Category Archives: Readings

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“Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change”

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Dipesh Chakrabarty. 2012. New Literary History, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 1-18.
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This article begins by describing how the figure of the human has been thought in anticolonial and postcolonial writing—as that of the Continue reading →

“An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record”

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Corcoran, P.L., Moore, C.J., and Jazvac, K. 2014. GSA Today, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 4-8.
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Recognition of increasing plastic debris pollution over the last several decades has led to investigations of the imminent dangers posed to Continue reading →

“From Biophilia to Cosmophilia: The Role of Biological and Physical Sciences in Promoting Sustainability”

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Lucas F. Johnston. 2010. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 7-23.
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DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.v4il.7
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Ideas from the life sciences and the physical sciences, particularly the ideas that Continue reading →

“Hidden order: How complexity builds adaptation”

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Holland, John H. 1995. Hidden order: How complexity builds adaptation. Reading, MA: Helix Books, Addison-Wesley.
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Relatively high and often extreme levels of variability and unpredictability currently characterize the amplitudes of Continue reading →

“Some Reflections on Heritage and Archaeology in the Anthropocene”

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Solli, B., M. Burström, E. Domanska, M. Edgeworth, A. González-Ruibal, C. Holtorf, G. Lucas, T. Oestigaard, L. Smith and C. Witmore. 2011. Norwegian Archaeological Review. Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 40-88.
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Are we now living in a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene? Geo-scientists discuss whether there is Continue reading →

“Why ‘Nature’ Has No Place in Environmental Philosophy”

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 Steven Vogel. 2011. In The Ideal of Nature: Debates About Biotechnology and the Environment, ed. Gregory E. Kaebnick, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Vogel holds it is essential to develop a “postnaturalist” environmental philosophy—an environmental philosophy after Continue reading →

“Niche Construction”

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F. John Odling-Smee, Kevin N. Laland, Marcus W. Feldman. 1996. The American Naturalist, Vol. 147, No. 4, pp. 641-648.
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Laland Lab Niche Construction site publications page: https://nicheconstruction.com/resources/reading/
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Organisms, through their metabolism, their activities, and their choices, define, partly create, and partly destroy Continue reading →

“The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis”

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Lynn White, Jr. 1967. Science, Vol. 155, No. 3767, pp. 1203-7.
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This article claims that the modern ecological crisis arose out of an ethic derived from Continue reading →