New Perspectives Issue Explores Ideas of Scarcity
17.06.2015
How have scarcity and abundance have been represented aesthetically and exploited politically? The latest issue of Perspectives, edited by Frederike Felcht and Katie Ritson, considers this question in very different contexts, from literary texts to computer games, and from Enlightenment visions of plenty to colonial justifications for famine. The range of examples shown here give some idea of the productivity of “scarcity” as a concept, and the many forms it can take in influencing and absorbing human ideas about our ways of inhabiting the world.
As always, issue is available online and free of charge. Visit the Perspectives page on the Environment & Society Portal to download a PDF copy of the entire issue or individual articles.