Breathing Climate Crises
Feminist Environmental Humanities and More-Than-Human Witnessing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774585 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Blanche Verlie (0000-0002-1614-9913, University of Wollongong, corresponding author), A Neimanis (0000-0001-7666-8507, Department of English & Cultural Studies | CCS 370UBC Okanagan, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, 1148 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, Canada, V1V 1V7) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 117-131 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2023.2233810 |
| OpenAlex | W4385557631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 50 |
In this paper, we consider climate change as a systemic respiratory crisis, and explore how breath can function as a mode of witnessing climate catastrophe. We build on feminist environmental humanities methodologies of embodied attunement to advance a more-than-human witnessing of climate change. We suggest that a feminist “conspiratorial” witnessing of breath(lessness) can afford an embodied, situated, empathetic and systemic mode of witnessing. In this approach, the witness (e.g., “the human”) is part of what is witnessed (the climate crisis). As such, breathing climate catastrophe can reveal the intimate, visceral and personal violences of global climate change, and develop empathetic approaches to climate injustice. Nevertheless, as breath’s social and multispecies differentiation reveals, no-one can witness the entirety of climate catastrophe with their own bodies. We thus advocate for collective, more-than-individual modes of knowing, such as science, art and critical analysis, to augment our own sensorial experiences of witness
Attunement · Climate change · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Injustice · Political science · Situated · Sociology · Witness · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
A Marxist Framework for Understanding Urban Sensory Pollutants
Towards a digital planetary health perspective
Breathe for Ella
Geographies of Thermopolitical Sacrifice
Attuning to Loss
Of Life and Breath
Conceptualising Climate Violence
Writing into the Outside
Imaginary Wor(l)ds
Forum Play as a tool for exploring more-than-human relations in the smart city
Entangled soil
Affective Oceanic Seaswimming and Encounters for Care-Full Environmental Communication
Human/animal atmospheres
Ecophenomenology as a link between the fields of environmental education and health education
Datafying climate justice education
Climate change education for the youngest children
Feral Intimacy
Climate change sensing across work and home
Raising the temperature
Violent environments and the low-carbon energy transition
Making Sense of Climate Change
Composing climate change as a matter of everyday living
Gathering Dust
Feeling climate injustice
The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
In the Wake
Arts of Inclusion, or, How to Love a Mushroom
Learning to Live with Climate Change
Breathing Matters
A Commentary
Just Sustainabilities
Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanities
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
Take My Breath Away
Introduction
Witnessing Australian Stories
We Are the Monitors Now’
Struggles for Environmental Justice in US Prisons and Jails
Threats to land and environmental defenders in nature’s last strongholds
Rethinking Climate Education
Weathering
Bodies of Water
Toward a poetics of air
Witnessing in the Classroom
Breathing new futures in polluted environments (Taranto, Italy)
Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World
Breathing Late Industrialism
The Universal Right to Breathe
Feeling the Vibrations
Feminist Infrastructure for Better Weathering
The Weather Underwater
Teaching with Feminist Materialisms
Five Desires, Five Demands
Sciences from Below
Letting Geography Fall Where it May - Aerographies Address the Elemental
Introduction
Wit(h)nessing
Trauma and Research
Climate justice in more-than-human worlds
Farming in the troposphere
Feminist Breathing
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World
Breathing Spaces
Thinking with a Feminist Political Ecology of Air-and-breathing-bodies
On Breath and Breathing
Open Space Weathering
Situated Knowledges
Multispecies Studies
I Can't Breathe
Shared Breath
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 12 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |