Nature + Space + Story

In our current historical moment, which is characterized by ongoing ecological collapse and a not unrelated increase in social disorder, few issues are more urgent than our relationship as humans with our environments. Whether we characterize this new epoch as the climate change era or the Anthropocene, we can no longer ignore the fact that the places we live in are rapidly changing in response to economic and environmental pressures. Indeed, the increasingly pressing politics of place is one explanation for the groundswell of environmental approaches to literature in recent decades. Rather than thinking of place as a neutral site for social interaction, therefore, we should recognize the ways it underpins and intertwines with human experience.

~Lowell Wyse