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University of Sydney
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Cultural Theory | Cultural Studies |
Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity of environments not elsewhere classified | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-03-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-07-2021
DOI: 10.1111/AMAN.13592
Abstract: This article examines how Indigenous Marind communities in West Papua conceptualize interspecies relations in monocrop oil palm ecologies. Many villagers identify with native species that, like Marind, are displaced or dispossessed to make way for plantations and their primarily non‐Papuan labor force and operators. On the other hand, parasites that undermine oil palm's growth become figures of hope for Marind who conceive resistance to the state and corporations as the only legitimate path to self‐determination. Meanwhile, species that entertain mutualistic relations with oil palm point to cooperation and accommodation as an alternative strategy of survival. Oil palm's multispecies lifeworld thus complicates the characterization of industrial monocrops as ecologically impoverished landscapes engineered solely by and for humans. Attending to oil palm's biological allies and foes as material‐semiotic actors brings us instead to ask what species benefit from agribusiness expansion, which lives and deaths matter within plantation ecologies, and to whom. It also invites attention to the conflictual horizons of justice offered by interspecies resistance and collaboration in the Plantationocene for Indigenous communities as they strive to reconcile their aspirations for survival and self‐determination under entrenched regimes of race and capital. [ collaboration, resistance, political ecology, pests, Indonesia ]
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-08-2022
Publisher: University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL
Date: 07-11-2020
Abstract: Review of Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds, by María Puig de la Bellacasa (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-07-2019
DOI: 10.1111/AMAN.13280
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-04-2016
DOI: 10.1111/TAJA.12214
Publisher: University of Warwick
Date: 28-03-2023
Abstract: Life on Earth is sustained by interconnected more-than-human entanglements. In the era of the Anthropocene, many of these webs are unravelling due to climate change, bio ersity loss, toxicity and pollution, natural resource extraction, and water and soil depletion. In order to help address these challenges, The Anthropocene and More-Than-Human Writing Workshop Series, funded by the British Academy, brought together early career researchers from different disciplines to share ideas and knowledges. As part of The Anthropocene and More-Than-Human World Writing Workshop Series, Sophie Chao, presented her collaborative research project, The Promise of Multispecies Justice. Following this presentation, Catherine Price and Sophie Chao took the opportunity to discuss the terms multispecies, non-human, and more-than-human, amongst others. These terms are increasingly appearing in interdisciplinary scholarship in the space of multispecies studies, posthumanism, the environmental humanities and others. The epistemological assumptions and ethical stakes involved in using these terms are also considered. The conversation illustrates that in trying to define terms such as multispecies or the more-than-human, complexities are not explained away. Instead, these terms reveal how incredibly – and generatively – messy beyond-human worlds really are. The terms discussed are also fundamental to understanding and addressing the Anthropocene as an epoch of planetary unmaking.
Publisher: American Anthropological Association
Date: 10-11-2018
DOI: 10.14506/CA33.4.08
Abstract: This article explores how indigenous Marind of West Papua conceptualize the radical socio-environmental transformations wrought by large-scale deforestation and oil palm expansion on their customary lands and forests. Within the ecology of the Marind lifeworld, oil palm constitutes a particular kind of person, endowed with particular agencies and affects. Its unwillingness to participate in symbiotic socialities with other species jeopardizes the well-being of the life forms populating a dynamic multispecies cosmology, including humans. Drawing from ontological theories and the multispecies approach, I show how people in a remote place engage with adverse environmental transformations enacted by an other-than-human actor. Assumptions of human exceptionalism come under question in the context of a vegetal being that is exceptional in its own particular and destructive ways. Arguing for greater attention to other-than-human species that are unloving rather than unloved, I explore the epistemological frictions that arise from combining the anthropology of ontology with multispecies ethnography. I also attend to the implications of these theoretical positions in the real world of advocacy for those struggling in and against growing social and ecological precariousness.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-04-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-10-2019
DOI: 10.1002/OCEA.5229
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2023
DOI: 10.1111/AMAN.13895
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 23-07-2023
DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.22.2.2023.4005
Abstract: The papers collected together in this special issue on the theme ‘decoloniality and tropicality’ discuss and demonstrate how we can move towards disentangling ourselves from persistent colonial epistemologies and ontologies. Engaging theories of decoloniality and postcolonialism with tropicality, the articles explore the material poetics of philosophical reverie the 'tropical natureculture' imaginaries of sex tourism, ecotourism, and militourism deep readings of an anthropophagic movement, ecocritical literature, and the ecoGothic the spaces of a tropical flâneuse and diasporic vernacular architecture and in the decoloniality of education, a historical analysis of colonial female education and a film analysis for contemporary educational praxis.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-07-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-03-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2023
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 30-03-2022
DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.21.1.2022.3838
Abstract: This article explores how tropical plantation lifeworlds are made and unmade through more-than-human forms of extraction, extinction, and emergence. Taking the palm oil sector as my primary focus of inquiry, I trace the extractions of substance, land, and labour undergirding the historical transformation of oil palm from West African subsistence plant to pan-tropical cash crop and controversial global commodity. I then examine how the presents, futures, and relations of multispecies communities are pushed to the edge of extinction under the plantation logic of ecological simplification, reorganization, and instrumentalization. Finally, I explore oil palm landscapes as zones of ecological emergence, where erse plants, animals, and fungi are learning to co-exist with oil palm in new forms of symbiosis. Thinking-with processes of more-than-human extraction, extinction, and emergence foregrounds the sequential and synchronous ways in which plantations are worlded, unworlded, and reworlded across time, space, and species. Such an approach points to the importance of reconciling theoretical conceptualizations of plantations as ideology with ethnographically grounded examinations of plantations as patches. It also invites difficult but important ethical, political, and methodological questions on how to story the lively facets of plantation lifeworlds without doing (further) violence to the human and other-than-human beings who experience plantations as lethal undoings and endings.
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 03-07-2023
DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.22.1.2023.3998
Abstract: This special issue is a collection of papers that addresses and enacts the theme of decolonizing the tropics. Each article provides a sense of how we can untangle ourselves from entrenched colonial epistemologies and ontologies through detailed articulations of research practice. Drawing together humanities and social sciences, the papers collectively address questions of whose voices are heard or silenced, what positions we write from, how we are allowed to articulate our ideas, and through which mediums we present our research. In doing so, the contributions foreground the critical importance of these and other questions in any move towards decolonizing the tropics.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-03-2023
DOI: 10.1177/25148486221084194
Abstract: This article explores how human and animal agencies shape the socio-ecological lifeworlds of kangaroos as cultural icons, native wildlife, problematic pests, and commercial meat in contemporary Australia. Kangaroos’ resistance to Western, colonial ways of knowing and ordering the world fundamentally challenged the classificatory logic and foundations of early natural science. Kangaroos’ biological and behavioral resistance to domestication and farming – the traditional loci of animal exploitation – speaks to their inherent wildness, at the same time as it reveals their complicated dependence on ecosystems adapted for introduced livestock. Meanwhile, kangaroos’ resistance to government-endorsed population control programs, and the contested logic of (over)abundance that justifies kangaroo culling, both challenges and legitimates human calculations of who and what “counts” as worth conserving or killing. In tandem, the sensorial and symbolic valences of kangaroo flesh, compounded with the growing voices of animal welfare movements, generate visceral and political resistance to kangaroo meat as an unpalatable foodstuff. The article further centers the polysemic valences of kangaroos as a form of resistance to symbolic unity and coherence. Existing as many things at once, kangaroos eschew classification and treatment as any one thing. Instead, their ontology multiplies across the many epistemologies vying to determine kangaroos’ actual being and future becoming. The article concludes by assessing the opportunities and challenges of centering resistance and its erse epistemic, vitalist, symbolic, and carnal manifestations to understand animal lifeways and deathways amidst entrenched capitalist and colonial regimes, whose reproduction depends on the production of the non-human as “killable.”
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 08-02-2022
DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.2.2021.3796
Abstract: This article calls for transdisciplinary, experimental, and decolonial imaginations of climate change and Pacific futures in an age of great planetary undoing. Drawing from our personal and academic knowledge of the Pacific from West Papua to Samoa, we highlight the need for radical forms of imagination that are grounded in an ethos of inclusivity, participation, and humility. Such imaginations must account for the perspectives, interests, and storied existences of both human and beyond-human communities of life across their multiple and situated contexts, along with their co-constitutive relations. We invite respectful cross-pollination across Indigenous epistemologies, secular scientific paradigms, and transdisciplinary methodologies in putting such an imagination into practice. In doing so, we seek to destabilise the prevailing hegemony of secular science over other ways of knowing and being in the world. We draw attention to the consequential agency of beyond-human lifeforms in shaping local and global worlds and to the power of experimental, emplaced storytelling in conveying the lively and lethal becoming-withs that animate an unevenly shared and increasingly vulnerable planet. The wisdom of our kindred plants, animals, elements, mountains, forests, oceans, rivers, skies, and ancestors are part of this story. Finally, we reflect on the structural challenges in decolonising climate change and associated forms of knowledge production in light of past and ongoing thefts of sovereignty over lands, bodies, and ecosystems across the tropics.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 2016
Funder: Wenner-Gren Foundation
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2019
End Date: 2020
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 03-2022
End Date: 03-2025
Amount: $436,250.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 07-2020
End Date: 07-2023
Amount: $173,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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