Crossing Rivers, Revisiting Trauma, and Contemplating the Geo

Thinking into the Anthropocenic

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13100679
AutoresJustin Westgate (0000-0001-5537-7030, University of Wollongong, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume3
Fascículo1
Páginas233-245
Data de publicação2017-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2373566x.2016.1267582
OpenAlexW2587515937
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas20

The irony of the Anthropocene—an idea grounded in earth sciences—is that it acts to unground some of the foundational ideas about the world. It asks us to reevaluate and rethink the human–nature binary, to inhabit a world less hospitable and malleable than we dared to believe. I explore this notion of groundlessness by returning to a personally traumatic event that literally swept me off my feet—crossing a river. I argue that the experience of such corporeal vulnerability can provide fertile ground for reorienting our own perception. Delving into such experiences may be used to provoke and expand thinking with a view to grappling with the implications of living within conditions of an Anthropocenic world

Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Art · Common ground · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Irony · Literature · Perception · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Communication · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism