Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Peggy Karpouzou - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - email orcid profile
- Nikoleta Zampaki - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - email orcid profile
The special issue titled Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene examines a multifaceted notion of ecology: life and death involve numerous entities, processes and relationalities that cannot be analyzed separately. Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of environmental humanities, blue humanities, continental philosophy, arts and film studies, this special issue explores life and death eco-imaginaries and entanglements of the human and non-human world, highlighting an eco-ontology that exposes these entanglements where ethical territories of eco-grief and eco-mourning are unfolded. This special issue is structured in three main axes: articles that study existential aspects of death and life in the Anthropocene and are apt to environmental approaches concerning the intricate relationship between death and life in water narratives, articles that focus on how to deal with eco-grief through the literary and artistic conceptualization of the ecologies of life and death, and articles that shed light on alternative ecologies of life and death beyond the Anthropocene and the western discourses. The discussion about various narratives of ecologies of life and death moves across boundaries, considering that all research fields involve forms of expression that somehow ‘disrupt’ entrenched patterns while at the same time ‘revealing’ their contingency and opening the discussion about life and death, ‘(un)settling’ dominant grief imaginaries and ‘mobilizing’ different sensibilities for the humans and non-humans.
Keywords Sacrifice zones • Water • Boglands • Samuel Beckett • Informational picturebooks • Caroline Walker Bynum • Literary lagoons • Harlem Renaissance • Postmodernism • African American Studies • Lila Avilés • Postmodern • Sustainability • Ethics • Laughter • Cultural ecology • Immanence • Human-animal relationship • Ecophobia • Posthumanism • Planetary literacy • Posthuman • Ecocriticism • Mexico • New taxidermy • Anthropocene • Northeast India • Death Studies • Crocodile • Loss • Donna Haraway • Comedy • Chinese Contemporary Art • Necrocene • Ecological mourning • Slow violence • Relationality • Continental Philosophy • Hegel • James Joyce • Animal Studies • Intersectionality • Land agency • Eco-art • Existentialism • Georges Bataille • Humanism • Eye of the Crocodile • Ned Beauman • Eco-horror • Wonder • Extinction • Blue humanities • Traditional knowledge • Eco-critical dystopia • Grief • Humanistic Care • Environmental mourning • Cyborg • Agential narrative • Death • Ecological grief • Slime • Clowns • Irony • Wetland ecology • Ecology • Val Plumwood • Sympoiesis • Indigenous epistemologies • Mourning • Søren Kierkegaard • Ecofeminism • Rebirth • Philosophical Animism • Human and nonhuman animal corpse • Indigeneity • Life • Plumwood • Ravencene • Alenka Zupančič • Cinema • Multispecies studies • Taxidermy • Dark ecology • The Marrow Thieves • Bataille • Clown • Speculative fiction
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2024/02 | Published Dec. 6, 2024 | Language en
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