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Academic Articles Ecocriticism Basics
Alaimo, Stacy. “Introduction. Feminist Theory’s Flight from Nature.” Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720468-003.
Braidotti, R. Four Theses on Posthuman Feminism. In Anthropocene Feminism, edited by R. Grusin, University of Minnesota Press, 2017, pp. 21-48.
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 35, no. 2, The University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 197-222, https://doi.org/10.1086/596640.
Christine, J.Cuomo. “Ecofeminism deep ecology and human population.” In 1994. Ecological Feminism, edited by Karen J. Warren and Barbara Wells-Howe, Routledge, 1994, pp. 88-105.
Davion, Victoria. “Is Ecofeminism Feminist?” In Ecological Feminism, edited by Karen J. Warren and Barbara Wells-Howe, Routledge, 1994, pp. 8-28.
Deckard, Sharae. “Jungle Tide, Devouring Reef: (Post)Colonial Anxiety and Ecocritique in Sri Lankan Literature.” In Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives, edited by Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt, University of Virginia Press, 2010, pp. 32-48, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wrkp7.6.
Garrard, Greg. “Animals.” In Ecocriticism. Routledge, 2012, pp. 146-80.
Heise, Ursula K. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ecocriticism.” PMLA, vol. 121, no. 2, Modern Language Association, 2006, pp. 503–16, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25486328. [NUS Libraries]
Huggan, Graham and Helen Tiffin. “Introduction.” In Postcolonial Ecocriticism. Routledge, 2009.
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Mellor, Mary. “Gender and the Environment”. In The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781843768593.00022.
Naess, Arne (2005) “The Deep Ecology Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects.” In Drengson A. (eds) The Selected Works of Arne Naess. Springer, Dordrecht. 2291-2314, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4519-6_88.
Nixon, Rob. “Environmentalism and Postcolonialism.” In Postcolonial Studies and Beyond. Duke University Press, 2005, pp. 233-251, https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386650-011.
Noel, Sturgeon. “Ecofeminist Natures and Transnational Environmental Politics”, In Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory, and Political Action. Routledge, 1997, pp. 91-122.
Plumwood, Val. “The Ecopolitics Debate and the Politics of Nature.” In Ecological Feminism, edited by Karen J. Warren and Barbara Wells-Howe, Routledge, 1994, pp. 64-8.
Rigby, K. “Writing after Nature.” In Ecocriticism: the Essential Reader. Routledge, 2014, pp. 357-367.
Soper, Kate (1995) “The Discourse of Nature”, in What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Human, pp.15-36. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Publishing.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton University Press, 2011. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/book/64845.
Yue, Gang. “Fragments of Shangri-La: “Eco-Tibet” and Its Global Circuits.” In Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives, edited by Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt, University of Virginia Press, 2010, pp. 49-63, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wrkp7.7.