Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene
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- 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 Ned Beauman • Human-animal relationship • New taxidermy • Georges Bataille • Traditional knowledge • Indigeneity • Lila Avilés • Speculative fiction • Intersectionality • Dark ecology • Existentialism • Northeast India • Ecocriticism • Ecological mourning • Sustainability • Cinema • Informational picturebooks • Agential narrative • Donna Haraway • Irony • Eco-horror • Slime • Indigenous epistemologies • Continental Philosophy • Eye of the Crocodile • Clowns • Sacrifice zones • Ecological grief • Literary lagoons • Cyborg • Bataille • Taxidermy • Cultural ecology • Mexico • Water • Clown • African American Studies • Plumwood • Animal Studies • Death • Land agency • James Joyce • Boglands • Relationality • Wetland ecology • Alenka Zupančič • Laughter • Extinction • Eco-critical dystopia • Rebirth • Wonder • Posthumanism • Anthropocene • Grief • Søren Kierkegaard • Blue humanities • Mourning • Immanence • The Marrow Thieves • Multispecies studies • Sympoiesis • Samuel Beckett • Necrocene • Human and nonhuman animal corpse • Ecophobia • Death Studies • Slow violence • Ravencene • Ecofeminism • Val Plumwood • Philosophical Animism • Harlem Renaissance • Humanism • Postmodern • Caroline Walker Bynum • Eco-art • Postmodernism • Life • Humanistic Care • Planetary literacy • Environmental mourning • Comedy • Ethics • Hegel • Crocodile • Loss • Chinese Contemporary Art • Posthuman • Ecology
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2024/02 | Pubblicato 06 Dicembre 2024 | Lingua en
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