About this issue
What constitutes a pet or a pest, or defines something wild or domesticated? Humans create categories to order life in an ongoing attempt to establish places of belonging. The knowledge and motives behind such classifications direct our ways of caring for and about other beings with whom we share our worlds, from culling for conservation to rehabilitation for research animals. But 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.
How to cite: Multispecies Editing Collective, The. “Troubling Species: Care and Belonging in a Relational World,” RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2017, no. 1. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7768.
Content
- Introduction by Etienne S. Benson, Veit Braun, Jean M. Langford, Daniel Münster, Ursula Münster, and Susanne Schmitt, with the support of the Multispecies Editing Collective
Multispecies Belonging
- When Species Fall Apart by Jean M. Langford
- The Domestic Stain, or Maintaining Standards by Harriet Ritvo
- Zero Budget Natural Farming and Bovine Entanglements in South India by Daniel Münster
- Caring, Hating, and Domesticating: Bird Protection and Cats in Imperial Germany by Amir Zelinger
- Pelicans: Protection, Pests, and Private Property by Emily O’Gorman
- The Cattle Guard by Etienne S. Benson
Multispecies Care
- Making Worlds with Crows: Philosophy in the Field by Thom van Dooren
- The Sons of Salim Ali: Avian Care in the Western Ghats of South India by Ursula Münster
- Interspecies Care in a Hybrid Institution by Piers Locke
- Care, Gender, and Survival: The Curious Case of the Seahorse by Susanne Schmitt
- Viral Ethnography: Metaphors for Writing Life by Celia Lowe
- Of Mice and Men: Ecologies of Care in a Climate Chamber by Veit Braun
