When everything is NOT awesome. Aktivisme, anklager og krisen som kontekst

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (77) ◽  
pp. 22-45
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Hoff-Clausen
Keyword(s):  
Strong Resonance ◽  
Unusual Effect ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Emotional Appeals ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Royal Dutch Shell ◽  
Climate Crisis

In 2014 Greenpeace posted a short video appealing to Lego to end its cooperation with Royal Dutch Shell. The video raised an informal accusation and invited its audiences to support it, which more than one million people did. A reputational crisis was inflicted upon the two companies. The article discusses the rhetoric that enabled this activist success and asks to what extent the example set by Greenpeace might be worthy of imitation. It is argued that the mobilizing effect of the video cannot be explained merely by studying its spectacular form and content. The unusual effect must be seen in light of the climate crisis as an affective context that gave the emotional appeals of the video a strong resonance. It was the current climate crisis, implied in the video, which helped create a burning platform for change in the conduct of Lego and Shell

Nature’s Broken Clocks Reimaging Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis

Public ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (63) ◽  
pp. 129-131
Author(s):  
Alysse Kushinski
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
The Face ◽  
Climate Crisis

This article reviews Paul Huebener’s Nature’s Broken Clocks, which asserts the current climate crisis as a “a crisis of time,” critically engaging the criss-crossing temporalities imbricated with natural and cultural time.

scholarly journals A pedagogy of biocentric relationality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Early Childhood Care ◽  
Childhood Care ◽  
A Site ◽  
Climate Crisis

This paper theorises some implications for pedagogies for 'sustainabilities' in the light of the current climate crisis, reflecting particularly upon the work of 'eco-feminist philosopher, Rosi Braidotti, in order to re-imagine a pedagogy of biocentric relationality. A notion of complex, inter-related sustainabilities is promoted as holding pedagogical promise in response to the ecological and cultural challenges of our times. The discussion then moves to focus on Aotearoa as a site for place-based pedagogies founded in local Indigenous understandings. Lastly, some examples from a recent study within early childhood care and education settings in Aotearoa are employed to illustrate some pedagogical possibilities.

Old English Ecotheology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney Catherine Barajas
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Climate Crisis

The work of Ælfric and Wulfstan, produced in the shadow of the first millennium, in many ways anticipates the modern field of ecotheology, born in the years preceding the second. Like their modern counterparts, Ælfric and Wulfstan affirmed the interconnectedness of human and other-than-human beings as members of an increasingly fragile Earth community. They affirmed the intrinsic worth of the other-than-human, and the ability of the Earth community to cry against injustice and resist human domination. Crucially, Ælfric and Wulfstan also explicitly condemn humanity’s failure to be faithful custodians of creation. Reading the medieval texts against the modern demonstrates the existence of an Old English ecotheology which anticipates many of the questions raised by the current climate crisis.

A Politics of Connected Flesh: Public Theology, Ecology, and Merleau-Ponty

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 494-512
Author(s):  
Timothy Harvie
Keyword(s):  
Public Theology ◽  
Connective Tissues ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
The World ◽  
Ongoing Development ◽  
Climate Crisis

AbstractAfter critically reviewing the ongoing development of various publics in public theology, this article attempts to develop an additional public in nonanthropocentric terms in order to ground adequately public theology’s approach to the current climate crisis. Seeking a path between an account of Earth as a commons, with its emphasis on similarity and the diffractive method’s emphasis on the separateness of biodiverse lives, it argues that Merleau-Ponty’s articulation of the flesh of the world provides material for a politically engaged public theology. In emphasizing the separateness of embodied selves in the perceptual fields of embodied flesh, it develops an account of the ecosphere as an ontologically grounding public to correct the limitations of various ‘publics’ as human-centered institutions. In doing so, the transcendence of Earth’s embodied inhabitants is emphasized that conceives of public in terms of the connective tissues of more-than-human bodies.

scholarly journals A pedagogy of biocentric relationality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Early Childhood Care ◽  
Childhood Care ◽  
A Site ◽  
Climate Crisis

This paper theorises some implications for pedagogies for 'sustainabilities' in the light of the current climate crisis, reflecting particularly upon the work of 'eco-feminist philosopher, Rosi Braidotti, in order to re-imagine a pedagogy of biocentric relationality. A notion of complex, inter-related sustainabilities is promoted as holding pedagogical promise in response to the ecological and cultural challenges of our times. The discussion then moves to focus on Aotearoa as a site for place-based pedagogies founded in local Indigenous understandings. Lastly, some examples from a recent study within early childhood care and education settings in Aotearoa are employed to illustrate some pedagogical possibilities.

scholarly journals Science Studies and the Metamorphic Multiple Earth: Bruno Latour’s Risky Diplomacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth de Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Science Studies ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Political Body ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Terrestrial Life ◽  
Metamorphic Zone ◽  
End Times ◽  
Climate Crisis

This essay focuses on Bruno Latour’s recent attempts to study the metamorphic zone of terrestrial life, within the current climate crisis and environmental “cosmocolossus.” I explore his proposal for a risky diplomacy in the Anthropocene “end times,” as a way of dealing with the increasingly tense relations between polarized and weaponized perspectives. I show how his work continues to seek a form of scientific practice that involves the invention of equipment (apparatus) that make perceptible (principally to humans) the existence of nonhuman agencies, thereby expanding the opportunities for alliances and a pluralist ecology, and ultimately assembling another more-than-human political body. I also discuss critiques and concerns regarding the specifics of this proposal.

scholarly journals ESKE, NATURLIGVIS! Om økopoesi og naturerotik i Eske K. Mathiesens økoerotiske lyrik

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (70) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Gregersen ◽  
Tobias Skiveren
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Erotic Poetry ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
The One ◽  
Climate Crisis

Martin Gregersen & Tobias Skiveren: “ESKE, NATURALLY! On Ecopoetry and Eroticism of Nature in the Ecoerotic Poetry of Eske K. Mathiesen”Within Danish literary history, the works of Eske K. Mathiesen have long been flying under the radar. This neglect is possibly due to the fact that the close attention to nature and immediate environment displayed in these writings is generally conceived as anachronistic when contextualized within a hypermodern, technological, and globalized age, such as the one we are currently part of. However, the current climate crisis changes this. Looking through the optics of ecocritisicm, this article examines the view on nature in the lyrical work of Eske K. Mathiesen in relation to existing categories of literary history. By various readings of representative poems, this article argues that his work distinguishes itself by viewing nature through the eyes of both ecology and erotics. In other words, the lyrical work of Eske K. Mathiesen can be categorized as both eco- and erotic poetry, however, as this article suggests, it is more accurate to fuse the two and employ a concept of ecoerotic poetry.

scholarly journals Technology wish lists and the significance of temperature-sensing wildlife telemetry

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Savannah J. Weaver ◽  
Michael F. Westphal ◽  
Emily N. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Temperature Sensing ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Accessibility Issues ◽  
Technological Improvements ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Wildlife Telemetry ◽  
Study Species

AbstractTelemetry has revolutionized studies in wildlife biology, ecology, physiology, and conservation. With the increased demand for telemetry, new technology has made great strides to enable long studies in harsh and remote areas on a wide variety of study species. As the climate crisis continues to impact animals, temperature-sensing telemetry has become a helpful technique for understanding the effects of climate change and how to protect wildlife from them. However, temperature-sensing telemetry and telemetry in general still pose technological challenges and accessibility issues for the researchers who use it. Currently available telemetry technology is expensive, too large and heavy for many study species, and cannot measure all variables researchers want to study. These technological improvements have especially been neglected for temperature-sensing telemetry, which may be underutilized given the current climate crisis. To understand why innovation has stalled, and where it should be directed going forward, we gathered opinions from researchers who use telemetry and from manufacturers that create and supply telemetry equipment. Our goal was to broadly describe the current technological landscape, compare it to what we envision for the future, and make suggestions for how to reach that future.

scholarly journals Revealing the Hydrocene: Reflections on Watery Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 431-445
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Water Based ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
The Way

This reflective paper shares considerations of curatorial research of art and water during the current climate crises as part of both contemporary art and Blue Humanities fields. This paper shares water-based methods utilised to develop the Hydrocene, the water-based curatorial theory I have named and defined as an act of curatorial planetary caretaking. In my doctoral thesis, Ingesting the Hydrocene, I argue that water, this most vital of materials, is the central figure of the climate crisis and that a zeitgeist of groundbreaking artists cultivate critical and collaborative methods of relating with water from which we must learn. The Hydrocene as a curatorial theory reveals hitherto unexamined curatorial perspectives on the interrelation of art and water in acts of planetary climate care. The act of naming and defining this artistic tide as the Hydrocene, is a curatorial act of caretaking returning to the epistemological origins of the curator as caretaker. The flow-on effect of the art of the Hydrocene is the potential for more radical ways of relating to water ethically. Sharing the Hydrocene and the complexities of a sustained dedication to learning from and with water in the field of art, this paper aims to illuminate the way water offers intellectual, emotional, physical and metaphorical sustenance to myself and the artists I work with. In return for this wealth of knowledge from water, I aim to recognize waters own agency, power and adaptability, and to enter into principled collaborations with it.

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