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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 219–237.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that the perceived “natural” and unequal systems are the root causes behind such irresponsible behavior, serving as a symptom of alienation. Through an analysis of Waste Tide , this article examines the relationship between environmental injustice and indifference, demonstrating that waste, as evidence...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
... relations. The contributors of this issue mount a humanistic critique of structural inequalities, alienating social relations, and environmental injustice in environmental crises while articulating cultural and religious legacies in human-nature relations. [email protected] Copyright © 2024...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 196–218.
Published: 01 March 2024
... stories consistently exhibit characteristics of generic hybridity and speculative realist impulse by addressing important themes of environmental and social injustice. Comparable to how “for centuries, Chinese intellectuals wrote about the past as a way to critique the present,” Chen's stories “write...
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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 (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
... By lumping all humans together as equally guilty of ravaging the planet, the Anthropocene fails to confront capitalism's excessive extraction of nature and exploitation of labor. An abstract term like human fossil footprint glosses over social and environmental injustice: the alienation of the human...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2022
... “linked to the domination of other humans and of inner human nature.” 6 Environmental injustice is social injustice. From this perspective, we find Kang Youwei's recovery of Confucian concepts regarding human-nature relations to be a critical resource. Kang Youwei 康有為 (1858–1927) was a prominent...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
... aesthetics by building ersatz European-style mansions. Located on the high ground of the hill, the rich residences stay away from the squalor and toxic shacks steeped in trash, waste, and filth. Environmental injustice is mirrored by the gulf between the haves and have-nots: “Silicon Isle Town is located...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 March 2019
... studies has focused on contemporary environmental despoliation; environmental injustice linked to social injustice, public policy, neoliberal production, and consumerism; and romantic traditions of human-nature bonds. Faced with looming calamities, ecocritics tend to focus on recent works of literature...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 55–74.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., and evolutionary existence. Yet, as Anderson notes in his critique of May Fourth realism, this disembodied stance runs into the limits of tenacious nature and biology. Ecocriticism in Chinese studies has focused on contemporary environmental despoliation; on environmental injustice linked to social injustice...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., in both instances, Ye displays empathy for the victims and anger on their behalf. Her perspective elevates environmental degradation to a form of violence and suggests that the trees, like her father, are victims of a shared injustice. The full extent of this injustice can be determined through a close...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 19–32.
Published: 01 March 2019
... ordinary citizens can legally challenge perceived injustices, even though as few as 1 percent of petitions ever result in a successful resolution for the petitioner. 7 Many of the complaints that Daideng addresses in the novel appear comparatively mundane, such as a long-running dispute between two...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 March 2024
...” by 2035. 15 A Xinjiang policy document details how each of the three campaigns should improve population and environmental quality. For example, “advocate a new lifestyle” directives include “guide each ethnic collective to strengthen the ‘Five Identifications,’ actively endeavor to ‘becoming...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... (On the Power of Mara Poetry), Lu Xun discerns the seeds of environmental crisis in the fetishism of technology and science and the feverish quest of wealth and power. Science discourse renders the natural world desolate, meaningless, and disenchanted; the nation's developmental agendas set the eye...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of modernity. In the essay “Moluo shili shuo” 摩羅詩力說 (On the Power of Mara Poetry), Lu Xun discerns the seeds of environmental crisis in technological fetishism and the quest of wealth and power. Science discourse renders the natural world desolate, meaningless, and disenchanted; the nation's developmental...
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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 (2021) 18 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 March 2021
... patterns of racial injustice in their own countries. 4 Although a World Health Organization official called the Wuhan lockdown “unprecedented in public health history” 5 and a New York Times analysis similarly concluded that the tsunami of social justice demonstrations following George Floyd's...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 85–114.
Published: 01 March 2019
... for its brutal labor regime and the number of its employees who have killed themselves over the last decade or so. The Foxconn suicides have become a metonym for the social injustice associated with the hard lot of the migrant workers as the underside to China's economic miracle, with the Pearl River...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
...-century East Sumatra, including planters, the colonial government in Batavia, Chinese brokers and depot keepers, Straits Chinese tycoons, Malay sultans, Dutch sinologists, British colonial officials who promoted “free” labor, and Qing diplomats who set up consuls to protect them and use the injustices...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., associated with either Marxism or Freudianism, either feminism or environmentalism, are the warp and weft of the conceptual metaphors with which the Chinese have built their world and propelled their history forward. Some of the loudest objections to the marriage of theory and Chinese studies dwell...
