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RESEARCH ARTICLE| NOVEMBER 01 2023
Foreword: Earth Relations and the Rhetorics of Otherness
Elizabeth Ferry
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 140–144.
https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10746034
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In Europe and its settler colonies, the geological and the human have long been defined in relation to each other, as argued by various scholars, but often not in conscious or recognized ways. Important recent scholarship has shown the extent to which these two realms need to be considered together.1 Human and rock have often depended on the nonrecognition of these realms as thinkable at the same time or in the same scale. From this, indeed, comes the rhetorical—and by extension the political—weight of the Anthropocene as a construct. The conceptual separations of the human and the geological, as well as their moments of conjunction or juxtaposition, provoke considerations of otherness and difference.