Journal |
Lagoonscapes
Monographic journal issue | 4 | 2 | 2024
Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Peggy Karpouzou - National and Kapodistian University of Athens, Greece - email orcid profile
- Nikoleta Zampaki - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece - 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 Cultural ecology • Posthuman • Traditional knowledge • Alenka Zupančič • Grief • Ecofeminism • Ecology • Lila Avilés • Cyborg • Necrocene • Harlem Renaissance • Indigeneity • Chinese Contemporary Art • Samuel Beckett • Mourning • Wetland ecology • Irony • Extinction • Speculative fiction • Death Studies • Ethics • Eye of the Crocodile • Eco-critical dystopia • Plumwood • Dark ecology • Clown • Literary lagoons • Slow violence • Donna Haraway • Laughter • Ecological mourning • Agential narrative • Caroline Walker Bynum • Eco-art • Continental Philosophy • Existentialism • Informational picturebooks • Animal Studies • Ecological grief • Georges Bataille • Environmental mourning • Relationality • Cinema • Taxidermy • Ned Beauman • Søren Kierkegaard • James Joyce • Planetary literacy • Hegel • Postmodernism • Rebirth • Land agency • Human and nonhuman animal corpse • Sacrifice zones • Val Plumwood • Mexico • Ravencene • The Marrow Thieves • Water • Life • Death • Humanistic Care • African American Studies • Ecocriticism • Sustainability • Crocodile • Boglands • Bataille • Clowns • Postmodern • Blue humanities • Slime • Human-animal relationship • Multispecies studies • Eco-horror • Anthropocene • Humanism • Loss • Ecophobia • Indigenous epistemologies • Wonder • Intersectionality • Northeast India • Philosophical Animism • Sympoiesis • Comedy • New taxidermy • Immanence • Posthumanism
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2024/02 | Published Dec. 6, 2024 | Language en
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- Editorial
- Dec. 6, 2024
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Bataille’s Laughter: Comedy, Irony, or Wonder?
Examining Ecstasy as an Anthropocentric Limit - Dec. 6, 2024
- Slimy Fertility: Lagoons and Climate Change
- Dec. 6, 2024
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The Ongoing Grief of Boglands
Re-Interpreting Ecological Grief with Lessons in Sympoiesis and Wetland Ecology - Dec. 6, 2024
- The Price of Extinction and the Epic Journey to Mourn Beyond the Human in Ned Beauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker
- Dec. 6, 2024
- Mourning the Mounted: An Analysis of the Taxidermy Exhibition Dead Animals with a Story
- Dec. 6, 2024
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Life, Death and Sustainability through Indigenous Literature
An Ecocritical Study of Selected Works from Northeast India - Dec. 6, 2024
