ecology

Critical Grounds: The South and Sustainability #MLA16

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The organizers invite proposals for papers on cultural representations that make it possible for sustainability studies and southern studies to meet on productive critical grounds. How does culture define relations between the U.S. South and the global imperative of sustainability? How might depictions of southern agricultural practices, industrial processes, and…

The Dirty Coast #MLA16

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From Texas to Florida, the Dirty Coast shifts, contains, nurtures, kills. I welcome abstracts (and should you submit, please send a brief bio, too) on the ecologies, economies, or peoples making this coast dirty and beautiful, alluring and disgusting. All media. By 10 March 2015. To Sharon O’Dair.