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This framework challenges traditional views on technology and mastery in environmental history, suggesting a deeper interconnectedness between humans and nature.
Timothy LeCain outlines his shift from viewing technology as a departure from nature to understanding humans as materially embedded within it. Drawing on thinkers such as Bruno Latour and William Cronon, he develops a “neo-materialist” perspective that emphasizes the co-constitution of humans and the material world. LeCain argues that this framework challenges notions of human mastery and reframes environmental history.
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