"The Earth and the challenge of habitability”. Interview with Nathalie Blanc

Author(s)

  • Aude Jeannerod Université Catholique de Lyon
  • Morgane Leray Aix-Marseille University
  • Olivier Sécardin Hiroshima University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19401

Keywords:

Nathalie Blanc, environmental crisis, interview, teaching, literature, creativity

Abstract

Faced with an environmental crisis that threatens the survival of humanity, contemporary Western societies need to invent new ways of living on Earth. According to Nathalie Blanc, art and literature, and the research associated with them, have a role to play in this area: because they enable us to develop new imaginaries, they help to establish new relationships between nature and culture. Nathalie Blanc is a geographer, director of research at the CNRS, and director of the Centre des Politiques de la Terre (Université Paris Cité / Sciences Po), which she co-founded in 2019. Her work focuses on nature in the city, and more specifically on the cultural dimension of relations with nature at the heart of local policy projects. Committed to a research-creation approach, she examines the role of art and creativity in environmental mobilisations.

Author Biographies

  • Aude Jeannerod, Université Catholique de Lyon

    Aude Jeannerod is Assistant Professor in French literature at UCLy and a member of the UR Confluence: Sciences et Humanités (EA1598). In 2020 she published her doctoral thesis, La Critique d'art de Joris-Karl Huysmans. Esthétique, poétique, idéologie, published by Classiques Garnier. Her research focuses on the relationship between literature and the arts and the history of ideas, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

  • Morgane Leray, Aix-Marseille University

    Morgane Leray is an Assistant Professor in French language and literature at Aix-Marseille University. Her research on the fin-de-siècle and, more broadly, on the eschatological imagination has led her to study the place of nature in it and to develop a body of work on environmental humanities. She is also examining their didactics and the role of interdisciplinarity, which is the subject of a seminar she is leading in a Master’s programme for future teachers.

  • Olivier Sécardin, Hiroshima University

    Olivier Sécardin is assistant professor of French language and literature, comparative literature and intercultural communication. After teaching at Columbia University (New York), Kyushu University (Japan), the University of Chicago, Cornell University and Utrecht University, he is currently associate professor at Hiroshima University and co-editor in chief of Relief. 

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Published

2024-07-15

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2024): At the School of Life: teaching literature with environmental humanities

Section

Interviews

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How to Cite

Jeannerod, A., Leray, M. and Sécardin, O. (2024) “"The Earth and the challenge of habitability”. Interview with Nathalie Blanc”, RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 18(1), pp. 54–67. doi:10.51777/relief19401.