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{"title":"Saving Species: Dialectics of Environmental Stewardship in Maja Lunde’s Bienes Historie and Przewalskis Hest","authors":"Ida M. Olsen","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2022.2102524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2102524","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article offers a critical investigation of Norwegian author Maja Lunde’s novels Bienes historie and Przewalskis hest . By exploring Lunde’s dramatisation of species conservation, I argue that the novels embody a vision where human stewardship, control and knowledge provide ways of averting ecological collapse. Yet closer inspection of Lunde’s work reveals that the texts also undermine faith in human mastery and environmental stewardship by foregrounding animal bio-resistance and human vulnerability in the face of ecological collapse. By negotiating between these two stances, Lunde demonstrates literature’s potential to provoke reflection around, and expose seductive ideas about, human mastery and techno-scientific solutions to environmental problems.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90927665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Where Landedness Ends: Gender, Power and Belonging in the Watery Poetry of Wendy Mulford, Frances Presley and Carol Watts","authors":"Philip Jones","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2022.2049347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2049347","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article will establish how Wendy Mulford’s The East Anglia Sequence, Frances Presley’s Somerset Letters and Carol Watts’s Wrack explore the radical potential of reimagining female presence in terms of watery embodiment. Alongside attending to how identification with what Mulford calls the ‘sister sea’ allows these poets to work back against land-based experiences of economic, legal and political expropriation, this article will also explore the inevitable imbrication of differently constituted bodies of water within networks of political and economic exploitation, and the resulting ambiguity of watery becoming which shadows these texts. Given the formal qualities of poetic writing, this article is particularly interested in how these texts allow for consideration of what a hydropoetics might look like and how these poems begin to suggest ways for language to become unmoored from its conventionally terrestrial sites of articulation.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75646597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain","authors":"T. Day","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2022.2037867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2037867","url":null,"abstract":"I had been living in Madrid on and off for seven years when an historic strike by garbage workers left the streets and metro tunnels looking like museums of refuse. I found treasures during the strike: wide oak beams that I turned into a bench, a typewriter, vintage chairs that needed just a bit of encouragement. It was an exciting – if aromatic – moment in Madrid that followed close on the tails of the 15-M occupy movement that settled in Madrid‘s central plaza for months, a raucous reaction to Pope Benedict's 2011 visit, and a steady stream of evictions and protests resulting from the crisis that lingered on for the better part of a decade after 2008. Spain felt as if it were on the cusp of big tumultuous political and cultural change, and then . . . trash. Samuel Amago‘s book Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain takes that garbage strike as a rhetorical jumping off point to explore the agency of discarded things in all their guises. In this work of what he defines as ‘cultural archaeology‘, he looks at garbage through the lenses of object-oriented ontology, vital materialism and Hispanic studies, asking hard and relevant questions about what a culture‘s trash says about its values, but also diving deep into the creative currents generated by our cultures of waste. The questions are relevant because, as Amago points out, ‘Trash will likely be one of humanity's greatest contributions to the geologic record‘ (9). Cataloguing art projects from Tenerife to Santo Domingo, his book looks at how artists have channelled the raw materials of waste to speak to their contemporaries. He looks at artists as diverse as Pedro Almodóvar and Ángeles Villarta, a journalist who went deep undercover in 1950ʹs Spain to see the lives of the trapaderos – garbage sorters who wandered the city at night – up close. Amago claims that trash, which is fast becoming a lasting symbol of the anthropocene, is the perfect filter through which to capture the values of the Anthropocene:","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86401951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach","authors":"Jasmin Kirkbride","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2022.2037865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2037865","url":null,"abstract":"to this are the terms ‘affections’ and ‘sympathies’, though these are redefined to encompass forces within the human which are not themselves human in origin. Bennett claims, for instance, that the ‘ahuman’ tendency for animal bodies to form connections with one another has been widely neglected in modern political discourse and that this has exacerbated earthdestroying and fascist trends that a renewed democratic culture would oppose (xix). Drawing on Thoreau’s notion of ‘solar judgment’ – a form of radical impartiality, comparable to the sun’s shining equally on all things – Bennett suggests that learning to attend more fully to the body and the forces within it which precede or exceed cognition could foster a more ecological and generous form of democracy (46–7). One cannot, Bennett grants, dwell forever in Thoreau’s solar interval; this would be antisocial and result in inaction. Folding such moments into our regular political activity, however, would provide more space for the emergence of new claims, voices, rights, identities, habits, modes of consumption, and ways of being. Bennett readily concedes that if, as many theorists have assumed, politics is nothing more than agonistic relations between human groups, then her book is strictly irrelevant to politics. It is her wager, however, that this way of understanding and practising politics is too thin and requires supplementation by any and all affects and energies capable of contributing to social transformation. By bracketing everyday, electoral politics and going back to its ontological roots, Bennett shows how we are caught up in and constantly acted upon by vibrant nonhuman forces that influence our decision-making. It is precisely because of the ubiquity of such forces that she recommends that we follow Whitman and Thoreau in sensitising ourselves to their presence in order to steer them in a more democratic and ecologically responsible direction. In the conclusion, Bennett sums up the aim of her book as being to initiate new thinking within the humanities about ‘experiences of the self that exceed anthropocentric propensities’ (118). There is good reason to think that Influx and Efflux will succeed in this.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79487218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Between Care and Control: The Patagonian Cougar’s Tale","authors":"Soledad Altrudi","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2022.2034513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2034513","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article focuses on a rewilding project in Santa Cruz, Argentina, that seeks to restore the Patagonian ecosystem through the active management of species, especially the cougar or puma. Highlighting the role that media technologies play, this work argues that camera traps and satellite collars employed to enact rewilding practices are also concerned with the management of people and their perceptions. Furthermore, the article suggests that the imaginaries sustaining these practices of conservation are predicated on controlling future animal behavior just as they are on preserving it, considering that this rewilding initiative seeks to habituate pumas to the presence of humans so that their bodies can be put to work in the service of ecotourism. In so doing, the modes of futuring enacted through this conservation continue to place wild animals as something to be looked-at, and nature as something that must be sold to be saved.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79809173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Apocalyptic Time: Vegan Taxidermy, the Remains of Dolly the Sheep, and Bio-Engineered Art(ificiality) in the Time of Mass Species Extinction","authors":"Miranda Niittynen","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2022.2034514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2034514","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, I complicate the ways that scientists and artists stage unique taxidermied animals. I look to what present-day taxidermy sculpture examples can teach us about human fears of extinction. Taxidermy has been repurposed in art galleries and is used to commemorate famous animals, such as ‘Dolly’, a cloned Finn Dorset sheep. I explore how taxidermy art can be used to theorize and think through anthropocentric apocalyptic time. In order to challenge artificial human notions of origins and ends, I place Dolly’s taxidermied remains in dialogue with Robert Marbury’s ‘vegan’ taxidermy sculpture of a woolly mammoth, made from discarded plush toys. Taxidermied Dolly (an animal that transcends ‘natural’ origins) and Marbury’s mammoth (a faux taxidermy piece that does not use real animal skin) blur boundaries – the real from the fake, the authentic from the gaff – and help us think through the temporal limits of human knowledge.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85432661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Game Preserves: Digital Animals at the Brink of the Post-Anthropocene","authors":"J. Wallin","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2021.2023607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2021.2023607","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As we enter what scientists are calling the 6th mass extinction of life on this planet, we are forced to confront the prospect of a future world without animals. Despite the disappearance of ‘real’ animals in the wake of global ecocatastrophe however, animals proliferate in the ‘Anthropocene’ imaginary, and in particular, through contemporary video games as they reimagine the future relationship of humans and animal life increasingly withdrawn from the lives of humans. The animal imagined in video games herein serves not only to re-join the animal to a culture that has no more room for nature, but to preserve the animal as a sign of our status and significance on a rapidly changing planet. Herein, the surgical remaking of animals within video games constitutes an augury on the future status of the animal and the preservation of its existence via simulation, where it is yet made to labor in the psychical models of liberalism and humanism intimate to the conceits of Anthropocene thinking. Drawing largely from the scholarship of Jean Baudrillard (1994) and his developments on the transmutation of animals from ontological equal to hyperreal companion, this essay will analyze a number of contemporary video games (e.g. Fallout, the Outer Worlds) in which hyperreal animal companions are prominently featured. Following, the essay will aim to articulate the hyperreal reformatting of animality as both an index of our contemporary relationship with non-humans and as a mode of responding to the threat of extinction in the Anthropocene era.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73114343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shifting Matter and Meanings in Japanese Seafood Assemblages: Fish as Functional Food Cyborgs and Emblematic Cultural Commodities","authors":"Sonja Ganseforth","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2021.2023033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2021.2023033","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite the central role of seafood in Japanese cuisine, domestic fisheries are facing a severe crisis. Based on anthropological field research in fishing communities in southwestern Japan as well as on a sampling of cultural representations of fish, this contribution examines the changing cultural and socio-economic meanings and matter of fish in Japanese seafood assemblages: from sentient beings and commons cohabitants under existential threat from anthropogenic environmental change to their use as food for human consumption and their role in the livelihoods of fishers and coastal communities. The analysis finds a growing polarisation in the Japanese seafood sector as the cyborg fish of highly-processed food products and globally traded commodities inundate markets and dinner plates, while locally caught animals turn from basic foodstuff into folklorist stars of a vanishing rurality, a symbol of authenticity and national identity advertised as cultural commodities in romanticising campaigns to revitalise rural areas.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85451173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Animal Futurity: An Introduction to the Special Issue","authors":"N. Castle, Giulia Champion","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2022.2074511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2074511","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In order to contextualise the Animal Futurity special issue, this introduction will examine some of the ways in which humans have historically (and continuing to the present day) been enmeshed with the lives of non-human animals (NHAs), setting the stage for why alternative imaginaries for human-NHA relations are urgently necessary. This contextualisation highlights the tension between human reliance on (and relationships with) NHAs and their increasing invisibilisation. It puts pressure on the ways in which NHAs are compromised by their implication in global capital markets, and opens up avenues for the discussions of ethical consideration and care that are carried through into the articles themselves. The introduction will then conclude by offering a roadmap of the articles in the issue.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75132687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What Stories Do We Tell About the Critters Involved with CRISPR-Cas? Examining Scientists’ Reflections on Multispecies Relationships in Gene Editing Research","authors":"Amy Clare","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2022.2029716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2029716","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Scientists researching xenotransplantation and mosquito-focused gene drives are claiming breakthroughs in their fields due to the gene editing technology CRISPR-Cas. When speaking about these applications, scientists narrate them as tools to save human lives. Through this focus on human health, the critters who are edited and intimately involved remain obscured. To bring these creatures into the conversation, I engage with scientists in both fields and provide a space for them to reflect upon their research practices with non-human animals. Through this, scientists’ stories start to deviate from the focus of human health. Their narrations shift as they draw upon a broader range of repertoires incorporating environmental concerns and experiences of affect. My findings build upon feminist science studies by contributing more nuanced narrations of multispecies relationships in gene editing research. I advocate that cultivating space for diverse stories to emerge from researchers working with CRISPR-Cas can produce avenues for response-ability.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87799942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}