Environment and Society

McQueen, Ryan

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“…And, as Crist notes, it is 'bogus reasoning' to suggest that 'those who defend the natural world from human assimilation' believe in a 'human-nature dichotomy', and the accusation com/uploads.thebreakthrough.org/legacy/images/Death_of_Environmentalism. pdf 31 Boström and Davidson (2018) has worked only to discourage deeper thinking about our relationship with the biosphere. For it requires virtually no thought to say, 'Humans and nature are not separate, therefore no wonder everything looks the way it does'.…”

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Against Frontier Sustainability (or, Breaking Up with The High Frontier)

Beier¹

2021

Right Research

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Copyright and permissions for the reuse of many of the images included in this publication differ from the above. This information is provided in the captions and in the list of illustrations.This book is dedicated to Doris and Peter Kule for their support for the advancement of social sciences, humanities and arts research. Their gift established the Kule Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Alberta that brought us together.We are also deeply grateful to the researchers and support teams that made the Around the World conference series such a success over the years.And we also dedicate this to future scholars, for everything you will do to help weave together our civil society to face the shared challenges of climate change.

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Section: Kristine Kowalchukmentioning

confidence: 99%

Against Frontier Sustainability (or, Breaking Up with The High Frontier)

Beier¹

2021

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“…A priority must be to advance a more expansive and critical version of social science in which the relations between human and more-than-human becomes much more of a central concern; but in doing so it must recognize the importance of multiple histories, knowledge systems and narratives, the marginalization of many of which can be seen as a symptom of ecological crisis. The intention in this article has been to contribute to “Anthropocene stories” which “continuously highlight the multiple, interdependent relations within nature, within different forms of materiality, within technologies and within social systems, [and] the interconnections between these domains”; and which “deepens our sense of the interrelatedness between nature and society” (Lidskog and Waterton, 2018, p. 39). In doing so, it has adopted Zoe Todd’s suggested tools to further indigenize the Anthropocene – though there remains much more scope to do so both theoretically and methodologically.…”

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Indigenizing the Anthropocene? Specifying and situating multi-species encounters

Adams

2019

IJSSP

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to articulate a meaningful response to recent calls to “indigenize” and “decolonize” the Anthropocene in the social sciences and humanities; and in doing so to challenge and extend dominant conceptualisations of the Anthropocene offered to date within a posthuman and more-than-human intellectual context. Design/methodology/approach The paper develops a radical material and relational ontology, purposefully drawing on an indigenous knowledge framework, as it is specifically exemplified in Maori approaches to anthropogenic impacts on species and multi-species entanglements. The paper takes as its focus particular species of whales, trees and humans and their entanglements. It also draws on, critically engages with, and partially integrates posthuman and more-than-human theory addressing the Anthropocene. Findings The findings of this study are that we will benefit from approaching the Anthropocene from situated and specific ontologies rooted in place, which can frame multi-species encounters in novel and productive ways. Research limitations/implications The paper calls for a more expansive and critical version of social science in which the relations between human and more-than-human becomes much more of a central concern; but in doing so it must recognize the importance of multiple histories, knowledge systems and narratives, the marginalization of many of which can be seen as a symptom of ecological crisis. The paper also proposes adopting Zoe Todd’s suggested tools to further indigenize the Anthropocene – though there remains much more scope to do so both theoretically and methodologically. Practical implications The paper argues that Anthropocene narratives must incorporate deeper colonial histories and their legacies; that related research must pay greater attention to reciprocity and relatedness, as advocated by posthuman scholarship in developing methodologies and research agendas; and that non-human life should remain firmly in focus to avoid reproducing human exceptionalism. Social implications In societies where populations are coming to terms in different ways with living through an era of environmental breakdown, it is vital to seek out forms of knowledge and progressive collaboration that resonate with place and with which progressive science and humanities research can learn and collaborate; to highlight narratives which “give life and dimension to the strategies – oppositional, affirmative, and yes, often desperate and fractured – that emerge from those who bear the brunt of the planet’s ecological crises” (Nixon, 2011, p. 23). Originality/value The paper is original in approaching the specific and situated application of indigenous ontologies in some of their grounded everyday social complexity, with the potential value of opening up the Anthropocene imaginary to a more radical and ethical relational ontology.

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Ecology

Groß

2019

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

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Although the term ecology was picked up in sociology in the late nineteenth century it became a concept recognizing human societies as part of their natural and built environments during the 1920s and 1930s in the Chicago School of sociology. By the 1950s sociological (human) ecology mainly focused on the spatial distribution of human phenomena in urban areas. Only in the 1970s, with the new field of environmental sociology, did a focus on the ecosystem dependence of societies again become a topic in sociology. Today different notions of ecology help sociology to conceptualize relations between material and nonmaterial entities that shape sociological thinking and its relation to other social and natural science disciplines.

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Environment and Society

Cited by 39 publications

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Against Frontier Sustainability (or, Breaking Up with The High Frontier)

Against Frontier Sustainability (or, Breaking Up with The High Frontier)

Indigenizing the Anthropocene? Specifying and situating multi-species encounters

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