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Mourning nature This page intentionally left blank MOURNING Nature Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief edited by ashlee Cunsolo and Karen landMan McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston | London | Chicago © McGill-Queen’s University Press 2017 ISBN 978-0-7735-4933-3 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-7735-4934-0 (paper) ISBN 978-0-7735-4935-7 (ePDF) ISBN 978-0-7735-4936-4 (ePUB) Legal deposit second quarter 2017 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Mourning nature : hope at the heart of ecological loss and grief / edited by Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen Landman. Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 978-0-7735-4933-3 (cloth). – ISBN 978-0-7735-4934-0 (paper). – ISBN 978-0-7735-4935-7 (ePDF). – ISBN 978-0-7735-4936-4 (ePUB) 1. Environmental degradation – Psychological aspects. 2. Ecological disturbances – Psychological aspects. 3. Global environmental change – Psychological aspects. 4. Grief. 5. Loss (Psychology). I. Cunsolo, Ashlee, 1979–, author, editor II. Landman, Karen, 1954–, editor GE140.M68 2017 363.7 C2017-900000-4 C2017-900001-2 Set in 10.3/14 Calluna with Calluna Sans and Newslab Book design & typesetting by Garet Markvoort, zijn digital To all those who have grieved beyond the human … And to those who continue to find hope in the face of ecological loss and degradation … May our individual and collective mourning unite, catalyze, characterize, mobilize, and heal. This page intentionally left blank Contents Figures | ix Acknowledgments | xi Prologue: She Was Bereft | xiii ashlee Cunsolo Introduction: To Mourn beyond the Human | 3 ashlee Cunsolo and Karen landMan 1 Mourning the Loss of Wild Soundscapes: A Rationale for Context When Experiencing Natural Sound | 27 bernie Krause 2 Environmental Mourning and the Religious Imagination | 39 nanCy Menning 3 Mourning Ourselves and/as Our Relatives: Environment as Kinship | 64 sebastian F. braun 4 In the Absence of Sparrows | 92 helen Whale and FranKlin ginn 5 Where Have All the Boronia Gone? A Posthumanist Model of Environmental Mourning | 117 John Charles ryan 6 Losing My Place: Landscapes of Depression | 144 Catriona sandilands 7 Climate Change as the Work of Mourning | 169 ashlee Cunsolo 8 Auguries of Elegy: The Art and Ethics of Ecological Grieving | 190 JessiCa Marion barr 9 Making Loss the Centre: Podcasting Our Environmental Grief | 227 andreW MarK and aManda di battista 10 Emotional Solidarity: Ecological Emotional Outlaws Mourning Environmental Loss and Empowering Positive Change | 258 lisa Kretz 11 Solastalgia and the New Mourning | 292 glenn albreCht Epilogue: The Wild Creatures | 316 PatriCK lane Contributors | 319 Index | 327 Figures 4.1 Sign marking the “first encounter” with a sparrow | 102 4.2 One of the “hidden” spaces of sparrows | 105 8.1 Kerr Eby, St Mihiel, September 13, 1918: The Great Black Cloud (1918/1934). Collection of the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury | 194 8.2 Gwen Curry, Song of the Dodo (1999). © Gwen Curry | 200 8.3 Gwen Curry, Song of the Dodo (detail) (1999). © Gwen Curry | 201 8.4 Edward Burtynsky, Oxford Tire Pile #2, Westley, California, 1999. Photo © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto | 204 8.5 Christian Boltanski, Personnes (2010), installation view, Grand Palais, Paris. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery © Monumenta/MCC. Photo credit: Didier Plowly | 205 8.6 Gwen Curry, Void Field (after Kapoor) (1998–2002). © Gwen Curry. | 206 8.7 Gwen Curry, Void Field (after Kapoor) (detail) (1998–2002). © Gwen Curry | 207 8.8 Jessica Marion Barr, Augury : Elegy (2011). © Jessica Marion Barr. Photo credit: Karen Abel | 210 8.9 Jessica Marion Barr, Augury : Elegy (2011) (detail). © Jessica Marion Barr. Photo credit: Karen Abel | 211 8.10 Deborah Samuel, Elegy – Cardinal, Duck and Solitaire.1 from the Elegy series, produced with the Royal Ontario Museum (2012). © Deborah Samuel | 212 8.11 Chris Jordan, CF000144 from the series Midway: Message from the Gyre (2009–present). Courtesy and © Chris Jordan Studio | 213
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