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Ecologization Is Not a Metaphor: Museums in the Web of Life

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents and critiques emerging accounts of museum “ecologization”. Drawing on political ecology, materialist theory, and contemporary museum practice, we challenge dominant frameworks of ecological modernization and advocate for a more critical understanding of museums in the web of life.
Colin Sterling, Harry Reddick, Giulia Bellinetti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic and Ecological Management of Pacific Salmon Fisheries for the 21st Century

Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ecological adaptation theory, tremendous effort is being spent on measures that are eliminating salmon hatcheries and fishing opportunities with the intention of protecting wild runs deemed to be of particular genetic importance to the survival of the species.
Randall E. Brummett, Ian G. Cowx, Devin M. Bartley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Infrastructural Reversibility: No‐Regret Futures at the London Euston High‐Speed Railway Station

The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large infrastructure projects are difficult for publics to challenge, scrutinise, or engage with. A well‐researched barrier to public engagement is the technical complexity of large projects, whether it be materially present, or discursively constructed by professional experts.
Anna Plyushteva
wiley   +1 more source

The Eroding Artificial/Natural Distinction: Some Consequences for Ecology and Economics [PDF]

, 2019
Since Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), historians and philosophers of science have paid increasing attention to the implications of disciplinarity.
DesRoches, C. Tyler, Green, Thomas L., Inkpen, Stephen Andrew   +2 more
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UNIVERSALITY IN THE CLIMATE CATASTROPHE: RETHINKING CHAKRABARTY'S ANTHROPOCENE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY WITH MERLEAU‐PONTY'S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article critically examines Dipesh Chakrabarty's concept of Anthropocene history, a philosophy of history that is designed to respond to the universal challenge of the Anthropocene. It uses the work of Maurice Merleau‐Ponty to mitigate the pitfalls of Chakrabarty's concept and to propose an alternative relation between nature and history.
Andréa Delestrade
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring drivers and costs of partial trans‐Saharan migration in juvenile vultures

Ibis, EarlyView.
Partial migration occurs when only a subset of individuals within a population undertakes a migratory journey. The decision to migrate can be influenced by intrinsic traits (e.g. sex or physical condition) as well as by extrinsic factors (e.g. social environment or resource availability).
Eneko Arrondo, Ana Sanz‐Aguilar, Andrea Santangeli, Manuel De La Riva, David Serrano, Ainara Cortés‐Avizanda, Olivier Duriez, Juan Manuel Pérez‐García, José Antonio Sanchez‐Zapata, Martina Carrete, Juan Oltra, Antoni Margalida, Pilar Oliva‐Vidal, Guillermo Blanco, Oscar Frías, Félix Martínez, José Luis González‐Del Barrio, José María Martínez, José Antonio Donázar   +18 more
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Giants in the cold: Morphological evidence for vascular heat retention in the viscera but not the skeletal muscle of the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Fewer than 50 of the over 30,000 extant species of fishes have developed anatomical specializations facilitating endothermy in specific body regions. The plankton‐feeding basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), traditionally classified as an ectotherm, was recently shown to have regionally endothermic traits such as centralized red muscle (RM ...
C. Antonia Klöcker, Axel Schlindwein, Martin C. Arostegui, Ingrid M. Bruvold, Joel V. Wernström, Montserrat Martin‐Armas, David W. Sims, Nicolas Straube, Andreas Altenburger, Claudia Junge   +9 more
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Cancer and Capitalism: Towards a Critical Sociological Agenda

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers the relationship between cancer and capitalism from the perspective of political economy. It argues that this perspective is crucial for producing a critical agenda in the sociological study of cancer, which has otherwise and traditionally neglected the question of capital as social totality.
Faisal Al‐Asaad
wiley   +1 more source

Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Waste is an important socio‐ecological challenge of contemporary capitalism, contributing to climate change and environmental degradation. Despite its pervasiveness and its impacts on diverse stakeholders, it yet remains largely underexplored in management and organization studies.
Elise Lobbedez, Stefano Pascucci, Teresa Panico   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life Sustains Life 1. Value: Social and Ecological [PDF]

I would like to address the question of social and ecological value by bringing two approaches to this question into conversation with one another and show their connections. The two approaches are those of Jonathan Schell and Akeel Bilgrami.
Tully, James
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