Stories Deserts: Re-Imagining Arid Environments
Storied Deserts: Re-Imagining Arid Environments
Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2021
Celina Osuna, Arizona State University
Aidan Tynan, Cardiff University Contact email: tynana@cardiff.ac.uk or celina.osuna@asu.edu
Desert landscapes and ecologies have become central to our perceptions of space and place and to the stories we tell ourselves about the environment. In Western traditions, we frequently see deserts represented as dead or valueless, or merely as exotic backdrops. Such depictions often encode racism and histories of colonial violence. Our conceptions of the desert as wasteland or hostile wilderness can be traced back to Biblical ...