March 5, 2024

By Micah McKay. University of Florida Press, 2024.

Trash and Limits in Latin American Culture looks at the role of waste in Latin American cultural texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and makes the case for foregrounding trash as an object of analysis in literary and cultural studies in Spanish America and Brazil. By considering how writers and filmmakers engage with the theme, Micah McKay argues that garbage illuminates key limits related to the region’s experience with contemporary capitalism.

Recognizing trash as an important ...

By Barbara Leckie. Stanford University Press, 2022.

In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the long nineteenth century through our current moment, her interdisciplinary treatment of climate change at once rethinks time and illustrates that the time for climate action is now.

Climate Change, Interrupted argues that linear, progress-inflected temporalities are not adequate to a crisis that defies their terms. Instead, this book advances a theory and practice of interruption to ...

By Kamala Platt. De Gruyter, 2023.

Environmental Justice Poetics: Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism From Chicanas and Women in India is a book that compels scholars, activists, artists and planetary citizens of all ilk to reconsider their relationships with earth and each other. More regenerative than groundbreaking, this study of expressive work by Mexican American and South Asian women engaged at the nexus of ecology and justice imparts a route toward a calm climate in an equitable world.

While offering a critique of patriarchal structures ...

By Boria Sax. Reaktion Books, 2023.

In 1985 Boria Sax inherited an area of forest in New York State that had been purchased by his Russian, Jewish Communist grandparents as a buffer against what they felt was a hostile world. For Sax, in the years following, the woodland came to represent a link with those who lived and had lived there, including Native Americans, settlers, bears, deer, turtles and migrating birds. In this personal and eloquent account, Sax explores the meanings and cultural history ...