Non-Anthropocentric Views to Pandemics to Come: Kinship and Topophilia
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https://doi.org/10.32991/2237-2717.2023v13i1.p53-74Keywords:
environmental humanities, mourning, biophilia, non-places, solastalgiaAbstract
The covid-19 pandemic is a manifestation of the current ecological crisis, whose ultimate origin can be traced to human exceptionalism-based ontology. This text echoes the environmental humanities perspective to address two pertinent concepts, kinship and topophilia, to re-signify the interdependence of humanity with the web of life and the abiotic elements that sustain it. Likewise, mourning is proposed as an element that can bring us closer to this vital framework by reestablishing kinships and a rooted sense of belonging to a place. It is concluded that the most promising approach for preventing future pandemics requires the extension of kinship to the non-human.
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