"Human-nature Interactions through a Multispecies Lens"
This article introduces this issue of Conservation and Society, and argues strongly for new place-based conservation through a multispecies lens.
This article introduces this issue of Conservation and Society, and argues strongly for new place-based conservation through a multispecies lens.
In this introduction to the special issue on Multispecies Studies, Thom van Dooren, Eben Kirksey, and Ursula Münster provide an overview of the emerging field of multispecies studies. Unsettling given notions of species, the article explores a broad terrain of possible modes of classifying, categorizing, and paying attention to the diverse ways of life that constitute worlds.
Rigby reimagines green cities from an interdisciplinary environmental humanities perspective to see how they can also be sites of more-than-human prosperity.
Looking at Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes’s interactive documentary Bear 71 (2012), Katey Castellano shows how the environmental humanities can be employed to rearticulate scientific data as innovative multispecies stories.
In this introduction to a special issue on human-nature interactions through a multispecies lens, the authors focus on the notion of “multispecies assemblages” and their role in conservation theory and practice at the intersection between ecology, history, and society.
This paper uses a comparative case study approach to explore the individual and societal desire to maintain current lion populations alongside communities in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, Tanzania’s Ruaha National Park, and Kenya’s southern Maasailand.
Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.
Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.