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What new forms of ethical engagement are emerging in naturecultural worlds? In this paper I take explore the example of the practical ethics of the permaculture movement. I put these in dialogue first with discussions regarding ethics in... more
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      Environmental EthicsPermacultureThe Ethics of CareNatureCultures
After the cultural turn, it has become necessary to reconsider society's relations to nature. This article provides a theoretically sound basis for feminist interventions in global environmental policies drawing on feminist economics and... more
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      Feminist EconomicsQueer EcologyNatureCultures
This article situates the geological turn in media theory within the critical posthumanities, defining them in both quantitative and qualitative terms. They can be assessed quantitatively by reviewing the proliferation of... more
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      PosthumanitiesNatureCultures
This article explores how 'Zero Budget Natural Farming', an Indian natural farming movement centered on its founder and guru Subhash Palekar, enacts alternative agrarian worlds through the dual practices of critique and recuperation.... more
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      Political EcologyCritiqueIndiaOntological Politics
This paper aims to provide an overview of ecosemiotics (or semiotic ecology) particularly as developed at the University of Tartu (Estonia) and adjacent academic communities. The first ecosemiotic publications were issued in Tartu in 1998... more
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      SemioticsBiosemioticsDeep EcologyEcocriticism
This chapter discusses the diversity of concepts and values of ‘nature’. It provides a background to the Western Enlightenment construct of ‘nature’ and examines the ways in which this world- view has historically shaped the designation,... more
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      SpiritualityCultural LandscapesIntangible cultural heritageIntangible Cultural Heritage (Culture)
Is it true that the 'force' of a human body, when conceived as the potential of a body to attack and defend, shows itself as a 'male' dominion? If the common sense tends to anwer adfirmatively to this question, this article goes in... more
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      PhilosophyGenderMartial Arts (Anthropology)Women and Gender Studies
Recension pour la revue Critique (numéro spécial "Vivre dans un monde abîmé") de l'ouvrage dirigé par Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren et Matthew Chrulew : "Extinction Studies, Stories of Time, Death, and Generations.
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      Critical TheoryAnthropologyAnimal StudiesEschatology and Apocalypticism
This article explores the cleanup and conversion of former plutonium production facility Rocky Flats, located near Denver, Colorado, into a wildlife refuge. The article addresses the ethical demands of the ‘post-nuclear’ nature refuge and... more
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      WasteEnvironmental EthicsMilitary and PoliticsQueer Ecology
In this paper I present a design project developed in Córdoba, Argentina, entitled ‘Spices-Species’. Through this case study, I discuss the possibility of designing using two decolonial strategies —"objectivity (or truth) in parenthesis"... more
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      DesignBiosemioticsEcologyUrban Ecology
This article engages with the philosophical reflections of the French historian of science Hélène Metzger (1886–1944) in order to develop a vocabulary for understanding the rise of non-reductive Continental naturalism in the contemporary... more
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      HumanitiesFeminist TheoryHistory of ScienceContemporary French Philosophy
Working with nature -and not against it -is a global trend in coastal management. This ethnography of coastal protection follows the increasingly popular approach of "soft" protection to the Aotearoa New Zealand coast. Friederike Gesing... more
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      Coastal ManagementSocial and Cultural AnthropologyEnvironmental AnthropologySTS (Anthropology)
, 2013, Biosocial Becomings: Integrating biological and social anthropology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 281. Old beings new becomings: Neo-Darwinism and Descartes dualisms are dead-again! Biosocial Becomings advances the... more
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      SociologyAnthropologyPolitical EconomySocial and Cultural Anthropology
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      Early Childhood StudiesNatureCulturesCommon World Childhoods
NUS Museum Exhibition catalogue June 2014-Feb 2015
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      Ecological ArtArt And EcologyMaterialitiesWoodcuts
This paper discusses current joint work by IUCN and ICOMOS to address issues that can arise when natural and cultural values and issues are considered separately within World Heritage processes. The Connecting Practice programme has... more
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      Biocultural DiversityNatureCulturesUNESCO world heritage
The publication of Noah & Eckstein's Toward a Science of Comparative Education (1969, Macmillan, NY) marked the beginning of an increasingly narrow research trajectory in comparative education, claiming a universality for Western... more
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      Sociology of Children and ChildhoodComparative & International EducationPaganismSpirituality & Mysticism
This Element provides an accessible introduction to ecosemiotics and demonstrates its pertinence for the study of today’s unstable culture–nature relations. Ecosemiotics can be defined as the study of sign processes responsible for... more
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      SemioticsConceptual ModellingBiosemioticsEcocriticism
The Nordia Geographical Publications Theme issue for 2021 seeks to shift focus from the broad universal thinking of the Anthropocene-Capitalocene to multi-scalar and mid-level concepts that enable a better understanding of... more
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      Political EcologyConservation Social ScienceCritical GeographyAnthropocene
This paper responds to Donna Haraway's (2003) The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, arguing that, Candida albicans, as opportunistic pathogens of humans, are—like dogs— “not here just to think with.... more
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      Contemporary ArtCritical Animal StudiesBioartCritical Posthumanism
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      Feminist TheoryPostcolonial StudiesNatureCulturesMaterial Turn
From the introduction: "The complex dynamics of students foreshadowing new disciplines and approaches, and of the teacher being a humble guide in this process, provides our entry point to the topic of this booklet: Michel Serres and... more
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      EducationInterdisciplinarityMichel SerresInvention
Growing ecological problems have raised the need for conceptual tools dedicated to studying semiotic processes in cultural-ecological systems. Departing from both ecosemiotics and cultural semiotics, the concept of an ecosemiosphere is... more
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      SemioticsEcosystems EcologyBiocultural DiversitySocial-Ecological Systems
In 2013, President Xi Jinping formulated China’s vision of Eurasian connectivity: The Silk Road Economic Belt. The strategy envisages the construction of infrastructure networks that will enmesh the Eurasian continent and form an... more
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      Environmental EngineeringTransportation EngineeringEnvironmental StudiesEnvironmental Anthropology
According to the Oxford Online Dictionary, the word journey has two meanings. 1 First, " an act of travelling from one place to another, " a meaning that conveys a sense of movement, the physical journey itself, and a deliberate trip or... more
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      IUCNNatureCulturesICOMOS
This article investigates human-nature relations in the light of the recent call for degrowth, a radical reduction of matter-energy throughput in over-producing and over-consuming cultures. It outlines a culturally sensitive response to a... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyEcological EconomicsPhenomenologyEnvironmental Ethics
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      PosthumanismEcofeminismFeminismNature
Observed mainly in plants, phototropism names the chemical ability of certain cells and organelles to self-divide and to grow as a reaction to the exposure to light. It is one in the set of massively repeated operations that transform... more
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      AgricultureBiosphereAerial PhotogrammetryMedia and Cultural techniques
Nahe dem North River machten zwei Eichhörnchen um mich und über mir viel Wesen von sich; sie rannten hurtig von Baum zu Baum, sprangen von der Spitze eines Asts auf die eines anderen Asts am nächsten Baum, bis sie eine große Weißtanne... more
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      Biodiversity InformaticsBiodiversityHenry David ThoreauNatureCultures
The following are a series of essays that originated from panel on Chemical Geographies at the American Association of Geographers meeting in 2016. Although the essays explore different topics, collectively they call into question the... more
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      ChemistryLawToxicityNatureCultures
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      Classical ArchaeologyAncient ReligionNatureCultures
We examine suburban residents’ sense-making of Detroit’s water insecurity, especially in the context of the city’s extensive water shutoffs, which have affected more than 100,000 families since 2013. Using in-depth interviews with 20... more
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      Race and RacismWater resourcesCultural Discourse AnalysisWater Security
The focus of this research is on the role of development and its multimodal implications towards the production and re-imagination of nature, in the county of Lamu, Kenya. My research will attempt to merge several distinct schools of... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesSustainable DevelopmentRural DevelopmentDecolonial Thought
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      Landscape EcologyAnthropology of the SensesDocumentary FilmSensory Ethnography
Anita Desai's The Artist of Disappearance opens with the first line of "Ever-ness" by Jorge Luis Borges to suggest that nothing can be forgotten except for what is not strong enough to become memory. If oblivion is the main theme of this... more
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      Environmental StudiesEcocriticismEnvironmental SustainabilityEnvironmental Humanities
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      ArchaeologyFolkloreLandscape ArchaeologyCultural Memory
Resumen: Este artículo propone un nuevo marco conceptual para los estudios culturales que permita explicar las transformaciones históricas del siglo XX desde el presente del Antropoceno y a través de una comprensión materialista,... more
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      Cultural StudiesEnvironmental HistoryIberian StudiesEnvironmental Humanities
Rooted networks provide a conceptual framework that embeds network thinking in nature-society geography in order to investigate socio-ecological relations, while emphasizing the place-specific materiality of these relations. This progress... more
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      SociologySocial MovementsPolitical EcologyDecolonization
The term ‘Anthropocene’ brings together a range of interrelated ecological catastrophes and relates human history to the time scales of the earth. While dominant modes of thinking maintain technocratic notions of nature and time, art has... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesCritical Thinking and CreativitySocial Ecology
This Lab Meeting took place as a roundtable titled Cyborg Manifestations. Hosted at MIT in February 2020, it was part of the Boston-area Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality's (GCWS) series Feminisms... more
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      InterdisciplinarityFeminismEnvironmental SustainabilityIndia
'Nature-Based Integration' (NBI) has been proposed as a solution to two prominent issues in contemporary Nordic societies: increasing separation from nature among 'modern' societies; and the need to 'integrate' groups of diverse... more
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      Environmental CommunicationMigration StudiesEnvironmental JusticeNature
Since the early 1990s, the Dutch artist herman de vries has installed several works in public space with the title sanctuarium (or sanctuary)-empty plots of land, surrounded by a fence, where nature is left to grow uninterrupted. For the... more
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      Public ArtEnvironmental ArtSite SpecificityNatureCultures
Rooted networks provide a conceptual framework that embeds network thinking in nature-society geography in order to investigate socio-ecological relations, while emphasizing the place-specific materiality of these relations. This progress... more
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      SociologySocial MovementsPolitical EcologyDecolonization