natureculture

English

Etymology

Coined by American science and technology studies scholar Donna Haraway in 2003, from nature +‎ culture.

Noun

natureculture (countable and uncountable, plural naturecultures)

1. Nature and culture, understood as inseparable elements of a single system rather than as dichotomous.
   • 2003, Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Prickly Paradigm Press, page 31:

     This manifesto explores two questions flowing from this aberration and legacy: 1) how might an ethics and politics committed to the tlourishing of significant otherness he learned from taking dog–human relationships seriously; and 2) how might stories about dog–human worlds finally convince brain-damaged US Americans, and maybe other less historically challenged people, that history matters in naturecultures?

   • 2017, Nicholas Malone, Kathryn Ovenden, “Natureculture”, in Agustín Fuentes, editor, The International Encyclopedia of Primatology‎^[1], John Wiley & Sons, →DOI, page 1:

     Natureculture’s visibility in the primatological literature parallels the emergence and proliferation of studies referred to asethnoprimatology.

   • 2019, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Planting the Anthropocene: Rhetorics of Natureculture‎^[2], Utah State University Press, pages 10–11:

     Through choosing the scope, process, and framework of this examination of natureculture by explicating narratives of silviculture, then, I recognize that to do so under the umbrella of "Anthropocene thinking" is to invoke throughout the "explosion" of the nature/culture bifurcation happening in both humanist and scientific fields.