Nurturing Alternative Futures

ISBN-13: 9781032563268 / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Opis

Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to ‘nurture alternative futures’.

Recenzje

“Nurturing Alternative Futures engages in uniquely creative and critical ways with the situatedness and interconnectedness of more-than-human entanglements in an age of planetary unravelling. Centring the dynamics of proximity and distance in the (un)making of biocultural lifeworlds, its richly textured and varied contributions offer urgent avenues for nourishing alternative futures, anchored in an atmosphere of multispecies care, concern, and justice.” – Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms (2022)

“This critical and imaginative collection invites us to embrace futures that are teeming with probiotic viruses, Indigenous companion species, donkeys, peccaries, microbial cultures, aquatic multispecies assemblages, and forested ecotones. As market forces destroy cherished lifeways, this collection invites us to make worlds with new generative stories.” – Eben Kirksey, author of Emergent Ecologies (2015)

Spis treści

Introduction: Storying Cultural and Biological Diversity

Muhammad A. Kavesh & Natasha Fijn

 

1.         Blood Ties: Kinning and Killing on Australian Heritage Breed Farms

            Catie Gressier 

 

2.         Demystifying the Promise of Sustainability through the China-Pakistan Donkey Trade

            Muhammad A. Kavesh

           

3.         Of People and Peccaries: Perception and Politics in the Texas Hill Country

            Adam P. Johnson         

 

4.         Mongolia’s Biocultural Landscape: The importance of domestic and wild multispecies diversity

            Natasha Fijn   

 

5.         Cultivating the Ocean: Reflections on Desolate Life and Oyster Restoration in Hiroshima

            Mariko Yoshida

           

6.         Entangled (after)lives: naturalcultural matricides and reproduction in northeastern DR Congo

            Catherine Windey        

 

7.         Threatened maize, threatened language: Indigenous engagements with biocultural conservation in Yucatan, Mexico

            Eriko Yamasaki

 

8.         Ecotones in the Emerald Triangle: Zones of Multispecies Co-occupation, Coexistence, and Conflict in the California Redwoods

            Gordon Ulmer, Dara Adams, Rhiannon Cattaneo & Ricki Mills 

 

9.         “Cheese” and “Cheez”? On the relation between plant-based and dairy-based cheeses

            Sarah Czerny  

 

10.       Microbes and biocultural diversity in the Ganges: antibiotic modernity and the revival of phage therapy

            Victor Secco    

 

Afterward: Rethinking "Green" Energy Futures through Avian Landscapes

Sara Asu Schroer

O autorze

Muhammad A. Kavesh is an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow, affiliated with the Australian National University’s School of Culture, History, and Language.

Natasha Fijn is Director of the Australian National University’s Mongolia Institute. An ethnographic researcher and observational filmmaker, she is recipient of a mid-career Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.