"Uncharismatic Invasives"
Looking at the case of organisms attached to tsunami debris rafting across the Pacific to Oregon, Jonathan L. Clark examines how invasive species managers think about the moral status of the animals they seek to manage.
ethnography
"Microbial Geographies at the Extremes of Life"
In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, Salazar explores world-making processes through which extreme frontiers of life are made habitable, arguing that microbial worlds are becoming part of worlding processes and projects that further these frontiers.
Troubling Species: Care and Belonging in a Relational World
About this issue
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.
Content
Viral Ethnography: Metaphors for Writing Life
Celia Lowe asks what it means to “write life” beyond the human as viral ethnography.
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.
The Sons of Salim Ali: Avian Care in the Western Ghats of South India
Ursula Münster shows us in her essay on silenced and silent practices of avian care in a postcolonial conservation landscape of South India, that care is never innocent, it plays out within established hierarchies and power relations, and it can reinforce long traditions of imperialism and exclusion.
Making Worlds with Crows: Philosophy in the Field
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.”
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia challenges the idea of indigenous knowledge and cultures as static,and explores multiple facets of ethnoecology and mobility in Amazonia and beyond.
Wätterschmöcker [Weather Gazers]
This film follows the daily lives of seven “weather prophets” in the Swiss Muota Valley, who predict weather six months in advance based on evidence from animals and plants.
Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island
Troubles with Turtles provides an enthusiastic and provocative anthropological account of human-environment relationships in the island community of the village Vassilikos, Zakynthos, Greece.