Giraud, E., Hollin, G., Potts, T. et al. (1 more author) (2018) A feminist menagerie. Feminist Review, 118 (1). pp. 61-79. ISSN 0141-7789
Abstract
This paper appraises the role of critical-feminist figurations within the environmental humanities, focusing on the capacity of figures to produce situated environmental knowledges and pose site-specific ethical obligations. We turn to four environments—the home, the skies, the seas and the microscopic—to examine the work that various figures do in these contexts. We elucidate how diverse figures—ranging from companion animals to birds, undersea creatures and bugs—reflect productive traffic between longstanding concerns in feminist theory and the environmental humanities, and generate new insights related to situated knowledges, feminist care-ethics and the politics of everyday sensory encounters. We also argue, however, that certain figures have tested the limits of theoretical approaches which have emerged as the product of dialogue between feminist theory and environmental studies. In particular, we explore how particular figures have complicated ethical questions of how to intervene in broad environmental threats borne of anthropogenic activities, and of who or what to include in relational ethical frameworks.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Feminist Review. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Feminist Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | figuration; more-than-human; companion species; ethics; care; animal |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jul 2021 08:42 |
Last Modified: | 27 Jul 2021 08:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1057/s41305-018-0103-1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176542 |
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