CONGRESS CANCELED Environmental Violence
Description
The scholars on this panel study climates and environments that reject human dominion and endanger human lives. Unlike much early ecocriticism, which focused on natural spaces as complements to human agency, their papers reject views of nature as mastered (or masterable) by humans. In our time of climate crisis, they seek to complicate anthropocentric views of medieval environments. In doing so, these papers examine the violence environments enact and evaluate the models they offer for human survival and care amidst climate disaster.
Lise Leet
CONGRESS CANCELED Environmental Violence
Bernhard 210
The scholars on this panel study climates and environments that reject human dominion and endanger human lives. Unlike much early ecocriticism, which focused on natural spaces as complements to human agency, their papers reject views of nature as mastered (or masterable) by humans. In our time of climate crisis, they seek to complicate anthropocentric views of medieval environments. In doing so, these papers examine the violence environments enact and evaluate the models they offer for human survival and care amidst climate disaster.
Lise Leet