ECO CULTURE

The edited collection Eco Culture Disaster Narrative Discourse opens a conversation about the mediated relationship between culture and ecology The dynamic between these two great forces comes into stark relief when a disasterin its myriad forms and narrativesreveals the fragility of our ecological and cultural landscapes Disasters are the clashing of culture and ecology in violent and tragic ways and the results of each clash create profound effects to both So much so in fact that the terms ecology and culture are past separation We are far removed from their prior historical binaric connection and they coincide through a supplementary role to each other Ecology and culture are unified