Linda Williams

Seventeenth-century concepts of the nonhuman world: a nascent romanticism?

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 09-01-2017

DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2016.1275977

Darwin and Derrida on Human and Animal Emotions: The Question of Shame as a Measure of Ontological Difference

Publisher: Lawrence and Wishart

Date: 30-09-2012

DOI: 10.3898/NEWF.76.02.2012

Visualizing Subjectivity: Social Theory and the Role of Art as Metaphor of Self and Habitus

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 11-2010

DOI: 10.1177/0725513610381373

Abstract: This paper considers the way social theorists draw on affective imagery to convey ideas about complex social processes such as the formation of subjectivity within a given habitus. The argument focuses on discussions of art in the work of Elias and Foucault to question whether imagery, and particularly imagery drawn from art, serves to simplify more complex processes of reasoning, or whether the image can be understood as a type of conceptual consolidation of an argument rather than a means to simply illustrate or augment it. The paper also raises the question of whether art is a more complex form of social agency than it was sometimes understood to be in its original social context.

Introduction: Submarine aesthetics

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 20-12-2018

DOI: 10.4324/9780429444203

Everyday Ecocide, Toxic Dwelling, and the Inability to Mourn

Publisher: Duke University Press

Date: 05-2020

DOI: 10.1215/22011919-8142418

Abstract: In responding to the spatiotemporally specific geographies of extinction charted in the articles in this special section, this article reflects on the sociocultural factors that inform the ways in which extinction is framed and impede recognition of the enormity of the anthropogenic extinction event in which we are all bound. This article argues that we are living in an era of ecocide, where the degradation of bio ersity and eradication of species go hand-in-hand with the degradation and eradication of nonmodern culture and identity, and it explores some possible reasons why modern society is failing to respond to impending crisis. Fine-grained stories of spatiotemporally specific geographies of extinction can help to counter the logic of colonization and bring everyday ecocide into view. For the particular multispecies communities they concern, they can also feed into the creation of ritual practices of penitential mourning in ways that enable a collective grieving process poised to activate an ecosocial transformation. The authors consider the implications of grief and mourning—and of not mourning—in what can be seen as not only a terrible time but also the end of (lived) time. They conclude with some reflections of local acts of resistance, witnessing, and narrative.

Reconfiguring Place: Art and the Global Imaginary

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Date: 2014

DOI: 10.4135/9781473906020.N28

The Future of Flesh

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

Date: 2009

DOI: 10.1057/9780230620858

Visualising Anthropocene Extinctions: Mapping affect in the works of Naeemah Naeemaei

Publisher: University of Wollongong Library

Date: 2021

DOI: 10.14453/ASJ.V10I2.4

Abstract: While many writers have advocated the importance of narrative as a means of engaging with the problem of extinction, this paper considers what the qualities of visual aesthetics bring to this field. In addressing this question, the discussion turns to the problem of the ethical limits of art raised by Adorno and takes a theoretical turn away from posthumanism to consider how visual responses can redirect attention back to human agency. The focus of visual analysis is on five paintings by the contemporary Iranian artist Naeemeh Naeemaei. Neither exclusively Western nor overtly internationalist in their approach, these artworks refer to the effects of both hunting and the erosion of trans-national habitats as causes of extinction, yet they also show how human affective responses to extinction can extend across geo-political borders to a more global imaginary. As such, Naeemaei’s artworks are regarded as a form of immanent critique of anthropogenic forcing. Her works adapt older traditions in Persian humanism and art to show not only how the human dominion of nonhuman animals has led to extinction, but also how this leads to an almost incalculable sense of human loss. I argue that Naeemaei’s affective imagery of loss is not simply yet another ex le of how the lifeworld of animals can only be understood from an anthropocentric worldview, but instead points to our inability to yet fully register the immeasurable losses of extinction and what this yet unchartered grief might imply for potential human agency.

The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Date: 11-12-2018

DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190630577.001.0001

Abstract: This handbook provides an overview of the emerging field of global studies. Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been reshaping the modern world, and an array of new scholarship has risen to make sense of it in its various transnational manifestations—including economic, social, cultural, ideological, technological, environmental, and in new communications. The chapters discuss various aspects in the field through a broad range of approaches. Several chapters focus on the emergence of the field and its historical antecedents. Other chapters explore analytic and conceptual approaches to teaching and research in global studies. The largest section deals with the subject matter of global studies—challenges from diasporas and pandemics to the global city and the emergence of a transnational capitalist class. The final two sections feature chapters that take a critical view of globalization from erse perspectives and essays on global citizenship—the ideas and institutions that guide an emerging global civil society. This handbook focuses on global studies more than on the phenomenon of globalization itself, although the various aspects of globalization are central to understanding how the field is currently being shaped.

RMIT University

Location: Australia

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A Green Thought In A Green Shade: The Role Of Feeling In The Works Of John Evelyn

Start Date: 2015

End Date: 2016

Funder: Australian Research Council

Spatial Dialogues: Public Art And Climate Change

Start Date: 2010

End Date: 2013

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP220100191

Start Date: 2023

End Date: 12-2025

Amount: $332,862.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP100200088

Start Date: 10-2010

End Date: 12-2013

Amount: $163,700.00

Funder: Australian Research Council