Anthropocene Convergences: A Report from the Field
Sideris addresses the challenge of achieving interdisciplinary dialogue to tackle the notion of humans as a geophysical force.
Sideris addresses the challenge of achieving interdisciplinary dialogue to tackle the notion of humans as a geophysical force.
Chakrabarty responds to the contributors of this volume by addressing five issues he considers fundamental to discussions on climate change.
The categories and the types of care we assign are very often tenuous and troubled in nature. The articles in this volume explore some of the intricacy, ambiguity, and even irony in our perceptions and approaches to “multispecies” relations.
Jean Langford discusses what happens “when species fall apart” in the relationships of care at primate and parrot sanctuaries. Care involves an improvised orchestration of social life—through spatial arrangements and regulation of movement—to facilitate often nonnormative, intraspecies, and cross-species intimacies.
Thom van Dooren draws on his current research on people’s shifting relationships with crows around the world to outline some of the core questions and approaches of “field philosophy.”
Susanne Schmitt explores the multifaceted ways in which the Syngnathid family is caught up in networks of care and storytelling.
An excerpt from Alex Carr Johnson’s manuscript “Every Day Like Today: Learning How to Be a Man in Love.”
This essay examines environmental thought in China and the West to propose an “ecological history” that offers new ways to think about the human/nature relationship.
Farjon et al. explore various narratives of nature and nature policies in the Netherlands.
Lakhani and de Smalen offer key messages for policymakers.