Wendy Wheeler and Hugh Dunkerley (guest editors)
Given the pressing and global ecological concerns of the present time, it
would be surprising if righting the earth had not brought into being new
forms of critical writing. Yet in attempting to address these issues, ecocriticism
has remained relatively marginal in cultural studies. This special issue
of new formations on Earthographies: ecocriticism and culture looks at some
of the possible reasons for its marginalisation, while also bringing together
a selection of essays which demonstrate the range of contemporary ecocritical
thought in challenging a variety of political and theoretical neo-liberal
doctrines. Ecocritical work does not simply focus upon nature (as though
nature and culture, environment and individual could seriously be thought
about separately), but is immersed in both the human and the more-than-human
world.
Contributors:
Ron Broglio, Paul Cobley, Jonathan Coope, Patrick Curry, Hugh Dunkerley,
Terry Gifford, William Gray Michelle Henning, Adrian Ivakhiv, Noel Keough,
John Parham, Dana Phillips, Wendy Wheeler, Cary Wolfe
Contents:
Notes on Contributors
Wendy Wheeler and Hugh Dunkerley Introduction
Terry Gifford Recent Critiques of Ecocriticism
John Parham The Poverty of Ecocritical Theory: E.P. Thompson and
the British Perspective
Dana Phillips Ecocriticism, Ecopoetics, and a Creed Outworn
Patrick Curry Nature Post-Nature
Noel Keough Sustaining Authentic Human Experience in Community
Jonathan Coope The Ecological Blind Spot in Postmodernism
William Gray On the Road: Robert Louis Stevenson's Views on Nature
Adrian Ivakhiv Stirring the Geopolitical Unconscious: Towards a Jamesonian
Ecocriticism
Cary Wolfe Learning from Temple Grandin, or, Animal Studies, Disability
Studies, and Who Comes After the Subject
Ron Broglio Heidegger's Shepherd of Being and Nietzsche's Satyr
Wendy Wheeler Postscript on Biosemiotics: Reading Beyond Words -
and Ecocriticism
Cover
image: Cyclones in tandem over Iceland and Scotland, November 2006,
© NASA
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