The ecophobia hypothesis / Simon C. Estok; with a foreword by Sophie Christman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estok, Simon C., author.

Contributor:

Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment

Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Physical Description:

xix, 197 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

"The Ecophobia Hypothesis grows out of a dissatisfaction with the capacity of what has come to be termed "the biophilia hypothesis" to adequately account for the kinds of things that are going on in the world, things so extraordinary that we are increasingly coming to understand the current age as "the Anthropocene." Building on the usefulness of the biophilia hypothesis, this text argues that biophilia exists within a context that has not been adequately theorized. The Ecophobia Hypothesis argues that in order to contextualize biophilia (literally, the "love of life") and the spectrum on which it sits, it is necessary to theorize how very un-philic human uses of the natural world are. This volume offers a rich tapestry of connected, comparative discussions about the new material turn and the urgent need to address the agency of genes, the complexities of 21st century representations of ecophobia, and of how imagining terror inter-penetrates with the imagining of an increasingly oppositional natural environment. Furthermore, this book confronts why ecomedia--a veritably thriving industry--is having so little measurable impact and where ecophobia fits into this equation, about scale and the ecophobic implications of speciesism, about the entanglement of environmental ethics with the writing of literary madness and pain. This work also investigates food and the ecophobic bases of industrial agriculture and meat, garbage, and about how current philosophies regarding waste need and sustain systemic and institutional ecophobia. This is a book about uncovering ecophobia and about making change" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Material ecocriticism, genes, and the phobia/philia spectrum

Terror and ecophobia

Ecomedia's enabling of globalized ecophobia: marketing concerns

From ecophobia to hollow ecology

Animals, ecophobia, and food

Madness and ecophobia

The ecophobic unconscious: indifference to waste and junk agency.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.

ISBN:

9781138502055

1138502057

OCLC:

1006619200