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Conference Presentations by Laura Bridgeman
Presented at Animal Politics: Justice, Power, and the State conference in Leusden, Netherlands, N... more Presented at Animal Politics: Justice, Power, and the State conference in Leusden, Netherlands, November 2016
The needs, perspectives and desires of other-than-human animal individuals are rarely, if ever, considered within western political and developmental frameworks. Yet, taking these into account could significantly improve, at least, the health of ecosystems, and at best, instances of community thriving across species lines. One strategy to gain other animal representation within the political sphere is to account for their interests as stakeholders within participatory development projects, such as Marine Protected Areas. I argue that dolphins and whales (cetaceans) are excellent candidates for these considerations, as they benefit from an extensive body of science that presents strong evidence for their moral standing. I outline the reasons why resident communities of cetaceans ought to be considered as stakeholders within this process; how to best determine their interests; and why doing so has become an ethical obligation. Cetaceans can be seen as communicating their interests passively and also actively: certain individuals, known as solitary sociable cetaceans, engage with the human community directly, communicating in ways that are both compelling and challenging to our contemporary conceptions of who these animals are and what they require in order to thrive. Cetaceans are positioned to help us better understand how to represent and protect their interests as well as those of the wider ocean community, and they pose a serious challenge to the unequivocal placement of human interests before those of other animals.
Papers by Laura Bridgeman
The horse-man (not woman) is both metaphor and lived relationship, illuminating the Western domin... more The horse-man (not woman) is both metaphor and lived relationship, illuminating the Western dominator ecocultural identity that actively denies animal sentience and physical autonomy. The horse-man relationship has played a central symbolic and literal role throughout Western civilization, with the horse’s body serving as a site of both representation and acting-out of the domination of gendered selves and othered animals according to the chain-of-being hierarchy originating with Plato. The relationship has remained core to the dominator identity for thousands of years, including during waves of colonization and in recent assertions of white supremacy. By critically examining the relationships rendered by the horse-man metaphor, the author advocates for the practice of a loving ecocultural identity that replaces domination with respect within relations with individuals of other species.
Social & Cultural Geography, 2021
Ecocultural Identity is a book for our times. To enable identity with an ‘ecocultural’ framing is... more Ecocultural Identity is a book for our times. To enable identity with an ‘ecocultural’ framing is potent as we grapple with environmental problem-solving on a global scale.One of the first matters ...
The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, 2020
The horse-man (not woman) is both metaphor and lived relationship, illuminating the Western domin... more The horse-man (not woman) is both metaphor and lived relationship, illuminating the Western dominator ecocultural identity that actively denies animal sentience and physical autonomy. The horse-man relationship has played a central symbolic and literal role throughout Western civilization, with the horse’s body serving as a site of both representation and acting-out of the domination of gendered selves and othered animals according to the chain-of-being hierarchy originating with Plato. The relationship has remained core to the dominator identity for thousands of years, including during waves of colonization and in recent assertions of white supremacy. By critically examining the relationships rendered by the horse-man metaphor, the author advocates for the practice of a loving ecocultural identity that replaces domination with respect within relations with individuals of other species.
The Routledge Handbook on Ecocultural Identity, 2020
Abstract The horse-man (not woman) is both metaphor and lived relationship, illuminating the West... more Abstract
The horse-man (not woman) is both metaphor and lived relationship, illuminating the Western dominator ecocultural identity that actively denies animal sentience and physical autonomy. The horse-man relationship has played a central symbolic and literal role throughout Western civilization, with the horse’s body serving as a site of both representation and acting-out of the domination of gendered selves and othered animals according to the chain-of-being hierarchy originating with Plato. The relationship has remained core to the dominator identity for thousands of years, including during waves of colonization and in recent assertions of white racial supremacy. By critically examining the relationships rendered by the horse-man metaphor, the author advocates for the practice of a loving ecocultural identity that replaces domination with respect within relations with individuals of other species.
Books by Laura Bridgeman
by Tema Milstein, José Castro-Sotomayor, Laura Bridgeman, Carlos Tarin, Melissa M Parks, Jeffrey Hoffmann, Casper G Bendixsen, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Eric Karikari, Lars Hallgren, Dakota Raynes, John Carr, Bruno Seraphin, Carrie Packwood Freeman, Julia L Ginsburg, and Rebecca Banham
Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, 2020
Use this link to join the discussion: https://www.academia.edu/s/da2195c5e5?source=link For this... more Use this link to join the discussion: https://www.academia.edu/s/da2195c5e5?source=link
For this book discussion, we've shared the Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity's Introduction Chapter, Table of Contents, Endorsements, and Author Bios. We look forward to discussing the book with you! "The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (2020) is a timely book, as across the globe more and more of us awake to our always interconnected selves. The Handbook brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self and group identities, introducing an interdisciplinary, insightful assembly of original theory and research on planetary positionalities in flux in the Anthropocene – or what in this Handbook cultural ecologist David Abram presciently renames the Humilocene, a new “epoch of humility.” Forty international authors craft a kaleidoscopic lens, focusing on ways all identities are ecocultural and on the multiple and unspooling ways identities evolve and transform and, in so doing, may support reciprocal surviving and thriving."
Please write your thoughts, questions, and comments into the discussion. We will check in regularly to respond and move the conversation forward.
Note: Routledge is offering a 25% discount code for hardcover or Ebook until June 26. Routledge code=ACR02. (Order at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351068840)
You may enjoy the following podcasts on the book:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/ecocultural-identity/13311966
Climactic:
https://omny.fm/shows/climactic-1/gretchen-miller-tema-milstein-routledge-handbook-o
Custodians of the Planet:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/custodians-of-the/the-routledge-handbook-of-OuhdqzASWG-/
by Tema Milstein, José Castro-Sotomayor, Laura Bridgeman, David Abram, Melissa M Parks, Mariko O Thomas, Elizabeth Oriel, Toni Frohoff, Jeffrey Hoffmann, Casper G Bendixsen, Jessica Love-Nichols, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Charles Carlin, Eric Karikari, Godfried Asante, Dakota Raynes, Shilpa Dahake, Joe Quick, Gabriela Méndez Cota, Carrie Packwood Freeman, and Rebecca Banham
Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, 2020
The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (2020) is a timely book, as across the globe more ... more The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (2020) is a timely book, as across the globe more and more of us awake to our always interconnected selves. The Handbook brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self and group identities, introducing an interdisciplinary, insightful assembly of original theory and research on planetary positionalities in flux in the Anthropocene – or what in this Handbook cultural ecologist David Abram presciently renames the Humilocene, a new “epoch of humility.” Forty international authors craft a kaleidoscopic lens, focusing on ways all identities are ecocultural and on the multiple and unspooling ways identities evolve and transform and, in so doing, may support reciprocal surviving and thriving.
Paperback out June 2022: 20% cost of hardback +20% off w/ code FLE22 ordering through Routledge.
Introduction chapter, table of contents, and endorsements are posted here. More, including editor bios and authors, can be found at this Routledge link: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Ecocultural-Identity/Milstein-Castro-Sotomayor/p/book/9781138478411. Please help share the Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity among your networks. And please ask your libraries to purchase the book (or put it on their to-buy lists if budgets have been temporarily frozen due to Covid). The Handbook is an important resource for our times for scholars, teachers, students, protectors, policy-makers, and practitioners. The editors, Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor, are available for Q&A, interviews, guest commentary, talks, etc. Thanks for your interest and for helping to spread word!
What has been said about the Handbook:
“Intricately transdisciplinary and cross-geographical, it is the first volume of its kind to caringly craft a gathering concept, that of ecocultural identities, bringing together the social, political, and ecological dimensions of identity. What results is a treasure of insights on the politics of life, broadly speaking, and a novel toolbox for tackling effectively the damages caused by modern capitalist modes of extraction and the urgent task of Earth’s ontological repair and renewal.”
Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Too often mislabelled an ‘issue,’ the environment is in fact integral not just to everything we do but to who we are. This link between our identity and our ecology has long been recognised in many societies, but others seem to have forgotten its signal importance. This superb collection shows why all identities are ecocultural ones, and why full recognition of this is essential to all our political futures.”
Noel Castree, University of Manchester
“A smart, provocative, and original collection, the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity provides a definitive introduction to the constraints upon, and the contexts, formations, and impacts of, our diverse – but often unexamined – ecological selves.”
Robert Cox, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and three-time national president of the Sierra Club
“I am in complete solidarity with this book.”
Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz
Presented at Animal Politics: Justice, Power, and the State conference in Leusden, Netherlands, N... more Presented at Animal Politics: Justice, Power, and the State conference in Leusden, Netherlands, November 2016
The needs, perspectives and desires of other-than-human animal individuals are rarely, if ever, considered within western political and developmental frameworks. Yet, taking these into account could significantly improve, at least, the health of ecosystems, and at best, instances of community thriving across species lines. One strategy to gain other animal representation within the political sphere is to account for their interests as stakeholders within participatory development projects, such as Marine Protected Areas. I argue that dolphins and whales (cetaceans) are excellent candidates for these considerations, as they benefit from an extensive body of science that presents strong evidence for their moral standing. I outline the reasons why resident communities of cetaceans ought to be considered as stakeholders within this process; how to best determine their interests; and why doing so has become an ethical obligation. Cetaceans can be seen as communicating their interests passively and also actively: certain individuals, known as solitary sociable cetaceans, engage with the human community directly, communicating in ways that are both compelling and challenging to our contemporary conceptions of who these animals are and what they require in order to thrive. Cetaceans are positioned to help us better understand how to represent and protect their interests as well as those of the wider ocean community, and they pose a serious challenge to the unequivocal placement of human interests before those of other animals.
The horse-man (not woman) is both metaphor and lived relationship, illuminating the Western domin... more The horse-man (not woman) is both metaphor and lived relationship, illuminating the Western dominator ecocultural identity that actively denies animal sentience and physical autonomy. The horse-man relationship has played a central symbolic and literal role throughout Western civilization, with the horse’s body serving as a site of both representation and acting-out of the domination of gendered selves and othered animals according to the chain-of-being hierarchy originating with Plato. The relationship has remained core to the dominator identity for thousands of years, including during waves of colonization and in recent assertions of white supremacy. By critically examining the relationships rendered by the horse-man metaphor, the author advocates for the practice of a loving ecocultural identity that replaces domination with respect within relations with individuals of other species.
Social & Cultural Geography, 2021
Ecocultural Identity is a book for our times. To enable identity with an ‘ecocultural’ framing is... more Ecocultural Identity is a book for our times. To enable identity with an ‘ecocultural’ framing is potent as we grapple with environmental problem-solving on a global scale.One of the first matters ...
The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, 2020
The horse-man (not woman) is both metaphor and lived relationship, illuminating the Western domin... more The horse-man (not woman) is both metaphor and lived relationship, illuminating the Western dominator ecocultural identity that actively denies animal sentience and physical autonomy. The horse-man relationship has played a central symbolic and literal role throughout Western civilization, with the horse’s body serving as a site of both representation and acting-out of the domination of gendered selves and othered animals according to the chain-of-being hierarchy originating with Plato. The relationship has remained core to the dominator identity for thousands of years, including during waves of colonization and in recent assertions of white supremacy. By critically examining the relationships rendered by the horse-man metaphor, the author advocates for the practice of a loving ecocultural identity that replaces domination with respect within relations with individuals of other species.
The Routledge Handbook on Ecocultural Identity, 2020
Abstract The horse-man (not woman) is both metaphor and lived relationship, illuminating the West... more Abstract
The horse-man (not woman) is both metaphor and lived relationship, illuminating the Western dominator ecocultural identity that actively denies animal sentience and physical autonomy. The horse-man relationship has played a central symbolic and literal role throughout Western civilization, with the horse’s body serving as a site of both representation and acting-out of the domination of gendered selves and othered animals according to the chain-of-being hierarchy originating with Plato. The relationship has remained core to the dominator identity for thousands of years, including during waves of colonization and in recent assertions of white racial supremacy. By critically examining the relationships rendered by the horse-man metaphor, the author advocates for the practice of a loving ecocultural identity that replaces domination with respect within relations with individuals of other species.
by Tema Milstein, José Castro-Sotomayor, Laura Bridgeman, Carlos Tarin, Melissa M Parks, Jeffrey Hoffmann, Casper G Bendixsen, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Eric Karikari, Lars Hallgren, Dakota Raynes, John Carr, Bruno Seraphin, Carrie Packwood Freeman, Julia L Ginsburg, and Rebecca Banham
Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, 2020
Use this link to join the discussion: https://www.academia.edu/s/da2195c5e5?source=link For this... more Use this link to join the discussion: https://www.academia.edu/s/da2195c5e5?source=link
For this book discussion, we've shared the Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity's Introduction Chapter, Table of Contents, Endorsements, and Author Bios. We look forward to discussing the book with you! "The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (2020) is a timely book, as across the globe more and more of us awake to our always interconnected selves. The Handbook brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self and group identities, introducing an interdisciplinary, insightful assembly of original theory and research on planetary positionalities in flux in the Anthropocene – or what in this Handbook cultural ecologist David Abram presciently renames the Humilocene, a new “epoch of humility.” Forty international authors craft a kaleidoscopic lens, focusing on ways all identities are ecocultural and on the multiple and unspooling ways identities evolve and transform and, in so doing, may support reciprocal surviving and thriving."
Please write your thoughts, questions, and comments into the discussion. We will check in regularly to respond and move the conversation forward.
Note: Routledge is offering a 25% discount code for hardcover or Ebook until June 26. Routledge code=ACR02. (Order at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351068840)
You may enjoy the following podcasts on the book:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/ecocultural-identity/13311966
Climactic:
https://omny.fm/shows/climactic-1/gretchen-miller-tema-milstein-routledge-handbook-o
Custodians of the Planet:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/custodians-of-the/the-routledge-handbook-of-OuhdqzASWG-/
by Tema Milstein, José Castro-Sotomayor, Laura Bridgeman, David Abram, Melissa M Parks, Mariko O Thomas, Elizabeth Oriel, Toni Frohoff, Jeffrey Hoffmann, Casper G Bendixsen, Jessica Love-Nichols, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Charles Carlin, Eric Karikari, Godfried Asante, Dakota Raynes, Shilpa Dahake, Joe Quick, Gabriela Méndez Cota, Carrie Packwood Freeman, and Rebecca Banham
Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, 2020
The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (2020) is a timely book, as across the globe more ... more The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (2020) is a timely book, as across the globe more and more of us awake to our always interconnected selves. The Handbook brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self and group identities, introducing an interdisciplinary, insightful assembly of original theory and research on planetary positionalities in flux in the Anthropocene – or what in this Handbook cultural ecologist David Abram presciently renames the Humilocene, a new “epoch of humility.” Forty international authors craft a kaleidoscopic lens, focusing on ways all identities are ecocultural and on the multiple and unspooling ways identities evolve and transform and, in so doing, may support reciprocal surviving and thriving.
Paperback out June 2022: 20% cost of hardback +20% off w/ code FLE22 ordering through Routledge.
Introduction chapter, table of contents, and endorsements are posted here. More, including editor bios and authors, can be found at this Routledge link: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Ecocultural-Identity/Milstein-Castro-Sotomayor/p/book/9781138478411. Please help share the Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity among your networks. And please ask your libraries to purchase the book (or put it on their to-buy lists if budgets have been temporarily frozen due to Covid). The Handbook is an important resource for our times for scholars, teachers, students, protectors, policy-makers, and practitioners. The editors, Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor, are available for Q&A, interviews, guest commentary, talks, etc. Thanks for your interest and for helping to spread word!
What has been said about the Handbook:
“Intricately transdisciplinary and cross-geographical, it is the first volume of its kind to caringly craft a gathering concept, that of ecocultural identities, bringing together the social, political, and ecological dimensions of identity. What results is a treasure of insights on the politics of life, broadly speaking, and a novel toolbox for tackling effectively the damages caused by modern capitalist modes of extraction and the urgent task of Earth’s ontological repair and renewal.”
Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Too often mislabelled an ‘issue,’ the environment is in fact integral not just to everything we do but to who we are. This link between our identity and our ecology has long been recognised in many societies, but others seem to have forgotten its signal importance. This superb collection shows why all identities are ecocultural ones, and why full recognition of this is essential to all our political futures.”
Noel Castree, University of Manchester
“A smart, provocative, and original collection, the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity provides a definitive introduction to the constraints upon, and the contexts, formations, and impacts of, our diverse – but often unexamined – ecological selves.”
Robert Cox, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and three-time national president of the Sierra Club
“I am in complete solidarity with this book.”
Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz