| 研究実績の概要 |
I used the second year of the kaken project to broaden my critical understanding of the environmental crisis by considering climate fiction (Cli-Fi) alongside other forms of creative expression, expanding the timeline of US climate literature to incorporate classic texts, focusing attention on marginalized groups who suffer disproportionately from environmental catastrophe, highlighting the link between environmental violence and human rights abuses, underscoring the intersection of climate/environmental activism and social movements such as Black Lives Matter and Water Protectors resisting the construction of fossil fuel pipelines, exploring the impact of the environmental crisis on rural populations along Lake Superior and the resistance to this threat.
Some accomplishments include 1) conducting sabbatical research as a visiting scholar at Northland College and the University of Wisconsin, Superior; 2) attending the “Common Frequencies / Frequencias Communes” exhibit at BioBAT Art Space in Brooklyn, NY; 3) learning about the culture and history of the Anishinaabe people in the Lake Superior region; 4) attending talks/symposia about Indigenous treaty rights, organized resistance to mining in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and water use in the Great Lakes; 5) attending Water Protector actions/events organized by Lake Superior Not For Sale, Stop Line 3, Water Is Life, and meeting writer/environmental activists; 6) witnessing important cultural events held along or on Lake Superior.
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| 現在までの達成度 (区分) |
現在までの達成度 (区分)
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理由
Despite the ongoing global pandemic, the research project is progressing more smoothly than I anticipated it would be going at this time last year. While I haven’t formally presented during the pandemic, I have collected helpful resources, attended informative talks and virtual seminars, formed meaningful contacts with professionals in the United States, and completed a research sabbatical in the United States.
These experiences and events have added significantly to my understanding of the culture of the Great Lakes region, the Climate/Environmental Crisis, and the danger posed to the upper Midwest and western Great Lakes by the fossil fuel industry. What I have learned during the second year of the kaken project will prove productive for my scholarship and teaching for years to come.
Of course it is possible that yet another variant of coronavirus could appear and require a lockdown that may complicate plans to travel overseas to conduct research or present at conferences. If something like this were to occur, I am in a stronger position to fulfill research plans because of the connections I established during my sabbatical.
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| 今後の研究の推進方策 |
Over the next few years, I will be making use of the experiences and materials gathered during the second year of the kaken project for lectures, conference papers, and publications.
In September 2022, I intend to present about my research at Northland College. In October, I will give a paper at the 2022 Western Literature Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Other venues where I intend to present research findings include the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE US) biennial conference in the summer of 2023, the Society for the Study of Literature and the Environment (Japan), the HPI English Lecture Series, and group kaken meetings.
In terms of publishing I am currently writing an article on gardening and survival to be published in March 2023, co-editing two book collections for which I will contribute articles based on research conducted in the first and second year of the kaken project, and working on a monograph exploring representations of climate/environmental crisis and resistance to petrocolonialism. In addition to these projects already in progress, I plan to submit articles to Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and the Environment (ISLE), Western American Literature (WAL), and Ecocriticism Review--academic journals associated with the conferences where I plan to present.
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