Hello and welcome to the April newsletter of morethanhumanworlds! First, I hope all of you are managing to stay well in these strange and difficult times... This month, I'm sharing with you a selection of new podcasts, thought-provoking articles, and a Morethanhuman Matters interview with Thom van Dooren, an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney whose research focuses on the philosophical, ethical, cultural, and political issues that arise in the context of species extinctions and human entanglements with threatened species and places. If you'd like to share resources, news, or anything else related to morethanhumanworlds, please send them to me for inclusion in the May newsletter. Enjoy and thank you for subscribing to morethanhumanworlds! |
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NEW PODCASTS The Sydney Southeast Asia Centre has published two wonderful podcasts about my research in West Papua. In the first podcast, I reflect on the challenges of conducting anthropological research, my transition from activist to academic, and the palm oil industry's impact on Marind communities in West Papua. In the second podcast, I speak about my current postdoctoral research project on the interconnections between processed food, hunger and Indigenous sovereignty in West Papua. | | |
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"Extinction takes multiple forms in diverse lives and landscapes, and addressing this multiplicity is key to really appreciating why extinction matters and responding to it well." Thom van Dooren |
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MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS This week, morethanhuman matters interviews Thom van Dooren, an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Thom's research focuses on the philosophical, ethical, cultural, and political issues that arise in the context of species extinctions and human entanglements with threatened species and places | | |
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TOP THREE READINGS Hamilton, Jennifer M., and Astrida Neimanis. 2020. “Five Desires, Five Demands.” Australian Feminist Studies 34 (102): 385–97. On the tensions between a capitalist imperative to consume, activist calls for resistance, and queer feminist figurations of sex and longing in an era of planetary catastrophe. Lock, Margaret. 2018. “Mutable Environments and Permeable Human Bodies.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24: 449–74. On the importance of anthropological contributions in better situating and accounting for biological differences and health outcomes historically, ecologically, and politically. Miller, Theresa L. 2018. “Genderqueer Gardening: Lessons from an Indigenous Life-World.” The Ethnobotanical Assembly. 2018. On the need to approach "intersectionality" from a multispecies perspective. | | |
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