These local voices underscore the challenges human subjects face in articulating and narrating environmental relationships-even despite their intimate proximity to these landscapes.
The article aims to show the struggles of rural people to embrace a planetary consciousness-a global awareness that can paradoxically foreground as well as participate in the continued ecological devastation of the landscapes these activists hold dear. Foregrounding the voices of grassroots environmentalists as well as the public-relations campaigns of multinational agribusiness trade groups, materials collected in the special collections of Iowa State University, the article resituates Smiley's prizewinning novel and offers a complication of current conceptualizations of eco-cosmopolitanism. This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory, a trajectory promulgated by Ursula K.
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