About the Book
On Active Grounds considers the themes of agency and time through the burgeoning, interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. Fourteen essays and a photo album cover topics such as environmental practices and history, temporal literacy, graphic novels, ecocinema, ecomusicology, animal studies, Indigeneity, wolf reintroduction, environmental history, green conservatism, and social-ecological systems change. The book also speaks to the growing concern regarding environmental issues in the aftermath of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) and the election of Donald Trump in the United States. This collection is organized as a written and visual appeal to issues such as time (how much is left?) and agency (who is active? what can be done? what does and does not work?). It describes problems and suggests solutions. On Active Grounds is unique in its explicit and twinned emphasis on time and agency in the context of the Environmental Humanities and a requisite interdisciplinarity.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Permissions List of Figures, Photographs, and Tables Introduction:Ecocritical Agency in Time| Mario Trono and Robert Boschman I. Eco-Temporal Literacies 1 âThe clockâs wound upâ: Critical Reading Practices in the Time of Social Acceleration and Ecological Collapse | Paul Huebener 2A Better Distribution Deal:Ecocinematic Viewing and Montagist Reply | Mario Trono 3 âAllÃ', ici la terreâ: Agency in Ecological Music Composition, Performance, and Listening | Sabine Feisst 4 The Environmental Vampire: Terror, Time, and Territory after 9/11 | Robert Boschman II. Timelines and Indigeneity 5 "We are key players...": Creating Indigenous Engagement and Community Control at Blackfoot Heritage Sites in Time | Geneviève Susemihl 6 Mapping a Bleak Time: The Mining Legacy of Navajo Nation | Lea Rekow Photo Essay Agency and Time on Active Grounds: A Memoir of Bruno Latour and Gaïa Global Circus | Robert Boschman III. Animal Agents and Human-Nonhuman Interactions 7 The Gaze of Predators, Fleshly Worlds, and the Redefinition of the Human | Karla Armbruster 8 Anim-oils: Wild Animals in Petro-Cultural Landscapes | Pamela Banting 9 Reacting to Wolves: The Historical Construction of Identity and Value | Morgan Zedalis and Sean Gould IV.Systems Change in Time 10 Declarations of Interdependence: Unexpected Human-Animal Conflict and Bhutanese Nonlinear Policy | Randy Schroeder and Kent Schroeder 11 Future Environmental Action in Canada: The German Energiewende as a Model of Public Agency | Mishka Lysack 12 Culture as Vector: (Re)Locating Agency in Social-Ecological Systems Change | Nancy Doubleday Contributors Karla Armbruster, Webster University, Louis, MO Pamela Banting, University of Calgary, AB Robert Boschman, Mount Royal University in Calgary, AB Nancy C. Doubleday, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Sabine Feisst, Arizona State University Sean Gould, Idaho Steven Hartman, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, SWE Paul Huebener, Athabasca University, AB Mishka Lysack, University of Calgary, AB Lea Rekow, Green My Favela, Rio de Janeiro Kent Schroeder, Humber College, Toronto, ON Randy Schroeder, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB Geneviève Susemihl, University of Kiel, Germany Mario Trono, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB Morgan Zedalis, McCall, Idaho
About the Author :
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 Anthropocene (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.
