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Planting the eco-humanities? Climate change, poetic narratives, and botanical lives
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol.8(3), pp.61-70
18/08/2016
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Abstract
This essay offers an initial attempt to think through how some of the ideas emerging from the new field of “critical plant studies” (CPS) can elucidate, deepen, or challenge aspects of climate change discourse. Across the globe, the deleterious impacts of climate change on plants are increasingly documented by scientists. However, despite their fundamental role in the carbon cycle of the biosphere and the disruption of botanical communities in the wake of climate disturbance, plants occupy a marginal position in the narratives told about climate change. This assertion will be explored, substantiated, and expanded more concretely in reference to the “Keep It In the Ground Campaign” curated by the newspaper The Guardian in 2015. The stories circulating in the public imagination about climate change and that provoke debate, action, and reflection can be enhanced through the invigorated understandings of vegetal world offered by the emerging field of critical plant studies (CPS).
Details
- Title
- Planting the eco-humanities? Climate change, poetic narratives, and botanical lives
- Creators
- John Charles Ryan - The University of Western Australia
- Publication Details
- Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol.8(3), pp.61-70
- Identifiers
- 991013041013302368
- Copyright
- © AesthetixMS 2016. This Open Access article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For citation use the DOI. For commercial re-use, please contact editor@rupkatha.com.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article