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Extreme pursuits
Recent figures suggest that there will be 1.6 billion arrivals at world airports by the year 2020. Extreme Pursuits looks at the new conditions of global travel and the unease, even paranoia, that underlies them—at the opportunities they offer for alternative identities and their oscillation between remembered and anticipated states. Graham Huggan offers a provocative account of what is happening to travel at a time characterized by extremes of social and political instability in which adrenaline-filled travelers appear correspondingly determined to take risks. It includes discussions of the links between tourism and terrorism, of contemporary modes of disaster tourism, and of the writing that derives from these; but it also confirms the existence of more responsible forms of travel/writing that demonstrate awareness of a chronically endangered world.
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What Are Conservation Humanities? Preliminary Reflections on an Emerging Paradigm
It is increasingly acknowledged that one of the primary tasks of the humanities today is to engage with environmental issues: all the more so in light of the Anthropocene, which underlines significant—indeed transformative—human influence on the planet, even as it reiterates that humans are themselves shaped by ecological processes, at least some of which are beyond their control (N [...]
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Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North
This book approaches the Arctic from a postcolonial perspective, taking into account both its historical status as a colonised region and new, economically driven forms of colonialism. One catchphrase currently being used to describe these new colonialisms is 'the scramble for the Arctic'. This cross-disciplinary study, featuring contributions from an international team of experts in the field, offers a set of broadly postcolonial perspectives on the European Arctic, which is taken here as ranging from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic to the upper regions of Norway and Sweden in the European High North.
While the contributors acknowledge the renewed scramble for resources that characterises the region, it also argues the need to 'unscramble' the Arctic, wresting it away from its persistent status as a fixed object of western control and knowledge. Instead, the book encourages a reassertion of micro-histories of Arctic space and territory that complicate western grand narratives of technological progress, politico-economic development, and ecological 'state change'. It will be of interest to scholars of Arctic Studies across all disciplines.
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Nature's Saviours
Today's celebrity conservationists, many of whom made their reputations through television and other visual media, play a major role in drawing public attention to an increasingly threatened world. This book, one of the first to address this contribution, focuses on five key figures: the English naturalist David Attenborough, the French marine adventurer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the American primatologist Dian Fossey, the Canadian scientist-broadcaster-activist David Suzuki, and the Australian 'crocodile hunter' Steve Irwin.
Some of the issues the author addresses include: What is the changing relationship between western conservation and celebrity? How has the spread of television helped shape and mediate this relationship? To what extent can celebrity conservation be seen as part of a global system in which conservation, like celebrity, is big business? The book critically examines the heroic status accorded to the five figures mentioned above, taking in the various discourses - around nature, science, nation, gender - through which they and their work have been presented to us. In doing so, it fills in the cultural, historical and ideological background behind contemporary celebrity conservationism as a popular expression of a chronically endangered world.
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Globaloney and the Australian writer Paper in special conference issue: Australian Literature in a Global World. Ommundsen, Wenche and Simoes da Silva. Tony (eds).
According to this view, expatriates are both semantically and psychologically passé: 'Any reality associated with the term has long [since] vanished', declares Clyde Packer in his 1984 book No Return Ticket, while Ros Pesman concludes her more recent study of Australian women abroad by reflecting on her daughter, who currently lives in Paris and for whom the decision whether or not to become an expatriate is a non-issue, because under the current conditions of the 'global village', she can 'commute between Europe and Australia at will' (Pesman et al, 1996 221-2, qtd in Britain, 1997 243). [...]far from profiting from the allegedly worldly perspective of the expatriate author as seasoned cultural traveller, Greer's essay belatedly rehearses a cultural-nationalist rhetoric of embattled Australianness that effectively turns its face from the global realities of present-day Australia, and that substitutes a marketable version of long-distance nationalism for a more detailed historical understanding of the nation's inevitably changing socio-political position within an increasingly globalised world. A similarly self-ironic view of fame can be found in the work of another expatriate-cum-global celebrity, Peter Carey, who seems to have been spared-but then again didn't invite-the worst excesses of Australian 'Greerophobia', but some of whose self-consciously mythicised assertions about Australia have made him the target of Australian cultural-nationalist globaloney just the same. Since Carey first burst onto the Australian literary scene in the mid 70s, he has rapidly made a name for himself as Australia's internationally best-known literary figure, a self-consciously 'national author' who has long since chosen to live outside the nation; and whose cleverly crafted fictions, playing on popular perceptions of a distinctly Australian idiom, have probably done more than any other contemporary writer's to create an authentic image of Australia, managed and marketed from abroad (Turner 1993). [...]we might go beyond this to locate a further level of critique whereby Carey suggests to us that, while it is certainly useful to account for the influence of globalisation processes on the contemporary art market, that market itself is not necessarily global; rather, it is 'concentrated in the major financial centres [New York, London, Tokyo] of the developed world' (van den Bosch, 2005 8).
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Interdisciplinary measures
Interdisciplinary Measures makes the case for a cross-disciplinary, but literature-centred, approach to postcolonial studies. Despite the anxieties that interdisciplinarity brings with it, a combination of different, discontinuously structured disciplinary knowledges is arguably best suited to address the tangled concerns of both the globalised present and the colonial past. The book looks specifically at the intersections between literary criticism, history, anthropology, geography and environmental studies, while arguing more specifically for a postcolonialism across the disciplines in the service of informed (cross-) cultural critique. Bringing together a wide range of literary material from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand and South Asia, the book also considers the different, but sometimes related, cultural contexts within which the key debates in postcolonial studies – e.g. those around globalisation, North-South relations and the new imperialism – are currently taking place. These debates suggest the need for a multi-sited, multilinguistic and, not least, multidisciplinary appraoch to postcolonial studies that consolidates its status as a comparative field.
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