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In the face of what seems like a concerted effort to destroy the only planet that can sustain us, critique is an important tool. It is in this vein that most scholars have approached environmental crisis. While there are numerous texts that chronicle contemporary issues in environmental ills, there are relatively few that explore the possibilities and practices which work to avoid collapse and build alternatives.
The keyword of this book’s full title, 'Perma/Culture,' alludes to and plays on 'permaculture', an international movement that can provide a framework for navigating the multiple 'other worlds' within a broader environmental ethic. This edited collection brings together essays from an international team of scholars, activists and artists in order to provide a critical introduction to the ethico-political and cultural elements around the concept of ‘Perma/Culture’. These multidisciplinary essays include a varied landscape of sites and practices, from readings from ecotopian literature to an analysis of the intersection of agriculture and art; from an account of the rewards and difficulties of building community in Transition Towns to a description of the ad hoc infrastructure of a fracking protest camp.
Offering a number of constructive models in response to current global environmental challenges, this book makes a significant contribution to current eco-literature and will be of great interest to students and researchers in Environmental Humanities, Environmental Studies, Sociology and Communication Studies.
Show moreIn the face of what seems like a concerted effort to destroy the only planet that can sustain us, critique is an important tool. It is in this vein that most scholars have approached environmental crisis. While there are numerous texts that chronicle contemporary issues in environmental ills, there are relatively few that explore the possibilities and practices which work to avoid collapse and build alternatives.
The keyword of this book’s full title, 'Perma/Culture,' alludes to and plays on 'permaculture', an international movement that can provide a framework for navigating the multiple 'other worlds' within a broader environmental ethic. This edited collection brings together essays from an international team of scholars, activists and artists in order to provide a critical introduction to the ethico-political and cultural elements around the concept of ‘Perma/Culture’. These multidisciplinary essays include a varied landscape of sites and practices, from readings from ecotopian literature to an analysis of the intersection of agriculture and art; from an account of the rewards and difficulties of building community in Transition Towns to a description of the ad hoc infrastructure of a fracking protest camp.
Offering a number of constructive models in response to current global environmental challenges, this book makes a significant contribution to current eco-literature and will be of great interest to students and researchers in Environmental Humanities, Environmental Studies, Sociology and Communication Studies.
Show morePoem "Seeds of Aleppo"
Tiffany Higgins
Introduction Perma/Culture
Molly Wallace and David Carruthers
PART I: Pattern Languages
Ch 1. A Pain in the Neck and Permacultural Subjectivity
Andrea Most
Ch 2. Bringing Forth an Ecotopian Future: The Production of Imagined Futures through Contemporary Cultural Practices
Stephen Zavestoski and Andrew Weigert
Ch 3. Reclaiming Accountability from Hypertechnocivility, to Grow Again the Flowering Earth
Patrick Jones
Ch 4. Murray River Country: Challenging Water Management Practices to (Re)invent Place
Camille Rouliere
Ch 5. Wild Urban Green Spaces as Seen through Montreal’s "Wild City Mapping" Project
Dominique Ferraton
PART II: Transitions in Practice
Ch 6. The Art of Permatravel
Nina Gartrell
Ch 7. Momentum in the Age of Sustainability: Building Up and Burning Out in a Transition Town
Emily Polk
Ch 8. "Fracking Is Stoppable, Another World is Possible"
Claire Males
Ch 9. The Problem with Money: Possibilities for Alternative, Sustainable, Non-monetary Economies
George Price
PART III: REVOLUTION DISGUISED AS GARDENING
Ch 10: A War Against Weeds: Combating Climate Change with Polycultural Pacifism
David Carruthers
Ch 11. Regeneration: Loss and Reclamation in African American Agrarianism
Leah Penniman
Ch 12. Defining the Process of Re-indigenization through Soil Communities
Ruth Lapp and Robert Lovelace
Ch 13. Sharing Food, Sharing Knowledge: Food and Agriculture in Contemporary Art Practices
Amanda White
Ch 14. The End(s) of Freeganism and the Cultural Production of Food Waste
Leda Cooks
Poem The gleaner difference
Natalie Joelle
Afterword Gleanings
Molly Wallace
Molly Wallace is Associate Professor of English at Queen’s
University, Canada. She writes about and teaches contemporary
literature and ecocultural studies.
David Carruthers is a PhD candidate in English at Queen’s
University, Canada. His recent work appears in Mosaic: a journal
for the interdisciplinary study of literature.
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