Representation and Experience of Material Waste: A Sensory Ethnography
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https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i33.26296Keywords:
environmental humanities, ecocriticism, ecosophy, critical discard studiesAbstract
This article argues in favor of an ethical-aesthetic ecosophical praxis. The aim is to propose an inter/transdisciplinary methodology between ecocriticism and environmental humanities to address the cultural representation and the experience of material waste. First, an ecocritical analysis of a contemporary case of Latin American literature addressing waste is carried out: the novel Boeuf. Relato a la manera de Cambridge, by Venezuelan Jesús Miguel Soto. Second, the article builds on the ecocritical analysis to carry out a sensory ethnography itinerary. The purpose is to produce an alternative narrative that takes the cultural product as a platform for intertwining environmental, social, and mental ecologies. Finally, it is concluded that an inter/transdisciplinary research based on an ethical-aesthetic ecosophical praxis allows us to question and expand ways of thinking, doing, and feeling, in the context of the environmental, climate, and ecological crises.
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