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"On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature"
Eileen Crist critiques the recent proposal to name our current geological epoch “the Anthropocene.”
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Crist, Eileen, "On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature"
Eileen Crist argues that the discourse of the Anthropocene refuses to challenge human dominion, proposing instead technological and managerial approaches that would make human dominion sustainable.
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"Pope Francis: Priest and Prophet in the Anthropocene"
Deane-Drummond’s article for the Special Commentary section focuses on Pope Francis’s statements about Catholicism, the environment, and social issues. She analyses how his choice of terminology and the concepts he engages set him apart from others speaking out on climate and inequality, and recognizes his contribution to environmental humanities literature.
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"Anthropomorphism in the Anthropocene: Reassembling Wildlife Management Data in Bear 71"
Looking at Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes’s interactive documentary Bear 71 (2012), Katey Castellano shows how the environmental humanities can be employed to rearticulate scientific data as innovative multispecies stories.
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"The Oedipal Logic of Ecological Awareness"
The philosopher Timothy Morton is using the Oedipal logic to explain the human shift from a creature inferior to nature to a geophysical force on a planetary scale and to think about possible solutions for an accordingly upcoming bitter end.
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"The Midwife and the Poet: Bioaccumulation and Retroactive Shock"
Triangulating narratives from a prospective mining site in northern Norway, Hugo Reinert works to identify (and render graspable) a particular effect of retroactive shock—tracing its resonance through experiences of chemical exposure, colonial racism, cultural erasure, and destruction of the built environment.
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"About a Stone: Some Notes on Geologic Conviviality"
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Hugo Reinert places multispecies studies in conversation with the geological turn by examining the place of a particular sacrifice stone in the ambit of a coastal mining development in northern Norway.
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“Afterword: Crossing Time, Space, and Species”
In the afterword of a special section on toxic embodiment, Stacy Alaimo distills the collection’s argument for attending to the ways environments, human bodies, and nonhuman bodies are transformed by anthropogenic substances.
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"Connectivity"
Timothy Hodgetts’s article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities explores connectivity as a placeholder that seeks to capture multiple forms of multispecies mobility, using the eastern gray squirrel in English landscapes as an example.
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"Outside Inside"
In this selection of poems, Adam Dickinson focuses on the “outside” that is the “inside,” thereby drawing attention to the coextensive and intra-active nature of the body with its environment and the consequent implications for linking the human to the nonhuman and the personal to the global in environmental ethics.