UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies (E-Journal - York University)
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City and Ecology: Notes Towards an Urban Ecological Politics
Get PDFOur understanding of urban ecology continues to be informed by the nature ideologies of Social Darwinism, romanticism and scientism which are currently mobilized by political actors for concrete social projects: neo-fascism. eco-capitalism and different variants of environmentalism. Accordingly it is not at all self-evident that the city should provide the site for ecological politics. [...
"Clayoquot & Dissent" by Tzeporah Berman, Gordon Brent Ingram, Maurice Gibbons, Ronald B. Hatch, Loys Maingon, Christopher Hatch
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No full textAmish Morrell is a student in the Bachelors of Environmental Studies program at York University. He is exploring the use of photography in facilitating awareness of and communication around environmental issues. Amish is from Cape Breton, nova Scotia
Re-membering a Queer Body
Get PDFIn the spring 1993 issue of The Sciences, Brown University geneticist Anne Fausto-Sterling, citing the work of John Money, indicates that approximately four percent of the population is, to some degree, intersexual: they either possess physical characteristics of both officially recognized sexes or they have chromosomes which indicate a sex which are 'contradicted' by their physical appearance.1 In Toronto, the four percent figure translates into roughly 88,000 people. Yet little has been written about intersexuality, although its concerns often intersect with those of feminist and queer theory. This paper deals with feminist issues in patriarchal medicine and its relation(s) to intersexuality (and intersexuality's inherent ability to challenge arguments for the 'natural' basis of heterosexuality)
Not Quite Bedtime & In Her Memory
No full textRight now, this is what I want. I'm lying in bed It's one of the days in the millennia between when we see each other I want yo
Buggeries
Get PDFOriginally published as The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals: The Lost History of Europe's Animal Trials. London: Heinemann, 1906.Buggery (offensa cunjus nominatio crimen est, as it is euphemistically designated in legal documents) was uniformly punished by putting to death both parties implicated, and usually by burning them alive. The beast, too, is punished and both are burned (puritar etiam pecus et ambo comburuntur), Guillielmus Benedictinus, a writer on law, who lived about the end of the fourteenth century. Thus, in 1546, a man and a cow were hanged and then burned by order of the parliament of Paris, the supreme court of France. In 1466, the same tribunal condemned a man and a sow to be burned at Corbeil. Occasionally interment was substituted for incremation. Thus in 1609, at Niederrad, a man and a mare were executed and their bodies buried in the same carrion-pit. On the 12th of September, 1606, the mayor of Loens de Chartres, on complaint of the dean, canons and chapter cathedral of Chartres, condemned a man named Guillaume Guyart to be "hanged and strangled on a gibbet in reparation and punishment of sodomy whereof the said Guyart is declared accused, attained and convicted." A bitch, his accomplice, was sentenced to be knocked on the head (assommce) by the executioner of high justice and "the dead bodies both to be burned and reduced to ashes .... " This disgusting crime appears to be very common at least Ayrault in his Ordre Judiciaire, published in 1606 he has many times (multoties) seen brute beasts put to death for this cause