Tomorrow’s Nature: Ecodystopia and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction in the Anthropocene
10. Reduced inequalities / 11. Sustainable cities and communities / 8. Decent work and economic growth / 13. Climate action
The enigma of life: confronting marvels at the edges of science.
Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Einstein famously claimed that "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible." This statement suggests that no amount of scientific explanation will suffice to make sense of the bizarre situation of the human mind within the universe. So what are the actual roles of awe and wonder within the framework of contempor...
Beyond oneself: the ethics and psychology of awe.
Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Awe and wonder appear to be powerful emotions that can inform and shape our attitudes toward ourselves and others, especially in relation to the larger meaning and purpose of our lives. What are the psychological underpinnings of these universal emotions? How does awe, for example, relate to self-knowledge, and more generally to understanding the e...
Educação Ambiental na perspectiva de Rachel Carson: um olhar aos anais do ANPED
O presente trabalho tem por objetivo fazer uma discussão sobre a Educação Ambiental (EA) respectivo à pesquisadora Rachel Carson em atenção ao livro: Primavera Silenciosa, bem como estudos referenciados da pesquisadora investigados nos trabalhos apresentados nos Encontros Nacionais realizados pela Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em ...
Toward a Speculative-Pragmatic Sublime: A Narratological Analysis of the Toxic Sublime and the Unnarrated in Contemporar...
This paper provides a close narratological and comparative analysis of Rachel Carson’s short story “A Fable for Tomorrow” (1962) and Susanne Antonetta’s memoir Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir (2001), which both highlight the pragmatic and ecocritical potential of literature as a source of cultural responses to the Anthropocene challenge. Engagi...
Sanitary Homesteads and Maternal Responsibility: Gendered Authorities Over Environmental Exposure to Pesticides in India...
Rural Hoosier homemakers have long negotiated the tensions of competing priorities and demands on their farms: clean and pure households, robust and profitable fields, and the health of their families. Agricultural experts have stressed the benefits of using pesticides to help achieve all three of these aspects of farm life, while public health adv...
Pós-verdade e a potência dos afetos: um resgate da vida e obra de Rachel Carson para um saber sobre ciências
After being defined as the word of the year in 2016 by the Oxford dictionary, the post-truth has aroused the attention of researchers interested in understanding the origin of this phenomenon and its political and social implications nowadays and in the future. In stating that the post-truth is “relative to, or denotes circumstances in which object...
Pesticides, pollution and the UK's silent spring, 1963-1964: Poison in the Garden of England.
Published in Notes and records of the Royal Society of London
Despite being characterized as 'one of the worst agricultural accidents in Britain in the 1960s', the 'Smarden incident' has never been subjected to a complete historical analysis. In 1963, a toxic waste spill in Kent coincided with the publication of the British edition of Rachel Carson's Silent spring. This essay argues that these events combined...
Rachel Carson, écrivaine engagée et son héritage politique et social
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De resonantie van een stille lente: Nederlandse en Vlaamse persstemmen over Rachel Carsons 'Silent Spring' (1962-1963)
