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Feminist Literary Ecologies in Canada
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SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: As the world faces the consequences of resource depletion, global climate change and the ensuing threat of mass extinction – a sense of which the COVID19 pandemic has only further exacerbated – literature has much to say and teach us about our environmental emergency. This project seeks to create deeper understanding of Turtle Island’s multifaceted Indigenous and settler feminist literatures and their intersectional intervention in the ecological questions of our time. There is a necessary and urgent need not only for feminist work in the Anthropocene – the most common scientific term used to denote the overwhelming human activity having ushered in a new geological epoch; but a need for feminist interventions into the oversights of Anthropocene theory, particularly where various systems of oppression, historical responsibility and material differentials are misunderstood or ignored. Using social and literary analysis and digital tools, this research explores how feminist ecologies – environmentally minded work by feminist theorists and writers – present alternatives to the abstract, anthropocentric, colonial, conservative and masculinist tendencies of Anthropocene discourse. There are two main and connected research streams in this project, one theoretical and the other literary: 1) How does feminist ecological theory resist and present alternatives to the conceptual limitations of Anthropocene theory? 2) How does literature by Indigenous and settler minority writers activate feminist, anticolonial and antiracist concerns with an ecological emphasis within the settler colonial context of Canada?
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- 2021-02-01
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- Research Material
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- ©️Carrière, Marie. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2025.