Hello and welcome to the January newsletter of morethanhumanworlds! This month, I'm sharing two upcoming talks, a selection of thought-provoking articles and essays, and a Morethanhuman Matters interview with David Schlosberg, Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. Morethanhumanworlds.com now has two new sections! The "Research Projects" page offers descriptions of research I'm currently involved in. The "Useful Links" page offers a range of websites about anthropology, plants, West Papua, food, and more. If you'd like to share resources, news, or anything else related to morethanhumanworlds, please send them to me for inclusion in the February newsletter. Enjoy and thank you for subscribing to morethanhumanworlds! |
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UPCOMING EVENTS Join us in January and February for two guest seminars on the (im)morality of human-plant relations in West Papua and on cartographic representations of more-than-human worlds, hosted by the Oriental Society of Australia (OSA) at The University of Sydney and by Yale-NUS in Singapore respectively. To register for the OSA seminar, click here | | |
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NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS Read about the Australian Research Council Discovery Grant received in November 2019 by Eben Kirksey, Sophie Chao, and Benny Giay on "The Promise of Multispecies Justice," a project that will examine the possibilities for environmental, human, and health justice in West Papua. Read about the Australian Anthropological Society Best PhD Thesis Prize 2019 received in December 2019 for my doctoral thesis, "In the Shadow of the Palms: Plant-Human Relations among Marind-Anim, West Papua." Read a short essay on Food, Hunger, and Culture, published by the University of Sydney's SOPHI Magazine. | | |
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"The very bedrock of our political ideologies and systems – liberal individualism – is an ecological fiction. It was designed for a world that does not physically exist and undermines the world that does. Not coincidentally, liberalism combined with colonialism helped to undermine a series of longstanding Indigenous ways of knowing that were more attentive to ecological realities." David Schlosberg |
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MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS This week, morethanhuman matters interviews David Schlosberg, Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. David is known internationally for his work in environmental politics, environmental movements, and political theory, and particularly for his work on environmental justice. | | |
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TOP THREE READINGS DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M. 2019. Allegories of the Anthropocene. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. On the diverse ways in which indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. Gilroy, Paul. 2017. “‘Where Every Breeze Speaks of Courage and Liberty’: Offshore Humanism and Marine Xenology, or, Racism and the Problem of Critique at Sea Level.” Antipode 50 (1): 3–22. On how antiracist politics and ethics not only require consideration of nature and time but also promote a timely obligation to roam into humanism’s forbidden zones. Whyte, Kyle P. 2017. “Is It Colonial Déjà Vu? Indigenous Peoples and Climate Injustice.” In Humanities for the Environment: Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice, edited by Joni Adamson and Michael Davis, 88–105. New York: Routledge. On climate injustice as the most recent episode of a cyclical history of colonialism inflicting anthropogenic (human-caused) environmental change on Indigenous peoples. | | |
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