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...Eileen Crist Abstract This paper examines the recent proposal to christen our geological epoch “the Anthropocene.” The reasoning offered for this new name is that humanity's enormous mark on the geological strata would be a discernible boundary to future geologists; therefore a change...

... for analyzing the conjuncture of political economy, social-cultural aesthetics, and power. The plot names places that have been created through improvisational forms of world-making against racial and socioecological domination. The plot also names an insurgent scheme that is staged from peripheralized places...

... inclusive feminist composting for the future of our field. We begin with a critical cartography of some of the field’s origin stories. While we discover that feminism is named or not named in several different ways, what most interests us here is a particular trend we observe, whereby key feminist scholars...

...Paul R. Merchant Abstract Starting from an analysis of the 2021 Argentine documentary En el nombre del litio ( In the Name of Lithium ), this article argues that incipient cultural responses to global discourses of energy transition in Argentina foreground a conflict between temporal perceptions...

...Anne Pasek Abstract This article names and examines carbon vitalism, a strain of climate denial centered on the moral recuperation of carbon dioxide—and thus fossil fuels. Drawing on interconnections between CO 2 , plant life, and human breath, carbon vitalists argue that carbon dioxide...

... to override temporalities and contain species in unfamiliar habitats, in the name of efficiency, may be the source of vulnerability in such production systems rather than their strength. 56. Tubb and Seba, Rethinking Food and Agriculture , 65 . Jönsson notes that questions of labor are entirely absent...

... instruction. Modern bestiaries (including alphabet books, sports teams, and car names, among others) generate a holistic worldview that marries a deep love of animals and “nature” to a fundamentally anti-ecological cosmology. The authors examine a particular modern bestiary—the menagerie of gummi animals...

... concept of “unmaking”—a process that fractures relationality in service of control—to articulate the relational violence done to the free-living pig by naming it a feral animal. An examination of the nonhuman’s historical entanglement with Anglo-Australian settlers in New South Wales will trace the free...

...Hannah Rachel Cole Abstract The biologist Merlin Sheldrake has named the tendency for humans to privilege plants to the exclusion of fungi “plant-centrism.” Connecting Sheldrake’s claim to critiques of the Caribbean plantation system, this article argues that plant-centrism is inherent...

... analytic reprieve. They name that which is difficult to objectify: the geographic and historical vastness of geological presence. But those concepts grow from knowledge habits inherited from imperial and Cold War logics and can presume the existence of an all-encompassing observer who can grasp the unity...

..., and the context within which Plath encountered it, namely, as a student of botany at Smith College conducting lab exercises on photosynthesis using the South African silverleaf geranium ( Pelargonium sidoides ). Through archival research on Plath and botanical instruction at the college, the essay shows...

... with particular fervour, namely ecocriticism and environmental history. After outlining an ideal of slow scholarship which cultivates thinking across different spatiotemporal scales and seeks to sustain meaningful public debate, the essay argues that both ecocriticism and environmental history are concerned...

... readily and clearly could facilitate increased and improved cross-disciplinary discussions between ecocritical studies of poetry specifically, and environmental humanities more broadly. We carry out our analysis through the lens of the work of two influential poets in the Western, Anglophone world, namely...

...Donna Haraway 17 My experience is that those I hold dear as “our people,” on the left or whatever name we can still use without apoplexy, hear neo-imperialism, neo-liberalism, misogyny, and racism (who can blame them?) in the “Not Babies” part of “Make Kin Not Babies.” We imagine...

..., this article focuses explicitly on the work of contemporary taxonomic science. This focus should not be taken to imply that this is the only way of classifying the living world. All communities utilize their own particular taxonomic systems and “common names” that align with and diverge from those...