It's been one month since morethanhumanworlds was launched and I'm thrilled to send you the first newsletter - featuring upcoming events, new publications, a selection of thought-provoking articles, and a Morethanhuman Matters interview with Dr. Craig Santos Perez from the University of Hawai'i. If you'd like to share resources, news, or anything else related to morethanhumanworlds, please send them to me for inclusion in the September newsletter. Enjoy and thank you for subscribing to morethanhumanworlds! |
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UPCOMING EVENTS Join us at The University of Sydney in August for four guest seminars organized by the Sydney Pacific Studies Network, the Department of Geosciences, the Department of Anthropology, and the Sydney Southeast Asia Center/School of Languages and Cultures. Topics to be discussed include human-vegetal pedagogies among indigenous Marind commmunities, topographies of state and corporate violence, indigenous strategies of countermapping, and the moral implications of ritual failure in West Papua. | | |
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"The destruction of sago groves erases the multispecies stories inscribed in the morphology of individual sago plants, which Marind discover through minute scrutiny and physical touch." Sago: A Storied Species from West Papua |
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| | PODCASTS Listen to an interview on indigenous land rights and oil palm expansion on the University of Melbourne's Talking Indonesia podcast. Interview by Dr. Jemma Purdey, a Research Fellow at Monash University in the Faculty of Arts and the Australia Indonesia Center. | | |
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"Think deeply about your own subjectivity and positionality. Be both critical and creative. Give back to the human and more-than-human communities through your art, academic research, and activism." Craig Santos Perez |
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MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS with Dr. Craig Santos Perez Morethanhuman matters is a series of brief interviews with academics, activists, and artists that seeks to broaden the conversation on morethanhuman worlds across disciplines, practices, geographies, and cultures. This month, read our interview with Dr. Craig Santos Perez, a native Chamoru (Chamorro) from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). Craig is a poet, scholar, editor, publisher, essayist, critic, book reviewer, artist, environmentalist, and political activist. | | |
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TOP THREE ARTICLES Meijl, Toon van. 2019. “Doing Indigenous Epistemology: Internal Debates about Inside Knowledge in Māori Society.” Current Anthropology 60 (2): 155–73. On the dangers of dichotomizing indigenous epistemologies and "scientific" perspectives on knowledge and the environment. Blaser, Mario. 2019. “On the Properly Political (Disposition for the) Anthropocene.” Anthropological Theory 19(1): 74–94. A call for "a-centered human politics" in the Anthropocene and the pursuit of morethanhuman "life projects." Edge Effects. 2019. “Reflections on the Plantationocene: A Conversation with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing.” Interviewed by Gregg Mitman. Available online. An interview with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing on the form, effects, and logic of the "Plantationocene." | | |
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