Sense of Place and Sense of Planet

The Environmental Imagination of the Global

Bibliographic Data

ID8069600
AuthorsUrsula K Heise (Stanford University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Pages250
Publication date2008-08-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed bySense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global, Sarah Jaquette Ray, 2009
VenueSense of place and sense of planet (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335637.001.0001
OpenAlexW2476934344
Open LibraryOL22549623M
ISBN9780195335637
LanguageEN
Citations received340
References cited100

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 cosmopolitanism, on the other. It proposes the concept of “eco-cosmopolitanism” as a shorthand for envisioning these connections and the cultural and aesthetic forms into which they translate. Part II focuses on conceptualizations of environmental danger and connects environmentalist and ecocritical thought with the interdisciplinary field of risk theory in the social sciences, arguing that environmental justice theory and ecocriticism stand to benefit from closer consideration of the theories of cosmopolitanism that have arisen in this field from the analysis of transnational communities at risk. Both parts of the book combine in-depth theoretical discussion with detailed analyses of novels, poems, films, computer software, and installation artworks from the United States and abroad that translate new connections between global, national, and local forms of awareness into innovative aesthetic forms combining allegory, epic, and views of the planet as a whole with modernist and postmodernist strategies of fragmentation, montage, collage, and zooming

Aesthetics · Art · Cosmopolitanism · Ecocriticism · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Exhibition · Globalization · Political science · Politics · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · American Environmental and Regional History · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · History · united states · Law · Philosophy

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