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Bad environmentalism : irony and irreverence in the ecological age / Nicole Seymour.

Summary:

Bad Environmentalism examines how contemporary artists identify and respond to the ironies and absurdities surrounding environmental activism with their work in film, reality TV, poetry, fiction, performance art, and standup comedy. Focusing on texts such as the TV show Wildboyz and film series Green Porno, the book shows how such "bad environmentalists" use absurdity, camp, playfulness, and repulsiveness to counter climate skepticism and forces of environmental degradation as well as to question mainstream environmentalism's earnest prescriptiveness. Using affect theory and queer theory as her primary theoretical frameworks, Seymour considers the potentials and pitfalls of bad environmentalism and expands our understandings of environmental art and activism. -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781517903893
ISBN: 1517903890
Physical Description: 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"I'm No Botanist, but.": irony, ecocinema, and the problem of expert knowledge -- "So Much to See, So Little to Learn": perverting nature/wildlife programming -- Climate change is a drag and camping can be campy: on queer environmental performance -- Animatronic Indians and black folk who don't: rewriting racialized environmental affect -- Gas-guzzling, beer-chugging, tree huggers: toward trashy environmentalisms.