Planetary Rifting and the Paleogeography of Care

IF 1.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Environmental Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.1215/22011919-10746100
Nigel Clark, Rebecca Whittle
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With their specter of intergenerational betrayal, global environmental crises increasingly entangle politics with matters of care, attachment, and love—especially the unconditional bonds we are so often assumed to share with our offspring. As a contribution to the nascent field of paleoenvironmental humanities, this article’s approach to questions of care and responsibility turns from future horizon-scanning to the realm of human origins. It focuses on two broad sets of paleo stories that share a concern with rifts or stress points that complicate originary events and scenes. The first of these is a family of hypotheses which propose that pivotal evolutionary developments took place in the climatically variable and tectonically active terrain of the East African Rift. The second is the cooperative breeding hypothesis, which contends that communally distributed childcare arrangements are a definitive characteristic of the genus Homo, while also highlighting the conditionality and precariousness of human intergenerational care. Taken together, these approaches point to deep-seated fault lines running through both our home planet and our own psychosocial being. Confronting these rifts might help loosen the hold of notions of ontological reconciliation between humans and nature that risk exacerbating the very problems they seek to resolve, while also helping us to seek attachments that are more conducive to living with and through earthly volatility.
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行星断裂与古地理学的关怀
由于代际背叛的阴影,全球环境危机日益将政治与关怀、依恋和爱--尤其是我们经常被认为与后代之间的无条件纽带--联系在一起。作为对古生物环境人文学科这一新兴领域的贡献,本文对关爱和责任问题的探讨从未来的视野转向了人类起源的领域。文章重点关注两大类古生物故事,它们都关注使起源事件和场景复杂化的裂痕或压力点。第一种是一系列假说,这些假说认为关键的进化发展发生在气候多变、构造活跃的东非大裂谷地带。第二个假说是合作繁殖假说,该假说认为共同分布的育儿安排是智人属的一个明确特征,同时也强调了人类代际照料的条件性和不稳定性。总之,这些方法都指出了贯穿我们地球家园和我们自身社会心理的根深蒂固的断层。正视这些裂痕可能有助于放松人类与自然之间本体论和解观念的束缚,因为这种观念有可能加剧它们试图解决的问题,同时也有助于我们寻求更有利于与地球波动共存和通过地球波动生活的依附关系。
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Environmental Humanities
Environmental Humanities HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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2.60
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8.70%
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32
审稿时长
20 weeks
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