The Earth Intoxicated on Imagination

Annabelle Dufourcq (Radboud University and Wageningen University and Research)

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English

Cambridge University Press
28 August 2025

Literary theory; Indigenous peoples; Political ideologies; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Environmentalist thought & ideology

Series: Elements in Environmental Humanities

The aim of this Element is to forge new conceptual tools to give more ecological power to the human imagination. Imagination, both an innovative force and one that distances and blinds, is central to the ecological crisis as well as its potential resolution. Human imagination creates a bubble of denial, fostering the illusion of a smooth, reassuring, controlled, and neatly compartmentalized world. This Element critically contrasts the harmful modern concepts of reality and imagination with a more grounded “earthly” and “animal” imagination. It proposes to overcome the tension between two currents in environmental thought: those advocating imagination for utopian transformation, and proponents of realism, urging confrontation with the material world beyond anthropocentrism. Through analysis of key contemporary environmental work alongside insights from ethology and biosemiotics, the Element underpins the concept of “animal imagination,” offering an alternative approach to environmental imagination and activism that fosters deeper engagement with the living world.

By: Annabelle Dufourcq (Radboud University and Wageningen University and Research)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 250g
ISBN: 9781009419994
ISBN 10: 1009419994
Series: Elements in Environmental Humanities
Pages: 86
Publication Date: 28 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. Calling for more imagination; 3. Calling for more realism; 4. A destructive debate; 5. What went wrong with human imagination: Lessons from Shakespeare's Tempest; 6. Ecological imagination: Animal imagination; 7. Animal imagination and activism: Magic now; 8. Conclusion; References.