Western Canada's natural environment faces intensifying threats from
industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and
cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently
the negative effects of global climate change. The complex nature of the
problems being addressed calls for productive interdisciplinary
solutions. In this book, arts and humanities scholars and literary and
visual artists tackle these pressing environmental issues in provocative
and transformative ways. Their commitment to environmental causes
emerges through the fields of environmental history, environmental and
ecocriticism, ecofeminism, ecoart, ecopoetry, and environmental
journalism.
This indispensable and timely resource constitutes a sustained
cross-pollinating conversation across the environmental humanities about
forms of representation and activism that enable ecological knowledge
and ethical action on behalf of Western Canadian environments, yet have
global reach. Among the developments in the contributors' construction
of environmental knowledge are a focus on the power of sentiment in
linking people to the fate of nature, and the need to decolonize social
and environmental relations and assumptions in the West.