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Resurgent natures? More-than-human perspectives on COVID-19

Author(s) -

Searle Adam,

Turnbull Jonathon

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

dialogues in human geography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.212

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 2043-8214

pISSN - 2043-8206

DOI - 10.1177/2043820620933859

Subject(s) - conflation , narrative , covid-19 , action (physics) , perspective (graphical) , nature versus nurture , environmental ethics , epistemology , pandemic , sociology , anthropology , philosophy , biology , virology , medicine , linguistics , physics , disease , pathology , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , computer science

Stories of nature’s resurgence during quarantine have been dangerously conflated with an alarming narrative contending ‘Earth is healing, we are the virus’. Deploying a more-than-human perspective, we show how this discourse arises from biocultural decontextualisation that assumes nature has an inherent capacity to resurge. Such fetishisations distract from the need for urgent environmental action and obscure what resurgence actually is: a multispecies endeavour requiring cultivation and nurture.

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