"Nativism and Nature: Rethinking Biological Invasion"
Jonah H. Peretti questions nativist trends in Conservation Biology that have made environmentalists biased against alien species.
Jonah H. Peretti questions nativist trends in Conservation Biology that have made environmentalists biased against alien species.
In this editorial, Isis Brook introduces the complex field of ethical thinking about environments and non-human entities.
This article argues that Planet Earth has entered a period of “neurogeology”: the mental states and resulting actions of individual humans, groups of humans, and the collective mental states of all humans together are creating a new mode of planetary development.
Mick Smith examines how a posthumanist notion of ecological community might attempt to address questions concerning extinction.
In the context of current concerns within the environmental humanities to challenge the idea that humans are somehow irreducible to nature, the authors in this article take up the much-neglected history of the idea of human exceptionality itself, arguing that this form of humanist discourse often forgets its own contingencies and instabilities, and its comprehensively violent inheritances.
Excerpt from RCC fellow Jemma Deer’s monograph Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
This article reconsiders the relevance of Peter Kropotkin’s notion of mutual aid in evolution, which holds that cooperation is a more decisive factor than competition both among human and nonhuman animals.