Ecocultural Identity: An Introduction (original) (raw)

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, 2020

Abstract

This introductory chapter of the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity provides a contextual overview of this collection of original theory and research as the first multi-lensed reference on ways individual and collective ecocultural identities emerge, endure, and transform. While questions of identity now are familiar in the academic and public spheres, much of the discussion about identity has occluded the ecological. At the same time, within a human-disrupted planet, increasingly it has become essential to address both the ecological and cultural natures of our identities on individual, local, and global scales. Our intention behind this Handbook is to help foster a radical epistemology focused on ways ecocultural selfhood is being, and could be, perceived, performed, and experienced in ways directly relevant to regenerative Earth futures. As such, the Handbook has three core transdisciplinary goals: First, to provide a prismatic overview of the emergent subject area of ecocultural identity for researchers, teachers, students, activists, and practitioners; second, to establish a definitive space for engaged scholars to examine, critique, activate, and advance reflections on ecocultural identity in everyday lives and structural processes; and, third, to illuminate the breadth, depth, and common threads of a diverse and growing body of knowledge and expertise across disciplines and ignite transdisciplinary interest in future research on planetary positionalities.

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