Sense of place and sense of planet : the environmental imagination of the global / Ursula K. Heise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heise, Ursula K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism--United States--History.

Environmentalism.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Sense of Place and Sense of Planet' analyses the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing from the 1960s to the present.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Sense of Place and Sense of Planet; Part I: World Wide Webs: Imagining the Planet; Chapter 1. From the Blue Planet to Google Earth: Environmentalism, Ecocriticism, and the Imagination of the Global; Chapter 2. Among the Everywheres: Global Crowds and the Networked Planet; Chapter 3. Adventures in the Global Amazon; Part II: Planet at Risk; Chapter 4. Narrative in the World Risk Society; Chapter 5. Toxic Bodies, Corporate Poisons: Local Risks and Global Systems; Chapter 6. Afterglow: Chernobyl and the Everyday

Conclusion: Some Like It Hot: Climate Change and Eco-CosmopolitanismNotes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-242) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-85196-5

0-19-971480-0

9786611851965

0-19-533563-5

OCLC:

316257558