Nonhuman Subjects - An Ecology of Earth-Beings

The surging wave of indigenous politics, rights of nature, and social movements acting with rocks, rivers, glaciers, and lakes has brought to light an ecology of nonlife. Its protagonists are 'earth-beings,' geobodies that question deep-seated Western notions of personhood. Mountains in the Andes, erratic boulders, a landfill in the Swiss Alps, the sacred stones of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and the works of contemporary artists who have engaged with nonlife reveal the subjectivity of beings that are not sentient and alive as biological organisms.

List of contents

1. Crisis of Presence; 2. Earth beings; 3. Polemical Scenes; 4. The Invisible Landfill; 5. Being the River; 6. Coda.

Summary

The surging wave of indigenous politics, rights of nature, and social movements acting with rocks, rivers, glaciers, and lakes has brought to light an ecology of nonlife. Its protagonists are 'earth-beings,' geobodies that question deep-seated Western notions of personhood.

Product details

• Authors: Federico Luisetti, Federico (University of St. Gallen) Luisetti, Luisetti Federico
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2023
• EAN: 9781009442787
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0944278-7
• No. of pages: 88
• Series: Elements in Environmental Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction: special features, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Literary theory, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Geology & The Lithosphere, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world