Every Grain of Sand: Canadian Perspectives on Ecology and Environment - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889204535 ISBN 13: 9780889204539

Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Universal in scope, yet focusing on recognizable Canadian places, this collection of essays connects individuals’ love of nature to larger social issues, to cultural activities, and to sustainable technology. Subjects include activism in Cape Breton, eco-feminism, Native perspectives on the history of humans’ relationship with the natural world, the inconsistency of humankind’s affinity with nature alongside its capacity to destroy, and scientific and traditional accounts of evolution and how they can come together for the welfare of Earth’s ecology. These essays encourage us to break down the power-based divisions of centre versus marginal politics, to talk with our perceived enemies in environmental wars, to consider activism as a personal commitment, and to resist the construction of a “post-natural” world.

Using a combination of personal memoirs and formal essays, Every Grain of Sand seeks to involve readers in the extraordinary places they inhabit—and usually take for granted—and will appeal to both the general reader and to students in humanities, social sciences, and environmental studies. It is unique for its presentation of entirely Canadian perspectives on ecology and environmental issues.

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J.A. Wainwright, a professor of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has published five books of poems and two novels, and is the editor of A Very Large Soul: Selected Letters from Margaret Laurence to Canadian Writers (1995).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0889204535
• ISBN 13: 9780889204539
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Herausgeber: Wainwright J. A.
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