Hello and welcome to the November newsletter of morethanhumanworlds! This month, I'm sharing two upcoming talks, a selection of thought-provoking articles and non-academic publications, and a Morethanhuman Matters interview with Dr. Christine Winter from the University of Sydney. If you'd like to share resources, news, or anything else related to morethanhumanworlds, please send them to me for inclusion in the December newsletter. Enjoy and thank you for subscribing to morethanhumanworlds! |
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UPCOMING EVENTS Join us in November at the Australian Food, Society, and Culture Network's Fifth Annual Symposium (Sydney), the AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting (Vancouver), and the Australian National University West Papua Public Forum (Canberra) for three talks on indigenous food pedagogies, land rights activism, and natural resource extraction in West Papua. Click here to register for the AFSCN conference and here to register for the AAA/CASCA conference. | | |
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Marinds’ characterization of corporations as sorcerers invites us to take seriously not just the magic of modernity but modernity itself as magic. As forces of unknown origins are harnessed by businesses to further their capitalist agendas, the world Marind inhabit becomes enchanted in new and troubling ways by powerful ‘others’ at once alluring and reviled. Wrathful Ancestors, Corporate Sorcerers: Rituals Gone Rogue in West Papua |
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PUBLICATIONS Listen to a podcast on indigenous cartography in West Papua, part of the Re(e)mergence of Nature in Culture Podcast Series hosted by the Sydney Environment Institute. Watch a talk on ritual failure and its cosmological implications in West Papua, hosted by the Sydney Southeast Asia Institute and the University of Sydney’s Department of Indonesian Studies. Read an article on indigenous cosmologies and capitalist incursions in West Papua, published in The Conversation. | | |
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"Mauri is the lifeforce and everything has its own mauri – rocks, trees, humans, animals, and so forth. Each lifeforce is spiraling out to meet the lifeforce of other beings and creatures. Mauri, then, is a force of interconnection that is constantly seeking connection." Christine Winter |
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MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS This week, morethanhuman matters interviews Dr. Christine Winter, a lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, who draws from her Anglo-Celtic-Maori cultural heritage to decolonize political theory and find alternative pathways to justice and dignity through indigenous philosophies. | | |
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TOP THREE READINGS Papadopoulos, Dimitris. 2018. Experimental Practice: Technoscience, Alterontologies, and More-Than-Social Movements. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. On the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material conditions of existence. Fishel, Stefanie R. 2017. The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politic. Minneapolis, M.N.: University of Minnesota Press. On the ontological and metaphorical power of microbial life for rethinking global politics and the planet’s future. Giraud, Eva H. 2019. What Comes after Entanglement? Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. On the need for an “ethics of exclusion” that emphasizes foreclosures in the context of human entanglement and fosters the conditions for people to create meaningful political change. | | |
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