Azucena Castro: June 2023 Scholar of the Month
ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for June 2023 is Azucena Castro.
Azucena Castro is a Swedish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University. She is also a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University, where she collaborates with the research group materia. Formerly, Castro was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Geography of the University of Buenos Aires, and a member of the Nature, Culture, Territory research group. She earned her Ph.D. at Stockholm ...
BRIDGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD – NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
By Scott T. Starbuck. Blue Light Press, 2023.
Winner of a 2023 Blue Light Book Award, Bridge at the End of the World, New and Selected Poems complements Scott T. Starbuck’s 30 years of activism and creative writing instruction, including his Trees, Fish, and Dreams Climateblog (with readers in 110 countries) and ecopoetry workshops at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the UC San Diego Masters of Advanced Studies Program in Climate Science and Policy.
The book features new work about the climate emergency and brings together ...
BREATHING AESTHETICS
By Jean-Thomas Tremblay. Duke University Press, 2022.
In Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive capitalism, imperialism, and structural racism are embodied and experienced through respiration. They identify responses to the crisis in breathing in aesthetic practices ranging from the film work of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta to the ...
ECOLOGIES OF A STORIED PLANET IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
By Serpil Oppermann. West Virginia University Press, 2023.
Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene is an intellectually engaging piece of scholarship. With transdisciplinarity and theoretical lucidity, it rethinks the Anthropocene from a material ecocritical perspective, envisioning innovative modes of knowledge for deeper understandings of Anthropocene ecologies. Focusing on nonhuman agencies, Oppermann shows in fascinating detail how to better imagine an ecological future on our storied planet that has suffered enormously from an anthropocentric mindset.
Serpil Oppermann is the Director of the Environmental Humanities ...
OUTBACK AND OUT WEST: THE SETTLER-COLONIAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINARY
By Tom Lynch. University of Nebraska Press, 2022.
Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary examines the ecological consequences of a settler-colonial imaginary by comparing expressions of settler colonialism in the literature of the American West and Australian Outback. In this powerful book, Lynch examines the shared themes of exogenous domination and the parallel methodologies of settlement in these regions –from pastoralism and homestead acts to afforestation initiatives and bioregional efforts at “belonging.” Lynch pairs the two nations’ texts to show how an ...