Hello and welcome to the July newsletter of morethanhumanworlds! This month, I'm sharing four upcoming online talks, a The Familiar Strange podcast on ontology and the plant turn, an Inside Indonesia essay, an interview on structural racism in West Papua, and a selection of thought-provoking books on Indigenous and Black theory, Carribean decolonial literature, and living on a wounded high-tech planet. In this month's Morethanhuman Matters interview, I speak with Cameron Allan McKean, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Deakin University whose research queries the scalar possibilities of multispecies ethnography and tracks modes of following nonlife at degraded coral reefs in the Pacific. If you'd like to share resources, news, or anything else related to morethanhumanworlds, please send them to me for inclusion in the August newsletter. Enjoy and thank you for subscribing to morethanhumanworlds! |
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UPCOMING EVENTS Join us on 29 June for a presentation on plants, people, and activism at the nearly carbon-neutral online conference Extraction: Tracing the Veins, jointly organized by Massey University (Aoetearoa/New Zealand) and Wageningen University and Research (The Netherlands). Join us on 14 July for a presentation on the promise of multispecies justice, part of the Sydney Environment Institute's Virtual Symposium, Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, Multispecies Justice. Join us on 20 July for a presentation on multispecies studies and ontological anthropology at the online conference New Anthropological Horizons in and beyond Europe, organized by the European Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA). Join us on 30 July for a guest seminar on plantation biopolitics, hosted by the Anthropology Department at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa/New Zealand. | | |
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NEW PUBLICATIONS Listen to a podcast on ontology anthropology and multispecies ethnography, produced by the Australian National University's The Familiar Strange. Read an essay on West Papua and Black Lives Matter, published by online magazine Inside Indonesia. Read an interview on structural racism in West Papua, published by ethical jewellery initiative, Gardens of the Sun. | | |
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“I’m interested in what “decentering the human” can do and undo, but I think an elemental approach is a means of performing a parallel, equally important, maneuver: decentering life itself.” Cameron Allan McKean |
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MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS This week, morethanhuman matters interviews Cameron Allan McKean, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Deakin University whose research queries the scalar possibilities of multispecies ethnography and tracks modes of following nonlife at degraded coral reefs in the Pacific. | | |
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TOP THREE READINGS King, Tiffany L. 2019. The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press On the potential for new epistemologies, lines of critical inquiry, and creative practices at the convergences and disjunctures between Black and Native thought and aesthetics. Loichot, Valérie. 2013. The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature. Minneapolis, M.N.: University of Minnesota Press. On how Caribbean writers “bite back” at colonial control through structural, literal, and allegorical acts of ingesting, cooking, and eating. Weston, Kath. 2017. Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. On the emergence of new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings in a high-tech yet ecologically damaged world. | | |
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