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American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship: Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons

American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship: Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons

Adamson, Joni
Ruffin, Kimberly N.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0415628237
ISBN13: 9780415628235
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2012
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This collection closely examines the relationship between American Studies scholarship and twenty-first century environmental studies' expanded attention to transnational and transcultural concepts of ecological citizenship and belonging. Visiting literary, historical, and cultural examples from the 19th century to the 21st, contributors examine notions of the common-namely, common humanity, common wealth, and common ground as foundational to concepts of global citizenship, civil society, and cosmopolitan democracy. The book engages in scholarly ecological analysis via the lens of various human groups-ethnic, racial, gendered, coalitional-that are shaping twenty-first century environmental experience and vision and contributing to new concepts of citizenship and belonging. Diverse human groups are mobilizing around new concepts of ecological citizenship and belonging catalyzed not only by nuclear meltdowns, oil spills, hurricanes, climate change, and histories of privilege or social and environmental injustice, but by hopes for a common future that will ensure the right of both humans and the more-than-human world to exist, maintain, and regenerate life cycles and evolutionary processes. The collection illustrates how each of us, as members of diverse groups and as inhabitants of planet Earth have a stake in imagining and producing a common future.

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