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  • Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown

    Entangled Futurities

    This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian representations of pandemics from across literature, the arts, and social movements.Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater, politics, and activism, the chapters in this volume home in on critical topics such as posthumanism, ... Read more

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  • Interstices

    Negotiations at Contemporary Art's Boundaries

    An exploration of innovative practices flourishing at the margins of Western art.With this book, Alexander Alberro engages decolonial theory to explore the dynamic exchanges that occur where the ideals and values of different artistic frameworks meet. Resisting notions of a singular art world and global contemporary art, Alberro explores what lies outside of Western art's hegemonic presence, ... Read more

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  • Abstraction in Reverse

    The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art

    During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American artists working in several different cities radically altered the nature of modern art. Reimagining the relationship of art to its public, these artists granted the spectator an unprecedented role in the realization of the artwork. The first book to explore this phenomenon on an international scale, Abstraction in Reverse traces the movement as it ... Read more

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  • Radical Environmental Resistance

    Love, Rage and Hope in an Era of Climate and Biodiversity Breakdown

    Series series Emerald Points
    Acknowledging mounting socioeconomic inequality, a climate system in disarray, and a collapse of biodiversity that now threatens the very viability of life on earth for both present and future generations, Radical Environmental Resistance demystifies activists’ ecological worldviews, their tactical motivations, and their diagnostic and prognostic framings.Providing a succinct overview of key ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Stan Douglas: Abbott and Cordova, 7 August 1971

    This is an art book on the politics of urban conflict based around artist Stan Douglas' stunning photo installation of the same name, depicting a violent confrontation in 1971 between police and Vancouver's counterculture known as the Gastown Riot.The book, which features essays by Alexander Alberro, Serge Guilbaut, and others, addresses various issues raised by Douglas' work, including the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terrestrial Ecotopias

    Multispecies Flourishing in and Beyond the Capitalocene

    Series Book 33 - Ralahine Utopian Studies
    «A piercing critique of imperial culture and climate doomism. Alberro’s Terrestrial Ecotopias is a compelling and penetrating corrective, sketching an ecology of hope beyond the Capitalocene.»(Jason W. Moore, author, Capitalism in the Web of Life)«Utopia is here and now, with our feet on the ground alongside paws, claws and roots. Heather Alberro brings together eco-fictional, radical ... Read more

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    Urban political ecology for a climate emergency

    Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the ‘city’ as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene

    Edited by John Parham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch marking humanity's alteration of the Earth: its rock structure, environments, atmosphere. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene offers the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can address the social, cultural, and philosophical questions posed by the Anthropocene. This volume addresses the old and new literary forms - ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Ecophobia Hypothesis

    by Simon Estok ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
    The Ecophobia Hypothesis grows out of the sense that while the theory of biophilia has productively addressed ideal human affinities with nature, the capacity of “the biophilia hypothesis” as an explanatory model of human/ environment relations is limited. The biophilia hypothesis cannot adequately account for the kinds of things that are going on in the world, things so extraordinary that we are ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • More Posthuman Glossary

    Series series Theory in the New Humanities
    The notion of the posthuman continues to both intrigue and confuse, not least because of the huge number of ideas, theories and figures associated with this term. More Posthuman Glossaryprovides a way in to the dizzying array of posthuman concepts, providing vivid accounts of emerging terms. It is much more than a series of definitions, however, in that it seeks to imagine and predict what new ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature and climate cannot help but be shaped by our current - and inescapable - vantage point from an era of climate change, and uncovers a longer ... Read more

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  • No Other Planet

    Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World

    Visions of utopia – some hopeful, others fearful – have become increasingly prevalent in recent times. This groundbreaking, timely book examines expressions of the utopian imagination with a focus on the pressing challenge of how to inhabit a climate-changed world. Forms of social dreaming are tracked across two domains: political theory and speculative fiction. The analysis aims to both uncover ... Read more

    $31.99 USD