Description: Ecological Exile Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Spatial Injustice and Environmental Humanities Author(s): Derek Gladwin Format: Paperback Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Routledge ISBN-13: 9780367271114, 978-0367271114 Synopsis Ecological Exile explores how contemporary literature, film, and media culture confront ecological crises through perspectives of spatial justice - a facet of social justice that looks at unjust circumstances as a phenomenon of space. Growing instances of flooding, population displacement, and pollution suggest an urgent need to re-examine the ways social and geographical spaces are perceived and valued in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Maintaining that ecological crises are largely socially produced, Derek Gladwin considers how British and Irish literary and visual texts by Ian McEwan, Sarah Gavron, Eavan Boland, John McGrath, and China Mieville, among others, respond to and confront various spatial injustices resulting from fossil fuel production and the effects of climate change. This ambitious book offers a new spatial perspective in the environmental humanities by focusing on what the philosopher Glenn Albrecht has termed 'solastalgia' - a feeling of homesickness caused by environmental damage. The result of solastalgia is that people feel paradoxically ecologically exiled in the places they continue to live because of destructive environmental changes. Gladwin skilfully traces spatially produced instances of ecological injustice that literally and imaginatively abolish people's sense of place (or place-home). By looking at two of the most pressing social and environmental concerns - oil and climate - Ecological Exile shows how literary and visual texts have documented spatially unjust effects of solastalgia. This interdisciplinary book will appeal to students, scholars, and professionals studying literary, film, and media texts that draw on environment and sustainability, cultural geography, energy cultures, climate change, and social justice.
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Book Title: Ecological Exile
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Width: 156 mm
Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities
Author: Derek Gladwin
Publication Name: Ecological Exile: Spatial Injustice and Environmental Humanities
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Subject: Engineering & Technology, Geography & Geosciences
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 454 g
Number of Pages: 214 Pages
