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Care in the Environmental Humanities
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Care in the Environmental Humanities

A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 2167

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Alice Hall

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Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
Interests: gender; health; disability; care and embodiment; modern and contemporary British and American writing
Dr. Thomas Houlton

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Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
Interests: creative writing; environmental humanities; film studies; gender and women's studies; global and postcolonial; modern and contemporary; visual and material culture

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In her new book, Cannibal Capitalism (2023), Nancy Fraser connects the climate and ecological crises to a contemporary crisis of care. Both, she argues, are rooted in a voracious form of capitalism that consumes the resources upon which our lives depend. This Special Issue seeks to build on a wave of recent writing that explores care as a valuable concept for the environmental humanities. ‘What’, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa asks, ‘does caring mean when we go about thinking and living interdependently with beings other than human, in “more than human” worlds?’ (13). Care is, Thom Van Dooren argues, ‘a vital concept for an engaged environmental humanities’ but ‘much more needs to be done to articulate what different kinds of careful scholarship might look like’ (294). We invite articles that engage with any aspect of the environmental humanities and take up this challenge of ‘thinking with care’ (Puig de la Bellacasa 13). We are interested in questions of interdependence and intersectionality, and approaches which expand definitions of care including ecofeminism, queer and Black ecologies, indigenous and postcolonial perspectives. Interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome, including articles which engage with diverse cultural forms, such as literature, life writing, film, art and other media, and consider how scholarship might itself be considered an act of care.

Works Cited

  • Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
  • Van Dooren, Thom. “Care”. Environmental Humanities, vol. 5, no. 1, 2014, pp. 291-294.  

Dr. Alice Hall
Dr. Thomas Houlton
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • care
  • environmental humanities
  • interdependence and intersectionality
  • ecofeminism
  • queer and Black ecologies
  • indigenous and postcolonial perspectives

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“Settler Maintenance” and Migrant Domestic Worker Ecologies of Care
by Rachel C. Lee, Abraham Encinas and Lesley Thulin
Humanities 2024, 13(6), 164; https://doi.org/10.3390/h13060164 - 25 Nov 2024
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Oral histories of Latina domestic workers in the United States feature hybrid narratives combining accounts of illness and “toxic discourse”. We approach domestic workers’ illnesses and disabilities in a capacious, extra-medical context that registers multiple axes of precarity (economic, racial, and migratory). We [...] Read more.
Oral histories of Latina domestic workers in the United States feature hybrid narratives combining accounts of illness and “toxic discourse”. We approach domestic workers’ illnesses and disabilities in a capacious, extra-medical context that registers multiple axes of precarity (economic, racial, and migratory). We are naming this context “settler maintenance”. Riffing on the specific and general valences of “maintenance” (i.e., as a synonym for cleaning work, and as a term for the practices and ideologies involved in a structure’s upkeep), this term has multiple meanings. First, it describes U.S. domestic workers’ often-compulsory use of hazardous chemical agents that promise to remove dirt speedily, yet that imperil domestic workers’ health. The use of these chemicals perpetuates two other, more abstract kinds of settler maintenance: (1) the continuation of socioeconomic hierarchies between immigrant domestic workers and settler employers, and (2) the continuation of (white) settlers’ extractive relationship to the land qua private property. To challenge this logic of settler maintenance, which is predicated on a lack of care for care workers, Latina domestic workers have developed alternative forms of care via lateral networks and political activism. Full article
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The Female Body and the Environment: A Transnational Study of Mo Yan’s Feng ru Fei tun, Murakami Haruki’s Nejimaki-dori Kuronikuru, and Gabriel García Márquez’s El amor en los tiempos del cólera
by Yueying Wu
Humanities 2024, 13(5), 128; https://doi.org/10.3390/h13050128 - 2 Oct 2024
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The female body is often depicted in parallel with the environment in many literary works. This article examines how the female body can prompt a rethinking of the environment by analyzing three literary works, Mo Yan’s Feng ru Fei tun, published in [...] Read more.
The female body is often depicted in parallel with the environment in many literary works. This article examines how the female body can prompt a rethinking of the environment by analyzing three literary works, Mo Yan’s Feng ru Fei tun, published in 1996 Murakami Haruki’s Nejimaki-dori Kuronikuru, published in 1994-1995, and Gabriel García Márquez’s El amor en los tiempos del cólera, published in 1985, which root in Chinese, Japanese, and Latin American cultures, respectively. This paper argues that, on the one hand, the female body parallels the environment by displaying non-human characteristics and relating to natural elements in these three works; on the other hand, it deconstructs the boundary between the environment and humans by playing a crucial role in constructing human identity. This paper draws on theories of posthumanism, material feminism, and ecofeminism to explore the depiction of the female body and its role in rethinking the environment. The cultural hybridity of local and non-local worldviews—a key reason for situating this study within a transnational comparative framework—serves as a crucial element in demonstrating how the female body bridges the environment and human identity across all three works. This analysis aims to deconstruct the anthropocentric perspective on the environment, thereby rethinking the role of the female body in this context. Full article
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