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Upstream Downtown: Theatre Creation Through A Feminist And Multispecies Lens, Morgan Johnson, Alexandra Simpson Jun 2019

Upstream Downtown: Theatre Creation Through A Feminist And Multispecies Lens, Morgan Johnson, Alexandra Simpson

The Goose

In the historically masculine Western sciences, we are told we can fully know a being by dissecting, labelling, testing, observing, and documenting. This article explores how multispecies and feminist theatre creation and performance, specifically in the style of clown and bouffon, can work to resist such narratives and offer a more sentient understanding of interspecies relationships. Our investigations focus on our journey as two female creators of Upstream Downtown, a research-based, physical theatre play about salmon and humans finding home in the settler colonial city of Toronto.


Arts Of Living On A Damaged Planet: Ghosts And Monsters Of The Anthropocene By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, And Nils Bubandt, Randy Lee Cutler Jun 2019

Arts Of Living On A Damaged Planet: Ghosts And Monsters Of The Anthropocene By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, And Nils Bubandt, Randy Lee Cutler

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Review of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt's Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene.


Beetle, Monty Reid Jun 2019

Beetle, Monty Reid

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Poetry by Monty Reid.


Save The Trees. Save Humanity., Lindsey Davis Jun 2019

Save The Trees. Save Humanity., Lindsey Davis

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Visual art by Lindsey Davis


Environmental Art And Activism: Editors’ Notebook, Alec Follett, Melanie Dennis Unrau Jun 2019

Environmental Art And Activism: Editors’ Notebook, Alec Follett, Melanie Dennis Unrau

The Goose

Editorial introduction to the special issue on environmental art and activism, The Goose, volume 17, issue 2 (2019).


Split Tooth By Tanya Tagaq, Brieanna Lebel Jun 2019

Split Tooth By Tanya Tagaq, Brieanna Lebel

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Review of Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth


Landscape Into Eco Art: Articulations Of Nature Since The ‘60s By Mark A. Cheetham, Emma Morgan-Thorp Jun 2019

Landscape Into Eco Art: Articulations Of Nature Since The ‘60s By Mark A. Cheetham, Emma Morgan-Thorp

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Review of Mark A. Cheetham's Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the '60s


Art For Animals: Visual Culture And Animal Advocacy, 1870-1914 By J. Keri Cronin, Gina M. Granter Jun 2019

Art For Animals: Visual Culture And Animal Advocacy, 1870-1914 By J. Keri Cronin, Gina M. Granter

The Goose

Teview of J. Keri Cronin's Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870-1914


Hawk On Wire: Ecopoems By Scott T. Starbuck, Vivian M. Hansen Jun 2019

Hawk On Wire: Ecopoems By Scott T. Starbuck, Vivian M. Hansen

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Review of Scott T. Starbuck’s Hawk on Wire: Ecopoems


Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage And A Rising Tide Of Activism To Fight Plastic Pollution By Marcus Eriksen, Allison K. Athens Jun 2019

Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage And A Rising Tide Of Activism To Fight Plastic Pollution By Marcus Eriksen, Allison K. Athens

The Goose

Review of Marcus Eriksen's Junk Raft: an Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution


Bad Environmentalism: Irony And Irreverence In The Ecological Age By Nicole Seymour, Delia Byrnes Jun 2019

Bad Environmentalism: Irony And Irreverence In The Ecological Age By Nicole Seymour, Delia Byrnes

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Review of Nicole Seymour’s Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age


Anthropocene By Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, And Nicholas De Pencier, David Shaw Jun 2019

Anthropocene By Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, And Nicholas De Pencier, David Shaw

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Review of Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas De Pencier's Anthropocene


For The Wild: Ritual And Commitment In Radical Eco-Activism By Sarah M. Pike, Alda Balthrop-Lewis Jun 2019

For The Wild: Ritual And Commitment In Radical Eco-Activism By Sarah M. Pike, Alda Balthrop-Lewis

The Goose

Review of Sarah M. Pike's For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism


The World To Come: Art In The Age Of The Anthropocene By Kerry Oliver-Smith, Tracy Qiu Jun 2019

The World To Come: Art In The Age Of The Anthropocene By Kerry Oliver-Smith, Tracy Qiu

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Review of Kerry Oliver-Smith's The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene


Ph: A Novel By Nancy Lord, Jennifer Schell Jun 2019

Ph: A Novel By Nancy Lord, Jennifer Schell

The Goose

Review of Nancy Lord's pH: A Novel


Anthropocene Blues By John Lane, Jessica S. Cory Jun 2019

Anthropocene Blues By John Lane, Jessica S. Cory

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Review of John Lane's Anthropocene Blues


Silence, Memona Hossain Jun 2019

Silence, Memona Hossain

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Poetry by Memona Hossain


The Ocean Container By Patrik Sampler, Angie Abdou Jun 2019

The Ocean Container By Patrik Sampler, Angie Abdou

The Goose

Review of Patrik Sampler's The Ocean Container


Shale Play: Poems And Photographs From The Fracking Fields By Julia Spicher Kasdorf And Steven Rubin, Kelly Shepherd Jun 2019

Shale Play: Poems And Photographs From The Fracking Fields By Julia Spicher Kasdorf And Steven Rubin, Kelly Shepherd

The Goose

Review of Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin's Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields


Blockade, Rob B. Budde Jun 2019

Blockade, Rob B. Budde

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Poetry by Rob B. Budde


Cranberry Picking Season, Lois Beardslee Jun 2019

Cranberry Picking Season, Lois Beardslee

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Poetry by Lois Beardslee


Conservation, Laurie D. Graham Jun 2019

Conservation, Laurie D. Graham

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Poetry by Laurie D. Graham


Lawgleaning, Natalie Joelle Jun 2019

Lawgleaning, Natalie Joelle

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Poetry by Natalie Joelle


Forest Protest Against Kinder Morgan Pipeline, Andrea L. Nicki Jun 2019

Forest Protest Against Kinder Morgan Pipeline, Andrea L. Nicki

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Poetry by Andrea L. Nicki


Ecological Art: Art With A Purpose, Aaron M. Ellison, David Buckley Borden May 2019

Ecological Art: Art With A Purpose, Aaron M. Ellison, David Buckley Borden

The Goose

Ecological art is purposeful and often prescriptive: the actions and directions intended by the artists for activists to undertake often are clearly represented. Yet, ecological art has been no more successful than, for example, targeted scientific research, deposits on returnable bottles, or land-protection campaigns at slowing global warming, reducing the amount of waste we generate every day, or halting the ongoing sixth mass extinction in the history of the Earth. Here, we consider the idea that prescriptive ecological art provides insufficient mental space for creative reflection about future scenarios of, and responses to, environmental change. We ask whether, by presenting …


Writer As Activist, Activist As Writer, Marybeth Holleman May 2019

Writer As Activist, Activist As Writer, Marybeth Holleman

The Goose

This brief essay describes the quandry and found guidelines of balancing art and activism, specifically as a writer. Examples come from the author's own work.


Imagining Action In/Against The Anthropocene: Narrative Impasse And The Necessity Of Alternatives To Effect Resistance, Ariel Kroon Feb 2019

Imagining Action In/Against The Anthropocene: Narrative Impasse And The Necessity Of Alternatives To Effect Resistance, Ariel Kroon

The Goose

The Anthropocene has emerged as the dominant conception of the contemporary moment, centering the human individual as both responsible for and bearing the responsibility to counteract its numerous interrelated socioeconomic, political, and environmental issues including the staggering loss of biodiversity across the globe and the reality of anthropogenic climate change. This constitutes a significant psychological impasse that disempowers and disenfranchises humans living in this epoch, discouraging any substantive individual effort. Drawing on the posthuman feminist philosophy of theorists such as Rosi Braidotti and Stacy Alaimo together with a reflection of the power of science fiction as a literature of cognitive …