Ecologies of Violence: Crimes against Nature in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination

Publications

Ifor Duncan, ‘Remembering Rain: Pluvial Poesis and Marronage in Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon‘, in The Pelgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies, ed. by Lucy Bond, Susannah Radstone, Jessica Rapson, Pelgrave Macmillan 2025, pp. 411 – 429.

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Ifor Duncan, ‘Rivers Shape Mountains: Mountains Become Rivers,’ in The Mountain Speaks to the Sea: Tekla Aslanishvili, ed. by Silvia Franceschini & Tekla Aslanishvili (Onomatopee, 2025).

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Susanne C. Knittel, “Scales of Memory: Family Chronicles and the Agency of the Aesthetic”, in Astrid Erll , Susanne Knittel and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds.), Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization. Doing Memory Studies With Ann Rigney, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 2025 (pp. 305-313).

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Susanne C. Knittel and Sofía Forchieri, “There Is No “Elsewhere”: Scales of Complicity and Implication in the Contemporary German Family Novel” in Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies (eds.), Violence Elsewhere [2 volume set], Boydell & Brewer, Camden House, 2024 (pp. 70-92).

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Susanne C. Knittel, ‘Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide-ecocide nexus’, Memory Studies (2023), Volume 16, Issue 6, pp. 1563-1578. Ecocide and large-scale ecological degradation raise critical questions regarding guilt, justice, and responsibility. The complexity and scale of ecological violence present a singular challenge for memory studies, especially when it comes to understanding…

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