Birkbeck's very own open access journal of 21st-century literary criticism, Alluvium, is back with a new special issue on contemporary ecocriticism, "Critical Environments." Guest edited by Dr Deborah Lilley, the issue considers interdisciplinary approaches to 21st-century ecocriticism, which engages with urbanised and humanised environments and challenges the dominant landscape-oriented focus of traditional notions of Romanticised (non-human) nature, nature writing, and landscape aesthetics. It covers contemporary environmental activism and the role of performance, the continuing popularity of (post-)apocalyptic visions of natural futurity, and the global interconnectedness of ecological change.
The issue contains a closely focused set of articles: Deborah Lilley's "Editorial: Critical Environments," Astrid Bracke's "Re-Approaching Urban Nature," Matthew Griffiths' "Changing the Climate of Writing," Sam Solnick's "Performing Carbon (in the) City," and Louise Squire's "The Thoughts in our Head: A World."
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