Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America

Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America by Juanita C. Aristizábal, Ana Avalos, Mirian Carballo, Ida Day, Sharae Deckard, Diana Dodson Lee, Simão Farias Almeida, Juan Carlos Galeano, Adrian Kane, Jeremy Larochelle, Diego Mejia-Prado, Kerstin Oloff, Abigail Pérez Aguilera, Marcela Reales, Herman Vladimir Ruíz Abecasis, María Victoria Sanchez, Lesley Wylie, Lexington Books
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Author: Juanita C. Aristizábal, Ana Avalos, Mirian Carballo, Ida Day, Sharae Deckard, Diana Dodson Lee, Simão Farias Almeida, Juan Carlos Galeano, Adrian Kane, Jeremy Larochelle, Diego Mejia-Prado, Kerstin Oloff, Abigail Pérez Aguilera, Marcela Reales, Herman Vladimir Ruíz Abecasis, María Victoria Sanchez, Lesley Wylie ISBN: 9781498530965
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: October 4, 2016
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Juanita C. Aristizábal, Ana Avalos, Mirian Carballo, Ida Day, Sharae Deckard, Diana Dodson Lee, Simão Farias Almeida, Juan Carlos Galeano, Adrian Kane, Jeremy Larochelle, Diego Mejia-Prado, Kerstin Oloff, Abigail Pérez Aguilera, Marcela Reales, Herman Vladimir Ruíz Abecasis, María Victoria Sanchez, Lesley Wylie
ISBN: 9781498530965
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: October 4, 2016
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate change manifests itself and large-scale natural resource extraction has expanded into formerly remote areas that seemed beyond the reach of industrialization. Scientists and popular culture alike have turned to the term "Anthropocene" to capture the global scale of environmental and even geological transformations that humans have carried out over the last two centuries. The chapters in Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America examine the dynamics and interplay between local cultures and the expansion of global capitalism in Latin America, emphasizing the role of art in bearing witness to and generating awareness of environmental and social crises, but also its possibilities for formulating solutions. They take particular care to draw out the ways in which local environmental crises in Latin American nations are witnessed and imagined as part of a global system, focusing on the problems of time, scale, and complexity as key terms in conceiving the dimensions of crisis. At the same time, they question the notion of the Anthropocene as a species-wide "human" historical project, making visible the coloniality of natural resource extraction in Latin America and its dire effects for local people, cultures, and environments.
Taking an ecocritical approach to Latin American cultural production including literature, film, performance, and digital artwork, the chapters in this volume develop a notion of ecological crisis that captures not only its documentary sense in the representation of environmental destruction (the degradation of the oikos), but also the crisis in the modern worldview (logos) that the acknowledgment of crisis provokes. In this sense, crisis is also the promise of a turning point, of the possibilities for change. Latin American representations of ecological crisis thus create the conditions for projects that decolonize environments, developing new, sustainable ways of conceiving of and relating to our world or returning to old ones.

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Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate change manifests itself and large-scale natural resource extraction has expanded into formerly remote areas that seemed beyond the reach of industrialization. Scientists and popular culture alike have turned to the term "Anthropocene" to capture the global scale of environmental and even geological transformations that humans have carried out over the last two centuries. The chapters in Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America examine the dynamics and interplay between local cultures and the expansion of global capitalism in Latin America, emphasizing the role of art in bearing witness to and generating awareness of environmental and social crises, but also its possibilities for formulating solutions. They take particular care to draw out the ways in which local environmental crises in Latin American nations are witnessed and imagined as part of a global system, focusing on the problems of time, scale, and complexity as key terms in conceiving the dimensions of crisis. At the same time, they question the notion of the Anthropocene as a species-wide "human" historical project, making visible the coloniality of natural resource extraction in Latin America and its dire effects for local people, cultures, and environments.
Taking an ecocritical approach to Latin American cultural production including literature, film, performance, and digital artwork, the chapters in this volume develop a notion of ecological crisis that captures not only its documentary sense in the representation of environmental destruction (the degradation of the oikos), but also the crisis in the modern worldview (logos) that the acknowledgment of crisis provokes. In this sense, crisis is also the promise of a turning point, of the possibilities for change. Latin American representations of ecological crisis thus create the conditions for projects that decolonize environments, developing new, sustainable ways of conceiving of and relating to our world or returning to old ones.

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