Fathoming Postnatural Oceans : Towards a low trophic theory in the practices of feminist posthumanities
As the planet’s largest ecosystem, oceans stabilise climate, produce oxygen, store CO2 and host unfathomable biodiversity at a deep time-scale. In recent decades, scientific assessments have indicated that the oceans are seriously degraded to the detriment of most near-future societies. Human-induce...
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ftlinkoepinguniv:oai:DiVA.org:liu-177612 2023-05-15T17:52:05+02:00 Fathoming Postnatural Oceans : Towards a low trophic theory in the practices of feminist posthumanities Radomska, Marietta Åsberg, Cecilia 2022 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177612 https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211028542 eng eng Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus Linköpings universitet, Filosofiska fakulteten Environment and Planning E : Nature and Space, 2514-8486, 2022, 5:3, s. 1428-1445 orcid:0000-0001-8520-6785 orcid:0000-0001-7794-3806 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177612 doi:10.1177/25148486211028542 ISI:000849060900001 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Feminist environmental humanities oceanic studies feminist posthumanities environmental violence low-trophic theory Other Humanities not elsewhere specified Övrig annan humaniora Cultural Studies Kulturstudier Gender Studies Genusstudier Environmental Sciences Miljövetenskap Visual Arts Bildkonst Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2022 ftlinkoepinguniv https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211028542 2023-01-11T23:29:40Z As the planet’s largest ecosystem, oceans stabilise climate, produce oxygen, store CO2 and host unfathomable biodiversity at a deep time-scale. In recent decades, scientific assessments have indicated that the oceans are seriously degraded to the detriment of most near-future societies. Human-induced impacts range from climate change, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, eutrophication and marine pollution to local degradation of marine and coastal environments. Such environmental violence takes form of both ‘spectacular’ events, like oil spills and ‘slow violence’, occurring gradually and out of sight. The purpose of this paper is to show four cases of coastal and marine forms of slow violence and to provide counter-accounts of how to reinvent our consumer imaginary at such locations, as well as to develop what is here referred to as ‘low-trophic theory,’ a situated ethical stance that attends to entanglements of consumption, food, violence, environmental adaptability and more-than-human care from the co-existential perspective of multispecies ethics. We combine field-philosophical case studies with insights from marine science, environmental art and cultural practices in the Baltic and North Sea region and feminist posthumanities. The paper shows that the oceanic imaginary is not a unified place, but rather, a set of forces, which requires renewed ethical approaches, conceptual inventiveness and practical creativity. Based on the case studies and examples presented, the authors conclude that the consideration of more-than-human ethical perspectives, provided by environmental arts and humanities is crucial for both research on nature and space, and for the flourishing of local multispecies communities. This paper thus inaugurates thinking and practice along the proposed here ethical stance of low-trophic theory, developed it along the methodological lines of feminist environmental posthumanities. This work was supported by The Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory (M. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification LIU - Linköping University: Publications (DiVA) Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 251484862110285 |
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As the planet’s largest ecosystem, oceans stabilise climate, produce oxygen, store CO2 and host unfathomable biodiversity at a deep time-scale. In recent decades, scientific assessments have indicated that the oceans are seriously degraded to the detriment of most near-future societies. Human-induced impacts range from climate change, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, eutrophication and marine pollution to local degradation of marine and coastal environments. Such environmental violence takes form of both ‘spectacular’ events, like oil spills and ‘slow violence’, occurring gradually and out of sight. The purpose of this paper is to show four cases of coastal and marine forms of slow violence and to provide counter-accounts of how to reinvent our consumer imaginary at such locations, as well as to develop what is here referred to as ‘low-trophic theory,’ a situated ethical stance that attends to entanglements of consumption, food, violence, environmental adaptability and more-than-human care from the co-existential perspective of multispecies ethics. We combine field-philosophical case studies with insights from marine science, environmental art and cultural practices in the Baltic and North Sea region and feminist posthumanities. The paper shows that the oceanic imaginary is not a unified place, but rather, a set of forces, which requires renewed ethical approaches, conceptual inventiveness and practical creativity. Based on the case studies and examples presented, the authors conclude that the consideration of more-than-human ethical perspectives, provided by environmental arts and humanities is crucial for both research on nature and space, and for the flourishing of local multispecies communities. This paper thus inaugurates thinking and practice along the proposed here ethical stance of low-trophic theory, developed it along the methodological lines of feminist environmental posthumanities. This work was supported by The Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory (M. ... |
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Fathoming Postnatural Oceans : Towards a low trophic theory in the practices of feminist posthumanities |
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