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...Aimi Hamraie Abstract This article responds to two diverging notions of “livability”: the normative New Urbanist imaginary of livable cities, where the urban good life manifests in neoliberal consumer cultures, green gentrification, and inaccessible infrastructures, and the feminist and disability...

... from topsoil, growing rice, and other improvisations for relating to soils that cascade to regenerate a livable world. This article discusses how the Japanese state utilizes temporal scales that orient its citizenry to a future associated with accelerated and intensified productivity as a sign...

... these works, Straube explores the meaning of this correlation between ticks and transing bodies for environmental ethics as well as for the forging of livable lives for trans people. Toxicity surfaces as a link in these works. The notion of feminist figuration, developed by philosopher Rosi Braidotti among...

... collaborations among artists, academics, scientists, and local communities to reverse the impacts of extraction through innovative water reclamation techniques and art exhibits that memorialize the region’s coal heritage. These initiatives complement extractive fictions to envision an inclusive, livable...

... in the Environmental Humanities needs a similar kind of manual gearing, because for any kind of ethical and, indeed, livable future on the planet, we not only need new ways of thinking about the world, but new ways of being in and of the world. In this regard, it might pay to state the obvious: the environmental...

....” 41. Garneau, “Migration As Territory.” 42. Scott, XINONA . 43. Garneau, “Migration As Territory.” 44. Here I draw from Judith Butler, whose feminist theory is shaped by an ethical drive toward making more lives livable and to considering the politics of what constitutes...

... York City is the queer fallout of a Times Square where movie houses and other spaces conducive to pleasure intersperse with a range of small businesses. A livable life is the queer fallout of a net of casual encounters that, on their own, often seem to yield little of immediate consequence. Sustained...

... part of a set of temporal counternarratives that I have previously written about as forms of sustaining times—that is, accounts that advocate for alternative conceptions of time that are thought to be better able to support more livable futures. 3 Alongside long-term thinking, four other models...

... the nightmarish landscape of the oil slick, Bishop grounded her desire for a livable future in the figure of the hermit crab. “We had this makeshift lab and we would collect about a thousand crabs a day.” Caring for the hermit crabs involved edging Q-tips into their shells without injuring their delicate bodies...

... and geographical specificities of Indigenous struggles for self-determination and livable futures: Indigenous worlds are not a resource for white self-reflection, and their elaboration cannot be divorced from the need to address the colonial violence of extractive capitalism. Kyle Whyte challenges those who would...

... al., “Caring as Country.” 84. Theriault et al., “Living Protocols,” 898–99 . 85. Buck, “On the Possibilities of a Charming Anthropocene” ; Head, Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene ; Head, Atchison, and Phillips, “Distinctive Capacities of Plants” ; Myers, “How to Grow Livable...

..., these are the problematic paradigms, the messy muddles, the semantically saturated metaphors of troubled times. The task ahead is to cultivate care across and despite difference, fraught as it might be “with the risks and joys of composing a more livable cosmopolitics.” 34 Like compost itself, it’s a hot congeries...

... up with how we consider the past, Antarctic futures are refracted through frontier practices in which humans confront inhospitable and spectacular worlds, on the very fringe of earthly livability. Antarctic histories, in all their nationalism, heroics, and failures, tell stories about human...

... others” 13 through close readings of video art, blog posts, and movies on the livability of trans embodiment. Cultural approaches to the transgender body as human Other and the tick body as an animal Other, come together here to explore toxicity as a “feminist figuration” 14 for unexpected...

..., chatter, and squabble in landscapes that were deeply rifted and geoclimatically unstable? Why does it matter that being a striding, bipedal primate presents dilemmas for birthing and raising our young? And how might these paleo issues begin to speak to contemporary questions of livability and survival...

... processes of disruption to the relations that make life livable, accumulating over time, has been hugely influential in recent theorizing on extinction in the Anthropocene: Nixon, Slow Violence. 10. van Dooren, Flight Ways. 11. Sodikoff, “Introduction,” 4 . 12. The kind...

... Mauch, and Graeme Wynn, the ubiquity of crisis discourse and narratives about the end of the world is highly problematic because it restricts our ability to imagine alternative, more livable futures. In her recent work, Posthuman Knowledge , Braidotti, for instance, writes that “this necrophilic...

... muddle through the messy epistemological contests of tackling climate change or work collaboratively to build more livable worlds. The notion of a fermentive politics is generative for asking how the rules of the stomach might attend more carefully to the forms of multi-species mixing, commensality...

... the recognition that the labor of reproducing livable conditions is not exclusively human. 20 It is instead what Battistoni describes as hybrid labor, a term that does not counterpose human and nonhuman labor but attends to the many multispecies labors enacted to produce natures, whereas companion animals...

... that potato cultivation was a prerequisite for the ability of the Amazonian people to relocate from the rainforest and establish settlements in the highlands. 20 The skillful work of domestication reduced their poisonous glycoalkaloid content and increased tuberization, providing highlanders with a livable...