Perspectives
The Ecology of Home
This essay examines environmental thought in China and the West to propose an “ecological history” that offers new ways to think about the human/nature relationship.
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"Rot"
Lorimer’s article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities section discusses rot as a natural process avoided by modern humans, focusing particularly on processes of urbanization in contrast to the nurturing of rot that takes place among natural scientists and managers.
Arcadia
Naturalizing Trout? Fish Farming in German Southwest Africa
Efforts to naturalize trout in German Southwest Africa capture German ambitions within its first and only settler colony.
Arcadia
From Pulley to Pipe: The Decline of the Wells of Bangalore
This article investigates the transition of water supply in Bangalore, where wells were gradually replaced by piped water.
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The Lost Lakes of Bangalore
The urbanization of Bangalore transformed the once-strong relationship between communities and the lakes that they once created and maintained.
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"Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism"
Affrica Taylor, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Sandrina de Finney, and Mindy Blaise edit and introduce a special section on “Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism.” The three essays that follow ponder the question of ecological inheritance in the settler colonial contexts of Canada and Australia, cognizant of the fact that settler colonialism remains an incomplete project.
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"Thinking About Inheritance Through the Figure of the Anthropocene, from the Antipodes and in the Presence of Others"
In this article for a special section on “Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism,” Lesley Instone and Affrica Taylor engage with the figure of the Anthropocene as the impetus for rethinking the messy environmental legacies of Australian settler colonialism.
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"Unruly Raccoons and Troubled Educators: Nature/Culture Divides in a Childcare Centre"
In this article for a Special Section on “Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism,” Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Fikile Nxumalo relate raccoon-child-educator encounters to consider how raccoons’ repeated boundary-crossing and the perception of raccoons as unruly subjects might reveal the impossibility of the nature/culture divide. They do so through a series of situated, everyday stories from childcare centers in Canada.
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"Raven, Dog, Human: Inhuman Colonialism and Unsettling Cosmologies"
In this article for a Special Section on “Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism,” Alexander R. D. Zahara and Myra J. Hird explore the ways in which western and Inuit cosmologies differentially inform particular relationships with the inhuman, and “trash animals” in particular. They compare vermin control practiced in Canada’s waste sites with the freedom of ravens to explore waste sites within Inuit communities, arguing that waste and wasting exist within a complex set of historically embedded and contemporaneously contested neo-colonial structures and processes.
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"The Reaches of Freedom: A Response to An Ecomodernist Manifesto"
In this Special Commentary Section titled “Replies to An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” edited by Eileen Crist and Thom Van Dooren, Eileen Crist considers the Manifesto’s point as view as one of humanism and freedom.