Thinking About Inheritance Through the Figure of the Anthropocene, from the Antipodes and in the Presence of Others

Instone, Lesley; Taylor, Affrica

doi:10.1215/22011919-3616371

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“…Encounters ‘seize thought’ and ‘unravel the unity of the faculties’ and it is only through keeping hold of their ‘radically ungrounding effects’ that we can begin to challenge species hierarchies and our most familiar way of knowing (Todd and Hynes, 2017: 733). For Todd and Hynes (2017), encounters are not just an event of difference but an event of ‘difference in thought ’ (730; see also Derrida, 2008; Instone and Taylor, 2016). Here we move away from understanding difference as something that is empirically recognizable to instead consider immanent potential and forms of becoming.…”

Section: Decipherability and The Question Of Voicementioning

confidence: 99%

Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through Imperial Eyes

Wilson

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The contact zone is described as the space of imperial encounter. Against a backdrop of work that has used Mary Louise Pratt's concept of the contact zone to examine culture-making, and destabilize normative understandings of division, distinction, and bordering, the paper interrogates the value of utilizing the concept in multispecies contexts. To do so, the paper considers the relationship between the contact zone and the concept of encounter, noting how they overlap and depart as approaches to questioning embodied difference, colonial histories, and immanent potential. Turning to the BBC documentary series Blue Planet II, the paper uses the concept of the contact zone and discourse analysis to examine its dominant ideas, frontiers of difference, and the means through which alternative geographies are both foreclosed and enabled. It demonstrates how the concept of the contact zone can draw attention to the ocean as the documentary's site of production, where different forms of knowledge, technology, people, elements, and non-human life grapple with each other in conditions of uneven power. In moving between narrative and oceanic contact zones, the paper raises questions about practices of knowledge-making, uneven structures of power, and decipherability, to demonstrate what can be gained from staying with the postcolonial framing of the contact zone as a critical tool of analysis in multispecies scholarship.

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Section: Decipherability and The Question Of Voicementioning

confidence: 99%

Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through Imperial Eyes

Wilson

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…It is often related to as a signal for an uncertain ecological future precipitated by humankind's use of and exploitation of natural resources. The term Anthropocene itself is problematic given the etymology of the word (-anthropo meaning 'human' and -cene meaning 'new') and the risk of further validating human exceptionalism is a common theme within the debates (Instone & Taylor, 2015;Taylor, 2017). The discipline of early childhood education is often critiqued for its Anthropocentric focus, perhaps resultant from this long history of romantic entanglements of child and nature (e.g., Rousseau, Fröebel) (Duhn, 2012).…”

Section: Challenging Naiveté -Child and Nature Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Blue Car in the Forest: Exploring Children’s Experiences of Sustainability in a Canadian Forest

Harwood

2019

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An abandoned blue car from 1958 is a central figure of the qualitative exploration of sustainability pedagogies within a Canadian nature school. The mystery of the car and its entanglement within a densely-forested area where the preschool children play and learn is provocative. As part of a larger ethnographic case study of the nature school, eight young children (3-5-year-olds) and their two nature teachers’ critical engagement with the car is examined over the course of a year. The research approach for the data collection and analysis included photos, videos, participant-observations, educator journals, and children’s oral and written expressions of their ideas related to the project and sustainability. This small scale study offers a glimpse into the possibilities that emerge when we include children’s thinking, decisions, and actions within the more-than-human world to foster sustainability.

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“…seek to both 'decolonise' the discourse of the anthropocenologists, and to flag the colonial histories and presents of environmental degradation (see Todd, 2016;Instone and Taylor, 2015;Collard et al, 2014;Sundberg, 2014).…”

Section: Ideological Provocationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Anthropo-scene: A guide for the perplexed

Lorimer

2016

Soc Stud Sci

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The scientific proposal that the Earth has entered a new epoch as a result of human activities - the Anthropocene - has catalysed a flurry of intellectual activity. I introduce and review the rich, inchoate and multi-disciplinary diversity of this Anthropo-scene. I identify five ways in which the concept of the Anthropocene has been mobilized: scientific question, intellectual zeitgeist, ideological provocation, new ontologies and science fiction. This typology offers an analytical framework for parsing this diversity, for understanding the interactions between different ways of thinking in the Anthropo-scene, and thus for comprehending elements of its particular and peculiar sociabilities. Here I deploy this framework to situate Earth Systems Science within the Anthropo-scene, exploring both the status afforded science in discussions of this new epoch, and the various ways in which the other means of engaging with the concept come to shape the conduct, content and politics of this scientific enquiry. In conclusion the paper reflects on the potential of the Anthropocene for new modes of academic praxis.

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Thinking About Inheritance Through the Figure of the Anthropocene, from the Antipodes and in the Presence of Others

Cited by 32 publications

References 20 publications

Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through Imperial Eyes

Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through Imperial Eyes

The Blue Car in the Forest: Exploring Children’s Experiences of Sustainability in a Canadian Forest

The Anthropo-scene: A guide for the perplexed

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