Dimitra Harvey reviews Kin by Anne Elvey
Kin
by Anne Elvey
ISBN 978-0-7340-4897-4
Reviewed by DIMITRA HARVEY
Val Plumwood wrote, “the ecological crisis requires from us a new kind of culture”. She was of course referring to the set of human/nature dualisms that underpin the contemporary West, and which “promote human distance from, control of and ruthlessness towards the sphere of nature as the Other”. Unprecedented anthropogenic climate change and ecological degradation threaten not only the survival of our species but myriad others: we must reevaluate our definitions of our humanity or “face extinction” (Environmental Culture 4-5).
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