IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 341: Connecting Ecocriticism: Intersectionality in Environmental Thinking
Monday 1 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Medieval Ecocriticisms |
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| Organiser: | Michael J. Warren, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Michael Bintley, School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University |
| Paper 341-a | Putting the Non-Human in Its Place: The Mere of Beowulf and the 'Spatial Turn' (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 341-b | From Human Ecodynamics Studies to Social Ecology: Studying the Past from an Ecocritical Approach for Assuring and Making a Better Present and Future (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - General, Daily Life, Mentalities |
| Abstract | With ecocriticism's steady popularity in medieval studies, our understandings of pre-modern environmental thinking and practices have changed and developed profoundly. One facet that has been present within these endeavours from the start—and now recommends an important direction for the field - has been the capacity for ecological approaches to reveal and parallel depictions and treatments of the nonhuman world with those of other minority subjects. With strife in global political arenas in recent years affecting vulnerable and excluded individuals and groups, the need for intersectionality within ecocritical fields which amplifies a diversity of voices whose narratives converge is never more imperative. |