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 21 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).

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Read an essay on techniques of the body in COVID-19, published by the Australian National University's The Familiar Strange.

Listen to a podcast on indigenous cartography in West Papua for the Re(e)mergence of Nature in Culture Podcast Series, hosted by the Sydney Environment Institute.

This podcast was reviewed by Christine Winter, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Sydney Environment Institute and Convenor of The Re-(E)mergence of Nature in Culture Series.

Read Christine's reflection and check out her interview with morethanhumanworlds.com.

MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS

This week, morethanhuman matters interviews Jen Dollin, Program Director at the Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development.

As a PhD candidate at Western Sydney University, Jen's research explores the entanglements of rivers and freshwater eels in the Nepean region of New South Wales.

TOP THREE READINGS

Blaser, Mario. 2016. “Is Another Cosmopolitics Possible?” Cultural Anthropology 31 (4): 545–70. 

On the potential and limits of cosmopolitics in keeping open the question of who and what might compose the common world.

Anderson, Jean. 2013. “The Empire Bites Back? Writing Food in Oceania.” Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 10 (2): 1–16.

On the ways in which the affective and cultural associations of foods are exploited in the texts in order to signal difference.

Clark, Jonathan L. 2015. “Uncharismatic Invasives.” Environmental Humanities 6: 29 – 52.

On how invasive species are rendered unworthy of moral consideration as a result of their position within intersecting sociozoologic and phylogenetic scales.