Eating One’s Mother

Simms, Eva‐Maria

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“…Sites of co-embodiment between generations are also sites of co-embodiment with the surrounding world, highlighting both temporal and spatial interconnectedness. Simms (2009) writes,…”

Section: Materials Interconnectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This allows her to think of the childbearing body as a holobiont , an assemblage of different species forming an ecological unit. Second, in her piece "Eating One’s Mother," Eva Maria Simms (2009) likewise describes childbearing on a scale both more minute and more expansive than that of individual bodies, through a phenomenology of the womb and a “placental ethics” (p. 274). The womb is a very different metaphor for phenomenology than the self-contained individual immersed in a world of perception (following Merleau-Ponty) or sensation (following Irigaray).…”

Section: Materials Interconnectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sites of co-embodiment between generations are also sites of co-embodiment with the surrounding world, highlighting both temporal and spatial interconnectedness. Simms (2009) writes, The sojourn in the womb is not merely a matter of the relationships of a series of female bodies with their fetuses. The fetal ecosystem is nested in the ecosystem of the mother's body, which is nested in the larger ecosystem of the Earth….The fetus' health and the well-being of future generations are intimately entwined with the health of our planet…[T]he damage to our environment is not just "out there," but it goes as deep as our placentas (p. 271).…”

Section: Materials Interconnectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Purity is Not the Point

Ford¹

2020

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Environmental chemical toxicity evokes both individual action and relational interconnection. On the one hand, there is the diffusion of risk and harm through time and space, which complicates assigning fault, responsibility, or regulatory jurisdiction. On the other hand, toxicity begs the question of what individuals can do to feel a sense of agency and mitigate the damage done by daily necessities of living. I call this tension a double bind and suggest that it is mirrored by childbearing, arguing that childbearing offers a particularly compelling site for thinking through the possibilities and limits of consumer politics as a response to chemical toxicity. Childbearing and toxicity both disturb conventional ideas about individual actors in such a way that it makes the necessity of collective political action apparent even to those most invested in consumer politics. By building on new materialist philosophy and reproductive justice critiques of consumer choice, I consider both social and ontological problems with a politics based on individual agents. Ultimately, I argue that despite their flaws, consumer choices can be important acts of care alongside collective political action, and that childbearing can be a catalyst for ecological approaches to politics in which relations of responsibility and care are foregrounded.

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“…Sites of co-embodiment between generations are also sites of co-embodiment with the surrounding world, highlighting both temporal and spatial interconnectedness. Simms (2009) writes,…”

Section: Materials Interconnectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Materials Interconnectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Materials Interconnectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Purity is Not the Point

Ford¹

2020

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“…Equally, in engaging how to re-imagine urban nature as children's places for learning about self, other and the planet when the humanist educational project itself is reaching some of its limits (Todd 2016), requires critical theory to shed those anxieties about the future that tempt dichotomous responses, such that the educational project becomes imagined and practiced as that of making an imagined future safe, of stopping something from happening that looms in the future, of clearing away the present and the past in order to make futures for coming generations. Haraway 2016, 1As we illustrate in this collection, education as an inherently human-centric discipline faces particularly messy struggles ahead, and thus its theorists and practitioners must find new concepts and practices that are sorely needed for species' survival in deeply troubled times (Simms 2009;Bear 2011;Lee 2013;Tesar 2017).…”

Section: From Humanist To Post-humanistmentioning

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“…Even worse, those rural areas that have been abandoned are not necessarily left to be places for animals and plants to flourish or the natural ecology to be restored. Instead they are taken over by other interests, typically those of corporations, and depleted even further (Simms 2009).…”

Section: Urbanmentioning

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Troubling the intersections of urban/nature/childhood in environmental education

Duhn

Malone

Tesař

2017

Environmental Education Research

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This collection examines why urban environments are key sites for reimagining and reconfiguring human-nature encounters in times and spaces of planetary crisis. Cities constitute powerful and troubling spaces for human-nature intersections. They typically represent the effects of human dominance over nature: humans in control, taming and managing the wildness of 'nature' by domesticating it. Children existing in these mostly adult designed and orchestrated creations are often ignored as city dwellers, along with animals who increasingly migrate into urban areas. Yet cities are also sites of innovation and 'greening' , of critical democracy and renewal, with the most innovative cities including those where children co-create urban environments, and where animals and plants are valued as co-city dwellers. As this collection shows, troubling and reimagining these sites for diverse forms and ways of living, including of encounter with the other, and thus what can be learnt and taught through urban nature childhoods, is one possible pathway for working out different modes of being human with the earth. The idea for this collection on troubling and reimaging the deeply familiar concepts of urban, nature and childhood arose from a study visit to Berlin, Germany, where urban social, cultural, political and ecological initiatives are in constant tension with aggressive capital driven development. In Berlin, like in many of the world's cities, urban innovation (Ferguson 2014) co-exists with gentrification (Walsh 2013), urban food initiatives (Steele 2008), wildlife and cosmopolitics (Hinchliffe et al. 2005; Duhn 2017), brutal politics of expulsion (Sassen 2014), and with childhoods lived in poverty and childhoods lived in affluence (Chaplin, Hill, and John 2014). Berlin's politics of urbanity are at least partly about the 'renegotiation of the urban commons' (Ferguson 2014, 14; cf. the urban of Detroit, Johannesburg, Hangzhou, Lamu, Curitba and other case study sites of 'urban renewal' in Unesco 2016). Berlin's negotiations have led to discussions and debate, art works, architectural practices, discontent, disobedience and reclaiming as well as a re-imagining of KEYWORDS

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Posthuman Phenomenologies for Planetary Bodies of Water

Neimanis

2018

A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities

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Eating One’s Mother

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Purity is Not the Point

Purity is Not the Point

Troubling the intersections of urban/nature/childhood in environmental education

Posthuman Phenomenologies for Planetary Bodies of Water

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