Call for Special Issue of Interval(le)s on “The Pastoral: New Trajectories in the Anthropocene”
“Pastoralism is a species of cultural equipment that western thought has for more than two millennia been unable to do without” (Lawrence Buell, 1995).
Since its very beginning, Ecocriticism – and its so-called four “waves” – has highlighted the inextricable entanglement of the pastoral with Western perceptions, representations and conceptualizations of the environment (Buell 1995; 2005; Slovic 2010). The recent emergence and multiplication of analytical perspectives, theories, and neologisms related to this subject, including the ‘post-pastoral’ (Gifford, 1999), the ‘postmodern pastoral’ (Corey and Waldrep 2012), and the ...