Local rock and global plastic: World ecology and the experience of place

Comparative Literature Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 126-152

  Heise, Ursula K ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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EID: 68649084995     PISSN: 00104132     EISSN: 15284212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cls.2004.0003     Document Type: Article

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1. The person who is usually credited with first coining this phrase is René Dubos, who was an advisor to the United Nations in the planning of the 1972 UN Conference for the Human Environment, which led to the creation of UNEP, the United Nations Environmental Programme
2. Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rainforest (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1990)
3. Tropic of Orange (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1997)
4. Circle K Cycles (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2001)
5. David Harvey, Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)
6. Doreen Massey, Space, Place, and Gender (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994)
7. Roland Robertson, "Glocalization: Time-Space and Homogeneity-Heterogeneity," Global Modernities, eds. Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash and Roland Robertson (London: Sage, 1995) 25-44
8. Roland, Robertson, Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (London: Sage, 1992)
9. Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990)
10. Ulf Hannerz, "Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture," Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity, ed. Mike Featherstone (London: Sage, 1990) 237-52
11. Ulf Hannerz, "Scenarios for Peripheral Cultures," Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity, ed. Anthony D. King (Binghamton: State University of New York, Department of Art and Art History, 1991) 107-28
12. Scott Lash and John Urry, Economies of Signs and Space (London: Sage, 1994)
13. Ulrich Beck, Risikogesellschaft: Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne (Frankfurt/ Main: Suhrkamp, 1986)
14. Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
15. Marc Augé, Non-lieux: Introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité (Paris: Seuil, 1992)
16. (translated as Non-Places: Introduction to the Anthropology of Supermodernity, trans. John Howe [London: Verso, 1995])
17. James Clifford, "Traveling Cultures," Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1997) 17-46
18. Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior (New York: Oxford University Pres, 1985)
19. Joshua Meyrowitz, "The Generalized Elsewhere," Critical Studies in Mass Communication 6.3 (1989): 326-34
20. Harvey gives a detailed account of this process in Chs. 12-18 of The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990)
21. and in Chs. 9, 10 and 11 of Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference
22. Tomlinson develops this concept in Globalization and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), especially Ch. 4
23. Besides Giddens, Tomlinson's argument here builds on Nestor Garda Canclini's analysis of modernization in Culturas híbridas: Estrategias para entrar y salir de la modernidad, 2nd edn. (Mexico City: Grijalbo, 2001)
24. (translated as Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity, trans. Christopher L. Chiappari and Silvia L. López [Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995])
25. Some of the basic texts for tracing these different strands of argument include Martin Heidegger, "Building Dwelling Thinking," Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Harper & Row, 1971) 143-59
26. Michael Zimmerman, "Toward a Heideggerean Ethos for Radical Environmentalism," Environmental Ethics 5 (1983): 99-131
27. Arne Naess, Ecology, Community, and Lifestyle, trans. David Rothenberg (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989)
28. Kirkpatrick Sale, Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1991)
29. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (London: Oxford UP, 1949)
30. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Le visible et l'invisible, ed. Claude Lefort (Paris: Galllimard, 1964)
31. (translated as The Visible and the Invisible, ed. Claude Lefort, trans. Alphonso Lingis [Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1968])
32. David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (New York: Pantheon, 1996)
33. Terry Tempest Williams, "Yellowstone: The Erotics of Place, "An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field (New York: Pantheon, 1994) 81-87
34. Two representative essays of Wendell Berry's are "Farming and the Global Economy," Another Turn of the Crank (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1995) 1-7
35. and "The Regional Motive," A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972) 63-70
36. Scott Russell Sanders, Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993)
37. See "The Place, the Region, and the Commons," The Practice of the Wild (San Francisco: North Point, 1990) 25-47
38. and "Reinhabitation," A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1995) 183-91
39. Edward Abbey, for example, describes an extended stay in Havasu Canyon during which he gradually seemed to lose the identity of his human body and to see a leaf when looking at his hand (Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness [New York: Ballantine, 1968] 250-51)
40. and Aldo Leopold portrays a merger of his body with the surrounding marsh landscape in a sketch that has been analyzed by Daniel Berthold-Bond ("The Ethics of 'Place': Reflections on Bioregionalism," Environmental Ethics 22 [2000]: 23-24)
41. Cf. also Lawrence Buell's reading of Snyder's "Second Shaman Song", which articulates a similar experience of fusion with nature, in The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1995) 166-67
42. Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad (Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1999)
43. (translated as One Hundred Years of Solitude, trans. Gregory Rabassa [New York: Perennial, 1998])
44. Mário de Andrade, Macunatma: O heroi sem nenhum caráter (Belo Horizonte: Itatiaia, 1987)
45. (translated as Macunatma, trans. E.A. Goodland [New York: Random House, 1984])
46. All translations from Cien años de soledad are mine
47. "All he knew was that Tania Aparecida was far away. It made very little difference how far. Batista's jealous imagination could follow Tania Aparecida to the next room or to the moon" (173)
48. translation mine]. See also José I. Suárez and Jack E. Tomlins, Mário de Andrade: The Creative Works (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2000) 98