Imperialism, Narrative and the Environment

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Posted on 12 October 2012

Dr Anthony Carrigan, Research Institute for the Humanities, this week co-ordinated a workshop on the core research theme of ecological imperialism at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.

The workshop dealt with environmental problems, such as climate change, deforestation, toxicity, the food crisis, and water and agricultural resource management.

While the field of literary studies is sometimes seen as distant from empirical and scientific concerns about global climate change and other ecological crises, the workshop emphasized the profound ways in which our understandings of the history of imperialism and the environment are embedded in language, narrative, media, and the cultural imagination.

Participants examined points of overlap and divergence in the narrative forms of imperial history and ecocriticism.

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