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Hello and welcome to the September newsletter of morethanhumanworlds! This month, I'm sharing three upcoming talks, a selection of thought-provoking articles and non-academic publications, and a Morethanhuman Matters interview with Professor Danielle Celermajer from the University of Sydney. 
 
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UPCOMING EVENTS
 
Join us at the 4S conference in Vancouver and at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Center and Department of Gender and Cultural Studies for three talks on indigenous cartographic strategies, problematic pets in West Papua, and ethnonutritional approaches to food, culture, and hunger.
 
To register for the 4S conference, please visit https://www.4s2019.org.

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Survival – etymologically, it means “to outlive another; to live at the expense of another.” To sur-vive. Yet this space I am in speaks less of sur-vival than of co-vival. Might that not be a better way to think about living and letting live?
 
Writing Nature in the Active Voice

PUBLICATIONS/INTERVIEWS
 
Read "Writing Nature in the Active Voice," a piece of creative writing and tribute to ecophilosopher Val Plumwood, inspired by the forests of Plumwood Estate.
 
Read my Engaged Anthropology Report on oil palm, sustainability, and indigenous rights in West Papua, a project funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Read "Cultivating Consent," an article on consent in the West Papuan oil palm sector, published in academic news outlet New Mandala.
 
Watch a talk on social and environmental justice in West Papua's oil palm nexus, hosted by the Sydney Environment Institute's Multispecies Justice FutureFix project.

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"The imaginative act of recognizing that it is not only humans who are torturable and tortured can do very important work in shifting our ethical compass. And perhaps institutionally, prohibiting torture across all life would also provide some inroads into addressing various taken for granted forms of human-morethanhuman violence and abuse."
 
Danielle Celermajer

MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS
 
This week, morethanhuman matters interviews Professor Danielle Celermajer, a Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney whose research stands at the interface of theories exploring the multidimensional nature of injustice and the practice of human and more-than-human rights. 

Read the interview

Visit the morethanhuman matters archive

TOP THREE ARTICLES
 
Golub, Alex. 2019. “Welcoming the New Amateurs: A Future (and Past) for Non-Academic Anthropologists.” Commoning Ethnography 1 (1): 32–44. Available online.
 
An invitation to harness imaginative resources, more-than-academic engagements, and ethnographic commoning towards a more inclusive Pacific anthropology.
 
Lykke, Nina. 2019. “Making Live and Letting Die: Cancerous Bodies between Anthropocene Necropolitics and Chthulucene Kinship.” Environmental Humanities 11 (1): 108–36. Available online.
 
A reframing of Anthropocene necropolitics towards new and more promising worlding practices in the context of global cancer epidemics.
 
Dharia, Namita, and Tulasi Srinivas. 2019. "Walking amid Wonder: Tulasi Srinivas and Namita Dharia in Conversation." AnthroPod, Fieldsights. Available online.
 
A podcast with Namita Dharia and Tulasi Srinivas on possibilities for an anthropology of wonder, experiments with ethnographic writing, and the poetics of sonic landscapes.

Read the interview

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