Timothy James LeCain
Biographic Data
| ID | 5166894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy James LeCain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy James |
| FAMILY NAME | LeCain |
| SIGNATURE | LECAIN T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59718, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Deep Culture
I held the first meeting of my graduate seminar in environmental history last August and had planned what I hoped would be a big Socratic reveal at the end. The readings for the day included the usual suspects: Fernand Braudel's materialist Annales perspective through Roderick Nash's American studies–inflected deconstruction of the “wild” to Donald Worster's agroecological approach and William Cronon's disruptive “The Trouble with Wilderness.” R.…
Forum
Anxieties about species extinction, habitat loss, and climate change attributed to the uninhibited commodification of nature-the "massive anthropogenic erosion of biodiversity"-are a theme of our times, marking the Anthropocene. 1 Some of the most acute and severe expressions of ecological guilt and "endangerment sensibilities," expressed in the media and the social and cultural sciences alike, revolve around the waning of "wild" fauna, flora, an…
Copper and the evolution of space in high modernist America and Japan
This essay makes a neo-materialist analysis of the extraction and use of copper in the first half of the twentieth century, using two sites as empirical examples, one American and the other Japanese. By moving beyond the modernist dichotomies that separate mine and city, nature and technology, and the “natural” and built environment, I argue that copper has played a central role in creating modern human spatial relationships and associated cultur…
Mimi Sheller. Aluminum Dreams
Journal Article Mimi Sheller. Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity. Get access Mimi Sheller. Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 367. $26.95. Timothy James LeCain Timothy James LeCain Montana State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 3, June 2015, Pages 1064–1065, h…
Deep Culture
I held the first meeting of my graduate seminar in environmental history last August and had planned what I hoped would be a big Socratic reveal at the end. The readings for the day included the usual suspects: Fernand Braudel's materialist Annales perspective through Roderick Nash's American studies–inflected deconstruction of the “wild” to Donald Worster's agroecological approach and William Cronon's disruptive “The Trouble with Wilderness.” R.…
Mimi Sheller. Aluminum Dreams
Journal Article Mimi Sheller. Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity. Get access Mimi Sheller. Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 367. $26.95. Timothy James LeCain Timothy James LeCain Montana State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 3, June 2015, Pages 1064–1065, h…
Copper and the evolution of space in high modernist America and Japan
This essay makes a neo-materialist analysis of the extraction and use of copper in the first half of the twentieth century, using two sites as empirical examples, one American and the other Japanese. By moving beyond the modernist dichotomies that separate mine and city, nature and technology, and the “natural” and built environment, I argue that copper has played a central role in creating modern human spatial relationships and associated cultur…
Forum
Anxieties about species extinction, habitat loss, and climate change attributed to the uninhibited commodification of nature-the "massive anthropogenic erosion of biodiversity"-are a theme of our times, marking the Anthropocene. 1 Some of the most acute and severe expressions of ecological guilt and "endangerment sensibilities," expressed in the media and the social and cultural sciences alike, revolve around the waning of "wild" fauna, flora, an…
Deep Culture
I held the first meeting of my graduate seminar in environmental history last August and had planned what I hoped would be a big Socratic reveal at the end. The readings for the day included the usual suspects: Fernand Braudel's materialist Annales perspective through Roderick Nash's American studies–inflected deconstruction of the “wild” to Donald Worster's agroecological approach and William Cronon's disruptive “The Trouble with Wilderness.” R.…
Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · History (3 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anxiety (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works)