(Another) Battle In The Clouds,
2017
University of Calgary
(Another) Battle In The Clouds, Mél Hogan
The Goose
At age ten, in 1918, Rachel Carson entered a writing contest and won. In "Battle in the Clouds", Carson wrote about the sky as a battlefield, where a soldier’s life is momentarily spared because of an act of bravery undeniable even by his enemies. They watch in awe and admiration rather than shoot. For my reimagining of the present as womb rather than grave, I reflect on the current use of the cloud in “cloud computing” to discuss the role of the internet and its material infrastructures in shaping earthly possibilities. I imagine the pace and place of awe rather …
Reading Speculative Futures In A Post-Truth World,
2017
Concordia University
Reading Speculative Futures In A Post-Truth World, Rachel Webb Jekanowski
The Goose
Faced with the threat of a “post-truth” world and a widening chasm of exchange between climate change deniers and environmentalists, I argue that future-orientated literary and media speculative fictions—which I term “speculative futures”—offer a means of building lines of communication across social and political divisions. This thought piece on “The Environmental Humanities in a Post-Truth World” mediates upon the potentiality of speculative futures as theory, social bridge-building, and pedagogical tool. Speculative fictions (especially those that address environmental justice, and anti-colonial and feminist politics) use storytelling and future imaginaries to challenge political falsehoods and imagine more ecological, de-colonized futures.
The Child To Come: Life After The Human Catastrophe By Rebekah Sheldon,
2017
University of British Columbia
The Child To Come: Life After The Human Catastrophe By Rebekah Sheldon, Nathan Tebokkel
The Goose
Review of Rebekah Sheldon's The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe.
From The Tundra To The Trenches By Eddy Weetaltuk,
2017
University of Calgary
From The Tundra To The Trenches By Eddy Weetaltuk, Vivian M. Hansen
The Goose
Review of Eddy Weetaltuk's From the Tundra to the Trenches.
Boundary Layer: Exploring The Genius Between Worlds By Kem Luther,
2017
independent scholar
Boundary Layer: Exploring The Genius Between Worlds By Kem Luther, Mary H. Scriver Rev.
The Goose
Review of Kem Luther's Boundary Layer: Exploring the Genius Between Worlds.
Littoral,
2017
Independent scholar/poet
Three Poems,
2017
Wilfrid Laurier University
Qigong Dancer,
2017
Farleigh Dickinson University
Escargatoire,
2017
University of Alberta
Creaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More And Less Than Human By Dominic Pettman,
2017
Dawson College
Creaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More And Less Than Human By Dominic Pettman, Gina M. Granter
The Goose
Review of Dominic Pettman's Creaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More and Less than Human.
Otolith By Emily Nilsen,
2017
none.
Otolith By Emily Nilsen, Christine Lowther
The Goose
Review of Emily Nilsen's Otolith.
Deep Salt Water By Marianne Apostolides,
2017
Wilfrid Laurier University
Deep Salt Water By Marianne Apostolides, Jenna Gersie
The Goose
Review of Marianne Apostolide's Deep Salt Water.
The Moth Snowstorm By Michael Mccarthy,
2017
None
The Moth Snowstorm By Michael Mccarthy, Joanna Streetly
The Goose
Review of Michael McCarthy's The Moth Snowstorm.
Ice Bear: The Cultural History Of An Arctic Icon By Michael Engelhard,
2017
Université du Québec à Montréal
Ice Bear: The Cultural History Of An Arctic Icon By Michael Engelhard, Geneviève Pigeon
The Goose
Review of Michael Engelhard's Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon.
Barking & Biting: The Poetry Of Sina Queyras Selected By Erin Wunker,
2017
Wilfrid Laurier University
Barking & Biting: The Poetry Of Sina Queyras Selected By Erin Wunker, Jenny Kerber
The Goose
Review of Erin Wunker's (ed.) Barking & Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras.
Believing Is Not The Same As Being Saved By Lisa Martin,
2017
University of Saskatchewan
Believing Is Not The Same As Being Saved By Lisa Martin, Gillian Harding-Russell
The Goose
Review of Lisa Martin's Believing is not the same as Being Saved.
Emergent Ecologies By Eben Kirksey,
2017
Lakehead University Orillia
Emergent Ecologies By Eben Kirksey, Cheryl Lousley
The Goose
Review of Emergent Ecologies by Eben Kirksey.
Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense Of Living In A High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World By Kath Weston,
2017
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
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.
Religion And Ecology: Developing A Planetary Ethic By Whitney A. Bauman,
2017
Southeastern University - Lakeland
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.
Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History Of Inuit, Newcomers, And Climate Change By Shelley Wright,
2017
University of British Columbia
Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History Of Inuit, Newcomers, And Climate Change By Shelley Wright, Benjamin C. O'Heran
The Goose
Review of Shelley Wright's Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change.
