Hello and welcome to the May newsletter of morethanhumanworlds! This month, I'm sharing one upcoming talk, a new essay published in Somatosphere, a selection of thought-provoking articles, and a Morethanhuman Matters interview with Katie Woolaston, an inter-disciplinary researcher, lawyer, and lecturer in the School of Law at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane. If you'd like to share resources, news, or anything else related to morethanhumanworlds, please send them to me for inclusion in the June 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). | | |
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NEW PUBLICATIONS Read a reflection on family, fieldwork, and faraway homes in the COVID-19 pandemic, published by medical anthropology blog Somatosphere. Read an interview on sago-human relations and extinction in West Papua, written by Kate Evans and published by The Guardian. Click here to visit the Living Archive of Extinctions in Oceania, or read recent morethanhumanworlds interviews with project founder Thom van Dooren and fellow contributor Craig Santos Perez. | | |
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"Vulnerability theory really works particularly well for the human-wildlife relationship because we are not autonomous from the environment or from the non-human beings in our world. If COVID-19 has taught us anything, then surely it is that every facet of our lives can depend on our relationship to wildlife." Katie Woolaston |
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MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS This week, morethanhuman matters interviews Katie Woolaston, an inter-disciplinary researcher, lawyer, and lecturer in the School of Law at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane. Katie’s research focuses on international and domestic wildlife law and the regulation of human-wildlife relationships. | | |
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TOP THREE READINGS Hobart, Hiʻilei J., and Stephanie Maroney. 2019. “On Racial Constitutions and Digestive Therapeutics.” Food, Culture, and Society 22 (5): 576–94. On the need for scholars of critical food and nutrition studies to reckon with the constitutively colonial manner in which dietary products, therapeutics, and ideals link “natural” or “ancient” foods to Indigenous lands and bodies. Salmón, Enrique. 2012. Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience. Tucson, A.Z.: University of Arizona Press. On how traditional indigenous foodways—from the cultivation of crops to the preparation of meals—are rooted in a time-honored understanding of environmental stewardship in the United States and Mexico. Kleinman, Arthur. 2006. What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amid Uncertainty and Danger. New York: Oxford University Press. On defining "who we are" through some of the most disturbing issues of our time—war, globalization, poverty, social injustice—in the context of actual lived moral life. | | |
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