OVERTURE: The most complicated word

This overture written by the guest editor of this special journal issue, "Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited," notes that "nature," often referred to as "the environment," is often misunderstood as a space that is separate from where we spend our everyday lives...

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Published in:Cultural studies (London, England) England), 2008-05, Vol.22 (3-4), p.361-368
Main Author: Pezzullo, Phaedra C.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Environment
Sociology of Culture
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Summary:This overture written by the guest editor of this special journal issue, "Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited," notes that "nature," often referred to as "the environment," is often misunderstood as a space that is separate from where we spend our everyday lives. It is not. Rather, "the environment is what it does, materially & symbolically." It permeates our bodies, our lives, everything we do. It also involves processes that we do not even comprehend. Yet the environment is marginalized in cultural studies. As an overture to the contributions that follow, which seek to rectify this marginalization, Pezzullo explores some of the things that environments do: they spatialize, temporalize, & blur boundaries; they elude, charm, nourish, kill, & provoke us; & they haunt us with the memories of our senses, our feelings, our desires, & our aspirations. References. S. Stanton
ISSN:0950-2386
1466-4348
DOI:10.1080/09502380802012484