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Rag Cosmology By Erin Robinsong, Camilla Nelson Feb 2018

Rag Cosmology By Erin Robinsong, Camilla Nelson

The Goose

Review of Erin Robinsong's Rag Cosmology.


Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, And Environmental Narrative By Alexa Weik Von Mossner, David Tagnani Feb 2018

Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, And Environmental Narrative By Alexa Weik Von Mossner, David Tagnani

The Goose

Review of Alexa Weik von Mossner's Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative.


Desert Pool {If Every Desert Was Once A Sea}, Karen Miranda Abel Sep 2017

Desert Pool {If Every Desert Was Once A Sea}, Karen Miranda Abel

The Goose

Desert Pool {If every desert was once a sea} is a site-specific art project by Canadian artist Karen Miranda Abel completed in 2016 while artist-in-residence at Joya: arte + ecología, an arts-led research centre situated in an alpine desert within a national park in southern Spain. The elemental installation represents an envisioning of the ancient sea that occupied the Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park millions of years before the current desert ecology, a time when its highest mountain peaks may have been islands.


Religion And Ecology: Developing A Planetary Ethic By Whitney A. Bauman, Paul T. Corrigan Jul 2017

Religion And Ecology: Developing A Planetary Ethic By Whitney A. Bauman, Paul T. Corrigan

The Goose

Review of Whitney A. Bauman's Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic.


Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense Of Living In A High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World By Kath Weston, Kelly Shepherd Jul 2017

Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense Of Living In A High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World By Kath Weston, Kelly Shepherd

The Goose

Review of Kath Weston's Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World.


Rapid Museum, Gary Barwin Sep 2016

Rapid Museum, Gary Barwin

The Goose

Poetry by Gary Barwin


Blank Five, Elizabeth Anne Godwin Sep 2016

Blank Five, Elizabeth Anne Godwin

The Goose

Poetry by Elizabeth Godwin


A World For My Daughter: An Ecologist's Search For Optimism By Alejandro Frid, Gina M. Granter Aug 2016

A World For My Daughter: An Ecologist's Search For Optimism By Alejandro Frid, Gina M. Granter

The Goose

Review of Alejandro Frid's A World for My Daughter: An Ecologist’s Search for Optimism.


Wildlife In The Anthropocene: Conservation After Nature By Jamie Lorimer, Pamela Banting Aug 2016

Wildlife In The Anthropocene: Conservation After Nature By Jamie Lorimer, Pamela Banting

The Goose

Review of Jamie Lorimer's Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation After Nature.


A New Index For Predicting Catastrophes By Madhur Anand, Andrew Gordon Jeffrey Aug 2016

A New Index For Predicting Catastrophes By Madhur Anand, Andrew Gordon Jeffrey

The Goose

A Review of Madhur Anand's A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes.


An Environmental History Of Medieval Europe By Richard C. Hoffman, Geneviève Pigeon Dr Aug 2016

An Environmental History Of Medieval Europe By Richard C. Hoffman, Geneviève Pigeon Dr

The Goose

Review of Richard C. Hoffman's An Environmental History of Medieval Europe.


Stone: An Ecology Of The Inhuman By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Joel Weishaus Aug 2016

Stone: An Ecology Of The Inhuman By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Joel Weishaus

The Goose

Review of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman


“And It’S Just When I Think I’Ve Won The Staring Contest”: Viewing The World Through Science And Poetry With Madhur Anand, Alec Follett Aug 2016

“And It’S Just When I Think I’Ve Won The Staring Contest”: Viewing The World Through Science And Poetry With Madhur Anand, Alec Follett

The Goose

In this interview, poet and ecologist Madhur Anand discusses her collection of poetry, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes, with Alec Follett. She considers the poetic potential of scientific language as well as other topics related to her poetry and her research including field guides, biodiversity, and socio-ecological relationships.


Field Notes For The Alpine Tundra By Elena Johnson, Claire Caldwell Feb 2016

Field Notes For The Alpine Tundra By Elena Johnson, Claire Caldwell

The Goose

Review of Elena Johnson's poetry collection, Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra.


Ground Truthing: Reimagining The Indigenous Rainforests Of Bc’S North Coast By Derrick Stacey Denholm, Carleigh Baker Feb 2016

Ground Truthing: Reimagining The Indigenous Rainforests Of Bc’S North Coast By Derrick Stacey Denholm, Carleigh Baker

The Goose

Review of Derrick Stacey Denholm's Ground Truthing: Reimagining the Indigenous Rainforests of BC’s North Coast.


Second Growth By Fabienne Calvert Filteau, Josephine M. Massarella Feb 2016

Second Growth By Fabienne Calvert Filteau, Josephine M. Massarella

The Goose

Review of Second Growth by Fabienne Calvert Filteau.


Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, And Ecology In Canadian Literary Studies Edited By Smaro Kamboureli And Christl Verduyn, Chad Weidner Aug 2015

Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, And Ecology In Canadian Literary Studies Edited By Smaro Kamboureli And Christl Verduyn, Chad Weidner

The Goose

Chad Weidner reviews Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn.


Merging: Contemplations On Farming & Ecology From Horseback By Soren Bondrup-Nielsen, Anna Banks Aug 2015

Merging: Contemplations On Farming & Ecology From Horseback By Soren Bondrup-Nielsen, Anna Banks

The Goose

Anna Banks reviews Merging: Contemplations on Farming & Ecology from Horseback, by Soren Bondrup-Nielsen.


Light Light By Julie Joosten, Mathieu Aubin Aug 2015

Light Light By Julie Joosten, Mathieu Aubin

The Goose

Mathieu Aubin's review of Light Light by Julie Joosten.


Hyperobjects: Philosophy And Ecology After The End Of The World By Timothy Morton, Bart H. Welling Feb 2015

Hyperobjects: Philosophy And Ecology After The End Of The World By Timothy Morton, Bart H. Welling

The Goose

Welling reviews Timothy Morton's book Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2013).


Interpreting, Stephanie Jo Kent Aug 2014

Interpreting, Stephanie Jo Kent

Doctoral Dissertations

What do community interpreting for the Deaf in western societies, conference interpreting for the European Parliament, and language brokering in international management have in common? Academic research and professional training have historically emphasized the linguistic and cognitive challenges of interpreting, neglecting or ignoring the social aspects that structure communication. All forms of interpreting are inherently social; they involve relationships among at least three people and two languages. The contexts explored here, American Sign Language/English interpreting and spoken language interpreting within the European Parliament, show that simultaneous interpreting involves attitudes, norms and values about intercultural communication that overemphasize information and discount …


Guddling About: Experiments In Vital Materialism With Particular Regard To Water, Minty Donald Aug 2014

Guddling About: Experiments In Vital Materialism With Particular Regard To Water, Minty Donald

The Goose

With reference to Jane Bennett’s notion of "vital materialism," this photo essay documents and reflects on Guddling About: a series of experiments or actions carried out by artists Nick Millar and Minty Donald with the Bow River and its watershed in Calgary and Southern Alberta in August-September 2013. Each experiment is described as a set of instructions — a script or score for an event — which can be enacted in any location where human settlement has evolved around a river. The experiments will be repeated, and new ones developed, with the River Clyde in Glasgow and Southern Scotland in …


The Management Of Feral Pig Socio-Ecological Systems In Far North Queensland, Australia, Gabriela Shuster Jan 2012

The Management Of Feral Pig Socio-Ecological Systems In Far North Queensland, Australia, Gabriela Shuster

Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses

The development of management programs for socio-ecological systems that include multiple stakeholders is a complex process and requires careful evaluation and planning. This is particularly a challenge in the presence of intractable conflict. The feral pig (Sus scrofa) in Australia is part of one such socio-ecological system. There is a large and heterogeneous group of stakeholders interested in pig management. Pigs have diverse effects on wildlife and plant ecology, economic, health, and social sectors. This study used the feral pig management system as a vehicle to examine intractable conflict in socio-ecological systems. The purpose of the study was …