"Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species"
Anna Tsing’s essay opens a door to multispecies landscapes as protagonists for histories of the world.
Anna Tsing’s essay opens a door to multispecies landscapes as protagonists for histories of the world.
This article engages with such questions by focusing on the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary of Kerala in southern India, arguing that a reconceptualization of both “culture” and “nature” will be necessary in order to prevent the concept of biocultural diversity from appearing as just another form of “green neocolonization” or “eco-imperialism.”
Recognizing elephants as moral actors in the institutional space of the elephant stable, Piers Locke reconceives traditionally humanist ethnography as interspecies ethnography.
Katarzyna Olga Beilin and Sainath Suryanarayanan discuss the intertwined nature of movements of resistance by humans and plants struggling against genetically engineered soy monocultures in Argentina, which they provocatively conceptualize as interspecies resistance.
The paper analyzes pangolin trafficking among South and Southeast Asian countries, shedding light on the commodity chain linking the hunters and consumers of pangolin across South, Southeast and East Asia.
The Extinction Studies Working Group is a group of humanities scholars researching and writing on the themes of time, death, generations, and extinction.
Tracing ticks in two different artworks and Leslie Feinberg’s activist writing, Wibke Straube takes their lead in this article from philosopher Donna Haraway and her suggestion to think about engagement with the environment through an “ethics of response-ability.”
Excerpt from Animals and Society in Brazil, from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.