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• Title: Bridging the Great Divide: Ecocritical Theory and the Great Unwashed (1) (Critical Essay)
• Author : English Studies in Canada
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 210 KB

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FOR ALL OF OUR GOOD WORDS, good works, and best intentions, what ecocritical scholars value seems radically at odds with what policy-makers seem to value, and we've got to wonder at some point if we are really making a whit of difference. We realize the relative value of ourselves as scholars when a person like George W. Bush can have such a potentially devastating effect on the environment by pulling the U.S. out of the Kyoto Accord and, despite repeated rejections from the U.S. Senate, announcing in early February 2004 that he will pressure the U.S. Congress to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife refuge to drilling by oil companies. Moreover, we realize that if ecocriticism is to have any effect outside of the narrow confines of academia, then it must not only define itself but also address the issue of values in ways that connect meaningfully with the non-academic world. In terms of theory, it is going to have to stop running and hiding for fear of being rendered hopeless as a political engine. Since 1996, ecocriticism has burgeoned into a huge discipline with many practitioners and followers. The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) began in 1992 in the U.S. under the founding principle of inclusivity, and the association has since expanded to include branches in the UK, Korea, Japan, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. Canada, too, recently joined the club with its version of ASLE called ALECC (The Association for Literature, the Environment, and Culture in Canada / Association pour la litterature, l'environnement, et la culture au Canada). Embracing inclusivity, ASLE seeks all possible connections, as does ecocriticism, so much so, in fact, that it is sometimes difficult to tell where ecocriticism ends and nature studies begins. However, the two disciplines do differ in their commitment to praxis. As I have stated elsewhere (see my "Report Card"), ecocriticism has distinguished itself, debates notwithstanding, first by its ethical stance of commitment to the natural world as an important thing rather than simply as an object of thematic study and, secondly, by its commitment to making connections. Ecocriticism may be many other things besides, but it is always at least these two.

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