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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"nonhumans"”.
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Of pigeons, and mud, and streets, and clouds
Attending to nonhumans--the innumerable trees, rats, cows, copper, smog, clouds, bricks, oil, shade, doors, speed bumps, and others who must be omitted for the requisite brevity of an 'abstract'--orients the ecological problem per our everyday epistemology: how we relate with the world. In this …
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Do humans have special duties and moral obligations towards, rather than ‘rights’ over, nonhuman animals? And if such duties exist, what does our collective treatment of nonhumans say about human morality?
… the basic interests and moral entitlements of nonhumans, and (b) criticism of anthropocentric beliefs, systems and strategies that deny such interests and entitlements and rationalise our collective misuse of nonhuman beings. It begins by presenting evidence that it is not necessary to use …
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Ranges of consideration: crossing the fields of ecology, philosophy and science studies.
… Throughout the thesis I show the significance of nonhumans (prairie dogs, cattle, biological assessment sheets, environmental laws, etc.) in the human community. Only by considering the roles of nonhumans do we broaden and enrich the conversation between ourselves concerning environmental issues.
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Integrating a Shifting Coast: Setting a precedent for Interspecific Interaction
… been realized. Similar to the common practice of nonhumans such as birds and squirrels being provided for with baths and feeders, this work will investigate how and why it is these species that are designed for and extend its principles to coastal nonhumans. With the precognition of landscape …
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World as Other, World As Self: Beyond Dualism in Environmental Narratives
… scales. Conversely, understanding humans and nonhumans as entwined allows us to think and act differently with our planetary community. This view entails integrating the "self" and the "other." Instead of being antithetical to the other, the self arises through engagement with others, human …
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THE WISDOM OF THE FLIES. SOCIETY, ENVIRONMENT, AND METABOLIC JUSTICE IN RURAL SARDINIA.
… of industrialised food production on humans, nonhumans, and their environments. To do so, it employs the ethnographic data collected over the course of a 12-month fieldwork in Barbagia, rural Sardinia, by living and working alongside local shepherds. It adds a socioecological analysis to the …
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Fukushima Exclusion Zone Survival Handbook
… for countries or species: both humans and nonhumans are impacted. Challenging traditional problem-solving methods that focus on overcoming, solving, remediating and isolating, this thesis proposes an unconventional method of coexisting with radiation in a survival handbook. “The Survival …
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Situating Creativity: Developing a Non-Cartesian Approach to the Creative Process
… these networks of associating actors include nonhumans of diverse sorts as active participants in the creative process. Understanding the creative process in this way distinguishes my approach from the ways in which creativity has traditionally been understood, which I argue are marked by a …
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Elephant and Wild Rice: Bringing Rhetorics of Materiality into Judicial Spaces
… through advocating for, and in consideration of, nonhumans. One way to do so is by advocating for nonhumans in court. Despite being traditionally conservative in their rhetoric, legal spaces and actors are producing discursive openings for new materialist awareness to inform jurisprudential …
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Modalities of regulation In the informal economy: a study of waste collectors in Cape Town
… Secondly, the findings suggest that these nonhumans play an active role in organising the spaces where informal waste activities are carried out. Finally, the findings show that these nonhumans also play an active role in how informal waste collectors build alliances through assembling …
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Intimations
… partner, Dashkov, work for OMEGA, an agency of nonhumans called Shadowbairn. They are sent to Houston find a rogue agent named Magorian. There, Vasily meets a human woman, Susan, with whom he prophesies he will have a daughter. Vasily becomes increasingly obsessed with finding Magorian, …
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The power of the Appalachian trail: Reimagining the nature narrative through Autohistoria-teoría
… a deep understanding of how the spirit of nonhumans contributes to the language of place. Every place has a story to tell, one that includes the perspectives of all who have inhabited it, human and nonhuman. Like many stories, however, often, only one side is presented. The story of the AT …
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Volkswagen Cars, Politics, and Culture in the Post-1978 China: The Social Construction of Success
… between heterogeneous actors (both humans and nonhumans) and the pathways of SVW development, and has found that all of the SVW establishment, production, marketing, and development were shaped by a range of diverse social and material actors, including the central planners, local government, …
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An Earthly Response to Movement. Moving Images Diffracted Through New Materialism
… less anthropocentric relations with humans and nonhumans alike. The practice that emerges from this research is concerned with a material vitalism (Bennett, 2010) that considers matter as enthusiastic: I refer to clouds, fog, rocks, rivers, and light; but also, and in agreement with filmmaker …
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Environmental Change in Ovid's Poetry
… and unstable process of negotiation with nonhumans (plants, animals, minerals, the land, and the gods). The thesis shows that, throughout his career, Ovid displays a persistent fascination with the liminal spaces of art’s emergence and disintegration, continually staging scenarios in which …
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A Girl Is a Thing: Dramaturgies of Objects and Nature in Contemporary Choreography
… of performative possibilities toward and through nonhumans in contemporary choreography as a feminist inquiry. I research the upsurge of performing objects and natural matter in contemporary choreography by questioning what kind of bodies other than humans can move, and what kind of affects and …
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Talking with ‘Things’ in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
… and early medieval artifacts, looking at how nonhumans might be as active and talkative as humans are assumed to be. In arguing for the agency of things, this work is informed by what has become known as ’thing theory’ and as such rethinks conventional divisions between ’animate’ human …
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Towards a vegan jurisprudence : the need for a reorientation of human rights
… a well-established ethical regard for nonhumans. Looking to Levinas’ ethics of alterity not only illustrates a new approach to human rights litigation to accommodate vegans but also grounds the protection of other animals and allows for a reconceptualisation of the very idea of human …
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Transparent animism: a framework for participating in ecological design as agonism
… animism, an ontological order where humans and nonhumans are both seen as subjects, and agonism, a political theory that looks at the role of political conflict in democracy positively, landscape architects can develop a practice that recognizes the importance of ecological struggle itself. …
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CLIMATE AS ASSEMBLAGE: IMAGINING AN ECOLOGICAL METAPHYSIC
… co-fabrication that incorporates both humans and nonhumans. I draw from vital materialist Jane Bennett to explore the concept of assemblage, and I offer an indication of what this reconceptualization would look like for climate. Climate-as-assemblage brings to light numerous and diverse nonhuman …
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