Close Reading: page 121 Flight Behavior (on the online edition. Link below.) Bambi Cumpston Gender Identity in Environmental Lit June 4 http://thefreeonlinenovel.com/con/flight-behavior_page-120 Towards the end of Flight Behavior, there’s a section wherein Dellarobia has to help deliver a baby lamb and keep it alive. It wound up being my very favorite scene in […]
I hadn’t very closely considered my personal relation to the surrounding world until taking this course. Spending time reading and watching videos detailing the different aspects of our relationship with the world has led me to think more often about my role in the world. The readings definitely made me want to be a part […]
Artistic Curation
Annotated Bibliography (cont.) HKS Authors See citation below for complete author information. , & Sheila Jasanoff Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies. (2021, February 9). Humility in the anthropocene. Harvard Kennedy School. Retrieved May 24, 2022, from https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/humility-anthropocene Jasanoff highlights the gravity of our situation, in our own era of uncharted territory so distinct […]
Final Reflection Bambi Cumpston Gender Identity in Environmental Lit June 4 This class has enlightened me to the idea of ecofeminism, a concept I was only vaguely familiar with before the class. All our books were centered around female characters and their relationships to nature. I really appreciated that all our texts this term […]
Artistic curation Gender Identity of Lit: Ecofeminism Bambi Cumpston Eco chic: podcast The name says it all: this podcast tells you both what’s eco-friendly and what’s chic, and helps you cover both bases at once! Since 2018, Laura Diaz, a self-identified ‘sustainability professional’ with a masters of science degree in Climate science, has been […]
Bambi Cumpston Gender Identity in Literature of the Environment Annotated bibliography McTaggart, Ian, A Tale of Garbage, Earth Common Journal, 2015, Vol 5 no 1 This article chronicles ‘garbology;’ the study of human waste from an archeological standpoint. The study of garbage is important partially because it tells us where our waste is coming […]
I chose to make a collage with different images representing the psychological significance of “greenwashing”. Many public pledges are signed by companies every year that are aiming to lower their carbon footprint, or at least appear as though they are doing so. In reality, these large companies are often some of the larger contributors to […]
Diane Wilson’s novel, The Seed Keeper, follows a midwestern woman named Rosalie who leaves to stay in her childhood home after the passing of her husband. The novel follows Rosalie as she recounts her memories, and the constant tensions between her Dakota family roots and those she finds herself surrounded by. One of Rosalie’s notable […]
Women and nature Two forces gentle like wind Their fates intertwined As our earth falls ill The patriarchy is no cure Knowledge is healing The moment we chose To split nature and culture, Humans lost their way For this project, I decided to focus on ecofeminism. In the age of the Anthropocene, […]
