Activities in physical education and sport

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910891943803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Federation of Sports Pedagogues of the Republic of Macedonia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico

Climate change, ecological catastrophe, and the contemporary postcolonial novel / / Justyna Poray-Wybranowska

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963186503321
• Autore: Poray-Wybranowska Justyna
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2021
• ISBN: 1-00-307976-8; 1-003-07976-8; 1-000-29451-X; 1-000-29461-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
• Disciplina: 809.9336
• Soggetti: Climatic changes in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Land Acknowledgement and Positionality Statement -- Introduction -- A Crisis of the Imagination -- Climate Change, Catastrophe, and the Anthropocene -- Popular Perceptions of Climate Change -- Why Read Novels about Climate Change and Catastrophe? -- Chapter Breakdown -- Chapter 1: Reading Catastrophe through Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, and Animal Studies -- Chapter 2: Catastrophe, Vulnerability, and Human Relationships -- Chapter 3: Catastrophe and Human- Nonhuman Relationships in Degraded Environments -- ; Chapter 4: Land Justice, Resistance, and Post- Catastrophe Recovery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 1 Reading Catastrophe through Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, Indigenous Studies, and Animal Studies -- Racism, (Neo)Colonialism, and Environmental Justice -- Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Catastrophe -- Colonial Roots: Colonialism, Environment, Environmentalism -- Postcolonial Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene -- Defining Catastrophe (Catastrophe versus Apocalypse versus Disaster) -- The Nonhuman Turn -- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature -- Animal Studies -- Problems and Contributions -- Notes -- 2 Catastrophe, Vulnerability, and Human Relationships -- Colonialism, Catastrophe, and the Everyday -- Colonialism and Its Aftermath in the Context of Climate Change: Race, Indigeneity, and Socio-Ecological Vulnerability -- Kiran Dessi's the Inheritance of Loss -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- Socioeconomic Hierarchies and Power Dynamics: Caste, Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity -- Lepcha Characters -- Wealthy/Powerful Indian Characters -- Gorkha Characters -- Racism and Colonialism -- Precarity, Vulnerability, and Catastrophe.; Reflection, Renegotiation, and Human-Animal Relationships -- Conclusion -- Kim Scott's Benang : From the Heart -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- Form, Perspective, and the Desensationalization of Violence -- Colonial Law, Segregation, and Control -- Control, Violence, and the Body -- Control, Violence, and the Environment -- The Bushfire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Catastrophe and Human-Nonhuman Relationships in Degraded Environments -- Animals, Climate Change, and Ecological Catastrophe -- Uzma Aslam Khan's Thinner Than Skin -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- Colonial Law and Human-Nonhuman Relationships -- Ecological Vulnerability and Earthquakes -- Disappearance of Local Species -- Animals and Catastrophe -- Conclusion -- Alexis Wright's Carpentaria -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- Racial/Racist Geographies and Their Legacy -- Catastrophe in the Novel: The Cyclone and the Mine -- Narrative Form: Dreaming, Indigenous Cosmologies, and "Aboriginal Realism" -- Animals in the Novel -- Animals and the Mine -- Animals and the Cyclone -- New Beginnings -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Land Justice, Resistance, Recovery -- The Physical Environment -- Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- The Sundarbans -- Narrative Structure -- Space-Time Compression and Nonhuman Actants -- Project Tiger and the Morichjhãpi Massacre -- Indigenous Peoples and Conservation Priorities -- Catastrophe and Environmental Trauma -- Conclusion -- Patricia Grace's Potiki -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- The Colonization of New Zealand: Historical and Environmental Context -- Stories, Perspectives, and Now-Time -- Racism and Colonial Capital -- Land and Resistance -- Land, Community, Identity -- Ecological Degradation -- Floor, Fire, and Explosion -- Recovery, Cyclicality, and the Everyday -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.; Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel responds to the critical need for transdisciplinary research on the relationship between colonialism and catastrophe. It represents the first sustained analysis of the connection between colonial legacy and present-day ecological catastrophe in postcolonial fiction. Analyzing contemporary South Asian and South Pacific novels that grapple with climate change and catastrophe, environmental exploitation and instability, and human-nonhuman relationships in degraded environments, it offers a much-needed corrective to dominant narratives about climate, crisis, and the everyday. Highlighting the ; contributions of literary fiction from the postcolonial South to the growing field of the environmental humanities, this book reconsiders the novel's relationship with climate change and the contemporary environmental imaginary. Counter to dominant current theoretical discourses, it demonstrates that the novel form is ideally suited to literary and imaginative engagements with climate change and ecological catastrophe. The six case studies it examines connect contemporary ecological vulnerability to colonial legacies, reveal the critical role animals and the environment play in literary imaginations of post-catastrophe recovery, and together constellate a decolonial perspective on ecological catastrophe in the era of climate change. Drawing on the work of Indigenous authors and scholars who write about and against the Anthropocene, this book displaces conventional ways of thinking about the relationship between the mundane and the catastrophic and promotes greater dialogue between the largely siloed fields of postcolonial, Indigenous, and disaster studies"--