I start this paper with a question that is also a provocation: how sustainable is a cultural studies that does not take account of nature? What I propose is that before we speculate on how this field can engage with the environmental concerns that face us this question must first be asked. For what cultural studies can offer in the face of ecological stress, I will argue, is circumscribed by its own traditions. If the logics or conceptual parameters of the discipline resist an accommodation of the conditions of sustainability then we have little to offer. Yet if this is the case, what is the future of cultural studies given not only the current import of environmental issues but also the challenge that these material circumstances rai...
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This paper is born from the premise that the desacralisation of nature is a significant contributor ...
As an intellectual container ‘cultural ecology’ is fraught with the same conceptual and ontological ...
This paper examines the concept of agrarianism as a counterpoint to anthropocentric environmental pe...
Increasingly, the linear, instrumentalist and culturally hegemonic character of dominant sustainabil...
SUMMARYThe emergent human cultures have shaped, and in turn been shaped by, local ecosystems. Yet hu...
Many disciplines take part in the discourse on sustainability. Sustainability science tends to focus...
[From Introduction] Problems pertaining to environmental and ecological well-being are increasingly ...
This paper seeks to expand on environmental design understood in purelyinstrumentalist terms. It arg...
Current sustainability challenges demand approaches that acknowledge a plurality of human-nature int...
For many decades the idea of ‘cultural model of the environment’ was a valuable tool for anthropolo...
This paper brings together two concepts, relative surprise and cultural bias. Both have deep roots i...
This paper describes how the arts shape environmental behaviour of individuals and society and is a ...
As a keystone species the concept ‘nature’ plays a vital role in shaping our world. In this article,...
This paper explores how we can know in ways that promote new relations between design and nature, fo...
A growing number of scholars call for the use of New Materialist frameworks for research across soci...
This paper is born from the premise that the desacralisation of nature is a significant contributor ...
As an intellectual container ‘cultural ecology’ is fraught with the same conceptual and ontological ...
This paper examines the concept of agrarianism as a counterpoint to anthropocentric environmental pe...