Jessica Croteau
Biographic Data
| ID | 8679172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Croteau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Croteau |
| SIGNATURE | CROTEAU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haverford College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Toxic Immortality
Much of contemporary environmental thought operates within paradigms of conservation, sustainability, and resilience—frameworks that assume the goal of ecological politics must be to prevent loss, preserve stability, and mitigate decline. However, these frameworks inadequately address cases where persistence and abundance, rather than disappearance, are the source of harm. An ecological ethic oriented toward decline, unbecoming, and decomposition…
Rethinking (De)growth
Moving beyond economic analyses of degrowth, growth and consumption are reframed through decomposition as a vital process through which life, value, and politics are continually re-composed. Against dominant imaginaries that cast decay as waste or ruination, this article turns to composting and carrion ecologies to articulate decomposition as a generative undoing and a mode of transformation that binds waste to worth. Drawing on multispecies exam…
A Fermented Myth of Democracy
Drawing on fermentation materially and metaphorically, this article argues an earthly democracy must be understood not only through inclusion and participation but through multispecies myths and transformations. Engaging Earthborn Democracy alongside the transdisciplinary art constellation Fermenting Feminism , the article develops three central contributions: it reconceives the demos as materially composed through multispecies processes; it adva…
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Toxic Immortality
Much of contemporary environmental thought operates within paradigms of conservation, sustainability, and resilience—frameworks that assume the goal of ecological politics must be to prevent loss, preserve stability, and mitigate decline. However, these frameworks inadequately address cases where persistence and abundance, rather than disappearance, are the source of harm. An ecological ethic oriented toward decline, unbecoming, and decomposition…
Rethinking (De)growth
Moving beyond economic analyses of degrowth, growth and consumption are reframed through decomposition as a vital process through which life, value, and politics are continually re-composed. Against dominant imaginaries that cast decay as waste or ruination, this article turns to composting and carrion ecologies to articulate decomposition as a generative undoing and a mode of transformation that binds waste to worth. Drawing on multispecies exam…
A Fermented Myth of Democracy
Drawing on fermentation materially and metaphorically, this article argues an earthly democracy must be understood not only through inclusion and participation but through multispecies myths and transformations. Engaging Earthborn Democracy alongside the transdisciplinary art constellation Fermenting Feminism , the article develops three central contributions: it reconceives the demos as materially composed through multispecies processes; it adva…
Politics (3 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 works) · Decomposition (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Flourishing (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Anthropocentrism (1 works) · Carrion (1 works) · Compost (1 works) · Consumption (sociology) (1 works)