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title	author	status	type	citation	tag	subjects	comments	file	date	publishdate
Hybrid Encounters in Reconciliation Ecology	Jeremy Kidwell	Published	published	“Hybrid Encounters in Reconciliation Ecology” in <em>Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology</em>, vol 20, issue 3, (Oct, 2016)	business-ethics	patristics chrysostom work political-economy	no	hybrid_encounters.pdf	2016-03-01	2016-03-20

Over the past century, environmental scientists have developed a range of conservation approaches. Each of these, from management to restoration has embedded within it certain dualisms which create exclusive spaces or agencies for “human” and “nature.” I begin with a critique of these binaries as they occur in philosopher, Florence R. Kluck- hohn’s influential model and in more recent narratives about the “Anthropocene,” and then turn to examine some of the novel features of “reconciliation ecology” as it has recently been deployed in the environmental sciences. Though this model is beginning to see wider use by scientists, it has not yet been explored within a religious framework. Taking up Miroslav Volf’s suggestion that reconciliation involves a “double strategy” I highlight ways that reconciliation can (1) provide a viable model for promoting an “embrace” of the other and (2) better integrate the past history of negative human biotic impacts.