scholarly journals The Zoopoetics of Les Murray

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merle Marianne Feddersen
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Western World ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Human World ◽  
Poetry Collection

Today, the Western world is extensively centred around human language and the natural sciences. The transformative powers of poetry, such as they can bring forth the presence of nonhuman animals, have thus been marginalized in several respects. This article investigates how the animal poems of Presence, a poetic sequence in the poetry collection Translations from the Natural World by the Australian poet Les Murray, re-sensitizes the reader to the expressive bodies of nonhuman animals and establishes the notion of a more-than-human world. By introducing Aaron M. Moe’s concept of zoopoetics, a theory and practice that links the nonhuman animal as a maker, subject and individual to the art of writing and reading poetry, Murray’s animal poems can be understood as deeply attentive texts that use human language to explore how nonhuman bodies and minds exist outside of anthropocentric binaries, and shape not only our physical realities, but also our imagination.

scholarly journals Types of “Animalist” Focalization in Bulgarian Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalina Zahova
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Animal Representation ◽  
Literary Narrative

Proceeding from the belief that in a world shaped by violent anthropodomination literature takes important part in the substitution of real nonhuman animals with their false cultural duplicates, the paper offers examples of Bulgarian literary works about nonhuman animals and tries to examine the different angles of focalization in them. In Bulgarian literary history there is a (disputed) tradition of differentiating a certain literary branch called “animalist fiction” or “animalist literature”, distinguished predominantly on thematic basis (stories about nonhuman animals), and considered classical realistic literature for adults (or rather for all ages), not literature for children. Such works include a variety of focalization types: from extreme anthropocentrism, through pseudoanimalist focalization, up to claimed “objectivism”. All these types show that escaping anthropocentrism and achieving real nonhuman animal representation seems impossible, so the inevitable anthropocentrism should at least try to be honest. Bulgarian classical realist “animalist” fiction testifies that “animalist” focalization can never be purely nonhuman, inasmuch as literary narrative always originates from the human imagination, gets expressed through a human language, and is experienced by human perception. Focalization always includes the human, but in the best cases it can resist violent anthropodomination by being empathic for the good of the nonhuman animals.

ALL TOO HUMAN? SPECIESISM, RACISM, AND SEXISM

Think ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (43) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Andrew Oberg
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
The Past ◽  
Discriminatory Behavior ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Species Membership ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Behavior Based ◽  
A Charge

The issue of how we ought to treat the nonhuman animals in our lives is one that has been growing in importance over the past forty years. A common charge is that discriminatory behavior based only on differences of species membership is just as wrong morally as are acts of racism or sexism. Is such a charge sustainable? It is argued that such reasoning confuses real differences with false ones, may have negative ethical consequences, and could tempt us to abandon our responsibilities to the natural world. Finally, some benefits to human animal treatment that more humane nonhuman animal treatment may bring are considered.

For the Wild

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah M. Pike
Keyword(s):  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Activist Art ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Human World

Drawing on analyses of activist art, music, and writings, as well as interviews and participant-observation in activist communities and at protests, For the Wild explores the ways in which radical environmental and animal rights activists’ commitments develop through powerful experiences with the other-than-human world during childhood and young adulthood. The book addresses the question of how and why activists come to value nonhuman animals and the natural world as worthy of protection. For the Wild is about two kinds of ritual: conversion as a rite of passage or initiation into activism and protests as ritualized actions. In the context of conversion to activism, the book explores the ways in which the emotions of love, wonder, rage and grief that motivate radical activists develop through powerful, embodied relationships with nonhuman beings. These emotions, their ritualized expressions, and spirituality shape activists’ protest practices and help us understand their deep-rooted commitments to the planet and its creatures.

scholarly journals Nonhuman Animal Suffering

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Peggs ◽  
Barry Smart
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Animal Suffering ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Nonhuman Animals

Each year millions of nonhuman animals are exposed to suffering in universities as they are routinely (ab)used in teaching and research in the natural sciences. Drawing on the work of Giroux and Derrida, we make the case for a critical pedagogy of nonhuman animal suffering. We discuss critical pedagogy as an underrepresented form of teaching in universities, consider suffering as a concept, and explore the pedagogy of suffering. The discussion focuses on the use of nonhuman animal subjects in universities, in particular in teaching, scientific research, and associated experiments. We conclude that a critical pedagogy of nonhuman animal suffering has the capacity to contribute to the establishment of a practical animal ethics conducive to the constitution of a radically different form of social life able to promote a more just and non-speciesist future in which nonhuman animals are not used as resources in scientific research in universities.

Using the research on intergroup conflict in nonhuman animals to help inform patterns of human intergroup conflict

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda R. Ridley ◽  
Melanie O. Mirville
Keyword(s):  
Large Body ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Animal Groups ◽  
Interesting Article ◽  
Nonhuman Animals

Abstract There is a large body of research on conflict in nonhuman animal groups that measures the costs and benefits of intergroup conflict, and we suggest that much of this evidence is missing from De Dreu and Gross's interesting article. It is a shame this work has been missed, because it provides evidence for interesting ideas put forward in the article.

Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences 4(13), 2019/ OEAPS Inc.(Open European Academy of Public Sciences); Chief Editor Vitaly Yakovlev- Berlin, Germany. 26.05.2019: OEAPS Inc., 2019. - 74 P. ISBN: 9781075497858

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inc. OEAPS
Keyword(s):  
Chief Editor ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
European Academy ◽  
Constant Interest ◽  
Critical Reviews

Authoritative and critical reviews of the latest achievements of natural and technical disciplines are published by Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences. Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences, an international peerreviewed journal, publishes both theoretical and experimental highquality documents of constant interest, previously unpublished in journals, in the field of technical and natural sciences, whose purpose is to promote theory and practice. In addition to the peerreviewed original research papers, the Editorial Board welcomes original research reports, modern surveys and communications in a broadly defined field of technical and natural sciences.

Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences 9, 2018/ OEAPS Inc.(Open European Academy of Public Sciences); Chief Editor Vitaly Yakovlev- Berlin, Germany. 18.12.2018: OEAPS Inc., 2019. - 35 P.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inc. OEAPS ◽  
Михаил Владимирович Кармаза ◽  
Роман Владимирович Мотылев ◽  
Вероника Александровна Одрузова ◽  
Нишчхал ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chief Editor ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
High Quality ◽  
European Academy ◽  
Constant Interest ◽  
Critical Reviews

Authoritative and critical reviews of the latest achievements of natural and technical disciplines are published by Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences.Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences, an international peer¬reviewed journal, publishes both theoretical and experimental high¬quality documents of constant interest, previously unpublished in journals, in the field of technical and natural sciences, whose purpose is to promote theory and practice. In addition to the peer¬reviewed original research papers, the Editorial Board welcomes original research reports, modern surveys and communications in a broadly defined field of technical and natural sciences.

Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences 2(11), 2019/ OEAPS Inc.(Open European Academy of Public Sciences); Chief Editor Vitaly Yakovlev- Berlin, Germany. 26.02.2019: OEAPS Inc., 2019. - 87 P.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Саида Адиловна Низамова ◽  
Alina Evgenievna Averina ◽  
Руслан Сергеевич Решетов ◽  
Дмитрий Алексеевич Погожев ◽  
Мария Михайловна Кошелькова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chief Editor ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
European Academy ◽  
Constant Interest ◽  
Critical Reviews

Authoritative and critical reviews of the latest achievements of natural and technical disciplines are published by Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences. Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences, an international peerreviewed journal, publishes both theoretical and experimental highquality documents of constant interest, previously unpublished in journals, in the field of technical and natural sciences, whose purpose is to promote theory and practice. In addition to the peerreviewed original research papers, the Editorial Board welcomes original research reports, modern surveys and communications in a broadly defined field of technical and natural sciences

The Neoliberal Yogi and the Politics of Yoga

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 772-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farah Godrej
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Western World ◽  
Yoga Practice ◽  
The West ◽  
Modern Yoga ◽  
Political Norms

Can the theory and practice of the yogic tradition serve as a challenge to dominant cultural and political norms in the Western world? In this essay I demonstrate that modern yoga is a creature of fabrication, while arguing that yogic norms can simultaneously reinforce and challenge the norms of contemporary Western neoliberal societies. In its current and most common iteration in the West, yoga practice does stand in danger of reinforcing neoliberal constructions of selfhood. However, yoga does contain ample resources for challenging neoliberal subjectivity, but this requires reading the yogic tradition in a particular way, to emphasize certain philosophical elements over others, while directing its practice toward an inward-oriented detachment from material outcomes and desires. Contemporary claims about yoga’s counterhegemonic status often rely on exaggerated notions of its former “purity” and “authenticity,” which belie its invented and retrospectively reconstructed nature. Rather than engaging in these debates about authenticity, scholars and practitioners may productively turn their energies toward enacting a resistant, anti-neoliberal practice of yoga, while remaining self-conscious about the particularity and partiality of the interpretive position on which such a practice is founded.

The matter of the stick: Storying/(re)storying children’s literacies in the forest

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Harwood ◽  
Diane R Collier
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Literacy Teaching ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Human World ◽  
Forest Schools ◽  
Matter Energy

Children's intra-actions with the natural world offer an important lens to revisit notions of literacies. They allow for a decentring of humans – here children – as actors. Also, forest schools and nature-based learning programmes are increasingly erupting across North America, although more commonplace in Europe for a longer period. In this presentation of our research, we feature a storying/(re)storying of data from a yearlong research study of children's entanglements with the forest as a more-than-human world. We ask what we might learn if educators, children and researchers think with sticks, not separate from, but in relation to sticks? Eight preschool children, two educators and two researchers ventured into the forest twice a week over the course of a year, documenting their interactions with a mosaic of data generation tools, such as notebooks, iPads, Go-Pro cameras. The forest offered diverse materials that provoked “thing-matter-energy- child-assemblages” that were significant for the children's play and literacy framing. Through post-humanist theorizing, we have paid particular attention to the stick within the children's forest play and illustrate the ways in which the stick was entangled with children’s bodies, relations, identities and discourses. The stick was a catalyst, a friend, a momentary and changing text, an agentic force acting relationally with children's play and stories. The post humanism storying/(re)storying of the children's encounters in the forest with sticks invites infinite possibilities for literacy teaching and learning. How might educators foster such relations, enquiring with and alongside children with an openness toward what the sticks (forests) might teach us?

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