Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global

by Ursula K. Heise

Book Overview

Sense of Place and Sense of Planet analyzes the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing from the 1960s to the present. Part One critically examines the emphasis on local identities and communities in North American environmentalism by establishing conceptual connections between environmentalism and ecocriticism, on one hand, and theories of globalization, transnationalism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B001ZMBQR8
• ISBN13: 9780195335644
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"