Barry Lopez's Relational Arctic // El Ártico relacional de Barry Lopez
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986) can be read as American nature writer Barry Lopez’s attempt to evoke a more profound and ecologically sound understanding of the North-American Arctic. This article investigates how Arctic Dreams uses insights from Jacob von Uexkül...
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ftproeditio:oai:ojs.revistas.proeditio.com:article/614 2023-05-15T14:33:36+02:00 Barry Lopez's Relational Arctic // El Ártico relacional de Barry Lopez Kjeldaas, Sigfrid 2014-08-28 application/pdf https://ecozona.eu/article/view/614 eng eng Universidad de Alcalá https://ecozona.eu/article/view/614/659 https://ecozona.eu/article/view/614 Derechos de autor 2016 Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment; Bd. 5 Nr. 2 (2014): Northern Nature; 72-87 Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2014): Northern Nature; 72-87 Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment; Vol. 5 Núm. 2 (2014): Northern Nature; 72-87 Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment; V. 5 N. 2 (2014): Northern Nature; 72-87 2171-9594 10.37536/ECOZONA.2014.5.2 ecocriticism Arctic space animals hunting // ecocrítica Ártico espacio animales caza info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed article 2014 ftproeditio https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2014.5.2 2022-05-25T09:32:27Z Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986) can be read as American nature writer Barry Lopez’s attempt to evoke a more profound and ecologically sound understanding of the North-American Arctic. This article investigates how Arctic Dreams uses insights from Jacob von Uexküll’s Umwelt theory, in combination with what Tim Ingold describes as a particular form of animism associated with circumpolar indigenous hunter cultures, to portray the Arctic natural environment as a living and lively space. Doreen Massey has described such spaces as recognizing plurality and allowing encounters. By highlighting networks of relationship and trajectories both human (historical) and animal (evolutionary), Arctic Dreams recognizes human and animal cultures that not only exist upon and can lay claim to this land, but that in a fundamental way is the land. In this way the text dismisses previous conceptions of the North-American Arctic as an empty space awaiting colonization and modernization, while on a deeper level it also questions the modern nature/culture dichotomy that allows nature to be perceived as the mere substratum of culture. Resumen El libro Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986) puede considerarse un intento por parte del escritor de la naturaleza americano Barry Lopez de evocar un conocimiento más profundo y ecológicamente sensato del Ártico norteamericano. Este artículo analiza cómo Arctic Dreams utiliza la teoría Umwelt de Jacob von Uexküll, combinada con lo que Tim Ingold describe como una forma particular de animismo asociada con las culturas de los indígenas cazadores circumpolares, para retratar el entorno natural ártico como un lugar vivo y vivaz. Doreen Massey ha descrito dichos lugares como capaces de reconocer la pluralidad y permitir encuentros. Al destacar las redes de relaciones y de trayectorias tanto humanas (históricas) como de animales (evolucionarias), Arctic Dreams reconoce culturas humanas y animales que no sólo existen sobre y puede ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Proeditio (E-Journals) Arctic Lopez ENVELOPE(-63.567,-63.567,-64.850,-64.850) Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 5 2 72 87 |
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986) can be read as American nature writer Barry Lopez’s attempt to evoke a more profound and ecologically sound understanding of the North-American Arctic. This article investigates how Arctic Dreams uses insights from Jacob von Uexküll’s Umwelt theory, in combination with what Tim Ingold describes as a particular form of animism associated with circumpolar indigenous hunter cultures, to portray the Arctic natural environment as a living and lively space. Doreen Massey has described such spaces as recognizing plurality and allowing encounters. By highlighting networks of relationship and trajectories both human (historical) and animal (evolutionary), Arctic Dreams recognizes human and animal cultures that not only exist upon and can lay claim to this land, but that in a fundamental way is the land. In this way the text dismisses previous conceptions of the North-American Arctic as an empty space awaiting colonization and modernization, while on a deeper level it also questions the modern nature/culture dichotomy that allows nature to be perceived as the mere substratum of culture. Resumen El libro Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986) puede considerarse un intento por parte del escritor de la naturaleza americano Barry Lopez de evocar un conocimiento más profundo y ecológicamente sensato del Ártico norteamericano. Este artículo analiza cómo Arctic Dreams utiliza la teoría Umwelt de Jacob von Uexküll, combinada con lo que Tim Ingold describe como una forma particular de animismo asociada con las culturas de los indígenas cazadores circumpolares, para retratar el entorno natural ártico como un lugar vivo y vivaz. Doreen Massey ha descrito dichos lugares como capaces de reconocer la pluralidad y permitir encuentros. Al destacar las redes de relaciones y de trayectorias tanto humanas (históricas) como de animales (evolucionarias), Arctic Dreams reconoce culturas humanas y animales que no sólo existen sobre y puede ... |
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