A Feminist Menagerie

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ID3946194
AutoresEva Haifa Giraud (0000-0003-0845-9804), Eva Giraud, Greg Hollin, Tracey Potts, Isla Forsyth (0000-0002-4668-2356)
Año2018
Volumen118
Número1
Páginas61-79
Fecha de publicación2018-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/s41305-018-0103-1
OpenAlexW2613056844
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas76

This paper appraises the role of critical-feminist figurations within the environmental humanities, focusing on the capacity of figures to produce situated environmental knowledges and pose site-specific ethical obligations. We turn to four environments-the home, the skies, the seas and the microscopic-to examine the work that various figures do in these contexts. We elucidate how diverse figures-ranging from companion animals to birds, undersea creatures and bugs-reflect productive traffic between longstanding concerns in feminist theory and the environmental humanities, and generate new insights related to situated knowledges, feminist care-ethics and the politics of everyday sensory encounters. We also argue, however, that certain figures have tested the limits of theoretical approaches which have emerged as the product of dialogue between feminist theory and environmental studies. In particular, we explore how particular figures have complicated ethical questions of how to intervene in broad environmental threats borne of anthropogenic activities, and of who or what to include in relational ethical frameworks

Archaeology · Creatures · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist theory · Geography · Menagerie · Political science · Politics · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Reflexivity · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy