Unthinking Mastery
148 chApter four manimalities thus entail intimate acts of embracing and enfolding through which we call up the animals we have ...
CHAPTER 5 5 Cultivating Discomfort I open this final chapter, about cultivation, discomfort, and the cultivation of discomfort, ...
150 chApter fIve we begin to learn the ecological stakes of human mastery and the critical potentialities of feeling, recognizin ...
cultIvAtIng dIscomfort 151 and practices of both political and mundane life. The scale of dehumanist potentialities in the previ ...
152 chApter fIve us how this bourgeois discomfort leads back to other discomforting histo- ries, such as those of colonial dispo ...
cultIvAtIng dIscomfort 153 unease. Some of my earliest memories are of my mother at work in her gar- den, a space that seemed to ...
154 chApter fIve quote a recurring yet unusually crass utterance of hers) in order to work out the impossible social dynamics th ...
cultIvAtIng dIscomfort 155 For all its brutalities, tree- planting is also a coming- of-age experience for many young Canadians ...
156 chApter fIve to it. If the clear- cut is itself devastation, so too are human bodies devastated within it. And if the clear- ...
cultIvAtIng dIscomfort 157 benefit from the destruction of their lands. The commitment to practicing communal living and feeling ...
158 chApter fIve the queer promise of being exactly where I was and trying to inhabit the world otherwise there and then. Here a ...
cultIvAtIng dIscomfort 159 While Kincaid queries “the relationship between gardening and con- quest” (1999, 116), this relation ...
160 chApter fIve colonial ecocriticism as a discursive field is also invested in how global narratives intervene in dominant for ...
cultIvAtIng dIscomfort 161 posits a relation between gardening and conquest, for instance, she queries whether we might cast the ...
162 chApter fIve its people of the tropics, in contrast to Europeans, as those who “live along with things” (795). Kincaid repre ...
cultIvAtIng dIscomfort 163 and when she captures a raccoon that she imagines to be “full of malice,” she plans to drown it in a ...
164 chApter fIve caid likewise throws her relation to the human species into question. This sweepingly dehumanist movement takes ...
cultIvAtIng dIscomfort 165 the place as a relaxing “escape” from real life, Kincaid’s pleasures abroad are ones derived through ...
166 chApter fIve Nevertheless, her difference from the Nepalese in Among Flowers is most forcefully articulated through the poli ...
cultIvAtIng dIscomfort 167 describes the particularities of his work but because his work as a table car- rier is oriented towar ...
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