We are not raised by wolves: Decentering human exceptionalism in nature

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-22 DOI:10.1177/13678779231153425

Chandler L. Classen, David Monje

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Abstract

Some of the earliest writings to which we have access introduce the myth of a human child raised by wolves. Enkidu is the “wild” friend of Gilgamesh in the eponymous Sumerian epic; Romulus and Remus of Rome are the infants who suckle from the she-wolf Lupa; and Mowgli's story has been told ever since he was conceived by Rudyard Kipling in The Jungle Book. While this wolf story might seem to imagine a friendly way of living with other-than-human beings, its contemporary uptake in media also serves as a prop for white supremacist orientations to the myth that reassert the primacy of “human” life, while always determining who counts as human. Nature, on this stage, is a savage, dangerous backdrop against which human cruelties and violence are portrayed as the “survival of the fittest.”

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我们不是狼养大的：欺骗自然界中的人类例外论

我们能接触到的一些最早的著作介绍了一个由狼抚养的人类孩子的神话。恩基杜是同名苏美尔史诗中吉尔伽美什的“狂野”朋友；罗马的罗穆卢斯和雷穆斯是从母狼卢帕身上吮吸的婴儿；从鲁德亚德·吉卜林在《丛林之书》中构思莫格利以来，他的故事就一直在讲述。虽然这个狼的故事似乎想象了一种与人类以外的人友好相处的方式，但它在媒体上的当代吸收也成为白人至上主义者对神话的支持，这些神话重申了“人类”生命的首要地位，同时总是决定谁算是人。在这个舞台上，大自然是一个野蛮、危险的背景，在这个背景下，人类的残忍和暴力被描绘成“适者生存”

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.