A Radioactive Refuge: Caring for Contaminated Canids in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

人类政治和经济制度对‘自然’的影响在人类世继续扩大和加强--在这个时代，人类已经成为改变地球的力量，导致污染空间激增(Tsing，2015)。从塑料污染的海洋到放射性区域，人类生态破坏正在成为常态；人类和非人类必须学会接受人类活动不可避免的后果(Haraway，2016)。随着污染变得无处不在和代际之间，它不能再被放在概念上的对立上，凌驾于自然之上。因此，该项目旨在重新思考污染和人类世的概念，将环境保护主义重新定位为自然本体论，以更恰当地与人类活动导致的不断变化的生态基线保持一致(Castree，2013；Hobbs等人，2009)。为了做到这一点，它将特别关注保护生物学家、清洁未来基金(一个动物福利非政府组织)和切尔诺贝利隔离区游客之间出现的人与犬的关系(狗和狼)。此外，该项目转向文学地理领域(霍恩斯，2015)。通过分析一组描绘像切尔诺贝利这样的枯萎病活跃景观的科幻叙事，来推测污染世界中人类和非人类的未来，它将询问我们如何在受污染的空间中配置对非人类的关怀关系。

The effects of human political and economic systems on 'Nature' continue to expand and intensify in the Anthropocene -the era in which humans have become a planet-changing force - causing spaces of contamination to proliferate (Tsing,2015). From plastic-polluted oceans to radioactive zones, human ecological disturbance is becoming the norm; anunavoidable consequence of human activity that humans and nonhumans must learn to live with (Haraway, 2016). Ascontamination becomes omnipresent and intergenerational, it can no longer be placed in conceptual opposition topristine Nature. This project, therefore, aims to rethink notions of contamination and care for the Anthropocene as ameans of reorienting environmentalism towards ontologies of Nature more aptly aligned with the shifting ecologicalbaselines that emerge as a consequence of human activity (Castree, 2013; Hobbs et al., 2009). To do this, it will payspecific attention to the human-Canid relations (dogs and wolves) that have emerged amongst conservation biologists,the Clean Futures Fund (an animal welfare NGO), and tourists in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. In addition, the projectturns to the field of literary geographies (Hones, 2015). By analysing a set of sci-fi narratives that depict blightedradioactive landscapes like Chernobyl to speculate on the future of humans and nonhumans in a contaminated world, itwill ask how we might configure relationships of care towards the nonhuman in contaminated spaces.