Technology in Evolutionary and Ecological Perspective: Theory and Measurement at the Societal Level

Social Forces ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 591 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Parker Frisbie ◽  
Clifford J. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Perspective Theory ◽  
Societal Level

An Ecological Perspective on Schools

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 669-670
Author(s):  
Stewart W. Ehly
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Perspective

Motivating Populations to Be Physically Active: A Social Ecological Perspective

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio R. Nigg ◽  
Jay E. Maddock ◽  
Virginia Pressler ◽  
Betty Wood ◽  
Susan Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Social Ecological

World-Ecological Satire: Peat, Brian O'Nolan, and the Irish Free State's Energy Regime

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-104
Author(s):  
Robert Kiely
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Energy Regime ◽  
Energy History ◽  
History Of ◽  
External Site ◽  
Ecological Relations ◽  
Nature And Society ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
The Relationship

A world-ecological perspective of cultural production refuses a dualist conception of nature and society – which imagines nature as an external site of static outputs  – and instead foregrounds the fact that human and extra-human natures are completely intertwined. This essay seeks to reinterpret the satirical writing of a canonical figure within the Irish literary tradition, Brian O'Nolan, in light of the energy history of Ireland, understood as co-produced by both human actors and biophysical nature. How does the energy imaginary of O'Nolan's work refract and mediate the Irish environment and the socio-ecological relations shaping the fuel supply-chains that power the Irish energy regime dominant under the Irish Free State? I discuss the relationship between peat as fuel and Brian O'Nolan's pseudonymous newspaper columns, and indicate how questions about energy regimes and ecology can lead us to read his Irish language novel An Béal Bocht [The Poor Mouth] (1941) in a new light. The moments I select and analyze from O'Nolan's output feature a kind of satire that exposes the folly of separating society from nature, by presenting an exaggerated form of the myth of nature as an infinite resource.

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