On Active Grounds: Agency and Time in the Environmental Humanities

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On Active Grounds considers the themes of agency and time through the burgeoning, interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. Fourteen essays and a photo album cover topics such as environmental practices and history, temporal literacy, graphic novels, ecocinema, ecomusicology, animal studies, Indigeneity, wolf reintroduction, environmental history, green conservatism, and social-ecological systems change. The book also speaks to the growing concern regarding environmental issues in the aftermath of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) and the election of Donald Trump in the United States. This collection is organized as a written and visual appeal to issues such as time (how much is left?) and agency (who is active? what can be done? what does and does not work?). It describes problems and suggests solutions. On Active Grounds is unique in its explicit and twinned emphasis on time and agency in the context of the Environmental Humanities and a requisite interdisciplinarity. About the Author Robert Boschman is a professor of English, Languages, and Cultures at Mount Royal University, Calgary. He is the author of In the Way of Nature: Ecology and Westward Expansion in the Poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Elizabeth Bishop, and Amy Clampitt (2009) and co-editor with Mario Trono of Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene (WLU Press, 2014). Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of Images Acknowledgements Introduction: Ecocritical Agency in Time I ECO-TEMPORAL LITERACIES CHAPTER 1 “The clock’s wound up”: Critical Reading Practices in the Time of Social Acceleration and Ecological Collapse CHAPTER 2 A Better Distribution Deal: Ecocinematic Viewing and Montagist Reply CHAPTER 3 Allô, ici la terre: Agency in Ecological Music Composition, Performance, and Listening CHAPTER 4 The Environmental Vampire: Terror, Time, and Territory after 9/11 II TIMELINES AND INDIGENEITY CHAPTER 5 “We are key players …”: Creating Indigenous Engagement and Community Control at Blackfoot Heritage Sites in Time CHAPTER 6 Mapping the Mining Legacy of Navajo Nation PHOTO ESSAY Agency and Time on Active Grounds: A Memoir of Bruno Latour and Gaïa Global Circus III ANIMAL AGENTS AND HUMAN / NON-HUMAN INTERACTIONS CHAPTER 7 The Gaze of Predators and the Redefinition of the Human CHAPTER 8 Anim-oils: Wild Animals in Petro-Cultural Landscapes CHAPTER 9 Reacting to Wolves: The Historical Construction of Identity and Value IV SYSTEMS CHANGE IN TIME CHAPTER 10 Declarations of Interdependence: Unexpected Human–Animal Conflict and Bhutanese Non-Linear Policy CHAPTER 11 Effective Environmental Action in Canada: The German Energiewende as a Model of Public Agency CHAPTER 12 Culture as Vector: (Re)Locating Agency in Social-Ecological Systems Change About the Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z