Can Environmental Imagination Save the World?

Buell, Lawrence

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“…In order to identify folk-ideas about nature, the researcher based the analytical perspective on Buell's (1995) criteria for nature-focused texts with a slight modification. Indeed, the modification made is on the inclusion of the issue of gender to the four criteria.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But, the existence of alterations which may end up in wretchedness calls for conscious intervention to counter human's destructive relation with nature. The proverbial poetic expressions laden with environmental values and ecocritical literary analysis recognize the importance of consciousness raising, through extending imaginative horizons out of the human sphere to embrace the totality of the ecosystem (Buell, 1995). The attention paid to such an endeavor, however, remained imperceptible in the context of Oromo, or one may say Africa (Slaymaker, 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Exploring Environmental Discourses in oral literature: Ecocritical analysis of Oromo proverbs

Adugna¹

2014

J. Lang. Cult.

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This study explored environmental discourses inscribed in Oromo proverbial lore. Its specific concern was with the analysis of place accorded to nature and the role of human's relation with the physical environment. Oral literature carries values long held in the society, and divulging into folk-ideas reveals the people's definition of self in relation to nature and their accountability towards it. To this end, proverbs were collected from elders in two zones of Oromia regional state (Guji and Eastern Hararghe). Besides, proverbs published in book volumes were used as an additional data for analyzing the indigenous environmental discourses. These proverbs were analyzed through the theoretical perspective of Ecocriticism. The analysis undertaken revealed the core beliefs and values about nature preserved in the proverbs. Four strands of thoughts (folk ideas) were identified; Nature has 'lubbuu'/soul, and so, should be conferred an intrinsic value; Nature should be taken care of because it has instrumental value; Not all nature is equal, and some are blameworthy though useful, and finally the ignoble nature could be associated with women, and both could be considered as common targets of man's control through the agency of entitlement. Based on the results of the study, the researcher argues that there is no one essential line of defining the Oromo folk-ideas pertaining to the issue of nature as a multiple environmental discourses are presented in the proverbs.

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Exploring Environmental Discourses in oral literature: Ecocritical analysis of Oromo proverbs

Adugna¹

2014

J. Lang. Cult.

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“…Lawrence Buell (2001, 6) understreker litteraturens mulighet til å skape refleksjon rundt de etiske spørsmålene som reises i miljøtekster, og hvordan disse kan få leseren til å ta større ansvar for omgivelsene, og på den måten gjøre verden til en bedre plass både for mennesker og dyr. I The Environmental Imagination (Buell 1995) stiller han fire krav til det han kaller for ''environmental texts'': 1) naturen skal vaere til stede som mer enn bakteppe for handlingen; 2) mennesket har ingen verdimessig forrang i forhold til andre levende vesen innenfor tekstens univers; 3) menneskets ansvarlighet for miljøet er en del av tekstens etiske horisont; og 4) teksten formidler en forståelse av det fysiske miljøet som prosess mer enn som et statisk system (7). Av de fire kravene er det det andre som er vanskeligst å innfri, fordi det butter så sterkt imot slitesterke oppfatninger i kulturen av forholdet mellom menneske og dyr.…”

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Forhandling om natur – kultur. En økokritisk lesning av Jörg Müller og Jörg Steiners bildebok Kaninliv (1978)

Birkeland

2016

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“…7 Another formerly used name of the festival is "Boshita Matsuri," and there is another theory to it: that "Boshita" originates from "boboshita" in the Kumamoto dialect, meaning "to have sex." Indeed, Japanese festivals are sexually charged in various ways.…”

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“…As Lawrence Buell puts it, the "brown" landscape and the "green" landscape need to be understood as being "in conversation" (7). With this recognition, Lance Newman early on called for an extended ecocritical practice: "In order for ecocriticism to earn its claims to relevance, its critical practice must be greatly extended .…”

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East Asian Ecocriticisms

Estok¹,

Kim²

2013

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Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment focuses on new research in the Environmental Humanities, particularly work with a rhetorical or literary dimension. Books in this series seek to explore how ideas of nature and environmental concerns are expressed in different cultural contexts and at different historical moments. They investigate how cultural assumptions and practices as well as social structures and institutions shape conceptions of nature, the natural, species boundaries, uses of plants, animals and natural resources, the human body in its environmental dimensions, environmental health and illness, and relations between nature and technology. In turn, the series aims to make visible how concepts of nature and forms of environmentalist thought and representation arise from the confluence of a community's ecological and social conditions with its cultural assumptions, perceptions and institutions. Such assumptions and institutions help to make some environmental crises visible and conceal others, confer social and cultural significance on certain ecological changes and risk scenarios, and shape possible responses to them.Across a wide range of historical moments and cultural communities, the verbal, visual and performing arts have helped to give expression to such concerns, but cultural assumptions also underlie legal, medical, religious, technological and media-based engagements with environmental issues. Books in this series will analyze how literatures and cultures of nature form and dissolve; how cultures map nature, literally and metaphorically; how cultures of nature rooted in particular places develop dimensions beyond that place (e.g. in the virtual realm); and what practical differences such literatures and cultures make for human uses of the environment and for historical reshapings of nature. The core of the series lies in literary and cultural studies, but it also embraces work that reaches out from that core to establish connections to related research in art history, anthropology, communication, history, philosophy, environmental psychology, media studies and cultural geography.A great deal of work in the Environmental Humanities to date has focused on the United States and Britain and on the last two centuries. Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment seeks to build on new research in these areas, but also and in particular aims to make visible projects that address the relationship between culture and environmentalism from a comparative perspective, or that engage with regions, cultures or historical moments beyond the modern period in Britain and the US. The series also includes work that, reaching beyond national and majority cultures, focuses on emergent cultures, subcultures and minority cultures in their engagements with environmental issues. In some cases, such work was originally written in a language other than English and subsequently translated for publication in

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Can Environmental Imagination Save the World?

Cited by 25 publications

References 6 publications

Exploring Environmental Discourses in oral literature: Ecocritical analysis of Oromo proverbs

Exploring Environmental Discourses in oral literature: Ecocritical analysis of Oromo proverbs

Forhandling om natur – kultur. En økokritisk lesning av Jörg Müller og Jörg Steiners bildebok Kaninliv (1978)

East Asian Ecocriticisms

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