"O me! O me! How i love the earth": William Morris's News from Nowhere and the birth of sustainable society
Titel:
"O me! O me! How i love the earth": William Morris's News from Nowhere and the birth of sustainable society
Auteur:
Delveaux, Martin
Verschenen in:
Contemporary justice review
Paginering:
Jaargang 8 (2005) nr. 2 pagina's 131-146
Jaar:
2005-06
Inhoud:
Arguing from an ecocritical perspective, in this article I seek to show that Morris, in his 'green' utopia News from Nowhere, envisaged a new social order in which communities are socially just, participatory, independent, economically viable and environmentally sustainable. I will argue that Morris, by stressing the need for a decentralized and polycentric country and by showing how co-operation, as opposed to competition, can form a symbiosis between the members of the society, effectively linked the local with the global. I will show that Morris, turning against systematized globalization as portrayed in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, gives an example of a 'sustainable' globalization that shares much common ground with the current politics of bioregionalism. I will finally suggest that Morris's vision of London as an ecological city, where waste has been abolished and human beings live in harmony with nature while respecting social justice, is more urgent than ever and can be instrumental as a vision for our future life.
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