scholarly journals The Human, The Animal and the Prehistory of COVID-19*

2020 ◽  
Vol 249 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-316
Author(s):  
Sujit Sivasundaram
Keyword(s):  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Forested Areas ◽  
Collaborative Engagement ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
Human Encroachment

Abstract In Asia, pangolins have generated a rich set of indigenous oral traditions. These contrast with the often confused, or failed, colonial and Western scientific practices of classifying, domesticating and collecting the pangolin. More recently this long-standing encounter between the pangolin and human has shifted into exponential killing. The pangolin has become the mammal which is most trafficked by humans. This trade has been a global one, a fact that is important to remember given the racist ideas and inequalities that have been highlighted through the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. The changing relationship between the pangolin and the human in modern history is used here as a window onto the interlinked histories of the pandemic and environmental crisis, both of which arose partly from human encroachment into biodiverse and forested areas, including pangolin habitats. The phases of the pangolin–human relationship can be read for the preconditions of these interlinked crises that face the planet and its historians in 2020. It is vital that historians respond confidently and fully to causation at the interspecies frontier without using the pandemic to mount theoretically naive ‘compare and contrast’ exercises with past disease events to provide lessons for the present. A post-pandemic historiography will surely be interdisciplinary, with critical, philosophical and collaborative engagement with scientists.

scholarly journals Mangupa; An Oral Tradition of Angkola Community

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Yusni Khairul Amri
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Body ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Philosophical Significance ◽  
The Aesthetic

The oral traditions of indigenous communities Angkola  mangupa belief to be efforts to restore stamina to the body (paulak tondi tu badan) to seek blessings from Allah, the Almighty God, to be safe, healthy, and prosperous in life. Mangupa levels adjusted corresponding to pangupa materials such as buffalo, goats, chickens, and eggs, then given advice mangupa (hata pangupa; hata upah-upah) submitted by traditional leaders. The analysis results of mangupa found the local knowledge values such as: a) the human relationship with God, b) the meaning of human life, c)  the human relationship with the natural surroundings, d) the human relationship with time, e) the behavior to be industrious and enterprising, thrifty, and religious, to get along peacefully with each other; f) the aesthetic value of humility, customary of politeness, g) the expectation that the marriage will be the  marriage of a lifetime; h) The value and philosophical significance of indigenous material derived pangupa animals, plants, and derived from nature; i) The bride and groom who have not through a traditional ceremonies (maradat) retains the customary effect throughout the traditional debt to be paid until they have the means.

Call (On) Your “Mutha’ ”

2020 ◽  
pp. 216-237
Author(s):  
Jane Caputi
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Octavia Butler ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Force ◽  
June Jordan ◽  
New Feature

Throughout world oral traditions, literature, pop culture, and the visual arts, numerous stories, ancient and new, feature a solution to social and environmental crisis that takes shape in a calling and a calling upon the “Mutha’,” resulting in a return of a departed life force-source and a renewal of the world. Examples come from Hopi, Greek, and Japanese traditions, as well as contemporary culture. A call to the mother particularly characterizes Afrofuturism, including the poetry of June Jordan, the art of John Thomas Biggers, Kevin Sampson, and Wangechi Mutu, the novels of Octavia Butler, and the musical compositions and poetry of Nicole Mitchell. These stories offer wisdom and direction for spiritual-political activism to bring about a world other than the Anthropocene.

scholarly journals Different Shades of Green: A Dark Green Counterculture in Ted Hughes's Crow // Diferentes tonos de verde: la contracultura verde oscuro de Crow, de Ted Hughes

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-29
Author(s):  
Susanna Lidström
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Ted Hughes ◽  
Current Century ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Dark Green

Abstract   This essay argues that Crow, a collection of poems by Ted Hughes published in 1970, forms part of a countercultural movement that began to emerge in the 1960s and that continues to find new forms in the current century. In the form it takes in Crow, this movement protests against a relationship between humans and nature based on a primarily Christian world view combined with what it considers an exaggerated belief in science and technology. This combination and its relation to environmental crisis was first addressed by Lynn White in his classical article from 1967, “The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis”. This analysis attempts to demonstrate that the Crow poems, written in the years immediately following the publication of White’s article, express a similar set of ideas in poetic form. Hughes goes a step further than White, and envisions an alternative, spiritual rather than religious, framework for the nature-human relationship. This alternative is characterised as part of a counterculture described by Bron Taylor in Dark Green Religion. According to Taylor, dark green religion defines a variant of environmentalism based on a spiritual view of nature (similar but not identical to deep ecology). This essay suggests that Hughes’s Crow is a version of this counterculture.     Resumen   Este ensayo argumenta que Crow, una colección de poemas de Ted Hughes publicada en 1970, forma parte del movimiento contracultural que comenzó a surgir en la década de los 60 y que sigue encontrando nuevas formas en el siglo actual. En la forma que adopta en Crow, este movimiento protesta contra una relación entre hombre y naturaleza basada en una visión del mundo fundamentalmente Cristiana combinada con lo que considera una creencia exagerada en la ciencia y la tecnología.  Fue Lynn White quien en su artículo de 1967, "Las raíces históricas de nuestra crisis ecológica", abordó por primera vez esta combinación y su relación con la crisis medioambiental. Este análisis intenta demostrar que los poemas de Crow, escritos en los años inmediatamente siguientes a la publicación del artículo de White, expresan ideas similares pero de forma poética. Hughes va más allá que White y concive un marco alternativo, más espiritual que religioso, para la relación ser humano-naturaleza. Esta alternativa se caracteriza por ser parte de la contracultura descrita por Bron Taylor en Dark Green Religion. Según Taylor, “la religión de color verde oscuro” define una variante del ecologismo basada en una visión espiritual de la naturaleza (similar pero no idéntica a la ecología profunda). Este ensayo sugiere que los poemas de Crow de Hughes son una versión de esta contracultura.

scholarly journals Isu Lingkungan dalam Perspektif Kalam, Fiqh, dan Tasawuf

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 445
Author(s):  
Sukarni Sukarni
Keyword(s):  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Direct Relevance ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
The Many

There is no doubt that the problem of environment has become the most formidable issue faced by human being in the modern history. The danger imposed by the environmental crisis is much greater than the danger of any forms of war. This crisis has thus become the greatest enemy of humanity. The level and extent of the danger requires equally a great effort to address and tackle it. It is here that this paper tries to contribute. It attempts to offer an Islamic perspective of environment and its conservation. The paper is convinced that Islam is rich with perspectives on this issue. It therefore, introduces the many theories and views on environment that the sciences of Islam have spoken about. It brings into discussion the view of the science of theology (kalam), jurisprudence (fiqh) and sufism  (tasawuf) on environment. Each of these sciences is discussed in relation to the others, as well as in the context of what the paper calls fiqh lingkungan (the jurisprudence of environment). The idea that underlines the paper is thatthese sciences are—generally speaking—concerned with the idea of personal and collective responsibility; an idea that already has a direct relevance to the problem of environment.

Kūkai and Dōgen as Exemplars of Ecological Engagement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Parkes
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Japanese Buddhism ◽  
The World ◽  
Responsible Manner

The current environmental crisis is largely due to a particular conception of the human relationship to nature. Common in anthropocentric traditions of Western thought, this view depicts human beings as separate from, and superior to, all other beings in the natural world. Traditional East Asian understandings of this relationship are quite different and remarkably unanthropocentric, especially as exemplified in the ideas of Chinese Daoism and Japanese Buddhism. The human-nature relationship in the philosophies of Kūkai (aka Kōbō Daishi, 774–835) and Dōgen (1200–1253) offers a notion of somatic practice designed to bring about a transformation of experience. Both thinkers advocate philosophy as a way of life that can help us to engage the world in an ecologically responsible manner.

scholarly journals To Dwell and To Reinhabit: Kiana Davenports’s House of Many Gods as Bioregional Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Kristiawan Indriyanto
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
Ecological Imperialism ◽  
American Colonialism

Environmental degradation has become a pivotal issue in Hawai’i nowadays. The policies of United States’government and military has shaped the Hawai’ian ecology. Through the process of ecological imperialism,started from the beginning of American colonialism, both the Hawai’ian’s landscape and their connection withthe environment is disrupted. Modern Hawai’ian ecology nowadays is a postcolonial ecology, which was, andstill is molded by the American imperial power. As a product of colonialism, Hawai’ians’ have becomealienated with their ancestral traditions, especially regarding interrelation between human and non-human.Taking cues from Lawrence Buell’s assertion that environmental crisis is a crisis of the imagination, modernHawai’ian literature tries to reorient human–non human relationship from indigenous Hawai’ianepistemology. As seen in Kiana Davenport’s the House of Many Gods, traditional Hawai’ian perspective isreimagined to reterritorialize Hawai’ians in their previous environmental outlook, before the arrival of theAmericans. This study argues that by several bioregional concepts such as dwelling, and reinhabit, KianaDavenport’s the House of Many Gods can be stated as a bioregional literature.

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