Kirksey The Multispecies Salon

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7698-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singular book about natural and cultural history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kirksey, Eben

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Konzeptkunst, Postmodernismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / Eben Kirksey, Craig Schuetze, and Stefan Helmreich 1

Part I. Blasted Landscapes

1. Hope in Blasted Landscapes / Eben Kirksey, Nicholas Shapiro, and Maria Brodine 29

R. A. W. Assmilk Soap / Karin Bolender 64

3. Blasted Landscapes (And the Gentle Arts of Mushroom Picking) / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, for the Matsutake Worlds Research Group 87

Part II. Edible Companions

Interlude. Microbiopolitics / Heather Paxson 115

Recipe 1. Plumpiñon / Lindsay Kelley 122

Recipe 2. Human Cheese / Miriam Sumin 135

Recipe 3. Multispecies Communities / Eben Kirksey 145

Recipe 4. Bitter Medicine is Stronger / Linda Noel, Christine Hamilton, Anna Rodriguez, Angela James, Nathan Rich, David S. Edmunds, and Kim TallBear 154

4. Life Cycle of a Common Weed / Caitlin Berrigan 164

Part III. Life and Biotechnology

5. Life in the Age of Biotechnology / Eben Kirksey, Brandon Costelleo-Kuehn, and Dorion Sagan 185

6. Invertebrate Visions: Diffractions of the Brittlestar / Karen Barad 221

7. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture's Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway 242

Acknowledgments 263

Bibliography 271

Contributors 289

Index 295

Über Autor(innen)

Eben Kirksey is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Global Architecture of Power, also published by Duke University Press.