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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810631503321

Titolo

An ecotopian lexicon / / Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-4529-6151-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

422.403

Soggetti

English language - Foreign words and phrases

Environmentalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Melody Jue -- Apocalypso / Sam Solnick -- Blockadia / Randall Amster -- Cibopathic / Daniel Worden -- Dà tùng / Andrew Pendakis -- Fotminne / Sofia Ahlberg -- Ghurba / Allison Ford and Kari Marie Norgaard -- Godhuli / Malcolm Sen -- Gyebale / Jennifer L. Johnson -- Heyiya / Michael Horka -- Hyperempathy / Rebecca Evans -- Ildsjel / Karen O'Brien and Ann Kristin Schorre -- In lak'ech ala k'in / John Esposito -- Metahumanism / Anthony Lioi -- Misneach / Evelyn O'Malley -- Nahual / Carolyn Fornoff -- Nakaiy / Kira Bre Clingen -- Pa theuan / Andrew Alan Johnson -- Pachamama / Miriam Tola -- Plant time / Charis Boke -- Qi / Yifei Li -- Ren / Pierre Monot -- Sehnsucht / Andrew Hageman -- Shikata ga nai / Brent Ryan Bellamy and Sheena Wilson -- Sila / Janet Tamalik McGrath -- Solastalgia / Kimberly Skye Richards -- Sueno / Robert Savino Oventile -- Terragouge / Christopher Pak -- Total libertion / David Pellow -- Watershed discipleship / Cherice Bock.

Sommario/riassunto

"Proceeding from the sense that the dominate western languages do not have the words we need to describe our environmental crisis or propose to it, this book is a collaborative volume of short, accessible chapters that propose ecologically productive terms - drawn from other languages, from speculative fiction, and from activist subcultures - as a means of envisioning and inspiring responses and alternatives to



fossil-fueled neoliberal capitalism"--