Found in Alberta
Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene
Will be published approx. on 30. October 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
398 pages
978-1-55458-959-3 (ISBN)
Description
Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene is a collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is a casebook on Alberta from which emerges a far wider set of implications for North America and for the biosphere in general. The writers come from an array of disciplinary backgrounds within the environmental humanities.
The essays examine the oil/tar sands, climate change, provincial government policy, food production, industry practices, legal frameworks, wilderness spaces, hunting, Indigenous perspectives, and nuclear power. Contributions from an ecocritical perspective provide insight into environmentally themed poetry, photography, and biography.
Since the actions of Alberta's industries and government are currently at the heart of a global environmental debate, this collection is valuable to those wishing to understand the natural and commercial forces in play. The editors present an introductory argument that frames these interests inside a call for a rethinking of our assumptions about the natural world and our place within it.
The essays examine the oil/tar sands, climate change, provincial government policy, food production, industry practices, legal frameworks, wilderness spaces, hunting, Indigenous perspectives, and nuclear power. Contributions from an ecocritical perspective provide insight into environmentally themed poetry, photography, and biography.
Since the actions of Alberta's industries and government are currently at the heart of a global environmental debate, this collection is valuable to those wishing to understand the natural and commercial forces in play. The editors present an introductory argument that frames these interests inside a call for a rethinking of our assumptions about the natural world and our place within it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55458-959-3 (9781554589593)
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Persons
Robert Boschman is a professor of English, Languages, and Cultures at Mount Royal University, Calgary. He is the author of In the Way of Nature: Ecology and Westward Expansion in the Poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Elizabeth Bishop, and Amy Clampitt (2009) and co-editor with Mario Trono of Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocesne (WLU Press, 2014).
Mario Trono studies visual cultures from an environmental perspective. He co-edited (with Robert Boschman) Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene (2014). Mario was a co-founder of Under Western Skies, a biennial, interdisciplinary conference on the environment and teaches at Mount Royal University.
Mario Trono studies visual cultures from an environmental perspective. He co-edited (with Robert Boschman) Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene (2014). Mario was a co-founder of Under Western Skies, a biennial, interdisciplinary conference on the environment and teaches at Mount Royal University.
Content
Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene, edited by Robert Boschman and Mario Trono
List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
Foreword Maude Barlow
Introduction: Alberta and the Anthropocene Mario Trono and Robert Boschman
I: Found in Alberta
1. Re-engineering the Contours of Civilization: Alberta Land Trusts and the Neoliberalization of Nature Lorelei Hanson
2. Bum Steer: Adulterant E. coli and the Nature-Culture Dichotomy Robert Boschman
3. ""There Is No Such Place as Away"": Reconciling the Abject in Ecology and Poetry Harry Vandervlist
II: Bituminous Sands
4. Visualizing Alberta: Duelling Documentaries and Bituminous Sands Geo Takach
5. Critical Literacy and Discursive Governance Control(s) in Canada's Oil/Tar Sands Conny Davidsen
6. Are the Oil Sands Sublime? Edward Burtynsky and the Vicissitudes of the Sublime T.R. Kover
7. From Railway to Pipeline: The Great Divide as Landscape and Rhetoric Sean Atkins
III: Policy and Legal Perspectives
8. Fostering Environmental Citizenship Mishka Lysack, Ben Thibault, and Greg Powell
9. Environmental Divide: The Nuclear Power Debate in Alberta and Saskatchewan Duane Bratt
10. Do Corporations Have to Consider Sustainability? Jeffrey Bone
IV: Wilderness
11. Defending the Wild: Time to Think beyond Legislated Wilderness Shaun Fluker
12. Place, Desire, and Maps: Representing Wilderness at the Columbia Icefield Benedict Fullalove
13. Radical Albertans? Hunting as the Subversion of Heroic Enlightenment Nathan Kowalsky
V: Shared Horizons
14. Indigenous Environmental Ethics and the Limits of Cultural Evolutionary Thinking Sam McKegney
15. Bioaesthetics and the American West Curt Whitaker
16. Cultivating Longitudinal Knowledge: Alternate Stories for an Alternative Chronopolitics of Climate Change Anita Girvan
Contributors
Index
List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
Foreword Maude Barlow
Introduction: Alberta and the Anthropocene Mario Trono and Robert Boschman
I: Found in Alberta
1. Re-engineering the Contours of Civilization: Alberta Land Trusts and the Neoliberalization of Nature Lorelei Hanson
2. Bum Steer: Adulterant E. coli and the Nature-Culture Dichotomy Robert Boschman
3. ""There Is No Such Place as Away"": Reconciling the Abject in Ecology and Poetry Harry Vandervlist
II: Bituminous Sands
4. Visualizing Alberta: Duelling Documentaries and Bituminous Sands Geo Takach
5. Critical Literacy and Discursive Governance Control(s) in Canada's Oil/Tar Sands Conny Davidsen
6. Are the Oil Sands Sublime? Edward Burtynsky and the Vicissitudes of the Sublime T.R. Kover
7. From Railway to Pipeline: The Great Divide as Landscape and Rhetoric Sean Atkins
III: Policy and Legal Perspectives
8. Fostering Environmental Citizenship Mishka Lysack, Ben Thibault, and Greg Powell
9. Environmental Divide: The Nuclear Power Debate in Alberta and Saskatchewan Duane Bratt
10. Do Corporations Have to Consider Sustainability? Jeffrey Bone
IV: Wilderness
11. Defending the Wild: Time to Think beyond Legislated Wilderness Shaun Fluker
12. Place, Desire, and Maps: Representing Wilderness at the Columbia Icefield Benedict Fullalove
13. Radical Albertans? Hunting as the Subversion of Heroic Enlightenment Nathan Kowalsky
V: Shared Horizons
14. Indigenous Environmental Ethics and the Limits of Cultural Evolutionary Thinking Sam McKegney
15. Bioaesthetics and the American West Curt Whitaker
16. Cultivating Longitudinal Knowledge: Alternate Stories for an Alternative Chronopolitics of Climate Change Anita Girvan
Contributors
Index