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Category Archives: Ecology
Arran Stibbe – Ecolinguistics – Review
Arran Stibbe is the founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association. On this subject of ecolinguistics he, quite literally, wrote the book. The subject, and this superb book, is all about applying the tools of linguistics to the service of a … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Literary criticism, Review
Tagged Arran Stibbe, ecolinguistics, ecosophy
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Alida Gersie’s Earthtales (review)
Alida Gersie’s celebrated Earthtales is, in large part, a collection of traditional tales that have to do with the earth and its creatures. Most are from cultures that have been endangered by the imperialism of Western modernity, which by the … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Mythology, Storytelling
Tagged Alida Gersie, arts therapist, Earthtales, groupwork, storymaking, Storytelling, traditional tales
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Valerian and Laureline and the Dream of Paradise
I was wrong to think that the guy and the girl always had equal billing in the title of the original comic series: Valérian et Laureline was for most of its history Valérian, agent spatio-temporel. But I still reckon the … Continue reading
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Forty Signs of Rain
Having tackled the environmental politics of Mars and Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson took on the challenge of global warming. Forty Signs of Rain is the first instalment of a trilogy and should not be judged as a stand-alone novel. Most of it … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Fiction, science fiction
Tagged climate change, Forty Signs of Rain, global warming, Kim Stanley Robinson
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A Prehistoric Giant African Weasel
When I was a boy I got interested in the mammals of the world – including a particular affection for the Mustelidae, or weasel family. I guess that’s why it struck a chord when I found out about a large … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Prehistory
Tagged Africa, Deep Time, Ekorus, Evolving Eden, mammals, Mustelidae
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Jean Hegland’s Into the Forest
I first heard about Jean Hegland’s novel Into the Forest in an Interzone review by David Pringle in 1998, two years after the book was published. Hegland is a West Coast author and Pringle positioned her novel in a subgenre … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Fiction, science fiction
Tagged California SF, David Pringle, dystopia, Into the Forest, Jean Hegland, Ursula Le Guin, utopia
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Review: Words of Re-Enchantment by Anthony Nanson – by Lorna Smithers
Originally posted on GODS & RADICALS:
Anthony Nanson is a storyteller and writer based in Stroud. He currently runs Awen Publications. Words of Re-Enchantment: Writings on Storytelling, Myth and Ecological Desire is a collection of essays originally written for various…
Posted in Ecology, Mythology, Storytelling
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