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- Title
Intimacy without Proximity: Encountering Grizzlies as a Companion Species.
- Authors
Metcalf, Jacob
- Abstract
Using grizzly-human encounters as a case study, this paper argues for a rethinking of the differences between humans and animals within environmental ethics. A diffractive approach that understands such differences as an effect of specific material and discursive arrangements (rather than as pre-settled and oppositional) would see ethics as an interrogation of which arrangements enable flourishing, or living and dying well. The paper draws on a wide variety of human-grizzly encounters in order to describe the species as co-constitutive and challenges perspectives that treat bears and other animals as oppositional and nonagential outsides to humans.
- Publication
Environmental Philosophy, 2008, Vol 5, Issue 2, p99
- ISSN
1718-0198
- Publication type
Academic Journal