Sense of Place and Sense of Planet - Heise, Ursula K
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Sense of Place and Sense of Planet analyzes the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing. Through in-depth theoretical discussions as well as detailed analyses of texts and artworks, the book establishes connections between environmentalism and ecocriticism, on one hand, and theories of globalization, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and risk analysis, on the other.

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Sense of Place and Sense of Planet analyzes the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing. Through in-depth theoretical discussions as well as detailed analyses of texts and artworks, the book establishes connections between environmentalism and ecocriticism, on one hand, and theories of globalization, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and risk analysis, on the other.
Autorenporträt
Ursula K. Heise is Associate Professor of English at Stanford University, where she teaches contemporary literature and literary theory. She specializes in twentieth-century literatures of the Americas and Western Europe, in theories of modernization, postmodernization, and globalization, and in ecocriticism. Her other areas of research and teaching interest include media theory, literature and science, science fiction, animal representations and urban studies.