Outputs (52)

From Integration to Intersectionality: A Review of Water Ethics (2023)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2023). From Integration to Intersectionality: A Review of Water Ethics. Water alternatives, 16(2), 321-345

The field of water ethics focuses on the judgments affecting water use and decision making, as well as their normative justification. These justifications can take many forms. Consequently, water ethics grapple with philosophical considerations, law,... Read More about From Integration to Intersectionality: A Review of Water Ethics.

Multispecies thought from the shadows: the associated worlds of dog-walking (2023)
Journal Article
Nixon, I., & Schmidt, J. J. (2024). Multispecies thought from the shadows: the associated worlds of dog-walking. Cultural Geographies, 31(2), 197-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740231215512

This paper develops the concept of multispecies thought through a study of dog-walking in a public park in Lancaster, England. It draws on cybernetic ideas from Bateson, Peircean semiotics and von Uexküll’s umwelten to explore how multispecies worlds... Read More about Multispecies thought from the shadows: the associated worlds of dog-walking.

Hydrosocial geographies: Cycles, spaces and spheres of concern (2023)
Journal Article
Liao, Y., & Schmidt, J. J. (2023). Hydrosocial geographies: Cycles, spaces and spheres of concern. Progress in Environmental Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/27539687231201667

Over recent decades, hydrosocial scholarship focusing on the plural, often contested relations of waters and societies has advanced significantly. This article reviews hydrosocial scholarship in three steps that are contextualized by geography's long... Read More about Hydrosocial geographies: Cycles, spaces and spheres of concern.

Earth stewardship, water resilience, and ethics in the Anthropocene (2023)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2023). Earth stewardship, water resilience, and ethics in the Anthropocene. Global Sustainability, 6, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2023.13

This article uses water to examine how the relationships of ethics to science are modified through the pursuit of Earth stewardship. Earth stewardship is often defined as the use of science to actively shape social–ecological relations by enhancing r... Read More about Earth stewardship, water resilience, and ethics in the Anthropocene.

Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression (2023)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2023). Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression. Progress in Human Geography, 47(6), 859-869. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231174965

This report on geography and ethics focusses on the justification of normative evaluations. Justifying why actions are right or wrong often relies on appeals to high-order principles, such as the common good. But this is not always the case, as this... Read More about Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression.

Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security (2023)
Journal Article
Harrington, C., Montana, P., Schmidt, J. J., & Swain, A. (2023). Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security. Global Environmental Politics, 23(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00702

This Forum article reports on a meta-review of more than 19,000 published works on water security, of which less than 1 percent explicitly focus on race or ethnicity. This is deeply concerning, because it indicates that race and ethnicity—crucial fac... Read More about Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security.

Geography and Ethics I: Placing Injustice in the Anthropocene (2022)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2022). Geography and Ethics I: Placing Injustice in the Anthropocene. Progress in Human Geography, 46(4), 1086-1094. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325221097104

This report on geography and ethics focuses on the conditions of ethics. It identifies the ethical stakes of how accounts of unequal anthropogenic impacts on the Earth are specified with respect to both injustice and to what are deemed viable futures... Read More about Geography and Ethics I: Placing Injustice in the Anthropocene.

Of Kin and System: Rights of Nature and the UN Search for Earth Jurisprudence (2022)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2022). Of Kin and System: Rights of Nature and the UN Search for Earth Jurisprudence. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12538

Since 2009, the United Nations programme on Harmony with Nature has sought a new philosophy of global environmental governance known as Earth jurisprudence. This paper examines how Harmony with Nature has advanced Earth jurisprudence to unite Indigen... Read More about Of Kin and System: Rights of Nature and the UN Search for Earth Jurisprudence.

Dispossession by municipalization: property, pipelines, and divisions of power in settler colonial Canada (2022)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2022). Dispossession by municipalization: property, pipelines, and divisions of power in settler colonial Canada. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40(5), 1182-1199. https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544211065654

In Canada, Indigenous activists and scholars critique municipalization as a threefold process that subverts Indigenous authority to the state, then delegates forms of state authority to Indigenous peoples, and concludes by asserting that delegated au... Read More about Dispossession by municipalization: property, pipelines, and divisions of power in settler colonial Canada.

Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction (2021)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2021). Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction. Environmental Humanities, 13(2), 281-300. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9320156

In 2019, several funerals were held for glaciers. If enough glaciers die, could they go extinct? Is there geologic extinction? Yes. This article develops three arguments to support this claim. The first revisits Georges Cuvier’s original argument for... Read More about Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction.