Entangled Epiphanies: Recent Episodes
Jenna Stepanic, Sanne van den Boom, Hendrik Pröhl, April Fowler, Andrea Louisa Foss, and Alex Ruelas
Entangled Epiphanies is a collaborative project to bridge the gap between academic and mainstream conversations about the ecological crises that we all face. Master’s students interview researchers and practitioners to gain a broader understanding of what is being done and what can be done. As a project of the Arne Næss group at the Centre for Development and the Environment, this podcast is rooted in Arne Naess’ ideas of ‘deep ecology’ in which nature is seen to have intrinsic value beyond its use to humans.
Sanne and Jenna were inspired by Nina Witoszek's inclusion of friendship and play when discussing activism. How does this relate to deep ecology and the further environmental crisis? Listen and find out. This is the final episode of our first season. We would love to hear from you about your thoughts on this season! Please rate/comment or email us with feedback or if you are interested in collaborating. Contact information is provided below.
Sources:
- Graeber, David. 2014. "What's the Point If We Can't Have Fun?". The Baffler, issue 24, pp. 50-58. Available at: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-have-fun
- Witoszek, N. and Mueller, M.L. (2021a) “The Ecological Ethics in Nordic Children’s Tales: From Pippi Longstocking to Greta Thunberg” Environmental Ethics, vol. 43, issue 1, 2021, pp. 61-78.
Contact Information
- email: entangledepiphanies@gmail.com
- instagram: @entangledepiphanies
Sanne asks Andrea about the interview with Alejandra Mancilla. They explore topics such as the position of humans in nature, deep ecology and what these ideas may mean for the constitution in writing in Chile.
Sources
Guha, Ramachandra. (1989) Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique. In Craig Hanks (ed.), Environmental Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 71-83 (2010).
Mancilla, Alejandra. (2018). The Moral Limits of Territorial Claims in Antarctica. In Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 32 (3), pp. 339-360.
Næss, Arne. The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement. A Summary. In Inquiry, vol. 16, pp. 95-100.
Some links:
https://alejandramancilla.info
Comienza la Convención Constitucional en Chile: cuáles son ...https://www.bbc.com › mundo › n...
About the protests and new constitution in Chile:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54687090
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chile-braces-protests-crossroads-election-nears-2021-10-18/
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211018-thousands-mark-protests-that-led-to-rewrite-of-chile-constitution
https://klassekampen.no/utgave/2021-07-08/en-ny-grunnlov-for-chile
https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/chile-1.14748262
En este capítulo Andrea entrevista a la académica chilena Alejandra Mancilla del departamento de historia de las ideas y filosofía de la Universidad de Oslo. Conversan sobre sus proyectos de investigación La filosofía política mira a la Antártica y Territorio Dinámico, la ecología profunda de Arne Næss y sobre la posibilidad de llevar estas ideas a la práctica en la nueva constitución en Chile.
Palabras clave: Tratado Antártico, ecología profunda, ética ambiental
Bibliografía
Mancilla, Alejandra. (2018). The Moral Limits of Territorial Claims in Antarctica. In Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 32 (3), pp. 339-360.
Næss, Arne. The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement. A Summary. In Inquiry, vol. 16, pp. 95-100.
Links de interés
https://alejandramancilla.info
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-57104668
https://www.ciperchile.cl/2021/10/22/tambien-lo-no-humano-es-parte-de-la-nueva-constitucion/
Sanne and Hendrik discuss their interview with Karen Lykke Syse and Kristian Bjørkdahl about food cultures, relations with animals, and livestock farming.
Sources:
- Berger, John. 2005. 'Why Look at Animals'. Worldviews 9 (2): 203-218. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43809300.
For more information on Karen's and Kristian's research project:
https://www.sum.uio.no/english/research/projects/meat-and-sustainability/index.html
April and Alex interview Martin Lee Mueller, author of Being Salmon, Being Human, to talk about conservation, control, and connecting with nature.
Sources:
- Fairhead, James, and Melissa Leach. 1995. ‘False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives’. World Development 23 (6): 1032–35.
- Fairhead, James, Melissa Leach, and Ian Scoones. 2012. ‘Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature?’ The Journal of Peasant Studies 39 (2): 237–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2012.671770.
- Cronon, William. 1996. ‘The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature’. Environmental History 1: 7–28. https://doi.org/10.2307/3985059.
- Büscher, Bram, and Robert Fletcher. 2015. ‘Accumulation by Conservation’. New Political Economy 20 (2): 273–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2014.923824.
- Büscher, Bram, Sian Sullivan, Katja Neves, Jim Igoe, and Dan Brockington. 2012. ‘Towards a Synthesized Critique of Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation’. Capitalism Nature Socialism 23 (2): 4–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2012.674149.
- Sullivan, Sian. 2006. ‘Elephant in the Room? Problematising “New” (Neoliberal) Biodiversity Conservation’. Forum for Development Studies 33 (1): 105–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2006.9666337.
- National Geographic Society. 2019. ‘Conservation’. National Geographic Society. 23 August 2019. http://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/conservation/.
- Mueller, Martin Lee. 2017. Being Salmon, Being Human: Encontering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild. United States: Chelsea Green Publishing.
Sanne and Jenna interviewed Alexander Dunlap about finding your cause, resistance against extractivist projects, the problems with activism, and more. Hendrik and Jenna reflect on his answers with personal insights.
Hendrik and Jenna talk to Nina Witoszek to introduce the listeners to the Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss, whose 'deep ecology' was inspiration for the creation of this podcast.