Nurturing Alternative Futures

Living with Diversity in a More-than-Human World
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-57358-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to "nurture alternative futures". The diverse chapters examine the life trajectories of people, animals, plants, and microbes, their lived experiences and constituted relationality, offering new ways to reinterpret and reimagine a multi-species future in the current era of planetary crisis. The ethnographic case studies from around the world feature a combination of biological and cultural diversity with analyses that prioritize local and Indigenous modes of thinking. While engaging with Mongolian herders, Indigenous Yucatec Mayan, Congolese farmers, rural Pakistani donkey keepers, Australian heritage breed farmers, Croatian cheesemakers, Japanese oyster aquafarmers, Texan corn growers, Californian cannabis producers, or Hindu devotees to the Ganges River, the chapters offer a grounded anthropological understanding of imagining a future in relationality with other beings. The stories, lived experiences, and mutual worlding that this volume presents offer a portrayal of alternative forms of multispecies coexistence, rather than an anthropocentric future.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kavesh, Muhammad

Fijn, Natasha

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Storying Cultural and Biological Diversity

Muhammad A. Kavesh and Natasha Fijn

1. Blood Ties: Kinning and Killing on Australian Heritage Breed Farms Catie Gressier

2. Demystifying the Promise of Sustainability through the China-Pakistan Donkey Trade Muhammad A. Kavesh

3. Of People and Peccaries: Perception and Politics in the Texas Hill Country Adam P. Johnson

4. Mongolia’s Biocultural Landscape: The Importance of Domestic and Wild Multispecies Diversity Natasha Fijn

5. Cultivating the Ocean: Reflections on Desolate Life and Oyster Restoration in Hiroshima Mariko Yoshida

6. Entangled (After)Lives: Naturalcultural Matricides and Reproduction in Northeastern DR Congo Catherine Windey

7. Threatened Maize, Threatened Language: Indigenous Engagements with Biocultural Conservation in Yucatan, Mexico Eriko Yamasaki

8. Ecotones in the Emerald Triangle: Zones of Multispecies Co-Occupation, Coexistence, and Conflict in the California Redwoods Gordon Ulmer, Dara Adams, Rhiannon Cattaneo and Ricki Mills

9. “Cheese” and “Cheez”? On the Relation between Plant-Based and Dairy-Based Cheeses Sarah Czerny

10. Microbes and Biocultural Diversity in the Ganges: Antibiotic Modernity and the Revival of Phage Therapy Victor Secco

Afterword: Rethinking "Green" Energy Futures through Avian Landscapes

Sara Asu Schroer

Über Autor(innen)

Muhammad A. Kavesh is an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow, affiliated with the Australian National University’s School of Culture, History, and Language.

Natasha Fijn is Director of the Australian National University’s Mongolia Institute. An ethnographic researcher and observational filmmaker, she is recipient of a mid-career Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.