Finding the Human in "the messy, contingent, emergent mix of the material world": Embodiment, Place, and Materiality in Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures

By Malene Fonnes, 26 September, 2017
Author
Veronica Vold
Publication Type
Article in an online journal
Language
English
Year
Publisher
Electronic Book Review (ebr)
Series
Critical Ecologies
URL
Finding the Human in "the messy, contingent, emergent mix of the material world…
Appears in
Critical Ecologies
License
CC Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
Alaimo
science
environment
environmentalism
body
bodily
bodies
posthuman
post-human
posthumanism
trans-corporeal
trans-corporeality
race
disability
disability studies
african american
West Virginia
toxins
toxic
pollution
ethics
Abstract (in English)

In this review Veronica Vold charts the posthuman environmental ethic in Stacy Alaimo’s Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self and notes how the text draws together issues of race, (dis)ability, and the environment in a way that disrupts the boundaries between bodies and places.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/bodily)