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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 725–745.
Published: 01 November 2024
... for supercrops. This exploration of shifting vegetal virtuosity highlights the ecological attunement of partial exemplarity when compared with the expected ubiquity of heroic and villainous crops. The contrast between heroic and partial exemplarity highlights how a plant becomes an ethical companion offering...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 125–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
... a (supposedly) exclusionary politics of nature, in a move that betrayed a still largely humanist ethics. From the focus on friendly companions, to the attention to practices of care or living-together, the notion of companion species and their entanglements with humans has been polarized towards a pleasant...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 232–235.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Anthropology 25 ( 2010 ): 545 – 76 . Metcalf Jacob . “ Intimacy without Proximity: Encountering Grizzlies as a Companion Species .” Environmental Philosophy 5 ( 2008 ): 99 – 128 . Warkentin Traci . “ Interspecies Etiquette: An Ethics of Paying Attention to Animals .” Ethics...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 456–459.
Published: 01 November 2017
... because they carry a viral companion that is fatal for familiar, culturally valued but locally endangered, red squirrels. A second step thus follows: it considers the ethics that derive from connectivity reconceptualized in this way. Donna Haraway has famously written of the ways in which multispecies...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 233–236.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of this text. 6. Lovelock, Gaia , 12 . 7. Roy, How I Became a Tree , 23, 27 . 8. Roy, How I Became a Tree , 62 . 9. Kin-making is a term from Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto . The idea of an “ethics and poetics” draws on the “poethical,” as used by Retallack, who...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 291–294.
Published: 01 May 2014
... trouble. 2 Spending time in these spaces has prompted me to think about ethics through concepts like witness, hope and inheritance (much of this work is a collaboration with Deborah Bird Rose). Through these experiences—and an ongoing engagement with, in particular, the work of Maria Puig de la...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 113–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
... together; the way killing and death circulate alongside care and life. This special section aims to enrich our understanding of the ethics of living with nonhuman others. We are interested in creatures that bite, or sting, or—like giant isopods—fascinate but repulse us, and in creatures that must die so...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 211–229.
Published: 01 March 2024
... an ethical reflexivity in field technicians operating well outside of academic environmental humanities circles. Drawing on multispecies studies’ (and its animal studies antecedents’) focus on environmental ethics, as well as the scant but growing attention to “unloved others” like invertebrates, squished...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 151–168.
Published: 01 May 2016
... forth new possibilities for responsible, affective and ethical co-habitations. 18 Haraway, When Species Meet. 19 Bruno Latour, “Steps Toward the Writing of a Compositionist Manifesto,” New Literary History 41 (2010): 471-490; Bruno Latour, On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 101–107.
Published: 01 May 2019
... from a merely critical approach of individuals fighting the war on cancer to a critical-affirmative approach of a “we,” a planetary kinship of vulnerable bodies inhabiting “the Chthulucene” 10 through an ethics of affirmative difference. Hugo Reinert, in his article “The Midwife and the Poet...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2016
... the broader theoretical context of multispecies studies, asking what is at stake—epistemologically, politically, ethically—in learning to be attentive to diverse ways of life. Are all lively entities biological, or might a tornado, a stone, or a volcano be amenable to similar forms of immersion? What does...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 277–281.
Published: 01 May 2014
... words, we become-with life as it is manifested through the body of another, and lives are always connected to worlds. This multispecies becoming-with leaves us open to the responsive capacity of all earthly life, and this has important implications for ethics. If our knowledge of Earth's complex...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 53–71.
Published: 01 May 2015
... in such a perfect world was thus accompanied by the presence of birds, a presence made most readily and delightfully manifest in their songs. When once familiar companions no longer accompanied local residents, the shock was unexpected and unnerving. The Anthropocene is still a new and largely academic term...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... op de Beeck, “Speaking for the Trees.” 28. Harju and Rous, “Keeping Some Wildness.” 29. See also Goga, “Interspecies Encounters” for a discussion of interspecies ethics in a children’s book. 30. Rudd, “Animal and Object Stories.” 31. There are of course exceptions...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 571–589.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., to an ethics of care that bridges the barriers and enables associations of humans and nonhumans. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] © 2024 Gabriela Klier and Andrés Vaccari 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Karyn Pilgrim Abstract The ethical food movement signals a significant transformation of cultural consciousness in its recognition of the intimate politics of what we eat and what kind of socio-political systems we sustain. The recent resurgence of economic localization exemplifies a grass roots...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... has examined, even before Zika, the deployment of transgenic mosquitoes has often hinged upon “scalar narratives” that anticipate potential global health threats. Nading, “The Lively Ethics of Global Health GMOs.” 39. Fang, “A World Without Mosquitoes” ; Regalado, “The Extinction Invention...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 216–238.
Published: 01 May 2019
... live?” In a commentary on Haraway’s When Species Meet , cultural geographers Jamie Lorimer and Gail Davies ask, how should “we live with others who are not at all like us, and might actively dislike us?” How to extend our ethics to “pesky, monstrous, or bacterial companions?” 52 The reflection...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 522–542.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Soledad Altrudi; Christopher M. Kelty Abstract Multispecies entanglement has been a major research focus in environmental humanities, aiming to rethink ontological and ethical possibilities, especially in urban settings, by attending to speculative other-than-human futures. This article dwells...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 826–841.
Published: 01 November 2024
... distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Indigenous thought ontological turn Anthropocene insects biodiversity conservation Insects are a particularly special companion animal for investigating human perceptions of nature and “human nature.” Their group...