In Barbara Kingsolver’s 2012 novel Flight Behaviour, environmental crisis arrives in a remote Tennessee town in the form of the migrating Monarch butterfly…
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Category: Issue 3.1 – Special Issue “Critical Environments”
Re-Approaching Urban Nature
‘What exactly was new about the new nature writing in Granta’s 2008 collection titled The New Nature Writing? One answer would be “not much”’ (Stenning and Gifford, 1)…
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Changing the Climate of Writing
Our climate crisis is constitutively complicated, because rather than dividing culprits from innocents, it both implicates us and impacts on us, to…
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Performing Carbon (in the) Capital
It is rush hour in Liverpool Street Station. Hiding behind a copy of my newspaper I am trying to record a conversation between lobbyists…
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The Thoughts in our Head: A World
The early years of the twenty-first century have seen—among its various issues and events—the beginnings of a global assimilation of the recognition…
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