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Facing the Fall

Facing the Fall By Whitney A. Bauman “Burn it all down,” was the recent response of a friend when we were talking about the 2024 US election, the conflicts in Israel-Palestine, the rise of nationalisms Read more…

January 7, 2025

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Erotic Ecology: Ecosexuals and F#$% for Forest

Erotic Ecology: Ecosexuals and F#$% for Forest By Whitney A. Bauman One of the ideas behind queer studies is that heteronormativity is an essential part of what keeps us locked into hierarchies of oppression, at Read more…

October 1, 2024

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A Postcolonial Romanticism?

A Postcolonial Romanticism? By Whitney A. Bauman I was recently a participant at a symposium on the 19th-century “German Darwin,” Ernst Haeckel. For readers who don’t know who Haeckel is, think of a 19th-century EO Read more…

May 8, 2024

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Eroding Democracy

Eroding Democracy By Whitney A. Bauman In the state of Florida, we have what is called “the sunshine law.” This law was initially meant to curtail corruption at the state level government. As a state Read more…

December 13, 2023

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The Strangeness of the Planetary Future

The Strangeness of the Planetary Future By Whitney A. Bauman Wicked problems call for puzzling solutions. Wicked, here, is of course not the slang skater/surfer/stoner complement when something is amazing. Rather, it is a technical Read more…

September 12, 2023

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Celebrating Five Years of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge

Celebrating Five Years of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge By Whitney A. Bauman and Kocku von Stuckrad If we want to address the major challenges of the 21st century—first and foremost climate disasters, human and other-than-human interdependencies Read more…

July 4, 2023

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Florida Is Burning: A Call for Connective Knowledge Systems

Florida Is Burning: A Call for Connective Knowledge Systems By Whitney A. Bauman During the post-civil war era, there was a struggle to begin to define an “American” history. As you might imagine, those in Read more…

February 16, 2023

Events

Decolonizing for the Planetary Community

Decolonizing for the Planetary Community A Counterpoint Conversation at the conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) Please join us online for a Counterpoint Conversation and panel discussion Read more…

January 17, 2023

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Rosemary Radford Ruether: A Prophet of the Planetary

Rosemary Radford Ruether: A Prophet of the Planetary By Whitney A. Bauman At a recent meeting of the American Academy of Religion, there was much sharing of memories about prominent scholars in religious studies who Read more…

December 1, 2022

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Thinking Past the Anthropocene

Thinking Past the Anthropocene By Whitney A. Bauman As Sylvia Wynter, Aph Ko, and many other decolonial theorists argue (not to mention post-humanists, indigenous scholars, queer theorists, and other critical theorists of race, gender, sex, Read more…

November 15, 2022