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From:Utopian Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Novels and short stories written since the last decades of the nineteenth century and employing discourses of technology have contributed to shaping the idea of the "posthuman condition" in the West to such...
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From:Italica (Vol. 97, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Nelle opere letterarie di Italo Calvino si trovano elementi tematici, come i personaggi semi-umani della trilogia degli Antenati o delle Cosmicomiche, a cui e possibile attribuire una funzione strategica in...
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From:McGill Law Journal (Vol. 65, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe know that law is a major enabler of the human activities that cause climate change, biodiversity destruction, and related ecosocial crises. We also turn to the law to regulate, mitigate, and attempt to transform these...
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From:Journal of Animal Ethics (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAfrican ethics is primarily concerned with community and harmonious communal relationships. The claim is frequently made on behalf of African moral beliefs and customs that, in stark contrast with Western moral...
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From:Linguistica Uralica (Vol. 54, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article presents an analysis of the orographic lexicon in the Kildin Saami language. The structure of the language is described; a componential and culturological analysis of this particular lexical set is...
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From:Ethics & the Environment (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAnthropocentric biocentrism (AB) says that human beings ought to promote the survival of our own species above the survival of other species. But those who attack AB sometimes take it to say something much stronger: we...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Anthropocene epoch is partly defined by anthropogenic spread of crops beyond their centres of origin. At global scales, evidence indicates that species-level taxonomic diversity of crops being cultivated on...
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From:BioScience (Vol. 60, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAssignment of values for natural ecological benefits and anthropocentric ecosystem services in riverine landscapes has been problematic, because a firm scientific basis linking these to the river's physical structure...
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From:Nature and Culture (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEarly science fiction (SF) is noted for, among other things, its conservatism and lack of interest in ecology. Brian Stableford, a well-known SF writer and critic, writes that "there are very few early stories with...
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From:Film History (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: Film scholars in recent years have identified a differentiated landscape of color systems in terms of looks and processes that represent natural color phenomena with increasing fidelity and automation. Here, I...
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From:Journal of Animal Ethics (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn this brief reply to the essays by Edwin Etieyibo (2017), Thad Metz (2017), and Elisa Galgut (2017), I argue (a) that African morality is neither biocentric nor ecocentric in the sense of accepting that "there is no...
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From:Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal (Vol. 45, Issue 2)I. INTRODUCTION Electricity facilitates technological advances.' However, provision of electricity by burning fossil fuels results in the emission of 32.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. (2) Carbon dioxide...
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From:Journal of Animal Ethics (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn his recently published book Animals and African Ethics, Kai Horsthemke (2015) makes two important and related claims. The first is that most African metaphysical, religious, and ethical positions and perspectives on...
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From:Ethics & the Environment (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAnimal ethics has tended to follow an analytical approach and has focused much attention on moral reason and theory. Recently, some have argued this to be a fundamental problem. The 'paradigmatic account' claims that...
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From:Ethics & the Environment (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn her 2002 essay, "Anthropocentrism, Artificial Intelligence, and Moral Network Theory: An Ecofeminist Perspective," Victoria Davion points out, utilizing Val Plumwood's ecofeminist analysis, the faulty...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPETER HOEG'S FOURTH NOVEL Kvinden og aben (1996) [The Woman and the Ape] has been mostly overlooked by literary critics and to some extent also by readers. (1) It has been criticized as inferior to Hoeg's former works,...
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From:The Hemingway Review (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe dominance of human beings over nature has caused irreversible damage to nature itself. Despite recent considerable attention being given to the exclusion of nonhuman elements in society, the emphasis on animals and...
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From:Journal of Animal Ethics (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI seek to advance plausible replies to the several criticisms Kai Horsthemke (2015) makes of "African modal relationalism" his label for my theory of animal rights with a sub-Saharan pedigree. Central to this view is...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 58, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Anthropocene demands that we think about the human, and the humanities, in species terms. This essay takes up this challenge by examining how we mourn the loss of species and what role elegy might play in an age of...
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From:Nature and Culture (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMore and more scholarly attention is being paid to the challenges of governing artificial intelligence and emergent technologies. Most of the focus remains on questions of how to preserve the human-centeredness of...