Utopias and the Environment explores the way in which the kind of 'dreaming', or re-visioning, known as the 'utopian imaginary' takes environmental concerns into account. This kind of creative intervention is increasingly important in an era of ecological crisis, as we witness the failure of governments worldwide to significantly change industrial civilization from a path of 'business as usual.' It is up to the artists - in this case authors - as well as the critics, readers and thinkers, to imagine new ways of being as we enter this new era of rapid change and adaptation. This book was originally published as a special issue of Green Letters.…mehr
Utopias and the Environment explores the way in which the kind of 'dreaming', or re-visioning, known as the 'utopian imaginary' takes environmental concerns into account. This kind of creative intervention is increasingly important in an era of ecological crisis, as we witness the failure of governments worldwide to significantly change industrial civilization from a path of 'business as usual.' It is up to the artists - in this case authors - as well as the critics, readers and thinkers, to imagine new ways of being as we enter this new era of rapid change and adaptation. This book was originally published as a special issue of Green Letters.
Geoffrey Berry is an independent scholar, researcher, writer and public speaker who promotes environmental values integrated with a new sense of embodied spirituality.
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Introduction 1. Utopias, miniature worlds and global networks in modern Scottish island poetry 2. (Mis)Reading Hardy: 'Wessex' as green imaginary 3. Utopian Zionist development in Theodor Herzl's Altneuland 4. 'The Republic of Arborea': trees and the perfect society 5. Hope of a hopeless world: eco-teleology in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood 6. Genre, utopia, and ecological crisis: world-multiplication in Le Guin's fantasy 7. The Biologisation of Ecofeminism? On Science and Power Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time 8. Afterword: the utopian dreaming of modernity and its ecological cost
Introduction 1. Utopias, miniature worlds and global networks in modern Scottish island poetry 2. (Mis)Reading Hardy: 'Wessex' as green imaginary 3. Utopian Zionist development in Theodor Herzl's Altneuland 4. 'The Republic of Arborea': trees and the perfect society 5. Hope of a hopeless world: eco-teleology in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood 6. Genre, utopia, and ecological crisis: world-multiplication in Le Guin's fantasy 7. The Biologisation of Ecofeminism? On Science and Power Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time 8. Afterword: the utopian dreaming of modernity and its ecological cost
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