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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


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

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


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

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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 …