Proximity to nature indicates society’s assigned humanness ranking

Evidence

Moreover, we take this idea a step further by positing: the ways in which people connect to and/or are disconnected from the natural world indicate the degree to which society reifies various people’s presumed quantities of “humanness” and therefore stratifies their positioning in unequal socioeconomic and political arrangements. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1095

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modernity functions as the benchmark that defines who counts as human — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 46; Human societies structure hierarchy by age, gender, and arbitrary-sets; Women rank lower than men because their reproductive roles are tied to nature — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 591

Broader Connections

• Modernity functions as the benchmark that defines who counts as human #complicates (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 46
• Human societies structure hierarchy by age, gender, and arbitrary-sets #expands (0.72)