Nach der Natur. Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur

Malkmus, Bernhard

doi:10.1353/mon.2012.0028

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“…Roman o podnebnih spremembah kot ekološki riziko narativ se naslanja na različne žanre, literarne zvrsti in konvencije, vsebuje lahko prvine detektivke, kriminalke, pastorale, distopičnega, pikaresknega, razvojnega romana, spekulativne fikcije, znanstvene fantastike idr. (Heise 2010;Mayer 2018). Na razpolago ima vse možnosti fikcije in lahko vključuje tiste dimenzije podnebnih izkušenj, ki jih mora naravoslovni diskurz izključiti.…”

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Roman o podnebnih spremembah med znanstveno fantastiko in realnimi izkušnjami

Čeh Steger

2024

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Literary science, like other sciences, has since the 1990s been intensively responding to anthropogenic climate change in an environmental and socio-cultural context. Climate issues have in literature been narrated in an aesthetic manner, appealing to the reader through stories, stirring emotions in the reader, inviting the reader to reflect on certain values and to behave in an environmentally friendly manner. The present study focuses on a novel about climate change, which in the framework of the environmental genre occupies a space of much importance and which in the 1990s initially gained popularity in the Anglo-American linguistic context. Its structure includes elements of other genres, especially those of science fiction and thrillers. Recently, however, it has distanced itself from fantastic scenarios, moving towards realistic encounters with climate change that can be classified as environmental risk narratives, as illustrated by the example of the novel Zgodovina čebel (The History of Bees) by the Norwegian author Maja Lunde. Climate change is also presented in the novels Na Klancu by Tina Vrščaj and Primerljivi hektarji by Nataša Kramberger.

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Roman o podnebnih spremembah med znanstveno fantastiko in realnimi izkušnjami

Čeh Steger

2024

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“…He portrays a scene in which the entire species of the dodo has been exterminated except for so few specimens that the species dies out due to the accidental deaths of these last individual animals (Heise, 2010, 51). The following excerpt is the same that Heise (2010) examines in The End of Nature. I follow up on her analysis and relate it to the previous discussion of femininity in relation to grief and death.…”

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To Die For: Modern Femininity and the Quest for Anti-Hegemonic Anthropomorphization

Kather

2024

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This paper provides an analysis of how the concept of femininity is used in literary anthropormorphizations of animals and plants. I argue that this usage of femininity for anthropormorphization provides a framework from which animal and plant life are reevaluated as meaningful. However, the notion of femininity portrayed in my exemplary case study can be shown to depict a specifically white and patriarchal narration of femininity. Therefore, this paper explores possibilities for literary anthropormorphization that is feminist, decolonial and narrates animal and plant life as meaningful. My general advocacy is one for intersectional perspectives and new ways of generating meaning and worth that consider different, interwoven struggles at once and make sense of them precisely in their interwovenness. To do so I connect feminist literary criticism, decolonial theory, Afropessimism, and environmentalist perspectives. My case studies are the Song of the Dodo by David Quammen and Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath.

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Von Biodiversität zu Biodiversifizierung: Eine Neue Ökonomie der Natur?

Höhler

2014

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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This paper explores the relations between economy and ecology in the last quarter of the 20th century with the example of biodiversity. From its definition in the 1980s, the concept of biodiversity responded not only to conservational concerns but also to hopes and demands of economic profitability. The paper argues that archival systems of inventorying and surveying nature, the biodiversity database and the biodiversity portfolio, changed the view on nature from a resource to an investment. The paper studies the alliances of ecologists and environmental economists in managing nature according to economic principles of successful asset management, "diversification", with the aim to distribute risk, minimize ecological loss and maximize overall ecosystem performance. Finally, the paper discusses the assumptions and the consequences of transferring principles from financial risk management to landscape management. How has the substitution of the existential values of nature by shareholder value affected the relations between ecology, environment, and ecosystem conservation? Who gains and who looses in exchanging natural capital and financial capital, yields, and profits?

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Nach der Natur. Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur

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Roman o podnebnih spremembah med znanstveno fantastiko in realnimi izkušnjami

Roman o podnebnih spremembah med znanstveno fantastiko in realnimi izkušnjami

To Die For: Modern Femininity and the Quest for Anti-Hegemonic Anthropomorphization

Von Biodiversität zu Biodiversifizierung: Eine Neue Ökonomie der Natur?

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