UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies (E-Journal - York University)
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A Fable for the New Age
No full textThe Little Red Hen approached the barnyard animals with a proposal to grow some wheat to bake a loaf of bread. [...
The Passage of Time
No full textAlone in my apartment, sleeping in my bed, I awake with some odd movement at my feet. I move back the covers in one quick motion to expose my legs. The frog jumps to the floor. He leaps around my apartment, an elegant dark grey arc in the lighter grey of 5 a.m., whimsical and joyful. [...
Concepts of Nature Conservation and Preservation: The Struggle Between the Metropole and the Periphery
No full textThere should be little doubt among lovers of nature that we in the over-industrialised Western world have not yet developed an effective concept for protecting nature from the demands of human society. Nonetheless, we are convinced that our critically flawed approaches must be adopted in any nature-rich, less-industrialized country which will tolerate our rantings. Approaches to nature protection, however, are far from being universally applicable and must be recognized as being deeply rooted in the cultural and ideological perspectives of their creators. Many long-established and well-intentioned concepts and approaches to conservation must be queried, as must some more recent preservationist prescriptions. Critical weaknesses in these concepts arise from the desire to exclude all humans from the nature-protection equation. Such an approach inadvertently decrees that nature protection be relegated to those peripheral areas of little concern to our resource~gobbling society. [...
Flight and Promontory
No full textIt's one of those late flightsfrom the west coast out ofSan Francisco.Sunrise in the mid-Pacific. Daylight slidesunder the half-closed cabin blinds.There's no horizons here, or coasts. Only the reefedand coral-coloured air.
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Spirit Rising
Get PDFThey tell me there's no connections ...But I hear them talk about the rape of the landand I feel like I've been violated
Selling Sex, Selling Nature
Get PDFAdvertising is a barometer of popular culture. Advertisers depend on the fact that what we choose to buy reflects both how we see ourselves, and how we would like to see ourselves. The products that they offer us -- and the implied characteristics of those products -- are intended to appeal to our desire for whatever it is we feel is lacking in our lives: power, security, love or control. ln this way, images of nature are often coded to represent our sexual, instinctual, animal sides, and connecting sex to nature in advertising has proven to be a very effective marketing technique. [...
Raspberry Canes
Get PDFThere was a white fieldI sped by each dayJerked my head to seebut didn't stop
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