Das Buch-Cover von »Anthropocene Affordances« auf orangefarbenem Hintergrund.

How does contemporary US-American literature reimagine narrative forms to confront humanity’s impact in the Anthropocene? 

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7933-5/

@lenapfei.bsky.social 
#Anthropocene #Narration #UnitedStatesofAmerica #LiteraryStudies

I recently completed my masters thesis by reading German author Juli Zeh‘s 2016 novel „Unterleuten“ through a material-ecocritical lens. Those who are interested in ecocriticism and 21st Century German literature, do give it a read: open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/c...

Witty part of academic paper title: Serious description of what the paper is about

as an English professor, I’d go as far to say these days I’m excited to see typos & fragments & run on sentences & page-long paragraphs & awkward word choices & any imperfection that suggests a human being sat down to do the very hard thing of writing a college paper.

Picture of an excerpt from the book: „Climate Change, Interrupted Representation and the Remaking of Time“(Pg. 13) by Barbara Leckie. The excerpt reads out as: „Waypoints: Meanwhile. Fires crest a hill. The sky is orange. This is what whiling looks like when wildfires wild. A colleague, learning of my interest in the Amazon, recommends Eduardo Kohn's How Forests Think." I watch the fires on screens and I wonder what forests are thinking now. I wonder if the thinking is burnt out. Burn out: what happens when one fights fires, gets no sleep, makes no headway. What happens when there's not enough whiling. But also, burnout: what happens when there's not enough wilding.“

Providing anecdotal waypoints on the content throughout her book „Climate Change, Interrupted
Representation and the Remaking of Time,“ I found this particular excerpt by Barbara Leckie on a needed change in narrative point of view and representation to address climate change quite thought provoking

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The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early

If you want to check it out, it's all online too! You can see the ToC and access through your library via the OUP website: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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The IHRA Definition’s Global Impact: How Anti-Antisemitism Legislation Threatens Academic Freedom in Germany, the United States, and Canada — The DDGC Collective Braden Russell provides an analysis of the discourses on anti-antisemitism in Canada, the USA, and Germany.

I wrote a piece on IHRA and the impact it’s having on the German and North American discourse around anti-antisemitism. Thankful for the @ddgc.bsky.social and its support!

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The Place Where You Live: China and India Places change over time, because we change, and the world around us changes.

So pleased that Mary Baxter @nichecanada.bsky.social chose the third post in @lootina.bsky.social and my series, "The Place Where You Live," as their Editor's Pick for February! Check out these wonderful pieces on places in China and India. #envhist #envhum niche-canada.org/2024/12/06/t...

Our next NiCHE Conversation will be on Tues, Feb 18th at 3pm EST on Instagram Live

@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social will be joined by @lootina.bsky.social & @tinaadcock.bsky.social to chat about their The Place Where You Live assignment and series.

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Book cover of - Juli Zeh: a critical companion. Edited by Necia Chronister, Sonja E. Klocke and Lars Richter.

So far I’m enjoying this quite a lot 😄

The Place Where You Live: China and India This is the third in a three-part series of posts arising from a graduate course on global environmental history co-taught by Tina Loo (University of British Columbia) and Tina Adcock (Simon Fraser Un...

Today @nichecanada.bsky.social features the 3rd of 3 sets of pieces on "The Place Where You Live," w/posts on China+India, + a wrap-up one from @tinaadcock.bsky.social reflecting on what "place," that obvious yet elusive concept, is! #envhist niche-canada.org/2024/12/06/t...

The Place Where You Live: The North American Continental Interior Tina Loo reflects on the transformative power of connection to place and the profound impacts of climate change, weaving personal and environmental histories around Lake O’Hara to highlight the fragil...

The 2nd post in my and @lootina.bsky.social's series on "The Place Where You Live" @nichecanada.bsky.social is now live! Today: the N. American continental interior, ft. reflections on Lake O'Hara (by Tina L), Treaty 1 Territory, and Chicago's South Side. #envhist niche-canada.org/2024/12/04/t...

The Place Where You Live: Southwestern British Columbia Tina Loo introduces a series of essays from her global environmental history course, where students explored the concept of "place" through personal stories, reflecting on its emotional, historical, a...

Delighted to share the first of three posts @nichecanada.bsky.social on a cool assignment @lootina.bsky.social and I did in our co-taught graduate course on global #envhist this term. We asked students to reflect on "the place where you live": niche-canada.org/2024/12/02/t...

Akademiesverursachsgehirnsverüktheit that we all face

Let‘s do that when you come to UBC. We can assist you with that. One more reason to make you come here :-)

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Couldn’t agree more!