Place, rôle et représentation de l’animal dans le roman Sans l’orang-outan (2007) d’Éric Chevillard

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Mohamed El Assal
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ecological Awareness

Animals occupy a central place in Chevillard’s oeuvre Sans l’orang-outan deals with animals’ place, roles, representations and relationships with humans. The novel depicts a chaotic and apocalyptic world, foreground as it does the disappearance of the last orangutans caused by the arrogant and insolent actions of people. Two aspects characterize Chevillard’s writing: the seriousness of the theme and the irony in its representation. The paper analyzes the numerous dimensions of the novel’s involvement in environmental problems through the reflection on the circumstance of animals. It also discusses the eschatological aspects of the environmental crisis. It is demonstrated that for Chevillard the question of biodiversity is also a question of aesthetics and imagination. The article also looks to show that the aim of adopting ethical and aesthetic stances is to encourage the reader to opt for responsible and life-preserving attitudes towards Earth’s ecosystem; and the raising ecological awareness as such.

ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN MODERN PROSE: ROMAN SENCHIN FLOOD ZONE

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-195
Author(s):  
V. V. Sazanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Art ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Flood Zone ◽  
Moral Position ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Dam Building

The article deals with the modern art novel The Flood Zone by R. V. Senchin, where the author raises current environmental problems. The article examines the Boguchany Dam building consequences and the stylistic devices of the novel. The option of considering the text as the warning novel and finding the connection with the predecessor writers in the moral position expression is specified.

Stranger Fictions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca C. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Arabic

Zaynab, first published in 1913, is widely cited as the first Arabic novel, yet the previous eight decades saw hundreds of novels translated into Arabic from English and French. This vast literary corpus influenced generations of Arab writers but has, until now, been considered a curious footnote in the genre's history. Incorporating these works into the history of the Arabic novel, this book offers a transformative new account of modern Arabic literature, world literature, and the novel. This book rewrites the history of the global circulation of the novel by moving Arabic literature from the margins of comparative literature to its center. Considering the wide range of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century translation practices, the book argues that Arabic translators did far more than copy European works; they authored new versions of them, producing sophisticated theorizations of the genre. These translations and the reading practices they precipitated form the conceptual and practical foundations of Arab literary modernity, necessitating an overhaul of our notions of translation, cultural exchange, and the global. The book shows how translators theorized the Arab world not as Europe's periphery but as an alternative center in a globalized network. It affirms the central place of (mis)translation in both the history of the novel in Arabic and the novel as a transnational form itself.

scholarly journals De wereld als sciencefictionroman. Over De goede zoon van Rob van Essen

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-242
Author(s):  
Erica van Boven
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Central Place ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Everyday Reality ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Rob van Essen’s award-winning novel The good son (2018) offers its readers a puzzling reading experience. It contains a tangle of storylines and seems to lack head or tail. This contribution aims to discover composition and meaning by analyzing various aspects provided by the novel itself: timeline, plot, science fiction, ideas, poetica. This approach provides insight into the rich reservoir of meanings, whereby the importance of imagination and creation appears to have a central place. The novel, which can be labelled as a dystopian science fiction novel, as well as a novel of ideas or a novel of poetics, wants us to become aware of the mysteriousness of everyday reality. Nederlandstalig abstract Rob van Essens bekroonde roman De goede zoon (2018) biedt de lezers een verwarrende leeservaring. De roman bevat een wirwar aan verhaallijnen en heeft op het eerste gezicht nauwelijks samenhang. In deze bijdrage wordt geprobeerd compositie en betekenis te ontdekken door middel van een analyse van verschillende aspecten die uit de roman zelf naar voren komen: tijdsverloop, plot, sciencefiction, ideeën, poëtica. Daarmee ontstaat inzicht in een rijk reservoir aan betekenissen waarin het belang van scheppen en verbeelden een centrale plaats heeft. De roman, die beschouwd kan worden als een dystopische sciencefictionroman maar ook als een ideeënroman of een poëticale roman, lijkt ons te willen doordringen van de raadselachtigheid van de alledaagse werkelijkheid.

scholarly journals Losing Hope? The Environmental Crisis Today

ANVIL ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin J. Hodson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
General Public ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
Global Water

Abstract Environmentalists and scientists who study the environment often give a pretty bleak picture of the future. Surveys of secular views on the environment suggest that the general public in the developed West are concerned about the state of the environment. After considering all of the environmental problems that are causing scientists to worry, this paper then concentrates on four: climate change; biodiversity loss; global water supply; and the increase in our human population. Finally we will see what scientists have to say about hope in a time of environmental crisis

scholarly journals Activities of mining and metallurgical industry enterprises of the Republic of Kazakhstan: environmental problems and possible solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 14019
Author(s):  
Тurgai Alimbaev ◽  
Zhanna Mazhitova ◽  
Chinara Beksultanova ◽  
Nazira TentigulKyzy
Keyword(s):  
Metallurgical Industry ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Atmospheric Air ◽  
Treatment Facilities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One

The paper discusses the issues related to modern environmental problems that have arisen in connection with the activities of the mining and metallurgical industry enterprises of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors emphasize that due to the industrial progress of the mining and metallurgical industry, which is one of the main sectors of the republic’s economy, the level of environmental pollution is increasing. The contributing authors prove by examples that, on the one hand, the growth of the economic potential of the mining and metallurgical industry and the transition to market mechanisms for the development of the economy have generated a large increase in the potential of the republic as a major exporter and leader among the world’s raw material powers. On the other hand, the increase in industrial production led to a real threat of an environmental crisis in the republic. We conclude that it is possible to solve the environmental problems by improving measures to protect atmospheric air and increasing the efficiency of water resources use and protection. In addition, according to the authors, reduction in the chemical load on the soil, strengthening of the work on protection, reproduction and rational use of the plant and animal world, the introduction of treatment facilities and plants, especially in places of mining, will create a favorable environment for a significant improvement in environmental situation in theregion.

scholarly journals Mythology of object world in Maxim Garetsky’s works

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-354
Author(s):  
L. P. Leska
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Partial Identification ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Complete Protection ◽  
Fine Line ◽  
Surrounding World ◽  
The One ◽  
Native Root

A hypothetical proposition is stated that mythologization of objects in M. Garetsky’s works is a way to harmonize the surrounding world and man in it, and also a precise picture of the reality, a sign of changes and calamities.In accordance with M. Garetsky’s mythopoetical concept, the tragic spirit of human life is vivid in simultaneous personi­ fication of objects and objectivation of people; it is revealed in such moments as hiding face (“Winter”), or partial identification of man with clothes (“Guiet current”). Complete and irrevocable objectivation of man is presented by the author in the story “Winter” and the novel “Guiet current”.In the story “Winter” the central place, or a scene where objects attack man is a mythological image of a house, which fulfills various content and conceptual functions in the author’s mythmaking. On the one hand, the house is a protective hearth, which gives man complete protection, like in the stories “In a Sauna”, “Native Root”. On the other hand, it is a place of uncomfortable and constrained human life.It is stressed that in M. Garetsky’s descriptions we see a transition from life precision to dethronement of social myth. There is a similar fine line between life plane and myth in the story “In a Sauna”, but this work, unlike the story “Tar”, depicts not destruction of myth, but its growth and reinforcement, which is symbolically revealed in sentences and in magical charms (the story “Winter”).

scholarly journals Educação ambiental, formação de professores de ciências e biólogos: vertentes reveladas no currículo de um curso de ciências biológicas em uma universidade pública do estado do Paraná

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-322
Author(s):  
Neimar Afonso Sornberger ◽  
Álvaro Lorencini Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Public University ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Education Training ◽  
Environmental Educators ◽  
Education Field

Resumo: Este artigo questiona quais conhecimentos têm sido reivindicados pelos currículos dos cursos de Ciências Biológicas para compreender a crise ambiental. Neste sentido, foram identificadas na literatura quatro principais vertentes do campo da Educação Ambiental: tradicional conservacionista, tradicional pragmática, crítica e pós-crítica; apresentamos suas bases epistemológicas, formas de atuação e possíveis limitações teórico-práticas. Elencamos as vertentes mais predominantes no currículo dos cursos presenciais de Ciências Biológicas Licenciatura e Ciências Biológicas Bacharelado, ofertados por uma universidade pública do estado do Paraná, no ano de 2018. A análise dos currículos revelou uma proposição crítica de ambos os cursos, contudo, os conteúdos biológicos são priorizados para promover mudanças sociais. Apresentamos as possibilidades de atuação destes profissionais como educadores ambientais, assim como possíveis limitações na compreensão dos problemas ambientais contemporâneos e sua complexidade.Palavras-chave: Ciências Biológicas; Educação Ambiental; Educadores Ambientais; Currículo de Ciências Biológicas. Environmental education, training of sciences and biologists teachers: issues disclosed in the curriculum of a biological sciences course at a Paraná state public universitAbstract: This study demands about which knowledge has been required by the curricula of the Biological Sciences courses to understand the environmental crisis. Thus, based on the literature, four main aspects were identified that concerns about the Environmental Education field: traditional conservationist, traditional pragmatic, critical and post-critical, presented their epistemological bases, ways of acting and possible theoretical-practical restrictions. We listed the most prevalent aspects in the curriculum of classroom courses in Biological Sciences Graduation and Biological Sciences Bachelor's Degree, offered by a Paraná state public university, in 2018. The curricula analyses revealed a critical proposition of both courses; however, the biological content is prioritized for social changes improvement. Lastly, we show the possibilities for these professionals to act as environmental educators, as well as possible limitations in understanding contemporary environmental problems and their complexity.Keywords: Biological Sciences; Environmental Education; Environmental Educators; Biological Sciences Curriculum. 

scholarly journals Globalization, Greed and Glocal Ecology: A Psychological Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Olena Khrushch
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Carpathian Mountains ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Entire Planet

Evidently, a globalized society causes global environmental crises. Undoubtedly, survival of human life on the planet Earth is threatened. Is there any connection between globalization, environmental crises and psychological manifestations? What are the psychological perspectives linking the ecological damages from local to the global scale? This article explores such intricate relationships and discusses the implications. The underlying principal cause is human’s unending greed to acquire maximum materials and power to control the planet and entire humanity. The greed is believed to be a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. The greedy people are supposed to have biological, psychological and sociological drives. Evidently, global destruction of the ecosystems and natural environment are directly or indirectly linked to unprecedented chronic human greed and self-indulgence. Undoubtedly, unencumbered chronic greed of a few elite institutions led by top capitalists has put the entire planet in havoc and infiltrated widespread sufferings at the global scale. Conclusively, psychological basis of environmental problems has a sociological and socio-historical scope within the frame of globalization. Psychological account of the environmental crisis is explained subsequently in this article followed by a case study of deforestation of Carpathian Mountains staged by a greedy Austrian man.

scholarly journals Youth solving pandemics: hopeful futures in Maths Claesson’s novel Pandemic

Neohelicon ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helene Ehriander ◽  
Michael Godhe
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Space Station ◽  
Computer Game ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Successful Solution ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
Main Protagonist

AbstractAre representations of pandemics in fiction always bleak dystopian tales understood as nature’s revenge on the modern Faustian man, or could they also express hope and expand our imagination in a time of environmental crisis? In this article, we analyse the young adult novel Pandemic (Swedish title: Pandemi, 2018) by Swedish author Maths Claesson. Pandemic is the third novel in a trilogy (2013–2018) with 15-year-old astronaut-trainee Linux as the main protagonist. During his astronaut program on a space station, a pandemic breaks out on Earth. While scientists on Earth struggle to isolate the virus and find a vaccine, Linux and his fellow astronaut-trainees are asked by the WHO to try out a simulation, a computer game aimed at isolating a pandemic outbreak and finding a vaccine. Their simulation is successful and eventually becomes decisive for the solution of the current pandemic crisis on Earth. Departing from Critical Future Studies (Goode and Godhe, Cult Unbound J Curr Cul Res 9(1):108–129, 2017), we focus on the figures of hope (cf. Moylan, Demand the impossible: Science fiction and the utopian imagination, Methuen, pp. 1–2, 1986) for a sustainable future and analyse how the novel is widening the scopes of possible futures. We show how the computer simulation and the successful solution of the crisis serves as a vehicle for a broader discussion about what kind of future we want, a future where the conquest of space offers new opportunities, e.g. for solving the environmental crisis. While normally in Y/A speculative fiction, technology is almost exclusively depicted as ostensibly serving human needs, in Pandemic it is thanks to technology, and the younger generation’s particular skills, that the disease is conquered. In this sense, the novel is hopeful since it depicts the younger generation as being capable of developing different thinking patterns from those of the adult society.

scholarly journals How to cease the ‘succession’ of anthropogenic environmental problems using the knowledge on their interconnected nature?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sivakumaran Sivaramanan ◽  
Sarath Wimalabandara Kotagama
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Parasitic Wasp ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
World Health ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
The People ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Vector Borne ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract Some man-made environmental problems are in a succession. Usually this happens due to the establishment of unsustainable solutions to the identified man-made environmental crisis. When the human driven solutions to the environmental problem also become a threat, the chain continues as a succession of man-made environmental crises until a permanent sustainable or regenerative solution is achieved. For instance, in early 1950s, Dayak people suffered from malaria. World Health Organization (WHO) had permitted to spray huge amount of DDT to kill mosquitoes. The attempt was a success and vector borne disease malaria was mitigated, however, their houses began to fall down on their heads. This is because application of DDT also killed the parasitic wasp that had previously controlled thatch eating caterpillars. In this scenario the worst event is DDT poisoned insects were eaten by geckos, which were eaten by cats, the cats died (biomagnification of DDT) and the rat population increased. The people were affected by sylvatic plague and typhus. To find solution to this WHO was obliged to parachute 14,000 live cats into Borneo. Thus, to prevent this succession of man-made environmental crises a need for clear understanding on all man-made environmental issues and their causes and effects is required. This article reviews the previously published research paper “Keystone Links of Anthropogenic Environmental Problems and Emergence of Interconnected Man-made Environmental crises” on this journal. In that study 40 identified man-made environmental crises were mapped by their interconnections as causes and effects. And established concept map could be used in problem mitigation, or identifying most promising solution to the man-made environmental crises. Qualitative content analysis method was applied in that study, and 252 links between man-made environmental crises were identified and supported by real-world examples in the elaborated thesis.

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