Canadian Ecologies Beyond Environmentalism

Culture, Media, Art, Ethnicities
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-3-86821-860-2
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

Reihe: Focal point

Over the last few decades, the term ‘ecology’ has been used in a variety of contexts. While it originated in biology, it has more recently also been applied to the interaction of systems, whether they be technological or organic, and, in a further step, at systemic exchanges in the realms of culture, literature and media. A revisiting and re-evaluation of ecology, which goes beyond the equation of ecology with environmentalism, becomes increasingly pressing today in the context of ideologies, new scientific breakthroughs, new media environments or backlashes in the fight against global warming, for example. This publication thus seeks to trace the historical, aesthetic and systemic dimensions of ecological practices in Canada, starting with the role of Canadian media philosopher Marshall McLuhan and paying special attention to First Nations contributions to contemporary views of ecology in and beyond our natural environment and to the potentials of approaching literature, film, comics, art and video games from the vantage point of cultural ecology.

Canadian Ecologies Beyond Environmentalism

features contributions from European and Canadian experts in media, cultural and literary studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boller, Alessandra

Krewani, Angela

Kuester, Martin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
ALESSANDRA BOLLER, ANGELA KREWANI, MARTIN KUESTER


Introduction ................................................................................................. 1

Part I: LITERATURE AND/AS CULTURAL ECOLOGY
DAVID WILLIAMS


On Reading Darwin after Milton: Towards a Literary Ecology .................... 15


ALESSANDRA BOLLER


“[W]hy do we think that everything on Earth belongs to us,


while in reality we belong to Everything?” – Ecological Democracy and


Inclusive Multiculturalism in Margaret Atwood’s
MaddAddam
Trilogy ........ 33


HEIKE SCHWARZ


Un/natural Habitats: Environmentalism and


Environmental Distress Syndrome in Canadian Comics ............................ 59

Part II: MEDIA ECOLOGIES
PAOLO GRANATA


Marshall McLuhan and the Ecology of the Cultural Forms ......................... 83


ANGELA KREWANI


Unending Landscapes and Mythical Origins:


Filmic Ecologies in Canada ........................................................................ 97


RENÉ REINHOLD SCHALLEGGER


Virtual Voices in the Wilderness? –


The Media Ecology of Videogames in Canada .......................................... 115

Part III: FIRST NATIONS ECOLOGIES
MARTIN KUESTER


“Ecological Indians” in “the Global Indian Village”: A European


Perspective on Contemporary Canadian First Nations Writing .................. 139


MARIA MOSS


“From Within Fur and Feathers”: Game Animals in


First Nations Lives – Past and Present ...................................................... 155


ANGELA WEBER


“This is not about landscape, it’s about land.” Rebecca Belmore,


Indigenous Art Criticism, and the Canadian Art Discourse (1989-2008) .... 173


Notes on Contributors ................................................................................. 201