Anne Milne on "British Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poets"
Ecocritic Anne Milne, Carson Fellow from January 2010 to July 2011, talks about her research project concerning British eighteenth-century laboring-class poets.
Ecocritic Anne Milne, Carson Fellow from January 2010 to July 2011, talks about her research project concerning British eighteenth-century laboring-class poets.
Daniel Philippon, Carson Fellow September 2011 to February 2012, talks about his research on the sustainable food movement.
The first in a projected series of video installations that seeks to explore the environmental humanities as a scholarly domain of growing significance.
By looking at works by Native Americans, African Americans, European Americans, and others, and by considering forms of literature beyond the traditional nature essay, Myers expands our conceptions of environmental writing and environmental justice.
Bryan Norton discusses limitations to James Nelson’s concept of ecosystem health as having both descriptive and normative content.
Many philosophers consider favoritism toward humans in the context of moral choice to be a prejudice. While several terms are used for it, this article suggests that only the term “speciesism” be used. It attempts conceptual clarification with regard to other terms like “humanistic ethics” or “non-speciesist humanism.”
In his paper, Patrick Curry argues in favor of a “relational pluralism,” which provides the basis of a better alternative—ecopluralism—which, properly understood, is necessarily both ecocentric and pluralist.
This paper focuses on the 1987 to 1988 dumping of hazardous industrial waste in Koko, Nigeria. The paper critically analyzes the number, content, and contexts of cartoons that covered the toxic-waste dumping.
This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory.
This volume of RCC Perspectives considers what it means to work across disciplines in environmental studies and how such projects can best be realized.