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Rethinking the Animate, Re-Animating Thought
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In this paper, a world-in-formation ontology is proposed, in which beings do not propel themselves across a ready-made world but rather issue forth through a world in-formation along the lines of their relationships.Abstract:
Animism is often described as the imputation of life to inert objects. Such imputation is more typical of people in western societies who dream of fi nding life on other planets than of indigenous peoples to whom the label of animism has classically been applied. These peoples are united not in their beliefs but in a way of being that is alive and open to a world in continuous birth. In this animic ontology, beings do not propel themselves across a ready-made world but rather issue forth through a world-in-formation, along the lines of their relationships. To its inhabitants this weather-world, embracing both sky and earth, is a source of astonishment but not surprise. Re-animating the 'western' tradition of thought means recovering the sense of astonishment banished from offi cial science.read more
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Whiteness, space and alternative food practice
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Bindings against Boundaries: Entanglements of Life in an Open World
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Human geographies of climate change: Landscape, temporality, and lay knowledges:
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TL;DR: In this article, a focus on the familiar landscapes of everyday life offers an opportunity to examine how climate change could be researched as a relational phenomenon, understood on a local level, with distinctive spatialities and temporalities.
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Earth, sky, wind, and weather
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Working with and learning from Country: decentring human author-ity
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TL;DR: In this paper, an Indigenous and non-Indigenous, human and more-than-human research collective try to attend deeply to the messages we send and receive from, with and as a part of country.
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Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide and defend a definition for the universal and most universal human phenomenon of religion, which is one of the most universal and studied human phenomena, yet there exists no widely shared definition for it.
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Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide and defend a definition for the universal and most universal human phenomenon of religion, which is one of the most universal and studied human phenomena, yet there exists no widely shared definition for it.