Hello and welcome to the Winter 2021 newsletter of morethanhumanworlds! In this last newsletter of the year, I'm sharing a selection of recent scholarly and engaged publications, talks and events, and THREE new morethanhuman matters interviews featuring Dr. Suliasi Vunibola-Davelevu (Massey University, Aotearoa/New Zealand), Ravi Agarwal (ToxicLinks, India), and Dr Dion Enari (Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa/New Zealand). Also included below are a few thought-provoking articles exploring riverine ontologies, trans-plantationocenes, and the promise and perils of dichotomies. If you'd like to share resources, news, or anything else related to morethanhumanworlds, please send them to me for inclusion in the Spring 2022 newsletter (deadline for submissions: 15 February 2022). Enjoy and thank you for subscribing to morethanhumanworlds! |
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new publications A selection of new articles, reviews, chapters, essays, and podcasts on human-environment relations in the Pacific and beyond. - Chao, Sophie, and Dion Enari. 2021. “Decolonising Climate Change: A Call for Beyond-Human Imaginaries and Knowledge Generation.” eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics 20(2): 32 – 54.
- Chao, Sophie. 2021. “Can There Be Justice Here? Indigenous Experiences from the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier.” Borderlands 20(1): 11 – 48.
- Chao, Sophie. 2021. “Sago: A Storied Species of West Papua.” In Vieira, Patricia, Monica Gagliano, and John C. Ryan, eds. The Mind of Plants: Narratives on Vegetal Intelligence. Santa Fe, NM: Synergetic Press. Pp. 317 – 325.
- Chao, Sophie. 2021. “Gardens of Gold: Place-Making in Papua New Guinea. By Jamon Alex Halvaksz. Seattle, NJ: University of Washington Press. 2020. Pp: xv + 226. Price: US$ 30.00.” Oceania 91(3): 77.
engaged outputs - “Plants, Animals, and People.” Podcast, Idioms of Normality. 29 November. With Paul Mason.
- “Pluralizing Justice: Indigenous Perspectives from the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier.” Struggles for Sovereignty: Land, Water, Farming, Food. 2 October.
- “Allying with Parasites to Fight Industrial Oil Palm.” SAPIENS. 19 October.
- “Writing the Environment: Encounters, Transformation, and Perspectives in Multispecies Storytelling.” Sydney Environment Institute. 6 October. With Hannah della Bosca and James Dunk.
- “Food is Something Before it Becomes Something that Humans Eat – An Interview with Sophie Chao.” Interview, Food Matters. 18 November.
- “Massive Road Project Threatens New Guinea’s Biodiversity.” Interview, Science. 15 October.
- “Papua, Food, and Racism.” Podcast, Talking Indonesia. University of Melbourne. 30 September. With Annisa Beta.
“COVID-19 in Oceania: Food Security, Resilience, and Community.” Podcast, Visualizing the Virus. With Gregoire Ambroise Randin.
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talks and events Catch up on some recent talks exploring multispecies justice, mourning, and resistance in more-than-human worlds. - “The Promise of Multispecies Justice.” Care, Sacrifice, and Justice in Multispecies Worlds: Rethinking Connections in a Time of Crises. Environmental Humanities Research Stream and Shadow Places Network. 19 Nov 2021.
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morethanhuman matters The three latest morethanhuman matters interviews explore questions of Indigenous economic development, art and ethics in the Anthropocene, and decolonial research methodologies. Dr. Suliasi Vunibola-Davelevu is a Postdoctorate Fellow with Te Au Rangahau, Maori Business Research and Leadership Centre, Massey Business School, Massey University, Aotearoa/New Zealand. His research areas include solesolevaki (social capital) and cultural currencies, Indigenous entrepreneurship, customary land and economic development, food security and food sovereignty, intellectual property, and the protection of Indigenous knowledge systems. |
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Ravi Agarwal is an interdisciplinary artist, environmental researcher and campaigner, writer and curator. His practice explores key contemporary questions around ecology, society, urban space and capital. Ravi works with photographs, video, installations, and public art and has been shown widely in events, like the the Kochi Biennial (2016), Sharjah Biennial (2013) and Documenta XI (2002). Ravi is also Director of the Indian environmental NGO Toxics Link. |
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Dr Dion Enari is an Aotearoa/New Zealand-born Samoan and Lecturer at the School of Sport and Recreation at Auckland University of Technology. He holds the high talking chief title Lefaoali’i from Lepa, Samoa. Dion received his Bachelors in Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services and Masters of International Relations from Griffith University, Australia. His research areas include mental health, Pacific studies, decolonization, and Indigenous studies. |
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for the reading list Discover morethanhuman worlds through the sources below, that explore Indigenous water ontologies, the promise and perils of dichotomies, the global lifeway of oil palm, and worlds of loss and wonder in an age of planetary unmaking. - Sözen, D. 2020. "Trans Plantations." In: Carabelli, G et al (eds.), Sharpening the Haze: Visual Essays on Imperial History and Memory. London: Ubiquity Press.
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