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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 (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): 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): 219–237.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Yuanyuan Hua; Yunfan Zhang Abstract Slow violence, or the gradual ecological devastation that goes unnoticed, is not always discernible to our perceptions. It is the indifference toward environmental degradation and the suffering experienced by marginalized communities that contributes...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 196–218.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Kiu-Wai Chu Abstract This article focuses on Chinese science fiction writer Chen Qiufan's 陳楸帆 (1981–) short stories to examine the changing environmental messages they convey over the decade 2012–2022. Borrowing environmental philosopher Glenn A. Albrecht's concepts of psychoterratic emotions...
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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 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Mark Bender Abstract Since the 1980s ethnic minority poets writing in the borderlands of Southwest China and Northeast India emerged on the world stage from within currents of dramatic environmental, political, economic, and demographic change, cresting in momentum by the 2010s. Within...
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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 (2024) 21 (1): 29–49.
Published: 01 March 2024
...-day urban landscapes. Exploring how fluidity and receptivity to transitivity, both literal and figurative—to currents of air, water, and life itself—might facilitate growth of an urbane sensibility that is less obtrusive and, ergo, less environmentally corrosive in cities of the future. roddys...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., this article identifies an overarching environmental theme complexly entangled in politics and idealism. While signaling a definite shift away from anthropocentrism, the narrative nonetheless reasserts humanist and anthropocentric assumptions. As such, the novel speaks to the inseverable connections between...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 244–255.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., this essay contends that it has been necessary for emerging scholarship on race to transcend this analogy in order to confront the persistence of anti-Black racism and contemporary environmental crisis. References Adams, Carol . The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Inquiry...
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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
... to terraform the planet and adapt to the arid environment along with the construction of an ecologically sound social and economic system. But the visions of ecotopia are challenged and interrogated by cultural and political clashes and differences between environmentally degraded Earth and utopian Mars...
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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 (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 (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... with environmentally focused, avant-garde smog art. Although avant-garde smog art is in line with today's scientific correctness by virtue of its strong commitment to activism, I believe that everyday smog life, which is viewed either as “ecoambiguous” or as “smog Ah-Q,” is in effect more subversive than its avant...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and shaping environmental consciousness. The term Anthropocene marks a geological age dominated by Homo sapiens , whose action and impact on the planet have altered and ravaged the natural rhythms and laws of Heaven, Earth, and biophysical spheres. Confronted with environmental degradation and climate...
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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): 189–195.
Published: 01 December 2022
... . Campbell, Colin . “ From ‘Unity of Life’ to the Critique of Domination: Jonas, Freud, and Marcuse .” In Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises , edited by Andrew Biro , 139 – 62 . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2011 . Chen Guying 陳鼓應 , ed...
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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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