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Storied Deserts
Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of research on desert places from around the world. Deserts, despite dominant stereotypes of wasteland and barrenness, are culturally and ecologically abundant places. This edited volume sets out to reimagine the world’s desert places and the very concept of "the desert" itself, taking a boldly interdisciplinary and multicultural approach. Authors engage in literary ecocriticism and ecopoetics, film and visual studies, critical theory, personal and transdisciplinary reflection, creative practices, and historical scholarship. Through their diverse range of perspe...
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene
From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.
Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
From the forests of the tales of the Brothers Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from the flowers of Cicely May Barker’s fairies to the treehouse in Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s popular 13-Storey Treehouse series, trees and other plants have been enduring features of stories for children and young adults. Plants act as gateways to other worlds, as liminal spaces, as markers of permanence and change, and as metonyms of childhood and adolescence. This anthology is the first compilation devoted entirely to analysis of the representation of plants in children’s and young adult literatures, reflecting the recent surge of interest in cultural plant studies within the environmental humanities. Mapping out and presenting an internationally inclusive view of plant representation in texts for children and young adults, the volume includes contributions examining European, American, Australian, and Asian literatures and contributes to the research fields of ecocriticism, critical plant studies, and the study of children’s and young adult literatures.
Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation
Restoring human motor and cognitive function has been a fascinating research area during the last century. Interfacing the human nervous system with electro-mechanical rehabilitation machines is facing its crucial passage from research to clinical practice, enhancing the potentiality of therapists, clinicians and researchers to rehabilitate, diagnose and generate knowledge. The 2012 International Conference on Neurorehabilitation (ICNR2012) brings together researchers and students from the fields of Clinical Rehabilitation, Applied Neurophysiology and Biomedical Engineering, covering a wide range of research topics: · Clinical Impact of Technology · Brain-Computer Interface in Rehabilitati...
Soft Methods for Data Science
This proceedings volume is a collection of peer reviewed papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2016) held in Rome (Italy). The book is dedicated to Data science which aims at developing automated methods to analyze massive amounts of data and to extract knowledge from them. It shows how Data science employs various programming techniques and methods of data wrangling, data visualization, machine learning, probability and statistics. The soft methods proposed in this volume represent a collection of tools in these fields that can also be useful for data science.
Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World
Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World brings together critical studies of Latin American and Latinx writing, film, visual, and performing arts to offer new perspectives on ecological violence. Building on Rob Nixon’s concept of "slow violence," the contributions to the volume explore processes of environmental destruction that are not immediately visible yet expand in time and space and transcend the limits of our experience. Authors consider these forms of destruction in relation to new material contexts of artistic creation, practices of activism, and cultural production in Latin American and Latinx worlds. Their critical contributions investig...
Desarquivando o literário
Desarquivando o literário: percursos entre línguas oferece diferentes trilhas pelas literaturas brasileira, italiana, chilena, moçambicana e inglesa, para pensar contatos, contágios e ramificações a partir do próprio gesto do literário. Os onze ensaios aqui reunidos apresentam uma visão transdisciplinar e descolonizadora da literatura, promovendo um debate plural através da diversidade e compartilhamento de saberes. Os textos refletem essa perspectiva supranacional, enfatizando a valorização dos saberes locais e a visão do outro por meio de práticas culturais diversas. Esta "migração cultural", levar algo de uma língua para outra, falar de uma determinada cultura num outro contexto, cria redes de diálogo entre regiões linguísticas e geopolíticas, destacando a importância do olhar pela diferença e do intercâmbio cultural.
L’umanità a un bivio
Un saggio di storia, teoria e critica dello sviluppo sostenibile che esamina successi e fallimenti a trent’anni dal primo Summit di Rio de Janeiro sulle condizioni della Terra. Per la prima volta un libro sulla sostenibilità e sulla crisi ambientale prodotta dall’Umanità ripercorre il pensiero ecologico formatosi dagli anni ’50 del XX secolo, con approfondimenti multidisciplinari che si muovono fra storia, filosofia, geopolitica, studi culturali, scienze, economia, città insieme a cinema, letteratura e arti, per capire come fronteggiare la crisi climatica e le sue sfide – tra cui il Covid-19! – e come modificare radicalmente i nostri concetti di sviluppo, crescita, benessere e prosperità. Aspetti tecnici complessi come l’impronta ecologica, i Planetary boundaries e i servizi ecosistemici insieme a metodi analitici come l’intersezionalità, l’ecocritica e l’economia circolare sono trattati in modo semplificato ed accessibile ai non esperti.
