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The Anthropocene’s Implicatures and Regimen in Gary Nabhan’s Food, Gene, and Culture

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2017, (64), pp.41-79
  • DOI : 10.31310/HUM.064.02
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : December 9, 2016
  • Accepted : January 26, 2017

Kim Dae-young 1

1강원대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Recently, geologists have suggested the concept of the anthropocene has various significant implicatures. Specifically in environmental discourses, it implies a nature-human interrelationship with an integrated perspective between natural science and humanities, human responsibility on current global environmental issues and involvement of the public. Given that the tipping point of nature’s resilience has almost been passed away, human action can be one of the alternative solutions on global environmental issues even though some deep ecologists have limited human intervention on environment since the 1960’s. Therefore, the anthropocene’s implicatures can render new practicable methodologies on environmental problems with human action. Regimen can give a space to render practicable solutions with its implicatures as it can support the nature-human interrelationship with both individuals’ health and quality food. With regimen, individuals can give a substantial consideration into how they can get good food for their own health. Furthermore, with regimen, the public can realize that humans are responsible for their own actions and for sustainable environments in order to get good food. Therefore, regimen can be a method for not only exemplifying the nature-human interrelationship, but rendering responsible human action, and fortifying communication for environmental discourses with the public. Gary Nabhan suggests the interrelationships with food, gene, and culture based on regimen. This research explores: 1) food-gene relations through fava bean and related phenomena (sickle-cell anemia, anti malaria substances); 2) gene-life relations through diabetes and eating native plants and life style; and 3) the importance of community culture through reconstruction of Hawaiian traditional community culture. With these examples, it emphasizes that regimen can reveal the anthropocene’s implicatures and help render responsible human action on sustainable environments.

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