Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

Published: May 22, 2024

This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective. It then takes up rubber as example its many stories. is shown that the common notions of history, which assume only became a useful material miraculous operation called vulcanization, attributed US-American Charles Goodyear, are false. In contrast, it important products inventions Indigenous peoples South America, made durable by process can be organic vulcanization. invention, story starts. Without it, would not exist, neither in Americas nor elsewhere. Finally, also offer some ecological advantages over industrially manufactured ones.

Language: Английский

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Growing Hope

Published: Jan. 27, 2025

Growing Hope takes a closer look at how such narratives can carry the promise of better future in face grim realities. It brings together two kinds that are rarely considered conjunction: stories about urban community gardening and vegan food justice. shows there is much common ground between these movements told by them worth exploring as part larger narrative creating more equitable future. In United States, this especially true for people color their historically marginalized communities. Employing an econarratological approach informed critical studies, environmental justice ecocriticism, transmedia explores selection who fight against injustice ideologies sustaining it: defiant culinary self-empowerment.

Language: Английский

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Green Roads Revolution: Innovating Rubber and Bitumen Production for Sustainable and Durable Infrastructure

International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 13, 2025

Language: Английский

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Descartes and the Non-Human

Published: May 2, 2025

Descartes features heavily in ecocritical literature. He is often said to dismiss the non-human world as irrelevant and inanimate, espouse a harmfully instrumental attitude towards it. This Element goes into detail on standard picture circulation, while also outlining an alternative approach that it terms 'ecohistorical'. It aims offer insights seventeenth-century context; explain clear what said, problems emerge with his account, why more precise understanding of these can be useful today. Reconsidering this light involves extending prior arguments about treatment animals study natural general. Early modern narratives world's living networks are complex interesting. When locally salient artefacts, attitudes, ideas, vocabulary highlighted, nuanced emerges, changing relevance for environmental thinking.

Language: Английский

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The Open Veins of Modernity

Published: Dec. 4, 2024

The ecological crisis is the result of modernity's coloniality. Moderns considered Earth as 'natural resources' at their disposal. Their colonial vision nature was complemented by that nonmodern cultures like Byzantium and pre-Columbian America passive or primitive, respectively. For Moderns, Byzantines were 'librarians humanity,' an inert repository Greco-Roman knowledge, unable to produce own. Byzantium's inertia matched nature, both reservoirs epistemic material resources. Thanks those “librarians,” supposedly inexhaustible supply natural resources, riches indigenous America, believed they inaugurating epoch intellectual maturity infinite growth. Today, enduring negative view confirm we remain entangled in We should decolonize history nature. To mitigate humanity's existential threat, modernity must be rethought overcome.

Language: Английский

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Slime

Published: Dec. 6, 2024

Slime has always stirred the imagination and evoked strong responses. It is as central to life growth death, degeneration, rot. heals cures; it also infects kills. titillates terrifies. fascinates children horror in stories disgusting fridges. part of good sex. worryingly on rise warming oceans. Engaging with slime becoming more urgent because its proliferation both seas our imaginations. Inextricable from racism, homophobia, sexism, ecophobia, least theorized element indeed traditionally not even included among elements. Things need change. Addressing growing climate issues honestly confronting matters associated them depend a very large degree theorizing thus understanding how people have thought continue think about slime.

Language: Английский

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