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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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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