Hello and welcome to the April 2022 newsletter of morethanhumanworlds!
In this first newsletter of the year, I’m sharing a selection of recent publications, events, and upcoming talks and outputs. This newsletter also features four fantastic morethanhuman matters interviews with Pacific Studies scholar Jessica Pasisi (University of Waikato, Aotearoa/New Zealand), environmental anthropologist Liana Chua (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom), feminist cultural theorist Hayley Singer (University of Melbourne, Australia), and environmental journalist Basten Gokkon (Mongabay, Indonesia). In addition, you'll find below a selection of thought-provoking resources on topics ranging from the politics of pseudonyms and ethnographic “heroism” in anthropological practice, to the anguish of wildlife ethics in an age of planetary unmaking, and emergent bio-legal approaches to non-human animal resistance. If you’d like to share resources, news, or anything else related to morethanhumanworlds, please send them to me for inclusion in the August 2022 newsletter (deadline for submissions: 15 July 2022). Enjoy and thank you for subscribing to morethanhumanworlds! |
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new research outputs A selection of new articles, reviews, essays, podcasts, and media features on human-environment relations in the Pacific and beyond. Read the Introduction to In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua, forthcoming in June 2022 with Duke University Press. For a glimpse into the book's themes and stories, watch the trailer below. |
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talks and events Catch up on some recent talks exploring multispecies care and violence, plantation regimes, and intergenerational justice in more-than-human worlds.. A three-part panel hosted by the Australian Anthropological Society. Featuring talks by Natasha Fijn, Catie Gressier, Cameo Dalley, Mardi Reardon-Smith, Paul Keil, Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, Sarah Pini, Jestin George, Maria Ayala, Jamie Wang, Kirsty Wissing, Laura McLauchlan, Anne Galloway, Tyler King, Alessandro Guglielmo, Susan Haris, and Roderick Wijunamai. A panel hosted by Cornell University as part of the interdisciplinary symposium, “A Conversation on the Plantationocene.” With Gerard Aching, Christopher Dunn, Natacha Bruna, and Juliet Lu. A guest talk on monocrop formations and multispecies entanglements in West Papua. Hosted by the AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab at Chiang Mai University. With Christine Winter, I Ngurah Suryawan, Areeya Tivasuradej, and Maya Kovskaya. A guest talk on race, ecology, and resistance in West Papua. Hosted by the Indian Animal Studies Collective. With Anu Pande and Susan Haris. |
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morethanhuman matters The morethanhuman matters series features interviews with academics, activists, and artists seeking to broaden conversations on the environment across disciplines, practices, geographies, and cultures. |
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Jessica Pasisi (top left) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa/New Zealand, whose scholarship focuses on climate change and its impacts on Niuean women. Of Tagata Niue descent herself, Jessica hopes her research will build a platform to broaden the conversation among academics, researchers, and consultants working on climate change in the Pacific and better recognize the agency of Pacific people at a grassroots level. Liana Chua (top right) is Tunku Abdul Rahman Lecturer in Malay World Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her ethnographic research interests include Borneo, ethnic politics, Christianity and conversion, resettlement, development, more-than-human landscapes, visuality, and materiality. Liana’s current research revolves around the social, political, aesthetic, and affective dimensions of the global nexus of orangutan conservation in what has been widely styled the “age of the Anthropocene.” Hayley Singer (bottom left) is Associate of the Melbourne node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, and early career researcher at The University of Melbourne, whose research traverses the fields of creative writing, ecofeminism, and animal studies. Her creative methodology is driven by a desire to treat the ‘essay’ as a form composed of philosophical investigations while acting like a history, a work of life-writing, cultural criticism, and theory as protest. Basten Gokkon (bottom right) is a full-time journalist based in Jakarta, Indonesia, who writes with fierce passion about environmental issues, as well as their intersections with human rights, renewable energy efforts, Indigenous peoples’ empowerment, and public health. Basten firmly believes in the power of story-telling to change our perceptions of the natural world. He currently writes for the award-winning environmental news agency, Mongabay. |
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coming up soon Keep an eye out for the following forthcoming publications and events, and feel free to get in touch if you'd like more information. publications - "Multispecies Mourning: Grieving as Resistance on the West Papuan Plantation Frontier" - forthcoming in Cultural Studies
- “From Anthropocentrism to Kincentrism: Reimagining Relations Through Indigenous Multispecies Philosophies” - a reflective essay on Indigenous ethics of more-than-human coexistence, forthcoming in April 2022 in Nautilus Magazine
events - 5 April: Decolonizing the Field(s): Insights from the Pacific in an Age of Planetary Unraveling, Keynote lecture, Building Bridges Conference, Nottingham Trent University
- 11 May: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua, Guest seminar, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, and Center for South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge
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for the reading list Discover morethanhuman worlds through the sources below, that explore the politics of pseudonyms and ethnographic “heroism” in anthropological practice, to the anguish of wildlife ethics in an age of planetary unmaking, and emergent biolegal approaches to non-human animal resistance. |
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