Copyright

Kristine Kowalchuk

Published On

2021-04-29

Page Range

pp. 61-92

Language

  • English

Print Length

31 pages

3. Academia, Abstraction and the Anthropocene

Changing the Story for Right Relationship

  • Kristine Kowalchuk (author)
Chapter of: Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (pp. 61–92)

This chapter by Kristine Kowalchuk argues the need for humanities scholars to recognize the ecological crisis as a cultural issue arising from modernity’s story of human separation from, and superiority over, nature. The author urges humanities scholars to help lead the way in telling a different story, to enable genuine positive change and healing. As Kowalchuk shows, this story is not a new story, but rather an ancient one, of right relationship between humans and nature, and it has persisted in the margins for over four hundred years.

Contributors

Kristine Kowalchuk

(author)
Adjunct Professor, Department of English and Film Studies at University of Alberta

Kristine Kowalchuk is an Adjunct Professor with the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, and an instructor of English and Ethics at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT). Her research focuses on ecological humanities, including writing on food and farming systems. In 2017 she published Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Receipt Books through the University of Toronto Press.