Nathaniel Otjen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 822372 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nathaniel Otjen |
| NOMBRES | Nathaniel |
| APELLIDO | Otjen |
| FIRMA | OTJEN N |
| AFILIACIONES | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6176-8959 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
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Who Benefits from Multispecies Justice
Review of: Sophie Chao, Karin Bolender, and Eben Kirksey, eds. The Promise of Multispecies Justice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. xii + 284 pp. 23 illus. $99.95 (hb) 978-1-4780-1625-0, $26.95 (pb) 978-1-4780-1889-6
Ho'ailona
This article asks what it means for conservation scientists to label a member of an endangered, endemic species homeless. By considering the boundary-crossing figure of Ho'ailona, a partially blind Hawaiian monk seal who was declared homeless and translocated six times between 2008 and 2009, the article argues that the language of home points to the ongoing operations of colonialism in Western conservation. Reading the discourse of homelessness o…
Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era
In late August 2021, three zebras escaped an exotic animal breeding operation in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Their ability to elude capture for several weeks led some to speculate that the zebras could establish a free-living herd, much like the horses of nearby Assateague Island. One zebra, however, died in a snare trap while attempting to reenter the property not long after escaping, and the two remaining zebras were lured back with food in Decem…
Habituated Knowledges
Examining personal narratives written by field primatologists, this essay argues that habituation—the process of accustoming a free-living animal to the researcher’s presence—produces “habituated knowledges.” These knowledges and knowledge-making practices recognize other species as co-participants in knowledge production and rewrite the boundaries of the researcher’s self to include nonhuman study subjects
Bad Dog
Reviewed by: Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice by Harlan Weaver Nathaniel Otjen (bio) Harlan Weaver, Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021, 240 pp. $99 cloth, $30 paper. Despite decades of labor in the environmental humanities and adjacent fields, scholar-activists working among the convergences of human groups and other species continue to find themselves explaining w…
When Things Hail
This essay argues that material things hail individuals on an everyday basis, pulling people into a more lateral set of relations with materiality. To make this argument, I read several twentieth-century critics and philosophers who have theorized the address, including Althusser, Levinas, and Butler, alongside two Anthropocene narratives that center material stratification and the viscous hauntings of things. As the encounters in Ann Pancake's n…
Uncomfortable Encounters
Uncomfortable Encounters: Cockroach Narratives, Selfhood, and Togetherness Nathaniel Otjen (bio) Why do we turn from insects in loathing? Our competitors are not only cold blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They lack the grace to go about as we do, softside-out to the wind and thorns. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to…
Indigenous Radical Resurgence and Multispecies Landscapes
Indigenous Radical Resurgence and Multispecies LandscapesLeslie Marmon Silko’s The Turquoise Ledge Nathaniel Otjen (bio) Desert landscapes have played an extraordinary role in the project of settler colonialism in the United States. As Traci Brynne Voyles argues in Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country, deserts are sites where settler colonialism has superseded its logical extremes. If this colonial violence aims to destroy a…
Inscriptive energetics
Uncomfortable Encounters
Uncomfortable Encounters: Cockroach Narratives, Selfhood, and Togetherness Nathaniel Otjen (bio) Why do we turn from insects in loathing? Our competitors are not only cold blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They lack the grace to go about as we do, softside-out to the wind and thorns. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to…
Inscriptive energetics
Inscriptive energetics
Indigenous Radical Resurgence and Multispecies Landscapes
Indigenous Radical Resurgence and Multispecies LandscapesLeslie Marmon Silko’s The Turquoise Ledge Nathaniel Otjen (bio) Desert landscapes have played an extraordinary role in the project of settler colonialism in the United States. As Traci Brynne Voyles argues in Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country, deserts are sites where settler colonialism has superseded its logical extremes. If this colonial violence aims to destroy a…
When Things Hail
This essay argues that material things hail individuals on an everyday basis, pulling people into a more lateral set of relations with materiality. To make this argument, I read several twentieth-century critics and philosophers who have theorized the address, including Althusser, Levinas, and Butler, alongside two Anthropocene narratives that center material stratification and the viscous hauntings of things. As the encounters in Ann Pancake's n…
Uncomfortable Encounters
Uncomfortable Encounters: Cockroach Narratives, Selfhood, and Togetherness Nathaniel Otjen (bio) Why do we turn from insects in loathing? Our competitors are not only cold blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They lack the grace to go about as we do, softside-out to the wind and thorns. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to…
Habituated Knowledges
Examining personal narratives written by field primatologists, this essay argues that habituation—the process of accustoming a free-living animal to the researcher’s presence—produces “habituated knowledges.” These knowledges and knowledge-making practices recognize other species as co-participants in knowledge production and rewrite the boundaries of the researcher’s self to include nonhuman study subjects
Bad Dog
Reviewed by: Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice by Harlan Weaver Nathaniel Otjen (bio) Harlan Weaver, Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021, 240 pp. $99 cloth, $30 paper. Despite decades of labor in the environmental humanities and adjacent fields, scholar-activists working among the convergences of human groups and other species continue to find themselves explaining w…
Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era
In late August 2021, three zebras escaped an exotic animal breeding operation in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Their ability to elude capture for several weeks led some to speculate that the zebras could establish a free-living herd, much like the horses of nearby Assateague Island. One zebra, however, died in a snare trap while attempting to reenter the property not long after escaping, and the two remaining zebras were lured back with food in Decem…
Who Benefits from Multispecies Justice
Review of: Sophie Chao, Karin Bolender, and Eben Kirksey, eds. The Promise of Multispecies Justice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. xii + 284 pp. 23 illus. $99.95 (hb) 978-1-4780-1625-0, $26.95 (pb) 978-1-4780-1889-6
Ho'ailona
This article asks what it means for conservation scientists to label a member of an endangered, endemic species homeless. By considering the boundary-crossing figure of Ho'ailona, a partially blind Hawaiian monk seal who was declared homeless and translocated six times between 2008 and 2009, the article argues that the language of home points to the ongoing operations of colonialism in Western conservation. Reading the discourse of homelessness o…
AI goes nuclear
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