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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: J.A. WainwrightPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780889204539ISBN 10: 0889204535 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 30 December 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Introduction (J A Wainwright); The World is Your Body (Lionel Rubinoff); Growing Roots in Nature (Karen Krug); The Marginal World (Cate Sandilands); Reflections of a Zealot (Elizabeth May); Going Home: Memories of the Natural World (J A Wainwright); Who Cares About the Meadow: The Changing Conversation around Religion and Ecology (Anne Marie Dalton); Towards an Ecofeminist Phenomenology of Nature (Trish Glazebrook); Romantic Origins of Environmentalism (Onno Oerlemans); Wintergreen: Reflections from Loon Lake Afterword (Monte Hummel); Listening to Our Ancestors:Rebuilding Indigenous Nations in the Face of Environmental Destruction (Leanne Simpson); Cutting a Deal with Attila:Confrontation, Capitulation, and Resolution in Environmental Conflict (Ehor Boyanowsky); Romancing the Labrador: The Social Construction of Wilderness and the Labrador Frontier (Peter Armitage); Prey Jarmo Jalava).ReviewsJust as the rallying cry the personal is the political focused for feminism the ways in which self and world, private and public, come together, these fourteen essays of narrative scholarship highlight for anyone with an interest in the environment the tenet that political issues acid rain, pesticide use, corporate business, urban sprawl, erdication of habitat are personal, not abstractions at all. - Pamela Banting, professor of English, University of Calgary, editor of the anthology, Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape. The introduction neatly ties the essays together, and the collection is well organized so that the essays follow in logical sequence. Most of them are well written, and none pose any serious problems in terms of readability. Most are accessible even to undergraduates.... A few of the essays are real gems that are sure to find a place in classroom discussions in courses in environmental studies and in religion and ecology. The field of literary criticism is well represented, and the book will have some broader appeal in the humanities and social sciences. The narrative character of these writings increases their accessibility, and most of the essays are further enhanced by providing definitions of terms when necessary.... This book is unique in being a Canadian collection, unlike most anthologies on ecology and the environment, which are American. The contributors show an awareness of issues beyond national borders, and demonstrate the need to speak beyond regional interests.''--Barbara Jane Davy Ecotheology Just as the rallying cry the personal is the political'' focused for feminism the ways in which self and world, private and public, come together, these fourteen essays of narrative scholarship highlight for anyone with an interest in the environment the tenet that political issues--acid rain, pesticide use, corporate business, urban sprawl, erdication of habitat--are personal, not abstractions at all.''--Pamela Banting Every Grain of Sand urges readers to resist the construction of a post-natural world.''--Alexander Craig Canadian Book Review Annual, 2006 Even though the perspectives are Canadian, the issues are universal, making Every Grain of Sand a very strongly recommended addition to environmental studies academic library collections and supplemental reading lists, as well as thoughtful and thought-provoking reading for non-specialist general readers with an interest in nature and environmental issues.''--Betsy Hogan Several interconnected themes run through this richly diverse volue, which blends the insights of both doers and contemplators.... [The book's chapters] are creative perspectives on, and nicely complementary to, the contributions to the understanding of the earth and our place in it that we get from environmental scientists.... Connections back and forth among poets and scientists have regrettably become a rariety in the early twenty-first century.... Every Grain of Sand takes us in these and other rewarding directions, and deserves to be widely read by all interested in the conditions of Canada's natural environment.''--Robert Boardman Scientia Canadensis In presenting a wide range of theoretical perspectives on what ecology is and why it is important to Canada, [Every Grain of Sand] succeeds admirably....Readers familiar with ecological theory will find much that is familiar here (and the book would serve as a good introduction to contemporary ecological theory), but they will also find much that is new....In insisting that one of the most potent forces of opposition to end-of-nature scenarios is positive human memory of the experience of nature, ' J.A. Wainwright places this book within a tradition of nature-writing that combines a clear-sighted recognition of the irreplaceable gifts that the experience of nature can give to those who are fortunate enough to receive them with an anxious recognition of the precarious state of such experiences in the modern world.''--Alan Bewell Author InformationJ A Wainwright, a professor of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has published five books of poems and two novels. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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