{"id":2424,"date":"2014-08-10T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T17:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=2424"},"modified":"2014-08-10T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T17:52:46","slug":"is-ecocriticism-a-form-of-activism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?page_id=2424","title":{"rendered":"Is ecocriticism a form of activism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is ecocriticism a form of activism?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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It certainly can be.\u00a0 In fact, many, if not most, ecocritics may think of themselves as environmental activists.\u00a0 As environmental criticism can deepen our understanding of the relationship that we have with the environment, it can certainly be an aid to activism. For example, an environmental activist deeply devoted to the preservation of wilderness may benefit enormously (and perhaps even significantly reconsider their position on the subject, as have some individuals in the past decade) when they become aware of the literary history of the notion of \u201cwilderness,\u201d which is by no means a self-evident concept, but rather is a culturally constructed idea that has undergone dramatic change in the past few centuries.\u00a0Moreover, in recent years, ecocritics have begun looking at the writings of environmental activists, such as Rachel Carson\u2019s enormously important\u00a0<\/span>Silent Spring<\/em>, in order to deepen our understanding of environmental activism itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>

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English Overview<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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FAQs<\/span><\/p>\n

What is ecocriticism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What is 1st- and 2nd-wave ecocriticism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What is the environmental justice movement?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Which works qualify as ecocriticism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Is ecocriticism new?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Do ecocritics only work with modern texts?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What is anthropocentricism and ecocentrism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Is ecocriticism\u00a0a form of activism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What is the future of ecocriticism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2424","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2424\/revisions\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}