HOTB2020 Panel 5.3: Theorizing Urgency from the South

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Panel 5.3: Theorizing Urgency from the South

“Urgencies of the Dry City: Cape Town in the Global Imagination”

Brooke Stanley (University of Delaware)

“Scientists and Fishermen: Environmental Theory, Myth, and Practice in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide”

Akua Banful (Columbia University)

“Postcolonial Apocalypse and Pessimistic Aesthetics”

Rebecca S. Oh (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 5.2: Unsettling Alterity, Unsettling Environments

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Panel 5.2: Unsettling Alterity, Unsettling Environments

“The Soul, The Snake, The White Road: Adelaide Crapsey’s Translations of Cherokee Incantations”

Lucien Darjeun Meadows (University of Denver)

“Every Town Our Hometown/Every Man a Kinsman”

K. Abilasha (Sri S. Ramasamy Naidu Memorial College)

“Naming Asian American Environmental Literature in an Era of Environmental Crisis”

Karen Siu (Rice University)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 5.1: Against Climate Colonialism

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Panel 5.1: Against Climate Colonialism

“Imagining Anthropocene Future: Indigenous Communities, Extractive Industries and the City in Zainab Amadahy’s Resistance (2013)”

Paula Wieczorek (University of Rzeszów)

“We Are Not Beasts: Deconstructing and Challenging Representations of Climate Displacement”

Tori Bush (Louisiana State University)

“Reading South Asian Ecofiction as Counternarratives to Climate Denialism”

Muhammad Manzur Alam (West Virginia University)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 4.3: Situated Knowledges

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Panel 4.3: Situated Knowledges

“Regenerative Dwelling in the Age of Collapse: A Story”

Giulia Lepori and Michal Krawczyk (Griffith University)

“Embodied Ecocriticism: Action and Agriculture as Environmental Texts”

Bethany Williams (UC Davis)

“Wildfire in an Uncertain Time: Photography and Regeneration”

Andreas Rutkauskas (University of British Columbia Okanagan)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 4.2: Toxic Mediations

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Panel 4.2: Toxic Mediations

“’Destruction Is a Real Hidden Investment’: Waste’s Modernity in the Urban Pastoral”

Orchid Tierney (Kenyon College)

“Cinematic Wasthetics: An Empirical Eco-critique of Slow Violence and Plastic Pollution”

Nicolai Skiveren (Aarhus University)

“On (De)Familiarizing Toxicity: Getting Intimate with Polluted Soil”

Ruby de Vos (University of Groningen)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 4.1: MultiMediations

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Panel 4.1: MultiMediations

“Of Sound Mind and Body: Lessons in Listening to the Jingle Dress Dance”

Kristen Brown (Dixie State University)

“Surviving Environmental Apocalypse in Film ‘Lifeboats’: Cinema, Psychoanalysis, and the Formal Structure of the ‘Stories We Live By'”

Robert Geal (University of Wolverhampton)

“From Cultural Hero to Zero (Emissions): The Ecofeminist Critique of Maui’s Resource Extraction in Disney’s Moana”

Christopher D. Foley (University of Southern Mississippi)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 3.4: Infrastructuralisms of Brutalism, Justice, and Anarchy

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Panel 3.4: Infrastructuralisms of Brutalism, Justice, and Anarchy

“The Death Train Narrative and Infrastructural Brutalism in Snowpiercer and Train to Busan”

Michael Truscello (Mount Royal University)

“Black Infrastructures of Environmental Justice in Attica Locke’s Houston”

Delia Byrnes (Allegheny College)

“‘Got to Hate Fences’: Infrastructure and Anarchy in Lonely Are the Brave (1962)”

Kelly MacPhail (University of Minnesota Duluth)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 3.3: Cultures of Extraction in U.S. Film and Video Games

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Panel 3.3: Cultures of Extraction in U.S. Film and Video Games

“Selling the American ‘Oil Frontier’: Tulsa, Giant, and American Resource Politics during the Early Cold War”

Sarah Stanford-McIntyre (University of Colorado Boulder)


“Leveling Up by Digging Down: The Portrayal of Mining and Sustainability in Video Game Genres”

Brian James Leech and George Boone (Augustana College)

“‘Y’all Sitting Up Here Comfortable:’ Extracting the Afrofuturist Myth from Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther”

José Sebastián Terneus (Miami Dade College)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 3.2: Literatures and Poetics of Energy

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Panel 3.2: Literatures and Poetics of Energy

“Crudely Written: A Petro-Poetry Survey”

Connor Weightman (Charles Sturt University)

“Nuclear Storyworlds: Writing (Radio)Toxic Wilderness in Mary Mycio’s Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl (2005)”

Hannah Klaubert (Stockholm University and Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)

“Rig Talk as Disidentification in Peter Christensen’s Rig Talk and Mathew Henderson’s The Lease”

Melanie Dennis Unrau (Columbia University)

“Humanizing the Non-Human: Aesthetic Reflections of the Anthropocene in Contemporary Petrofiction””

Lisa Schantl (University of Graz)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 3.1: Energy Infrastructures, Markets, and Endless Futures

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Panel 3.1: Energy Infrastructures, Markets, and Endless Futures

“Environmentalism Un-Earthed: Estranging the Energy Narrative from the Human Experience”

Nicole Stahl (West Virginia University)

“Carbon Purgatory and the Never Ending End of Oil”

Gabe Eckhouse (UC Berkeley)

“Hacking the Loop: Energy Politics in Market-Mediated Recycling”

Kameron Sanzo (UC Riverside)

“How Literate Responses to Technical Communication Can Promote Practical Responses to Environmental Change”

Mary Le Rouge (Kent State University)

“‘Marking’ the Australian Nuclear Fuel Cycle as Future Cultural and Environmental Heritage”

N. A. J. Taylor (University of British Columbia and University of New South Wales)

 

 

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