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Le promesse dei mostri. Una politica rigeneratrice per l’alterità inappropriata

open access: yes, 2019
"Le promesse dei mostri" è un libro dai molti scopi, tra cui vi è quello di rendere più ibridi i Science and Technologies Studies, contaminandoli con i Cultural, i Gender e i Postcolonial Studies.
Angela Balzano, Donna Haraway
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Community as Catalyst for Change: Factors Contributing to US Catholic Sisters Engaging in Environmental Activism

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
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Revisiting Racialized Religious Contexts and Perceptions of White Discrimination and Privilege

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between racial composition of religious congregations and individual‐level perceptions of white discrimination and white privilege. Current framings suggest that organizations are racialized not solely because of their composition but also the implicit (or explicit) ideologies expressed within them ...
Jerry Z. Park, Brandon C. Martinez
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Le témoin modeste : diffractions féministes dans l'étude des sciences

open access: yes, 2007
Dans cet essai, Donna Haraway revient sur ce le théatre de l'expérience des sciences "modernes". Commentant et critiquant le livre majeur (dans l'histoire de l'étude sociale des sciences) de Shapin et Schaffer : "Léviathan et la pompe à air", à propos de
Haraway, Donna
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Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
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Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
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Animal Segregation: The Biopolitics of Concentrated Pig Farming

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the possibility to think through the concept of animal segregation to understand the more‐than‐human geographies of livestock animals. By redirecting the analytical tools for studying the spatial separation of humans to the segregation of animals, this paper contributes to understanding the geographical processes of ...
Willem Rogier Boterman
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