Guest : Prof. Ursula Heise September 18 2011

Since at least the 1960s, the local and the global have been poles for conceiving of the environment. The field of ecocriticism illuminates, through the study of literature and other forms of communication, how the environment has been imagined and valued at different times and places. Such conceptions have a significant impact on how efforts to protect the environment are organized at different levels of society and on a global scale.

Think Globally Radio takes up ecocriticism for the first time this Sunday with one of the leading scholars in the field, Prof. Ursula Heise of Stanford University. Her recent book “Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global” provides an ecocritical overview of environmentalism and globalization from the sixties and forward and will be the point of departure for discussing cultural artifacts such as novels, films and poetry that have shaped our awareness of the environment and the threats it faces.

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