Nuove geografie letterarie: Il camminare come atto di resistenza ecologica. Irene Cecchini dialoga con Wu Ming 2
“La conoscenza del territorio è la conoscenza delle sue forme di vita, dei suoi fili, dei suoi movimenti, che sola può permetterci di abitarlo rispettandoli, dialogando, adattando la nostra presenza a quel che già c’è, per non correre il rischio di fare il contrario: adattare l’altro a quel che noi siamo, impedendogli di essere altro”.
La Malchimie : De la littérature pour traiter la terre. Entretien de Gisèle Bienne avec Pierre Schoentjes
« Les « poisons » contenus dans les pesticides de Bayer, Syngenta et Monsanto ont donc, pendant plusieurs décennies, agi lentement, sournoisement, sur l’organisme des hommes. Plus rapidement sur celui des insectes et des petits mammifères qui vont disparaître de ces terrains d’action puis de l’environnement. La pollution touche la terre, l’eau, l’air, le vivant. C’est d’une tristesse infinie. »
Guest Lecture-Hendrik Schoukens: “Nature’s rights: balancing between a philosopher’s dream and a lawyer’s pragmatism” Apr 1st 5:30 PM
Seminar of the research group “LIterature, Environment and Ecology” We have the pleasure to invite you to the guest lecture by Dr. Hendrik Schoukens, environmental lawyer, green politician and researcher at Ghent University : “Nature’s...
Feminizing Wilderness Writing in the Anthropocene. An Exchange between Ida Olsen and Abi Andrews, Author of “The Word for Woman is Wilderness” (2018)
“There is still a dichotomy of human vs nature within ‘nature writing’, and writers that write about ‘nature’ are still largely male, white, middle class writers with specialist ‘naturalist’ knowledge. I don’t think we have time in our rapidly simplifying life-web to think that everything other than human is the domain of only ‘nature writers’ and their readers. Every writer is a nature writer now”