocaust
What is the Environmental History of the Holocaust
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |