Interspecies Care in a Hybrid Institution
Recognizing elephants as moral actors in the institutional space of the elephant stable, Piers Locke reconceives traditionally humanist ethnography as interspecies ethnography.
Recognizing elephants as moral actors in the institutional space of the elephant stable, Piers Locke reconceives traditionally humanist ethnography as interspecies ethnography.
Jean M. Langford explores different modes of interspecies communications at an urban parrot sanctuary, suggesting that humans can alter their interactions to ease parrots’ distress.
In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, Leah V. Aronowsky uses the history of an unrealized technology, the bioregenerative life-support system, to rethink conventional accounts of American spaceflight that cast the space cabin as the ultimate expression of humans’ capacity to technologically master their environments.
The Extinction Studies Working Group is a group of humanities scholars researching and writing on the themes of time, death, generations, and extinction.
In the afterword of a special section on toxic embodiment, Stacy Alaimo distills the collection’s argument for attending to the ways environments, human bodies, and nonhuman bodies are transformed by anthropogenic substances.
Harriet Ritvo on the notion animal. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
Excerpt from Animals and Society in Brazil, from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.
This special episode of EcoCast features the audio recording from ASLE’s Spotlight Series’s first episode “Human/Non-Human Relations,” held on March 19, 2021.
This special episode of EcoCast features the audio recording from ASLE’s Spotlight Series’s second episode “Water Works,” held on April 16, 2021.