Tom Bowers

Environmentalism and Contemporary Heterotopia (eBook, PDF)

Novel Encounters with Waste

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

Where is the space for contemporary environmentalism when both the utopian promises of a clean and pure earthly Eden and the dystopian prophecies of an environmental apocalypse have failed to be fully realized? As this book argues, rather than falling into one of these familiar environmental categories, contemporary space is configured as heterotopia, as in-between spaces of dissonance, where encounters with waste are a daily occurrence and where dirty matter refuses to submit to human demands and intentions. Through an exploration of a series of spaces in which acts of leisure and recreation are configured alongside vibrant dirty matter, Tom Bowers explores how contemporary heterotopia offers entanglements with a dirty other that promote novel opportunities for humans to ethically respond and be responsible to the continued presence of waste and to generate a sense of ecological care for a dirty world. In doing so, the book urges readers away from a utopian vision of what the environment should be and instead asks how we can ethically exist within and around the dirtied environment as it is. This book will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, environmental rhetorics, and environmental ethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978792630
• Artikelnr.: 74841833

Autorenporträt

Tom Bowers is associate professor of English at Northern Kentucky University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Inescapable Presence of Dirty Matter
Chapter 2: The Potential of Dissonance and Heterotopia
Chapter 3: Beyond Sustainability: Relationality, Uncertainty, and the
Responsible Posthuman Environmental Public
Chapter 4: Reorientations to Risk
Chapter 5: The Ethics of Agency in a Dirty World