Environmental Humanities
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Course Description: What would happen if we were to examine literary texts through the lens of energy? That is, what if we approached William Wordsworth’s Romantic ruminations on the “sublime” crafts of “men’s arts” as a praxis for... more
(excerpt) "We should indeed look to watery natures for inspiration. We are all part of an oceanic commons that sustains and bonds all life. Turning to water as design muse can thus be understood as a moment of recognition, where our own... more
During the Minoan Neopalatial period (ca. 1700-1450 BCE) female figures are depicted in visual art sitting on rocks and stepped cult structures, both of which may be symbolic representations of mountains. Trees are also depicted in... more
NEW BOOK SERIES: Maritime Literature and Culture offers alternative rubrics for literary and cultural studies to those of nation, continent and area, which inter-articulate with current debates on comparative and world literatures,... more
Article link: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/11/1/216/138278/Toxic-BodiesTicks-Trans-Bodies-and-the-Ethics-of Tracing ticks in two different artworks and Leslie Feinberg’s activist writing, I take my... more
This book sets forth a new research agenda for climate theory and aesthetics for the age of the Anthropocene. It explores the challenge of representing and conceptualizing climate in the era of climate change. In the Anthropocene when... more
Secondo alcuni studiosi siamo entrati in una nuova era geologica, l'Antropocene, segnata dal dominio degli umani sull'intero pianeta. Questo libro propone una lettura diversa della nostra crisi socio-ecologica; invece che di Antropocene,... more
The Oceanic Turn: We are witnessing an interdisciplinary transition to what might be called " critical ocean studies " that reflects an important shift from a long-term concern with mobility across transoceanic surfaces to theorizing... more
A common ground is emerging for social and cultural studies of design. Design history is exploring the socially constructed and networked nature of our material surroundings; at the same time, STS is investigating design as the interface... more
a blogpost on feminism, environmental humanities and "Hacking the Anthropocene"
ABSTRACT: Anthropocentrism has been claimed to be the root of the global environmental crisis. Based on a multidisciplinary (e.g. environmental philosophy, animal ethics, anthro - pology, law) and multilingual (English, Spanish, French,... more
Blue Legalities is inspired by the emerging blue turn in social sciences and the humanities about oceans and their inhabitants. But as important and compelling as this blue turn has been, it has yet to substantively and creatively take up... more
Thinking posthumanly – from a post-Enlightenment, critical, new materialist perspective – things, including concepts, become more permeable and topological – they leak and stretch. Freed from limiting notions of agency, things behave.... more
For a culture defined by pervasive mediation and unceasing circulation of images, the invisibility of climate change, especially as it relates to the dark bed of the oceans, is unnerving. The oceans are persistently screened: as the human... more
These are notes and passages that I prepared for a presentation for the yearlong, graduate-directed Inter-UC EcoMaterialisms Collective. The presentation was during the winter quarter of 2016, and covered Hans Zinsser’s Rats, Lice and... more
Decentralisation facilitates participation and helps deepen democracy. Nevertheless, it has been confronted with diverse challenges in Lesotho. First, the process has not succeeded to improve participation relative to the traditional... more
Inspired by Felix Guattari's Three Ecologies ([1989] 2000), this article explores recent Orkney literature with an environmental focus (Working the Map-ed. J & F Cumming and M. MacInnes; Ebban an' Flowan-Finlay, A., Watts, L. and Peebles,... more
Engaging with beauty can orient mind, heart and action in this era of ecological destruction. First, I present a vision of beauty that acknowledges some of its common critiques while salvaging it from claims that it is merely subjective,... more
Interview on Buddhist thought, Levinas, and Environmental Humanities with 3AM Magazine.
This paper explores interdisciplinary teaching methods that combine studies in the humanities (particularly literature and philosophy) with multisensory environmental experience (outdoor fieldwork and reflection). While various forms of... more
Neither Jean Rhys' 'Unfinished Autobiography', Smile Please, nor Elise Aylen's The Night of the Lord fits neatly into these paradigmatic post-colonial patterns even though the journeys they inscribe are also generated out of... more
Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one; and, like any interesting word, it defies easy definition. The idea of climate today is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate change and its... more
This 5-part series of articles (written as an undergraduate major in Philosophy and Government) at the College of William and Mary) is the first major study of the animal rights and animal liberation movement that was fully emerging in... more
Briar March’s award-winning documentary There Once Was an Island chronicles the lives of the Polynesian inhabitants of Takuu, a small atoll in the Pacific, who are faced with the gradual submersion of their home due to sea level rise.... more
Spannungsverhältnisse zwischen Natur und Mensch prägen unseren Alltag, unsere Sprache und öffentliche Diskurse im Themenspektrum der Nachhaltigkeit. Letztere entfaltet normatives Potential, steht bildungs- und wirtschaftspolitisch im... more
Note to reader Moving in the company of Curtis L. Francisco, this chapter documents the partially remediated Jackpile-Paguate Uranium Mine, registering how radioactive reservoirs, eroding slopes, or radon-emitting walls both weigh upon... more
The lack of adherence to treatment is considered in general, to be higher than 50%. Given the magnitude of the problem, it is sought to detect it and solve it through various methods-of which, there are few studies and publications... more
Relationships between Greenlandic hunters and their huskies in northwestern Greenland are shaped by a history of working together and of mutually surviving. A strong understanding of the roles each plays and their place within the... more
In recent years, there has been a rethinking of the role of disturbance regimes in nature conservation: from exceptional and destructive events to be controlled and/or avoided, to key ecological processes to be nurtured and choreographed.... more
Firstly, I want to establish the importance of animals and the question of the species boundary in 'othering' and racism. Secondly, I offer three (not mutually exclusive) kinds of political (and/or) popular objections that have been... more