William Major examines the need to understand pacifism and environmentalism as essentially consonant philosophies and practices.
Environmental Humanities (journal)
Major, William, "Other Kinds of Violence: Wendell Berry, Industrialism, and Agrarian Pacifism"
Powys, Vicki, Hollis Taylor and Carol Probets, "A Little Flute Music: Mimicry, Memory, and Narrativity"
Vicki Powys, Hollis Taylor and Carol Probets discuss the sonic achievements of Lyrebirds through concepts of memory and narrativity.
Pilgrim, Karyn, "‘Happy Cows,’ ‘Happy Beef’: A Critique of the Rationales for Ethical Meat"
Within a vegetarian ecofeminist framework, Pilgrim analyses three popular nonfiction books that construct narratives around the story of meat.
Greaves, Tom, "Environmental Arts as First Philosophy: This too a NeoPresocratic Manifesto"
Greaves responds to J. Baird Callicott’s “A NeoPresocratic Manifesto” with an alterative conception of the project of the Presocratics, inspired by the Heraclitean notion of unity in oppostion.
“Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanities”
The authors develop “composting” as a metaphor for their two main arguments: that certain feminist concepts and commitments are foundational to the environmental humanities, and that more inclusive feminist composting is necessary for the future of the field.
"Val Plumwood's Philosophical Animism: Attentive Interactions in the Sentient World"
Deborah Bird Rose aims to bring Val Plumwood’s philosophical animism into dialogue with Rose’s Australian Aboriginal teachers.
"On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature"
Eileen Crist critiques the recent proposal to name our current geological epoch “the Anthropocene.”
"Environmental Arts as First Philosophy: This too a NeoPresocratic Manifesto"
In this commentary piece, Tom Greaves responds to J. Baird Callicott, arguing that the historical narrative that Callicott derives from Aristotle regarding the development of philosophical thought from natural philosophy to social and moral concerns, is not the best way to conceive of the project of the Presocratics.
"Weak Seed and a Poisoned Land: Slow Violence and the Toxic Infrastructures of War in South Lebanon"
Through ethnographic fieldwork in southern Lebanon, Vasiliki Touhouliotis examines the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli war’s environmental impact.
"Piecing Together the Extinct Great Auk: Techniques and Charms of Contiguity"
Petra Tjitske Kalshoven combines ethnographic studies with ornithological testimonies to present the re-creation and reenactment of the extinct great auk, or garefowl. The author aims to achieve contiguity with lost species through expressions and shaping of human perceptions and imaginations of past, and eventually future, environmental disasters.