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"If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature upon which that language was developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last half-century,…
Introduction: Minor Traditions, Shizen Equivocations, and Sophisticated Conjunctions / Casper Bruun Jensen and Atsuro Morita -- Naturalism and the Invention of Identity / Marilyn Strathern -- Between Two Truths: Time in Physics and Fiji / Naoki Kasuga -- Natures of Naturalism: R…
"Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important in…
"This original and provocative study tells the story of American literary history from the perspective of its environmental context. Weaving together close readings of early American texts with ecological histories of tobacco, potatoes, apples, and honey bees, Michael Ziser pres…
"This volume contributes to advancing an 'ecology of freedom,' which can critique current anthropocentric environmental destruction, as well as focusing on environmental justice and decentralized ecological governance"--.
"A collection of essays analyzing ecohorror motifs in literature, manga, film, and television, illuminating ambiguities that arise from human encounters with nonhuman nature and examining the scale and effect of ecohorror in, and of, the Anthropocene"--.