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Haunting, ruination and encounter in the ordinary Anthropocene: storying the return Florida’s wild flamingos
cultural geographies ( IF 1.786 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-21 , DOI: 10.1177/14744740211003650
Aurora Fredriksen 1
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In the spring of 2006 wild flamingos returned to Florida, though not to the places their kind had inhabited 100 years and more ago at the southern edge of the Everglades and the Florida Keys. Instead this group of flamingos alighted 80 miles northward in Palm Beach County’s Stormwater Treatment Area 2 (STA-2), a human-made facility for filtering anthropogenic pollutants from storm runoff. This paper takes the return of wild flamingos to Florida as a case for thinking through haunting, ruination and encounters in what I call ‘the ordinary Anthropocene’: the ongoing, everyday more-than-human relationships, actions and less-than-planetary assemblages through which the Anthropocene is sensed and lived. After setting out a case for thinking with haunting, ruination and encounter as a way of making sense in the ordinary Anthropocene, I trace three interwoven narrative threads that unspool from the encounter with the STA-2 flamingos: First, I trace the transfiguration of living wild flamingos into idealised symbols of tropical dreamworlds over the 20th century. This leads me sideways to the present-absence of flamingos in the mid-century writings of Rachel Carson and through her backwards to John J. Audubon and the genocidal ruinations of the 19th century as they flicker in the margins of his ornithological writings. I end by returning to the present, to the encounter with STA-2 flamingos in the ongoing moment of living with others in the late capitalist ecologies of south Florida. The conclusion considers what might be taken forward, into the uncertain future, from this telling.



中文翻译:

普通人类世界的困扰,破坏和遭遇:讲述佛罗里达野生火烈鸟的归来

在2006年春季,野生火烈鸟返回佛罗里达,虽然不是到100年前,甚至更早以前在大沼泽地南部和佛罗里达礁岛上曾经居住过的地方。相反,这群火烈鸟在棕榈滩县的雨水处理区2(STA-2)上向北80英里处落下,这是一个人造设施,用于过滤雨水径流中的人为污染物。本文以野生火烈鸟归还佛罗里达为例,思考在我称之为“普通人类世”中的困扰,破坏和遭遇:正在进行中的日常人与人之间的关系,行动和行星之间的组合通过这种方式人类的世代被感测和生活。提出了一个思考困扰,破坏和相遇的案例,作为在普通人类世代中有意义的一种方式,我发现了与STA-2火烈鸟的相遇而脱颖而出的三个交织的叙事线索:首先,我发现了活着的野生火烈鸟的变身,成为了20世纪热带梦幻世界的理想象征。这使我侧身想到了本世纪中叶Rachel Carson作品中不存在火烈鸟,并一直追溯到John J. Audubon和19世纪种族灭绝的废墟,因为它们在他的鸟类学著作的边缘闪烁。最后,回到现在,回到佛罗里达州南部后期资本主义生态中与他人生活的持续时刻中与STA-2火烈鸟的相遇。该结论考虑了从这一发现中可以走到不确定的未来的方法。我将野生火烈鸟的变身追溯到20世纪热带理想世界的理想化象征。这使我侧身想到了本世纪中叶Rachel Carson作品中不存在火烈鸟,并一直追溯到John J. Audubon和19世纪种族灭绝的废墟,因为它们在他的鸟类学著作的边缘闪烁。最后,回到现在,回到佛罗里达州南部后期资本主义生态中与他人生活的持续时刻中与STA-2火烈鸟的相遇。该结论考虑了从这一发现中可以走到不确定的未来的方法。我将野生火烈鸟的变身追溯到20世纪热带理想世界的理想化象征。这使我侧身想到了本世纪中叶Rachel Carson作品中不存在火烈鸟,并一直追溯到John J. Audubon和19世纪种族灭绝的废墟,因为它们在他的鸟类学著作的边缘闪烁。最后,回到现在,回到佛罗里达州南部后期资本主义生态中与他人生活的持续时刻中与STA-2火烈鸟的相遇。该结论考虑了从这一发现中可以走到不确定的未来的方法。这使我侧身想到了本世纪中叶Rachel Carson作品中不存在火烈鸟,并一直追溯到John J. Audubon和19世纪种族灭绝的废墟,因为它们在他的鸟类学著作的边缘闪烁。最后,回到现在,回到佛罗里达州南部后期资本主义生态中与他人生活的持续时刻中与STA-2火烈鸟的相遇。该结论考虑了从这一发现中可以走到不确定的未来的方法。这使我侧身想到了本世纪中叶Rachel Carson作品中不存在火烈鸟,并一直追溯到John J. Audubon和19世纪种族灭绝的废墟,因为它们在他的鸟类学著作的边缘闪烁。最后,回到现在,回到佛罗里达州南部后期资本主义生态中与他人生活的持续时刻中与STA-2火烈鸟的相遇。该结论考虑了从这一发现中可以走到不确定的未来的方法。

更新日期:2021-03-22
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