What Has Changed in Nature and in the Economy?

Scientific paper - Other

• Author: Stipe Grgas
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of English language and literature)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies

Abstract (english)

The author begins this article by describing the changed priorities of the present: whereas previously attention was focused on social issues, today it is the environment that has become the focus of human concerns. Although the impact of human actions on nature has been noted in the past, the author argues that today this impact is unprecedented. This can be seen, for example, in the way that contemporary engagements with the archive foreground the ecological issue. The author illustrates his disagreement with this practice by glancing at ecologically-minded re-readings of Karl Marx. Turning to American Studies as the disciplinary background of his argument, the author explains the reasons for this focus on Marx. The next step of the paper explores the ecological presence in American Studies before the conclusion, in which the author engages certain works of fiction and shows how he had previously not given sufficient weight to the ecological problematic.

• Keywords (english): nature; economy; ecology; Karl Marx; American Studies; negativity
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Other
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Working Papers in American Studies. Vol. 4. Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture
• Numbering: vol. 4, pp. 68-90
• e-ISSN: 1849-6180
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17234/WPAS.2020.4
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:077069
• Publication: 2020
• Conference: Title: Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture; Location: Zagreb, Croatia; Organizer: Hrvatsko udruženje za američke studije, Hrvatsko društvo za anglističke studije; Start date: 2019-09-24; End date: 2019-09-24
• Document URL: http://www.huams.hr/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/wpas_v4_huams_2020.pdf
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2021-03-10 08:01:32