The Origins of Sociable Life

Evolution After Science Studies
2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-20213-9
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 392 g

This ambitious book considers social scientific topics such as identity, community, sexual difference, self, and ecology from a microbial perspective. Harnessing research and evidence from earth systems science and microbiology, and particularly focusing on symbiosis and symbiogenesis, the book argues for the development of a microontology of life.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hird, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction After War Plenty of Room at the Bottom: Thinking (With) Bacteria Evolutionary Theory and its Discontents Microontologies of Self Microontologies of Sex Microontologies of Ecology Eating Well, Surviving Humanism Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

MYRA J. HIRD is Professor and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Canada. Her research and teaching interests span the areas of science studies, health, the ontology and epistemology of sexual difference, sexuality, ethics and social justice, violence, disability studies, feminist theory and queer theory. She is the author of , and , as well as three co-edited collections, including , and .