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180678
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This in-depth analysis of the aesthetics of place and person in ‘Toba Tek Singh’, a famous short story by Saadat Hassan Manto, and a masterpiece of South Asian literature in English, presents a re-reading in the light of ecotheoretical concepts of ‘place’. It theorises how material space as ‘place’ is represented in literature and brings to light the hegemony of sociocultural discourses in relation to space, belittling its connection to nature. Ecotheory raises concerns of human and non-human life within the natural ecosystem of specific indigenous places. The protagonist of the story, Bishan Singh, ultimately also the namesake of a place, Toba Tek Singh, dies a terrible death while desperately searching for his native place. The article presents the story as a powerful literary attempt to re-imagine the places and spaces where we live and our relations to them.
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127800
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Harm does not happen to humans in isolation, but rather to worlds composed of diverse beings. This article asks how worlds and the conditions of worldliness should be framed as 'subjects of security'. It explores three possible pathways: rejecting anthropocentrism; expanding existing ethical categories; and adopting 'new materialist' ontology and ethics. Ultimately, it argues for a fusion of the key elements of each of these pathways. This offers the basis for a new concept of harm ('mundicide') specifically intended to reflect harms to worlds and the conditions of worldliness. The value of this concept is demonstrated in the light of an empirical example: the 'Rainforest Chernobyl' case. The article concludes that a worldly approach is necessary if we are to capture the full enormity of the harms confronted by international security.
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142496
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Recent interventions from a ‘posthumanist’ or ‘new materialist’ perspective have highlighted the embedded character of human systems within a ‘panarchy’ of human and non-human systems. This article brings attention to a very particular element of materiality, one with a profound significance for issues of security – relations between human and non-human animals in instances of conflict. It is an indication of the deeply human-centred character of both international relations and security studies that almost none of the central texts mention the very significant roles that non-human animals have in the conduct of war. We argue that the character of war would have been radically different but for the forced participation by an enormous range of non-human animals. Even though, with the improvements in transportation over the last century, non-human animals are less evident in the context of the movement of people and equipment, they still play a significant number of roles in the contemporary war-machines of wealthy countries. Drawing on literature from critical animal studies, sociology and memoirs, this article discusses the enormous variety of roles that non-human animals have played in the conduct of war, and examines the character of human–non-human animal relations in times of war.
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107706
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