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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Grad School Decision
So, Cary over at Racing the Horizons and I just spent three days in Boulder, Colorado checking out the Comp Lit department we were both accepted to. It was an exhausting trip (mostly our fault as we spent our nights … Continue reading
Posted in Grad School
Tagged animal studies, Boulder, California Indians and their Environment: an Introduction, Colorado, Comparative Literature, deep ecology, eco-politics, environmental studies, european philosophy, felix guattari, gilles deleuze, Grad School, indigenous history, maurice merleau-ponty, micro-brew, nature, racing the horizons, three ecologies, UC Irvine
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Utah Navajos and Oil Drilling in the Aneth Area
Andrea Peacock wrote an interesting piece on oil drilling in the Aneth area here. The article explains how, despite the fact that millions in oil are being extracted from the Aneth territory, Utah Navajos live in severe conditions characterized by … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Indigenous
Tagged andrea peacock, counterpunch, ecology, Navajo, oil drilling, poverty, Utah
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To Science or to the Market?
Cary over at Racing the Horizons showed this to me, a press release from Bio.org (a site that advocates for the use and advancement of biotechnology) applauding five nations[1] for signing a document in support of livestock cloning technology. I’m … Continue reading
Oh sure, THEY’RE the terrorists – Legal Precedence and Moral Right
An article here details a recent incident in which Pentagon prosecutors likened 19th century Seminole Indians to al Qaeda. In 1818, during the First Seminole War, General Andrew Jackson invaded then-Spanish Florida in order to prevent black slaves from fleeing … Continue reading
Posted in Indigenous
Tagged 19th century, Aiding the Enemy, al Qaeda, Alexander Arbuthnot, American Indian, Andrew Jackson, biological warfare, black slaves, British, Edward S. White, fascism, First Seminole War, Florida, Francis Gilligan, genocide, indigenous, John F. Murphy, John H. Dossett, legal precedent, legitimacy, morality, National Congress of American Indians, Osama Bin Laden, Pentagon, propriety, reservation, Robert Ambrister, Salim Hamdan, Seminole Indians, State, terrorism, U.S. Armed Forces, veterans, War Crimes
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Revived Proposals for Solar Projects in the Mojave Desert
Shaun over at Mojave Desert Blog has an informative post on the revival of two proposals to develop solar projects at Calico and Ridgecrest. Make sure to check it out and to follow his inserted links. This link was particularly … Continue reading
Back to the Endangered Species Act
Chris Clarke over at Coyote Crossing has an amazing post discussing the recent attempt of 10 environmental organizations[1] to remove the gray wolf from Montana and Idaho’s endangered species list. These same groups were part of a coalition that … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Human/Non-human
Tagged chris clarke, coyote crossing, donald molloy, Endangered Species Act, environment, gray wolf, idaho, montana, oregon, washington, wyoming, yellowstone
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Speaking of Food Sustainability…
I just finished the second chapter of Lightfoot and Parrish’s text, California Indians and Their Environment, which I briefly discussed yesterday. Here we expand upon Ann Zwinger’s reflections on fire[1] and find a definition of pyrodiversity as “landscape heterogeneity and … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Indigenous
Tagged Ann Zwinger, archaeology, California Indians and their Environment: an Introduction, community garden, community involvement, ecology, forms of life, indigenous, Kent G. Lightfoot, Otis Parrish, pyrodiversity, social organization, spatial organization, University of Victoria
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Speaking of Land Management…
lawns are, to my mind, a very strange expression of environmental interaction. What we understand of lawns today evolved from medieval grassed enclosures utilized for the communal grazing of livestock. It wasn’t until 16th century Elizabethan times that these enclosures … Continue reading
The Animal Turn
Postmedieval: a Journal of Medieval Culture Studies has posted an issue to be accessed online for free. The issue is titled “The Animal Turn” and includes an introduction from Cary Wolfe. I haven’t had a chance to read all the … Continue reading
Posted in Human/Non-human
Tagged animal studies, Cary Wolfe, postmedieval, the animal turn
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Pyrodiversity Collecting – a brief note
I began the second chapter of Lightfoot and Parrish’s text, California Indians and Their Environment, in which they intend to outline the basic tenets of their fire management, or pyrodiversity collecting, model. As I was reading, I was reminded of … Continue reading
