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Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article addresses how the lithic and the drift might be reworked as an Anthropocene material outside of a chronostratigraphy. Revisiting the finding of a floating fern fossil at the Hashima mine, we delve into a complex array of Geological imaginaries, and undertake our own speculative work.
Deborah P. Dixon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Singing Community in Martin Luther's Kirchenlieder

open access: yesThe German Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 1, Page 54-70, Winter 2025.
Abstract In this essay, I claim that Martin Luther's Kirchenlieder can be read as Volkslieder, a reading which allows us to account for their function of consolidating identity through communal singing. Luther's songs, I argue, are activated in their being voiced—voice, here, understood in a non‐metaphorical mode, as the material utterance of a singing
Evan Strouss
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Poetics: Contemporary Ecopoetry and the Remaking of Elegy

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT One manifestation of the cascading ecological crises that characterize our current moment is a weakening of any sense of futurity. The implacable escalation of the climate crisis, the amplification of which is already inevitable given the carbon already in the atmosphere, has the effect of eroding any forward‐facing enterprise and ...
Thomas Storey
wiley   +1 more source

More Than Rising Water: Representing Climate Change and Urban Transformation in Bangkok Wakes to Rain

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2025.
Abstract Climate change is a phenomenon of immense and disorienting complexity which challenges the imagination and complicates its representation in literature. Many critics have pointed out the dominance of universalist and anthropocentric crisis narratives in climate fiction, which focus on imagined future events in North America or Europe and ...
Klara Machata
wiley   +1 more source

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