Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland
By Kate Huber. University of Virginia Press, 2026.
Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—the place where many colonial methods were tested before being exported to the farther-flung portions of the empire. In Irish Ecomedia, Katherine M. Huber examines the environmental impacts of imperial rule and the various ways they have been expressed and rearticulated over time. Drawing on postcolonial ecocriticism, ecomedia studies, and other avant-garde critical methods, Huber considers multiple media at distinct moments of modernization in Ireland and shows ...
Ecocultural Sensibility and the Sustainability Revolution
“Like the other great revolutions, the coming sustainability revolution will also change the face of the land and the foundations of human identities, institutions, and cultures. Like the previous revolutions, it will take centuries to unfold fully–though it is already under way.” – Donnella Meadows
The Ecology & Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association is soliciting abstracts for papers/presentations at the 2027 National Conference, March 24-27 in Boston. Our Ecology & Culture Area theme this year is “Ecocultural Sensibility and the Sustainability Revolution” (other ...