Ecocritical Visual Cultures of the Commons
Guaranteed panel at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference “Reclaiming the Commons”, sponsored by the Eco-critical Visual Culture interest group.
July 9-12, 2023 in Portland Oregon
Topics might include:
— Land Commons and Enclosures — Gleaning and gleaners –imaging and re-imagining the commons –utopian commons/ communes / communities –wild food commons –wild animal populations as “resources” –ocean and shoreline commons: wrack, drift, ambiguity –Going to waste / landscape as “wasteland” –Commons as ruin or “resources” –“Improvement” and the clearances of industrial agriculture
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to Maura Coughlin, m.coughlin@northeastern.edu by ...