#material ecocriticism

What I wish to stress here, then, are not just those communities that are involuntarily (and often militarily) relocated to less hospitable  environs, but also those affected by what I call displacement without moving. In other words, I want to propose a more radical notion of displacement, one that, instead of referring solely to the movement of people from their places of belonging, refers rather to the loss of the land and resources beneath them, a loss that leaves communities stranded in a place stripped of the very characteristics that made it inhabitable.