Janae Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janae Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janae |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3869-9481 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intergenerational Multispecies Justice
BACKWARDS, IT PROMISES THE restoration of a moral order heretofore disrespected and violated; looking forward, the establishment of the institutional conditions in which lives might flourish without fear of arbitrary deprivation and harm.This, at least, is the ideal.In practice, under conditions where the logics of colonialism, capitalism, extractivism and human exceptionalism remain hegemonic, the justice mainstream institutions deliver all too …
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, … Plantationocene
The “Plantationocene” has gained traction in the environmental humanities as a way of conceptualizing the current era otherwise nominated as the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or the Chthulucene. For Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, and their interlocutors, the concept suggests that our current ecological crisis is rooted in logics of environmental modernization, homogeneity, and control, which were developed on historical plantations. This paper argues t…
Black faces, black spaces
The Wilderness Act of 1964 defines wilderness as "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain". It goes on to limit acceptable activities in designated wilderness areas to those associated with leisure, scenic viewing, education, and scientific inquiry. These precepts are the basis for federal wilderness management in national parks, national forests, national wildli…
Canadian South Asian Women in Transition
Selected data from a major study of South Asian (N =298) and Anglo-Saxon (n=153) women supporting the hypothesis of a dualistic complementary attitude towards life for the South Asian respondents are presented. The South Asian women are simultaneously "traditional" with regard to family, religion and marriage, but "contemporary" on values pertaining to education and development outside the home. By contrast, the Anglo-Saxon sample emerged as cons…
Black faces, black spaces
The Wilderness Act of 1964 defines wilderness as "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain". It goes on to limit acceptable activities in designated wilderness areas to those associated with leisure, scenic viewing, education, and scientific inquiry. These precepts are the basis for federal wilderness management in national parks, national forests, national wildli…
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Canadian South Asian Women in Transition
Selected data from a major study of South Asian (N =298) and Anglo-Saxon (n=153) women supporting the hypothesis of a dualistic complementary attitude towards life for the South Asian respondents are presented. The South Asian women are simultaneously "traditional" with regard to family, religion and marriage, but "contemporary" on values pertaining to education and development outside the home. By contrast, the Anglo-Saxon sample emerged as cons…
Canadian South Asian Women in Transition
Selected data from a major study of South Asian (N =298) and Anglo-Saxon (n=153) women supporting the hypothesis of a dualistic complementary attitude towards life for the South Asian respondents are presented. The South Asian women are simultaneously "traditional" with regard to family, religion and marriage, but "contemporary" on values pertaining to education and development outside the home. By contrast, the Anglo-Saxon sample emerged as cons…
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, … Plantationocene
The “Plantationocene” has gained traction in the environmental humanities as a way of conceptualizing the current era otherwise nominated as the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or the Chthulucene. For Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, and their interlocutors, the concept suggests that our current ecological crisis is rooted in logics of environmental modernization, homogeneity, and control, which were developed on historical plantations. This paper argues t…
Black faces, black spaces
The Wilderness Act of 1964 defines wilderness as "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain". It goes on to limit acceptable activities in designated wilderness areas to those associated with leisure, scenic viewing, education, and scientific inquiry. These precepts are the basis for federal wilderness management in national parks, national forests, national wildli…
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Intergenerational Multispecies Justice
BACKWARDS, IT PROMISES THE restoration of a moral order heretofore disrespected and violated; looking forward, the establishment of the institutional conditions in which lives might flourish without fear of arbitrary deprivation and harm.This, at least, is the ideal.In practice, under conditions where the logics of colonialism, capitalism, extractivism and human exceptionalism remain hegemonic, the justice mainstream institutions deliver all too …
Sociology (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Anthropocene (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work)