Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities

DeLoughrey, Elizabeth; Didur, Jill; Carrigan, Anthony

doi:10.4324/9781315738635

Cited by 118 publications

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“…To put it another way, there is an implicit assumption in Anthropocenic thought that raises the category of the species‐life in order to assume a collective consciousness (Crutzen and Schwagerl ) that will arrive at some shared sense of the world; a consciousness that senses and experiences the world as a singular totality. That is a consciousness with a singular aesthetics or language for the world (see DeLoughrey et al :12–13). Such a species‐based sharing of the consciousness of the world, as a universal condition, which is given by the fact of world (i.e.…”

Section: Anthropocene Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Politics of the Anthropocene: Formation of the Commons as a Geologic Process

Yusoff

2017

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In the Anthropocene humanity acquires a new collective geologic identity. There are two contradictory movements in this Anthropocenic thought; first, the Anthropocenic trace in the geologic record names a commons from below insomuch as humanity is named as an undifferentiated “event” of geology; second, the Anthropocene highlights the material diversities of geologic bodies formed through historical material processes. This paper addresses the consequences of this geologic subjectivity for political thought beyond a conceptualization of the commons as a set of standing reserves. Discourses of limits and planetary boundaries are contrasted with the exuberance and surplus of fossil‐fuelled energy. Drawing on the political economy of Georges Bataille and the material communism of Maurice Blanchot, I argue for the necessity of a political aesthetics that can traverse the difference between common and uncommon experience in the formation of an Anthropocene commons.

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Section: Anthropocene Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Politics of the Anthropocene: Formation of the Commons as a Geologic Process

Yusoff

2017

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“…Kincaid's spiteful tone is an outcome of her emotional and intellectual response toward the tourist, majority of whom are the descendants of the White colonizers. DeLoughrey et al (2015) have observed that "In an effort to recuperate histories that colonial narratives sought to suppress, they (postcolonial ecocritical writers) might take on the authoritative voices of historians" (p. 5). Hence, we see that Kincaid's tone of addressing the White tourist is quite authoritative, irate, and harsh because she knows very well that the "colonial-induced drought has deepened Antigua's reliance on tourism" (Nixon, 2005, p. 241).…”

Section: Mythic Reterritorializationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reterritorialization in A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid: A Postcolonial Eco-Critical Study

Majeed

Imtiaz

2021

Sage Open

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This article intends to understand how the postcolonial ecocritical writers attempt to reterritorialize their land, its history, and its culture by underscoring the hazards of tourism. In the wake of capitalism, tourism has increased environmental racism and environmental injustice encountered by people of marginalized communities. For this study, we have analyzed a creative nonfiction work A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid in the light of postcolonial ecocritical theory presented by Donelle N. Dreese. This literary theory deals with the exploitation of land, its resources, its environment, and its people in the context of ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Dreese’s subdivision of the concept of reterritorialization into mythic, psychic, and environmental reterritorialization has been applied on A Small Place. The article explores how Kincaid has reterritorialized her ancestral homeland Antigua by recording the oppressive colonial past of the land that has been ravaged under imperial rule by exploitation of the natural resources (plantations) and subjugation of the human resources (slavery). She has observed that under the influence of capitalism, her homeland is currently facing a new form of colonization in the name of tourism industry that is actually promoting new ways of foreign occupation of the land, enslavement of the local people, and environmental racism. The article concludes by drawing attention toward tourism, which can turn into neo-colonization under the clutches of capitalism and corrupt leadership. We attempt to underscore that there is a dire need of continuous process of planning and management by the local authorities to minimize the problems faced by the natives and to make tourism industry environment friendly.

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“…The constructiveness or destructiveness of conflict in large part hinges on engagement-by choice or by habitwith social practices of violence. An expanded understanding of violence takes it to be forms of direct, structural, and cultural violence-which is sometimes applied to the definition of disaster as well (Deloughrey et al 2015). Direct violence refers to physical violence (for example, assault); structural violence refers to indirect institutional forms of violence (for example, poverty, discrimination, and hunger); and cultural violence refers to the cultural beliefs that normalize direct and structural forms of violence (for example, the religious beliefs that underpin a caste system and laws that promote racism) (Galtung 1969(Galtung , 1990.…”

Section: Intersecting (Mis)understandingsmentioning

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Critiquing and Joining Intersections of Disaster, Conflict, and Peace Research

Peters

Kelman

2020

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Disaster research, conflict research, and peace research have rich and deep histories, yet they do not always fully intersect or learn from each other, even when they investigate if and how disasters lead to conflict or peace. Scholarship has tended to focus on investigating causal linkages between disaster (including those associated with climate change) and conflict, and disaster diplomacy emerged as a thread of explanatory research that investigates how and why disaster-related activities do and do not influence peace and conflict. However, definitive conclusions on the disaster-conflict-peace nexus have evaded scientific consensus, in part due to conceptual, methodological, and interpretive differences among studies. This article highlights that this nexus would benefit from a more robust engagement with each field’s foundational research that explores beyond binary and crude distinctions. Examples are concepts of destructive and constructive conflict; direct, structural, and cultural violence, and their relationships to vulnerability; negative and positive peace; and the ideals and realities of peacebuilding and conflict transformation. This article demonstrates how integrated scholarship could open up and advance new lines of questioning, with implications for developing coherent research, policy, and practice. The article concludes by offering recommendations for how to better connect disaster, conflict, and peace research.

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Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities

Cited by 118 publications

References 28 publications

Politics of the Anthropocene: Formation of the Commons as a Geologic Process

Politics of the Anthropocene: Formation of the Commons as a Geologic Process

Reterritorialization in A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid: A Postcolonial Eco-Critical Study

Critiquing and Joining Intersections of Disaster, Conflict, and Peace Research

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