Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times

The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose...
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Author: Kate Rigby
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Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times by Rigby, Kate

Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times

€57,24

Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times

€57,24
Author: Kate Rigby
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath.

Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond to them in practice, Rigby also shows how works of narrative fiction invite ethical reflection on human relations with one another, with our often unruly earthly environs, and with other species in the face of eco-catastrophe. In its investigation of an array of authors from the Romantic period to the present--including Heinrich von Kleist, Mary Shelley, Theodor Storm, Colin Thiele, and Alexis Wright-- Dancing with Disaster demonstrates the importance of the environmental humanities in the development of more creative, compassionate, ecologically oriented, and socially just responses to the perils and possibilities of the Anthropocene.





Author: Kate Rigby
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 03/06/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780813936901


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2015

About the Author

Kate Rigby, author of Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (Virginia), is Professor of Environmental Humanities at Monash University.


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