Some rubrics for the day, good folks…
My chair asked for rubrics for my lists, in preparation for my exam next week. It was astonishingly hard, but I think useful, to try to make out of the rich and nebulous swirl of thoughts a coherent list of categories, even overlapping and partial ones.
- Americans Abroad
- Apocalypse
- The Child in the Wilds
- Connections to the wild through the Half-Domestic
- Coyotes and Wolves
- Ethnography + Self-ethnography: fiction before, during and after the birth of the social sciences
- Imagined History
- Nuclear Literature
- Rewilding the City
- War Novels
And for the secondary list:
- Anthropocentrism (and anthropomorphism)
- Environmentalist Teleology
- Place
- Post-colonial histories and environmentalisms
- Value & Values
How’s this for my own idiosyncratic answer to the question, “What do you study?”
