Anthropocenic culturecide: an epitaph

Tolia‐Kelly, Divya P.

doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1193623

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“…Palmo's reflection, in emphasizing how water stress is linked to the erosion of human values and dispositions towards nonhuman others, values with which her community has long identified, echoes those of many farmers in Zanskar. It also aligns with indigenous scholar Divya Tolia‐Kelly's (2016) perspective that the Anthropocene, an epoch characterized by significant environmental changes, is never just about a loss of nature, but also, a loss of culture. Admittedly, this perspective is at odds with what is manifested by a ritual like the one performed at the Podrang, which, as a means to adapt to climate change, in its novelty, suggests cultural innovation and revival rather than loss.…”

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“…Moreover, as a grand narrative that evokes a sense of urgency, this epoch runs the risk of concealing other forms of loss and forms of violence which, besides ecological loss, have been taking place on the planet since colonization (Davis & Todd, 2017; Haraway, 2016). Thus, the Anthropocene, as an epoch characterized by the acceleration of loss, is not just about the loss of nature, but is also, as suggested, the loss of culture (Tolia‐Kelly, 2016).…”

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The materiality of ethics: Perspectives on water and reciprocity in a Himalayan Anthropocene

Gagné

2020

WIREs Water

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In the Himalayas, water is seen by some as intricately linked to humans and produced through ethical actions. Its materiality, as a lack or excess of rain or snow, as healthy or receding ice, as destructive hail or flash flood, is a reflection of humans' moral attitude and an outcome of a process of reciprocity that links humans to nonhumans, the land, and divine beings. This perspective departs from the conception of water seen through development projects and from studies about climate change, which tend to objectify water through an epistemology that isolates nature from culture. Water as the materiality of ethics is examined by drawing on cases from Ladakh and Zanskar in the Himalayas and by reviewing studies from other parts of the Himalayas. In particular, water as the materiality of ethics is analyzed through three perspectives: how water is produced as people interact with a sacred geography, how snowy peaks are produced as objects of morality through affective attachment and encounters, and how water is produced as part of multispecies assemblages. A review of an ontology of water defined by reciprocity is important considering the significant changes currently taking place in the Himalayas and which are brought about by climate change and state production through large‐scale development projects. It can enrich our understanding of their implications for the cultural life of the often marginalized peoples of the Himalayas and contribute to narratives about the Anthropocene. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water as Imagined and Represented Human Water > Rights to Water

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The materiality of ethics: Perspectives on water and reciprocity in a Himalayan Anthropocene

Gagné

2020

WIREs Water

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“…Doing so recognizes that the Anthropocene is intimately and inextricably linked to European settler colonialist practices and genocide (Davis and Todd, 2017: 763). Further, as Tolia-Kelly (2016) has written, the Anthropocene is marked by “culturecide” as much as by geologic transformation, and should be understood as both a reflection of colonial practices written into the geological strata, and as an interpretation of time and space that reflects Eurocentric, colonial perceptions of changes to the Earth (Simpson, 2020).…”

Section: Feminist Political Geography and The Anthropocenementioning

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The Anthropocene stinks! Odor, affect, and the entangled politics of livestock waste in a rural Iowa watershed

Neubert

2020

Environ Plan D

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Recent interventions in geography regarding the Anthropocene have demonstrated how Western logics of order and containment have produced massive geologic transformations. This paper focuses on odor as a sense that, when engaged critically, disrupts those logics by exposing the porousness of the body to other bodies and spaces. Visceral reactions to smell produce affective responses in the body which are informed by circulating political discourses. Thus, this paper explores how research focused on odor can reveal the complicated dynamics through which bodies are enrolled into subject formation and become a terrain of political struggle. Research on the everyday experience of hog manure in a rural Iowa watershed forms the case study through which these questions are raised. Since the transition to concentrated livestock agriculture at the end of the twentieth century, the disposal of animal waste has caused serious concern. This waste is often collected and later spread on fields across the state, producing foul odors and potential toxins. Political discourses that maintain this system claim waste is ordered and properly maintained, generating positive affective responses to foul odors and thereby maintaining support for industrialized agriculture.

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“…Ghosh () argues the counterfactual contrast of a stable Holocene versus an unstable Anthropocene betrays bourgeois ideals of stability that those forced to hazardous environmental margins have never enjoyed. Feminist scholars confront intersecting forms of oppression in the Anthropocene based in race, gender, class, and colonialism to articulate new possibilities for solidarity, care, and belonging within and beyond human communities (Gibson‐Graham, ; Grusin, ; Hird, ; Tolia‐Kelly, ). These insights challenge the easy affiliation of attachment to place – belonging – with moral consideration by pointing out that detachment also matters morally (Ginn, ).…”

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The moral geography of the Earth system

Schmidt

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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Human impacts on the Earth system have profound moral consequences. The uneven generation and distribution of harms, and the acceleration of human forces now altering how the Earth system functions, also trouble moral accounts of belonging. This article shows how moral geography can be renewed in this context. It begins by identifying how human impacts on the Earth system are shifting global norms of sustainability, such as in calls to enhance planetary stewardship and to transform social values. These shifts are important in themselves, but also reveal a deeper challenge to moral geography and the counterfactual heuristics traditionally relied on to understand belonging. In response, many critical scholars have rethought the terms and conditions of belonging in the Anthropocene in reference to considerations of novelty, time, ontology, and agency. I argue that these strategies face difficulties that are not only analytical, but which also arise from new practices of belonging that accept critiques yet reach markedly different conclusions. I examine two cases of this kind. The first treats human forces as a geological sphere: the technosphere. The second incorporates the planetary boundaries framework of Earth system science as the basis for a grundnorm (a norm basic to all others) in international programmes of environmental law and governance. Examining these two practices within the broader context of shifts in sustainability reveals a new politics of naturalisation unperturbed by critical scholarship on the Anthropocene. By contrast, a renewed moral geography can identify how earlier norms of sustainable development, especially the promotion of economic instruments to secure environmental relief, now structure the incorporation of Earth system science in sustainability transitions. Retaining the structure of sustainability and accepting critiques of the Anthropocene are now giving rise to a new form of neoliberalism without nature.

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Anthropocenic culturecide: an epitaph

Cited by 14 publications

References 26 publications

The materiality of ethics: Perspectives on water and reciprocity in a Himalayan Anthropocene

The materiality of ethics: Perspectives on water and reciprocity in a Himalayan Anthropocene

The Anthropocene stinks! Odor, affect, and the entangled politics of livestock waste in a rural Iowa watershed

The moral geography of the Earth system

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