Heather Alberro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1617064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Alberro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Alberro |
| SIGNATURE | ALBERRO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1031-5746 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Zoocentrism
Veganism as an ethical and political movement to abolish the mass exploitation of animals has been one prominent response to the ethical and ecological calamities of industrial animal agriculture. In this article, I draw on post-anthropocentric and decolonial tributaries to critically examine some problematic undercurrents that occasionally resurface in mainstream vegan discourses as evident amongst prominent organisations like PETA and The Vegan…
Response 3
This is an important time to revisit questions concerning the historical underpinnings of utopianism as a mode of praxis and theoretical endeavor, its potential oversights and where it ought to venture in the decades to come. The multidisciplinary Hispanic utopian project Histopia discussed by Ramirez-Blanco offers a helpful starting point for this discussion. Especially noteworthy, in my view, is Histopia’s recognition of and interest in engagin…
Blind Spots and Avenues for Transformation within the Utopian Canon
Utopianism in all of its manifestations often powerfully (re)surfaces during times of significant socio-ecological upheaval as a response to oppressive and exploitative realities. As such it is a fervent refusal against a given status quo and its purported inevitability. Utopianism and hope are rendered possible by, and draw their transformative potential from, the boundless terrain of potentiality surrounding any given reality.1 Indeed, without …
H.G Wells, earthly and post-terrestrial futures
H.G Wells- the ‘father of science fiction- produced a wealth of works often evincing a prescient utopian imaginary and infused by an enthusiastic embrace of techno-scientific progress. Today amid the Capitalocene, Western notions of ‘progress’ are being fundamentally challenged by mounting social and ecological perturbations. This article draws on critical-posthuman and green utopian tributaries in order to examine Wells’s depiction of human-nonh…
Multispecies Cities
How to conjure up a picture, for instance, of a town without pigeons, without any trees or gardens, where you never hear the beat of wings or the rustle of leaves—a thoroughly negative place in short?—Albert Camus (1948) Though now home to the majority of the world’s human population, cities—indeed the politics of life itself—have always been multispecies endeavors. The quote above is Albert Camus’s description of Oran, the fictional town that is…
In and Against Eco-Apocalypse
This article draws on utopian and posthumanist theory in order to critically assess the contemporary resurgence of green utopianism in the form of contemporary radical environmental activists (REAs) mobilizing against the socioecological perturbations of the Anthropocene. Featuring empirical data in the form of twenty-six semi-structured interviews with REAs from groups such as Earth First! and Sea Shepherd, the article critically examines the si…
Ecoutopia from Fiction to Fact
Human is at the heart of the story of climate change in the Anthropocene where, according to Dipesh Chakrabarty (2012), human behaviors have influenced the environment and created a distinct geological epoch. Current climate change issues are largely human induced. This implies that the human species is now part of the natural history of the planet. In November 2016, Stephen Hawking warned that humanity has 1000 years to leave the earth due to cl…
Valuing Life Itself
The present era of biological annihilation lends significant urgency to the need to radically reconfigure human–animal–nature relations along more ethical lines and sustainable trajectories. This article engages with largely post-humanist scholarship to offer up an in-depth qualitative analysis of a set of semi-structured interviews, conducted in August 2017–2018 with 26 radical environmental activists (REAs) from a variety of movements. These ac…
Methodological considerations for the special-risk researcher
Researchers seeking to investigate the dynamics and individuals constituting today's myriad social movements must grapple with attendant challenges such as designing a methodological framework appropriate for investigating subjects and phenomena of interest, as well as gaining and maintaining access to groups of interest. Such challenges are magnified many times over when the groups under investigation pose potential special safety risks to thems…
In and Against Eco-Apocalypse
This article draws on utopian and posthumanist theory in order to critically assess the contemporary resurgence of green utopianism in the form of contemporary radical environmental activists (REAs) mobilizing against the socioecological perturbations of the Anthropocene. Featuring empirical data in the form of twenty-six semi-structured interviews with REAs from groups such as Earth First! and Sea Shepherd, the article critically examines the si…
Valuing Life Itself
The present era of biological annihilation lends significant urgency to the need to radically reconfigure human–animal–nature relations along more ethical lines and sustainable trajectories. This article engages with largely post-humanist scholarship to offer up an in-depth qualitative analysis of a set of semi-structured interviews, conducted in August 2017–2018 with 26 radical environmental activists (REAs) from a variety of movements. These ac…
H.G Wells, earthly and post-terrestrial futures
H.G Wells- the ‘father of science fiction- produced a wealth of works often evincing a prescient utopian imaginary and infused by an enthusiastic embrace of techno-scientific progress. Today amid the Capitalocene, Western notions of ‘progress’ are being fundamentally challenged by mounting social and ecological perturbations. This article draws on critical-posthuman and green utopian tributaries in order to examine Wells’s depiction of human-nonh…
Methodological considerations for the special-risk researcher
Researchers seeking to investigate the dynamics and individuals constituting today's myriad social movements must grapple with attendant challenges such as designing a methodological framework appropriate for investigating subjects and phenomena of interest, as well as gaining and maintaining access to groups of interest. Such challenges are magnified many times over when the groups under investigation pose potential special safety risks to thems…
Methodological considerations for the special-risk researcher
Researchers seeking to investigate the dynamics and individuals constituting today's myriad social movements must grapple with attendant challenges such as designing a methodological framework appropriate for investigating subjects and phenomena of interest, as well as gaining and maintaining access to groups of interest. Such challenges are magnified many times over when the groups under investigation pose potential special safety risks to thems…
Ecoutopia from Fiction to Fact
Human is at the heart of the story of climate change in the Anthropocene where, according to Dipesh Chakrabarty (2012), human behaviors have influenced the environment and created a distinct geological epoch. Current climate change issues are largely human induced. This implies that the human species is now part of the natural history of the planet. In November 2016, Stephen Hawking warned that humanity has 1000 years to leave the earth due to cl…
Valuing Life Itself
The present era of biological annihilation lends significant urgency to the need to radically reconfigure human–animal–nature relations along more ethical lines and sustainable trajectories. This article engages with largely post-humanist scholarship to offer up an in-depth qualitative analysis of a set of semi-structured interviews, conducted in August 2017–2018 with 26 radical environmental activists (REAs) from a variety of movements. These ac…
In and Against Eco-Apocalypse
This article draws on utopian and posthumanist theory in order to critically assess the contemporary resurgence of green utopianism in the form of contemporary radical environmental activists (REAs) mobilizing against the socioecological perturbations of the Anthropocene. Featuring empirical data in the form of twenty-six semi-structured interviews with REAs from groups such as Earth First! and Sea Shepherd, the article critically examines the si…
H.G Wells, earthly and post-terrestrial futures
H.G Wells- the ‘father of science fiction- produced a wealth of works often evincing a prescient utopian imaginary and infused by an enthusiastic embrace of techno-scientific progress. Today amid the Capitalocene, Western notions of ‘progress’ are being fundamentally challenged by mounting social and ecological perturbations. This article draws on critical-posthuman and green utopian tributaries in order to examine Wells’s depiction of human-nonh…
Multispecies Cities
How to conjure up a picture, for instance, of a town without pigeons, without any trees or gardens, where you never hear the beat of wings or the rustle of leaves—a thoroughly negative place in short?—Albert Camus (1948) Though now home to the majority of the world’s human population, cities—indeed the politics of life itself—have always been multispecies endeavors. The quote above is Albert Camus’s description of Oran, the fictional town that is…
Response 3
This is an important time to revisit questions concerning the historical underpinnings of utopianism as a mode of praxis and theoretical endeavor, its potential oversights and where it ought to venture in the decades to come. The multidisciplinary Hispanic utopian project Histopia discussed by Ramirez-Blanco offers a helpful starting point for this discussion. Especially noteworthy, in my view, is Histopia’s recognition of and interest in engagin…
Blind Spots and Avenues for Transformation within the Utopian Canon
Utopianism in all of its manifestations often powerfully (re)surfaces during times of significant socio-ecological upheaval as a response to oppressive and exploitative realities. As such it is a fervent refusal against a given status quo and its purported inevitability. Utopianism and hope are rendered possible by, and draw their transformative potential from, the boundless terrain of potentiality surrounding any given reality.1 Indeed, without …
Beyond Zoocentrism
Veganism as an ethical and political movement to abolish the mass exploitation of animals has been one prominent response to the ethical and ecological calamities of industrial animal agriculture. In this article, I draw on post-anthropocentric and decolonial tributaries to critically examine some problematic undercurrents that occasionally resurface in mainstream vegan discourses as evident amongst prominent organisations like PETA and The Vegan…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · History (4 works) · Anthropocene (3 works)