scholarly journals The Poetics of Settler Fatalism: Responses to Ecocide from within the Anthropocene

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
The Face ◽  
Settler Colonization

It is impossible to think today, without thinking of the Anthropocene. As biospheres are pushed ever-closer towards exhaustion, collapse, and/or radically inhospitable transmutations, there is a simultaneous explosion of work striving to represent and understand this epoch. However, the Anthropocene should not be thought in isolation from other social, political, and ecological processes. In this paper, I investigate the Anthropocene’s intersection with settler colonialism. Of particular interest to this paper are the metaphorical and narrative accounts about wastelanded spaces; that is, how meaning is ascribed to the local manifests of the Anthropocene as they are birthed on colonized territories. I ask what sort of futurities or recuperations are imagined as extant within the Anthropocene; in particular, whether possibilities for anti-colonial futures are imagined as existing within or emerging from wastelanded spaces.    I investigate Richard-Yves Sitoski’s (settler) brownfields. In this intensely located book of poetry—which Sitoski describes as a “poetic ‘autogeography” of Owen Sound”—identifying the presence of what I call settler fatalism in the face of the Anthropocene and its attendant brownfields. I suggest this fatalism is brought about by a melancholic attachment to the processes of wastelanding that are endemic to settler colonization. The final section of this paper contrasts the settler fatalism of Sitoski with the still ambivalent, though more generative poetry of Liz Howard (Ashinaabek). I suggest that Howard’s Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent approaches the Anthropocene not as a terminal epoch, but as what Donna Haraway calls “a boundary event”.

A Vision of Health

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica M. Emerich
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Collective Good ◽  
Health It ◽  
Holistic Model ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
The Individual

This chapter articulates the LOHAS vision of health as a three-part holistic model of self, society, and the natural world. In turn, “holistic” has been described in LOHAS more through Eastern perspectives rather than Western religious traditions in that it presupposes a state of interconnectedness of all phenomena—mind and matter, animal and human, global cultures and ecosystems. For example, the holistic worldview of Buddhism (a frequently called-upon tradition in LOHAS literature), understands that interdependence means that “humanity is only one actor” in the environment and that all actors must remain in balance for the system to be healthy. But this flies in the face of late consumer culture, where the individual reigns supreme, and where LOHAS is predominantly lodged. The final section examines how that problem is overcome, how Mother Nature becomes intertwined with the healed self as part of the healing and a vital component of the model of holistic health. It shows how healing the self becomes exonerated from the “narcissism” of the New Age and instead becomes reframed as the stepping stone to a collective good, capable of initiating global transformation based on the notion of holistic health.

scholarly journals The Neurobiology of Resilience

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Feder ◽  
Sarah R. Horn ◽  
Margaret Haglund ◽  
Steven M. Southwick ◽  
Dennis S. Charney
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Psychosocial Characteristics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Prevention And Treatment ◽  
Neuroimaging Data ◽  
The Face ◽  
Brain Circuitry

Resilience is the ability to adapt successfully in the face of severe stress, trauma, or adversity. Over the past several decades, a wide range of studies in children and later in adults identified several key psychosocial characteristics associated with resilience, including emotion regulation, cognitive flexibility, positive emotions, and the availability of social support, among others. More recent studies are increasingly employing integrative approaches, incorporating genomic, neuroendocrine, and neuroimaging data to the study of resilience. This chapter reviews our current understanding of the neurobiology of resilience from genomic, developmental, psychosocial, neuroendocrine, brain circuitry, and integrative perspectives, and includes a final section focusing on implications for prevention and treatment of stress-related psychopathology.

Conservation of Dry Forest Old Growth in Eastern Oregon

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D Johnston ◽  
Skye M Greenler ◽  
Matthew J Reilly ◽  
Mark R Webb ◽  
Andrew G Merschel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
Dry Forest ◽  
Conservation Priorities ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Old Growth Forests ◽  
The Face ◽  
Good For

Abstract Conservation of old-growth forests has become an increasingly important objective of Forest Service managers over the last three decades. The US Forest Service recently made changes to policies that prohibit cutting of live trees >53 cm (the “21-inch rule”). We review the disturbance ecology of dry and mesic old-growth forests of Oregon and contrast conservation policies for these two forest types. We describe the development of age-based alternatives to the 21-inch rule on the Klamath Reservation and in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon. We conclude by outlining an adaptive management strategy to conserve dry forest old growth that seeks to restore the ecological processes that perpetuate old tree populations over time. We argue that what is good for dry forest ecosystems is good for dry forest old growth, especially in the face of changing climate and disturbance regimes. Study Implications: Age-based limits are a viable alternative to the size-based limits that the U.S. Forest Service has been using to conserve old growth in dry, fire-prone forests of eastern Oregon. Another alternative is a process-based approach that emphasizes restoring processes, including frequent fire that make old-growth trees resistant to a warmer and more fiery future. Multiscale inventories that track the abundance and distribution of trees of different species, sizes, and ages can inform tree conservation priorities and assess progress towards desired outcomes. Robust monitoring programs can facilitate collaborative data-driven adaptation at the local level and improve dry forest old-growth conservation outcomes.

Defiant Indigeneity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Nohelani Teves
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Native Hawaiian ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Kanaka Maoli ◽  
The Face ◽  
Hawaiian Literature ◽  
The Way

"Aloha" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For Kānaka Maoli people, the concept of "aloha" is a representation and articulation of their identity, despite its misappropriation and commandeering by non-Native audiences in the form of things like the "hula girl" of popular culture. Considering the way aloha is embodied, performed, and interpreted in Native Hawaiian literature, music, plays, dance, drag performance, and even ghost tours from the twentieth century to the present, Stephanie Nohelani Teves shows that misunderstanding of the concept by non-Native audiences has not prevented the Kānaka Maoli from using it to create and empower community and articulate its distinct Indigenous meaning. While Native Hawaiian artists, activists, scholars, and other performers have labored to educate diverse publics about the complexity of Indigenous Hawaiian identity, ongoing acts of violence against Indigenous communities have undermined these efforts. In this multidisciplinary work, Teves argues that Indigenous peoples must continue to embrace the performance of their identities in the face of this violence in order to challenge settler-colonialism and its efforts to contain and commodify Hawaiian Indigeneity.

scholarly journals Broaching the brook: Daylighting, community and the ‘stickiness’ of water

2020 ◽  
pp. 251484862095958
Author(s):  
Mark Usher ◽  
Jonathan Huck ◽  
Gareth Clay ◽  
Emma Shuttleworth ◽  
Janice Astbury
Keyword(s):  
Design Solution ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Scheme Design ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Biotic Diversity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The City

Over the last century, under the modern hydraulic model, waterways across the world have been heavily canalized and culverted, driven into underground pipes, drains and sewers. This hydraulic approach has hardwired an isolated water network into the urban fabric, fragmenting erstwhile patterns and dynamics of life, both human and nonhuman. Ecologically, it has been hugely damaging, reducing water quality and biotic diversity, but also socially, disconnecting citizens from the waterways that service and characterize the city. Consequently, since the 1990s, waterway restoration has become widespread as a design solution to degraded rivers and streams, reinstating compromised hydrological, geomorphological and ecological processes. Deculverting or ‘daylighting’, the focus of this paper, is a radical form of restoration, opening up subterranean, culverted waterways often forgotten by communities above ground. Yet, as this paper emphasizes, waterway restoration has tended to privilege ecological over social objectives, while public engagement in project conceptualization has been limited, conducted ‘downstream’ subsequent to planning and design stages. Restoration schemes have therefore tended to reflect the concerns of professionals rather than communities, overlooking their potential for social renewal and change. Drawing on workshop data collected through participatory mapping exercises, this paper explores the case for daylighting a culverted brook in Urmston, Greater Manchester, focusing in particular on the preferences, concerns and knowledge of local residents. The paper compares professional and community perspectives on the preferred scheme design and potential benefits of daylighting, drawing out differences and tensions between them, temporarily ‘unblackboxing’ the brook. It is ventured that daylighting can unleash the social ‘stickiness’ of water, its proclivity to draw and bind together, to revitalize the park, enhancing connection to wildness, attachment to place and sense of community. This is particularly crucial in the face of decreased local authority funding and related crises in park management.

The life and afterlife of French WWI songs: National identity then and now

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-158
Author(s):  
Beverly J. Evans
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Face ◽  
No Man's Land ◽  
External Forces ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Popular Ballads

Wartime music provides clear testimonial to the importance of melody and text in times of conflict. In the case of the Great War, which introduced the world to weapons of nightmarish capability, carefree popular ballads often stood shoulder to shoulder with sombre lyrics that called attention to the tragedy unfolding in the trenches. The first part of this article surveys the themes of French songs of the WWI era itself, such as ‘Ah! C’est la guerre’, ‘La Madelon’ and ‘La Chanson de Craonne’. The second concentrates on ‘La Madelon’, which underwent numerous transformations in response to events during the interwar years and World War II. The final section explores why the Great War took hold as a focus of French popular music in the late 1950s and continues to assert its presence to this day. A surprising number of contemporary artists have recorded World War I-themed songs, such as ‘La Guerre de 14–18’, ‘Jaurès’, ‘Verdun’, ‘Le No Man’s Land’, ‘Tranchée 1914’ and ‘La Chanson de Craonne’. What cultural phenomena might account for this in addition to the urge to memorialise? Examination of the internal and external forces that continue to fuel the ‘Grand débat sur l’identité nationale’ makes clear why songs of the Great War appeal to a citizenry determined to preserve the values of ‘Frenchness’ in the face of evolving demographics and increasing ‘Europeanisation’.

scholarly journals Decolonial conservation: establishing Indigenous Protected Areas for future generations in the face of extractive capitalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Youdelis ◽  
Justine Townsend ◽  
Jonaki Bhattacharyya ◽  
Faisal Moola ◽  
J.B. Fobister
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
The Face ◽  
Biocultural Conservation

Extractive capitalism has long been the driving force of settler colonialism in Canada, and continues to threaten the sovereignty, lands and waters of Indigenous nations across the country. While ostensibly counterposed to extractivism, state-led conservation has similarly served to alienate Indigenous peoples from their territories, often for capitalist gain. Recognizing the inadequacy of the colonial-capitalist conservation paradigm to redress the biodiversity crisis, scholars in political ecology increasingly call for radical, convivial alternatives rooted in equity and justice. Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) are one such alternative, representing a paradigm shift from colonial to Indigenous-led conservation that reinvigorates Indigenous knowledge and governance systems. Since the Indigenous Circle of Experts finalized a report in 2018 on how IPCAs could contribute to Canada's conservation targets and reconciliation efforts, an increasing number of Indigenous stewardship initiatives across the country have been declared as IPCAs. These initiatives are assertions of Indigenous sovereignty, inherent rights, and responsibilities to their territories, as well as movements to rejuvenate biocultural conservation. Although Canada is supporting IPCAs through certain initiatives, the country's extractivist development model along with jurisdictional inconsistencies are undermining the establishment and long-term viability of many IPCAs. This paper explores two instances where Indigenous governments have established, or are establishing, IPCAs as novel strategies for land and water protection within long histories of resistance to colonial-capitalist exploitation. We argue that there is a paradoxical tension in Canadian conservation whereby Indigenous-led conservation is promoted in theory, while being undermined in practice. IPCAs offer glimpses of productive, alternative sustainabilities that move away from the colonial-capitalist paradigm, but are being challenged by governments and industries that still fail to respect Indigenous jurisdiction.

scholarly journals A vállalati informatika szerepe a versenyképesség alakításában a pénzügyi és gazdasági válság időszakában (Corporate IT in shaping the competitiveness of the Hungarian enterprises in the financial and economic crisis)

2012 ◽  
pp. 80-89
Author(s):  
György Drótos ◽  
Péter Móricz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Final Section ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
It Management ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
The Face ◽  
Role Of It ◽  
The Relationship

A cikk az informatika és a versenyképesség kapcsolatát vizsgálja. A Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem Versenyképesség Kutatási Programjának korábbi felmérései óta számos új technológia bukkant fel, illetve hazánkat is elérte a világméretű pénzügyi és gazdasági válság hatása. E kihívások tükrében érdemesnek tűnt újra megvizsgálni az információtechnológia (IT) szerepét a versenyképesség alakításában. / === / In this paper the relationship between information technology (IT) and competitiveness is tackled. Since the authors’ previous surveys within their Competitiveness Research Program several new technologies have emerged, and the influence of the word wide financial and economic crisis has reached Hungary as well. In the face of these challenges it is worth reexamining the role of IT in shaping the competitive position of companies. The structure of the paper is as follows. A brief theoretical introduction is provided before their research questionsare presented. After that, the paper contains an analysis on selected fields of the corporate IT function, namely IT infrastructure, IT applications, IT management and IT strategy. Based on this, conclusions are made both at the end of the main parts, and in the final section of the paper. As far as the final conclusions are concerned, the majority of respondents do not regard IT today as a source of sustainable or contestable competitive advantage, though the dominant opinion underlines that IT is a strategic necessity. Besides this, their research results suggest a kind of association between corporate performance and the maturity level of the IT function. However, even the best performing companies are not prepared yet to effectively respond to their own prediction that forecasts the strengthening role of IT as a competitive factor.

scholarly journals Testimony, Responsibility and Recognition: A Ricoeurian Response to Crises of Sexual Abuse

Text Matters ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
John Crowley-Buck
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Responsible Action ◽  
Philosophical Framework ◽  
Ethical Reflections ◽  
Insight Into

How can we, as individuals and as members of religious, educational, and/ or social institutions, more adequately respond to the crises of sexual abuse that have come to light in recent years? This paper will address this question through the philosophical lens of Paul Ricoeur. The argument proposed here is that through Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of testimony, responsibility, and recognition, we can begin to approach, address, and evaluate the crises of sexual abuse we face by grounding our ethical reflections, and actions, within a more robust philosophical framework. Therefore, this paper will proceed as follows. The first three sections will investigate Ricoeur’s writings in order to glean from them three distinct hermeneutical approaches to three different sets of criteria at play in contemporary crises of sexual abuse: first, a hermeneutics of testimony, related to memory and history; second, a hermeneutics of responsibility, related to authority and justice; and, finally, a hermeneutics of recognition, related to forgiveness and forgetting. Insofar as each of these hermeneutical approaches offers us some insight into the problematics underlying crises of sexual abuse, the fourth section will offer an evaluation of these approaches by focusing on the specific case of the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. The final section will consider possible avenues for resolution of these crises through Ricoeur’s notion of exceptional “states of peace,” at the heart of which lies mutual recognition. My hope is that this contribution provides new avenues for conversation and deliberation, as well as new resources and frameworks for articulating and implementing responsible action in the face of sexual abuse.

Marrano Spirit? … and Hispanism, or Responsibility in 2666

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Williams
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
The Face

In “Marrano Spirit? ... and Hispanism, or, Responsibility in 2666,” Gareth Williams challenges the title of the present volume by describing the task of deconstructing (in) Hispanism as something that does not take place outside hegemonic disciplinary boundaries, but rather occupies a fold within: a withdrawal-without-exteriority. He then undertakes a close reading of “The Part About Archimboldi,” the final section of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, arguing that the character Reiter, a Nazi soldier-turned-writer, withdraws “majoritarian markers of historical imperial domination,” entering a space that is neither properly ethical nor properly unethical. Williams names this withdrawal becoming-marrano, a concept which applies as much to the non-marrano as it does to the marrano, since the marrano enigma is not an identity but a refracting practice, a way of acting and surviving in the face of tyranny in such a way that murder and innocence are incommensurably conjoined as the most intimate wound of non-belonging.”

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