The edited collection, Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse, opens a conversation about the mediated relationship between culture and ecology. The dynamic between these two great forces comes into stark relief when a disaster—in its myriad forms and narratives—reveals the fragility of our ecological and cultural landscapes. Disasters are the clashing of culture and ecology in violent and tragic ways, and the results of each clash create profound effects to both. So much so, in fact, that the terms ecology and culture are past separation. We are far removed from their prior historical binaric connection, and they coincide through a supplementary role to each other. Ecology and culture are unified.
ISBN: | 9781498534765 |
Publication date: | 15th November 2017 |
Author: | Patrick, University of Central Flo Murphy, Kirk Boyle |
Publisher: | Lexington Books |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 278 pages |
Series: | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
Genres: |
Social impact of environmental issues Nature and the natural world: general interest Social impact of environmental issues Cultural studies |