Does the Earth Care?: Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology

Author:   Mick Smith ,  Jason Young
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9781517913205


Pages:   132
Publication Date:   12 April 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Does the Earth Care?: Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology


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Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency The world is changing. Progress no longer has a future but any earlier sense of Earth as “providential” seems of merely historical interest. The apparent absence of Earthly solicitude is a symptom and consequence of these successive Western modes of engagement with the Earth, now exemplified in global capitalism. Within these constructs, Earth can only appear as constitutively indifferent to the fate of all its inhabitants. The “provisional ecology” outlined in Does the Earth Care?—drawing on a variety of literary and philosophical sources from Richard Jefferies and Robert Macfarlane to Martin Heidegger and Gaia theory—fundamentally challenges that assumption, while offering an Earthly alternative to either cold realism or alienated despair in the face of impending ecological disaster. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

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Author:   Mick Smith ,  Jason Young
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.113kg
ISBN:  

9781517913205


ISBN 10:   1517913209
Pages:   132
Publication Date:   12 April 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Smith and Young's book is a stimulating read. It offers nuggets of insight and wisdom throughout, weaving together geoscience and the posthumanities to pain on a large and vivid canvas. -The AAG Review of Books


"""Smith and Young's book is a stimulating read. It offers nuggets of insight and wisdom throughout, weaving together geoscience and the posthumanities to pain on a large and vivid canvas.""—The AAG Review of Books  "


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Mick Smith is professor of philosophy and environmental studies at Queen’s University in Canada and author of Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World (Minnesota, 2011) and An Ethics of Place: Radical Ecology, Postmodernity, and Social Theory. Jason Young is a PhD candidate in the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University working at the intersection of (eco)phenomenology and posthumanism.

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