@article{intel:/content/journals/10.1386/jwcp.7.1.143_1, author = "Rawlings, Angela", title = "RUSL: Trash in Iceland", journal= "Journal of Writing in Creative Practice", year = "2014", volume = "7", number = "1", pages = "143-150", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp.7.1.143_1", url = "https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jwcp.7.1.143_1", publisher = "Intellect", issn = "1753-5204", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "ecolinguistics", keywords = "transformative action", keywords = "counter-mapping", keywords = "ecopoetics", keywords = "trash", abstract = "Abstract RUSL explores the potential for ecolinguistic activism to act as a gateway for experiential learning via the generation of site-dependent artwork related to place. Autoethnographic methodology demonstrates the effectiveness of pedagogy focused on transformative action, and documentation of art-making processes offers repeatable models that may result in action competence with the power to alter a person’s notion of herself as a place-maker and of her interconnectedness with ecosystems in flux.", }