Background

• Public interest in environmental issues has grown in recent decades.

• The need for the protection of the environment, has become predominant
problems and debated extensively among academic, environmental
activists and politican.
• People across the globe have become conscious of the rapidly growing
problems of climate change.
• Natural resources management, fast technological development, and
limitations on resources including water, food and energy.
• Ecology has become one of the most important topics in the Western
world’s debates, especially in the domain of social and natural sciences
Background (2)
• The word ecology, which is widely used, at the same time, it is ambiguous, vague, and
undefined.(Milan Galović, 2014)
• Ecology in its constant appearance on the product labels is heavily related to economic
propaganda.
• As a result ecology has not been generally accepted, but it is frequently used as a
manipulative device in the hands of different power groups, which tend to modify it and
subject it to their own interests.
• Milan Galović suggests that, while studying the environmental issues, we should take a
holistic approach and consider all the components of the human habitat in all of its
dimensions.
• Certain scientific disciplines (like human ethics, bioethics, and biopolitics), in fact, have a
tendency to point out the ecological component present in them in order to draw the
ecologists’ attention to the topic.
• In the context in which both ethics and science meet within the infinite branching of
scientific disciplines in the 20th century, one of them is Ecocriticism.
Backgrounds (3)
• Ecocriticism is a discipline which is described as a part of the literary
theory which associates literature to ecology;
• Ecocriticism primarily focuses on the texts dealing with nature or
humans in the environmental context;
• Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and
the physical environment;