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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"human-nonhuman relations"”.
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On Stories of Liveliness: following the Arts of Living on a Damaged Karoo Veld
… of the Karoo landscape. This is a result of human/nonhuman relations that have been grounded in a colonial mastery of the land, whereby the advent of private property regimes, modernist technologies and capitalist extraction has allowed for the land to be cheapened, exhausted and severely …
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
… notion that one’s privileged species status as a human being is under threat. In this project’s post-1900 American literary archive, species panic is often provoked by nonhuman eros, which provokes and threatens the fantasy of human exceptionalism. Theoretically, this project yokes animal studies …
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Wild entanglements: exploring the visions and dilemmas of ‘renaturing’ urban Britain
… where lands are increasingly repurposed for human endeavours, where seas and rivers carry the weight of mounting plastic, where species extinction is a common theme and where the effects of global climate change are a daily reality, there has never been a more pressing need to rethink …
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Romantic Humility: Literature, Ethico-Politics, and Emotion, 1780-1820
… and secularization, which led to the view that human life is self-contained and without an externally defined purpose, and that human relations can be understood by considering society simply as an aggregate of individuals who are each driven by desire and self-interest. Values previously …
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Discontinuities in immanent worlds: the human/nonhuman animal split in Spinoza and the Zhuāngzi
<p>Interest in the human/animal binary, in its ontological, ethical, and political aspects, has been on the rise together with contemporary philosophies of difference. It has often been argued that the dominant structures of representation, which appeal to absolute, finalizing, and transcendent …
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Boundaries of the Human: Identities, Ontologies and Transformations in Old Norse Literature
This dissertation examines the definition of the human in vernacular texts preserved and transmitted in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Iceland drawing on a variety of sources, from saga literature, mythological narrative and traditional poetics (eddic and skaldic) to legal compilations and …