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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 271–284.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Margherita Long Abstract This essay introduces three works of post-Fukushima Japanese literature, by Hayashi Kyoko (1930–2017), Kimura Yusuke (1970–) and Kobayashi Erika (1978–), to offer an environmental humanities alternative to Giorgio Agamben's response to COVID-19. Politically, Hayashi...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Ban Wang Abstract Touting the technological fix for environmental crises overlooks the role of society, history, culture, production, and geography. Anthropocene , presuming all civilizations as ecologically destructive, ignores the historical, social, and cultural differences in human-nature...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Cheng Li Abstract By engaging with and bringing together Chinese environmental humanities and science fiction studies, this article argues that the narratives of weather and climate revealed in late Qing science fiction serve as a metonymic vehicle and a medium for addressing China's social...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 196–218.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., the article demonstrates how Chen's “Weilai Bingshi” 未來病史 (A History of Future Illnesses) reflects the collective fear and anxiety of human beings when encountering a range of environmental crises. Turning to his “Balin” 巴鱗 (Balin), “Taikong Dacong” 太空大蔥 (Space Leek), and “Jun Ge” 菌歌 (Do You Hear the Fungi...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... In conceptualizing the expansion of eco-literature globally within the Anthropocene, Timothy Clark has noted the potential of creating a “world literary criticism” that comprehensively acknowledges “social and environmental diversity, along with the ethical claims of non-human lives.” 21 He echoes Heise...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): vii–viii.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... Centered in the Bay Area of California, a techno hegemony is eroding the humanist tradition, aggravating environmental crises, ravaging the earth, and alienating humans from themselves. Under the rubric of politics, aesthetics, and ecology, the class provided an opportunity for students and the instructor...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
... neoliberal economy that lays the only realistic foundation for such a totality, albeit under negative circumstances. This economy has caused a rapid environmental deterioration that involves everyone on the planet, regardless of identity. Human beings are left with just two choices: either collectively forge...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in the mid-1980s in north America, has become one of the fastest-growing fields in the humanities. 3 Now, after almost forty years, the field has swiftly expanded into what is called environmental humanities, a global phenomenon. 4 The majority of humanists and cultural workers are jumping...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Environmental writers have sought to retrieve ecological wisdom from traditional Chinese thought to critique anthropocentrism, but the rediscoveries remain a disembodied discourse and ignore the relationships among humans: the political, social, and economic structures and power...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... in a park on smog days. Different from environmentally focused, avant-garde smog art, which utilizes art or performance as a part of activists' air pollution awareness-raising arsenal, smog life as a day-to-day art of living opens up possibilities for slow thinking about other forms of human/air connections...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Ban Wang Abstract Contemporary environmental crises have their origin in the anthropocentric view of humans as separable from and superior to the natural world. Anthropocentrism also marks the realist author of modern Chinese fiction. Departing from that human-centered view, Shen Congwen's work...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
... readers in our age of eco-crisis. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Lingnan University 2024 dystopia humanism posthumanism materialism crisis As ecocatastrophe becomes an increasingly greater possibility, so will the occasions for environmental apocalyptic expression. . . . Can...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 106–118.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., documentary filmmakers expose the conditions of alienated labor and the environmental and human costs of unfettered development. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 dignity labor commodity documentary reification The film Young People in Our Village ( Women...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract “Ecotopia” describes the social ecology of a world whose socioeconomic institutions are premised on the utopian dream of the reconciliation of the human and nature. The Mars Republic of Hao Jingfang's novel Vagabonds is built through advanced technologies that allow humans...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 244–255.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the African American literary canon. 26 Whether such a move can meet the challenges of the inability of humanism to redress anti-Blackness and other forms of racial violence, on the one hand, and the risks of analogy, on the other, remains to be seen. Today's racial and environmental crises raise the issue...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 238–255.
Published: 01 March 2024
... entangled complicity and ambiguity between utopia and dystopia. The Mars Republic in the novel represents an ecotopia built through advanced technologies, where Martians adapt to the arid environment in contrast with the environmentally degraded earth. The novel portrays encounters, shocks, and mutual...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 103–115.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and add to the worsening environmental mayhem. To restore true green to our homeland, we now know that we must first restore our keen, multipart, and integrated sensibility to the nonhuman world, by virtue of embodied human affect. It is therefore imperative that we gain back our fully functioning...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., or milieu) can be traced back as far as the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BCE). My intervention is derived from its modern incarnations as evinced by Watsuji Tetsurô’s 和辻哲郎 (1889–1960) Fûdo: Ningengakuteki kôsatsu 風土: 人間学的考察 (Milieus: A Study of the Human Linkage, 1935), as well as the French environmental...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 197–199.
Published: 01 December 2022
... ecoambiguity, 2, 57 ecofeminism, 12, 14, 136, 186 ecosocialism, 6, 8, 10, 170, 173 ecotopia, 14, 164, 166–67, 170, 178–79 Ecotopia (Callenbach), 164 Elvin, Mark, 1 enlightenment, 8, 10, 14, 35–38, 40–42, 45, 56, 60, 78, 176, 181 environmental humanities, vii Eternal Hospital (Hao...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Forum we have commissioned three essays that examine a set of intersecting theoretical and methodological concerns within the fields of animal studies, critical race studies, and environmental humanities, with a view to reflecting on how these theories and methodologies may be applied not only...
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