Postnaturalism

Postnaturalism describes a number of recent perspectives on environmental issues that approach nature as a hybrid entity, or that dispense with the term altogether as vague, useless, or harmful. Similar to ecomodernism, postnaturalism is a relatively recent yet diffuse concept, and as such there are few bibliographic resources other than review articles. One leading postnaturalist scholar today is Bruno Latour; also, Donna Haraway did foundational work contributing to postnaturalism, while Timothy Morton writes on postnaturalism from a humanities perspective. Related bibliographic resources include “Naturalism” (Darity 2008) “Moral Naturalism and Nonnaturalism” (Crisp 2013) “Actor-Network Theory” (Müller 2015), “The Anthropocene and Geography” (Castree 2015), “Nature-Society Theory” (Loftus 2015), and “Naturalism” (Papineau 2015)—though bear in mind that postnaturalism does not necessarily engage with all that has historically fallen under the umbrella of naturalism.