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Engaging the Imagination: ‘New Nature Writing’, Collective Politics and the Environmental Crisis

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  • Kate Oakley
  • Jonathan Ward
  • Ian Christie

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This paper 1 explores the potential of ‘new nature writing’ – a literary genre currently popular in the UK – as a kind of arts activism, in particular in terms of how it might engage with the environmental crisis and lead to a kind of collective politics. We note the limitations of the genre, notably the reproduction of class, gender and ethnic hierarchies, the emphasis on nostalgia and loss, and the stress on individual responses rather than collective politics. But we also take seriously the claims of art to enable us to imagine other futures, suggesting that new nature writing has the potential to play a role in collective forms of environmental justice and capabilities.

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  • Kate Oakley & Jonathan Ward & Ian Christie, 2018. "Engaging the Imagination: ‘New Nature Writing’, Collective Politics and the Environmental Crisis," Environmental Values, , vol. 27(6), pages 687-705, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envval:v:27:y:2018:i:6:p:687-705
    DOI: 10.3197/096327118X15343388356383
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    1. Tom Greaves, 2018. "Grounding Words and Flights of Imagination," Environmental Values, , vol. 27(6), pages 597-601, December.

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