Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 51 Search Results for
ethos
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Kenny Walker Abstract The 50 th year anniversary of Rachel Carson's monumental Silent Spring invites reflection on how the controversy over chemical pesticides shaped environmental discourse in the modern era. This essay focuses on uncertainty as a boundary device that shapes scientific ethos...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 77–94.
Published: 01 May 2016
... ; singular: ethos ) of diverse forms of human and nonhuman life and in an effort to explore and perhaps restory the relationships that constitute and nourish them. Our aim is to develop “lively ethographies”: a mode of knowing, engaging, and storytelling that recognizes the meaningful lives of others...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 24–36.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... The shepherds had to learn how to lead, how to understand other modes of living, how to teach their sheep what is edible and what is not, and how to form a flock; the sheep had to learn how to “compose with” dogs and humans, to acquire new feeding habits, a new ethos, and moreover, new ways of living...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 277–284.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and common strategies than we might realize. 3 The urgent point here is that a dismissal or willed ignorance of the continued relevance of religion and religious discourse to the quest of establishing an environmental ethos would be an utterly fatal mistake to make in the age of climate change...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 May 2012
... but is concerned with the effects of our entanglements with other kinds of living selves.” 10 This is an approach that, as Anna Tsing notes, “allows something new: passionate immersion in the lives of the nonhumans being studied.” 11 Similarly, Dominique Lestel's etho-ethnology/ethno-ethology utilises...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2016
... disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches that have emerged in recent years. These include multispecies ethnography, 26 etho-ethnology, 27 anthropology of life, 28 anthropology beyond humanity, 29 extinction studies, 30 and more-than-human geographies. 31 Despite their differences, we see...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 281–300.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Similarly geologic extinction requires attention to how what is known is related to ways of thinking. Isabelle Stengers described this relationship as an ecology of practices that connects knowledge to the ethos in which it is produced, a relationship wherein how a “matter-of-fact environment” is known...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of entanglement, care, interwoven patterns, and mutual becoming. Deborah Bird Rose and van Dooren advocate “an ethical practice of ‘becoming-witness’ which seeks to explore and respond to others in the fullness of their particular ‘ethos’ or way of life.” 24 The “ethos” of a species includes the ways members...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 125–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
... certainly be more developed than that, an “account”), storying might be described as the extended method of anecdote, the etho-ethnography of observation and interaction in a place. Storying attends to the phenomenological co-constitution of place, subjectivity and becoming. As Thom van Dooren and Deborah...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 233–236.
Published: 01 March 2022
... they are plants; the soldiers reject the capitalist ethos of the garrison, denouncing work and trade as “unnatural” and claiming that “the only worthwhile thing was to sit and contemplate—outside.” 4 In Han Kang’s The Vegetarian , Yeong-hye’s arboromorphic transformation is initially inspired by a refusal...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 201–223.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... By beginning from attentiveness, the CFC centers subsequent investigation in acknowledgement of responsibility. Listening is both a condition for ethics, in that responding to something requires first having attended to it, and an enacted ethos in itself. Designed listening stations focus attention...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 680–691.
Published: 01 November 2024
... thinking in close dialogue with other areas of critical ocean studies. The 2021 Shanghai Biennial was named after Astrida Neimanis’s influential book Bodies of Water (2017), while the relational emphasis of such wet philosophies is shared, for example, by the curatorial ethos guiding the 2022 Toronto...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of extinction via a further approach, that of “lively ethography.” 6 Thom van Dooren and Deborah Bird Rose have described this as “an approach grounded in an attentiveness to the evolving ways of life (or ēthea ; singular: ethos ) [hence etho graphy] of diverse forms of human and nonhuman life...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
... second. 25 Under this ideology, contamination and suffering are ignored, as state bureaucrats pursue what Maria Puig de la Bellacasa characterized as the pace of “the productionist ethos”—“a linear imperative of progress versus fears of regression.” 26 Modern productionism has utilized a temporal...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 88–112.
Published: 01 May 2020
... aid) or making pedagogical accommodations for neuro-divergent students. A feminist ethos of accessibility might also mean translating one’s more obscure, philosophical writings or conceptual artist statements into different formats and tones so that one’s work is accessible to various communities...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 475–493.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of wonder and ethics, and never referring to it as a disenchanted ethos of gaining less, these actors, in my analysis, tried to make the smallest indoor routines and the continuous demos in the streets exemplars of motivational attachments to the planet. This concerted activism, momentarily “figuring...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 372–390.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in 1849. 87 But DeQuincy was in the minority, as horses were increasingly seen as analogous to steam engines and worked until “cruel exhaustion.” 88 This contrasts with the Native American ethos of kinship: “Native American teachings describe the relations all around—animals, fish, trees, and rocks...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 233–260.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... The implication is that we can no longer talk about a singular, asocial “nature” to justify various management/conservation/remediation/preservation/restoration measures (be they large or small). He commends an “experimental ethos” that is open-minded and reflective, challenging Westerners to make considered...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of industry lobbies designed to oppose such resistance—materials collected alongside those of pro-farmer, pro-environment groups at Iowa State University—reveal the canny means by which an eco-cosmopolitan ethos might be co-opted to legitimate continued capitalist petro-industrial exploitations...
Journal Article
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., a shared or convivial space defined by an ethos of pragmatic coexistence. A few years ago, during a car ride across the tundra, Oskal summarized this ethos to me as a kind of cosmopolitical imperative—not so different, he said, from the radical principle of Christian charity: an obligation to “extend...
1
