Garrard: Dwelling, Animals, and Futures

Spaceship Earth

In these last three chapters of Ecocriticism, what does Garrard explain or argue that you find to be the most compelling reason to study the environment?

Environmental tropes' imbrication with regimes of social control, such as Nazism and neocolonialism?

The value of literary critical skills to analyze and affect notions of the environment in the public sphere?

The importance of environmental literary studies especially in the face of postmodernism and late capitalism?

Garrard 

These are just a few ideas, but what struck YOU as the most compelling reason to be trained in ecocritical skills today?  And, while you're at it, what are those skills again? 



If you're interested in the full-length of that environmental humanities video featuring Garrard and others, of which we saw 10 minutes in class last week, here's the link: Environmental Humanities video featuring Garrard and others