Migration and Biopower: An Ecological Reading of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden

This article discusses Thoreau’s Walden; or, Life in the Wood (1854) as an interpretative key to rethink contemporary relations between humans and nonhumans in ecological systems. While Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience came to be seen as his main political work sensu stricto, Walden’s socio-environment...

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Autores principales:	Leandro Gomes Moreira Cruz, Claiton Marcio da Silva
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Publicado:	Università degli Studi di Torino 2020
Materias:	Thoreau Walden Bipolitics Biopower Anthropocene America E11-143 American literature PS1-3576
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b4155a3b21234d3c9b79ebc95f2779912021-11-23T14:17:09ZMigration and Biopower: An Ecological Reading of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden10.13135/2612-5641/42312612-5641https://doaj.org/article/b4155a3b21234d3c9b79ebc95f2779912020-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/jamit/article/view/4231https://doaj.org/toc/2612-5641 This article discusses Thoreau’s Walden; or, Life in the Wood (1854) as an interpretative key to rethink contemporary relations between humans and nonhumans in ecological systems. While Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience came to be seen as his main political work sensu stricto, Walden’s socio-environmental criticisms has commonly been regarded as outside the scope of his political commitment. As this essay demonstrates, Thoreau’s social critique focused not solely on human life, but it widely encompassed the relevance of nonhuman beings, such as plants and animals or the pond’s ecosystem as a whole. Yet, how can such a critical discussion be adopted in order to reflect on the relations between humans and nonhumans in the current Anthropocene era? Informed by the critical tools of the environmental humanities and ecocriticism, we seek to expand Foucault’s concept of biopower to nonhuman beings through a critical reading of Thoreau’s Walden, what we consider as a cutting-edge attempt to present a less anthropocentric idea of ecological systems. Leandro Gomes Moreira CruzClaiton Marcio da SilvaUniversità degli Studi di TorinoarticleThoreauWaldenBipoliticsBiopowerAnthropoceneAmericaE11-143American literaturePS1-3576ENITJAm It!, Iss 3 (2020)
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description	This article discusses Thoreau’s Walden; or, Life in the Wood (1854) as an interpretative key to rethink contemporary relations between humans and nonhumans in ecological systems. While Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience came to be seen as his main political work sensu stricto, Walden’s socio-environmental criticisms has commonly been regarded as outside the scope of his political commitment. As this essay demonstrates, Thoreau’s social critique focused not solely on human life, but it widely encompassed the relevance of nonhuman beings, such as plants and animals or the pond’s ecosystem as a whole. Yet, how can such a critical discussion be adopted in order to reflect on the relations between humans and nonhumans in the current Anthropocene era? Informed by the critical tools of the environmental humanities and ecocriticism, we seek to expand Foucault’s concept of biopower to nonhuman beings through a critical reading of Thoreau’s Walden, what we consider as a cutting-edge attempt to present a less anthropocentric idea of ecological systems.
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Migration and Biopower: An Ecological Reading of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden

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