Hello and welcome to the April newsletter of morethanhumanworlds! This month, I'm sharing an interview on oil palm and Indigenous lifeworlds published by the Asian Studies Association of Australia's Asian Currents, an essay on conservation and capitalism in West Papua published by the Society for Cultural Anthropology's Fieldsights series, and a recording of a two-day symposium on Interdisciplinarity in a More-Than-Human World, organized and produced with Danielle Celermajer and the Sydney Environment Institute. Some exciting conferences and online talks are coming up this month. Featured here is a seminar on Plantation Soundscapes in the Anthropocene, organized by Concordia University's Acts of Listening Lab, a symposium on The Mind of Plants, marking the launch of an upcoming edited volume by the same title (due out with Synergetic Press in October 2021), and a series of online events on The Promise of Multispecies Justice, co-organized with Eben Kirksey and Karin Bolender with funding from the Australian Research Council. In this month's Morethanhuman Matters interview, I speak with Sue Reid, a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Sue’s transdisciplinary research explores ocean governance imaginaries and the possibilities for ocean justice by drawing on posthumanist and feminist theory, multibeing justice approaches, ocean law, creative writing practice, and the ocean itself as a source of knowing. If you'd like to share resources, news, or anything else related to morethanhumanworlds, please send them to me for inclusion in the May newsletter. Enjoy and thank you for subscribing to morethanhumanworlds! |
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NEW OUTPUTS Read an interview on oil palm and Indigenous lifeworlds published by the Asian Studies Association of Australia's Asian Currents. In this interview, I explore how agribusiness developments in West Papua subvert Indigenous ways of knowing and relating to more-than-human worlds. Read an essay on conservation and capitalism in West Papua published by the Society for Cultural Anthropology's Fieldsights series. In this essay, I explore how the double disaster of capitalism and conservation impacts upon Indigenous Marind communities' lively relations to forest plants and animals. |
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Listen to a recording of a two-day symposium on Interdisciplinarity in a More-Than-Human World, organized and produced with Danielle Celermajer and the Sydney Environment Institute. In this symposium, social and environmental scientists discuss the opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary research frameworks (part I; part II). For a review of the symposium published in the Sydney Environment Institute blog and co-written by Zsuzsanna Ihar and Hayley Singer, click here. |
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UPCOMING EVENTS Join us at a seminar on plantation soundscapes in the Anthropocene, organized by Concordia University's Acts of Listening Lab. In this seminar, I'll be speaking about plantation bio-acoustics in West Papua alongside Serena Stein (Wageningen University) and Hemanth Tripathi (University of Leeds), with Kregg Hetherington as discussant. Join us as a symposium on The Mind of Plants, marking the launch of an upcoming edited volume by the same title (due out with Synergetic Press in October 2021, co-edited by Monica Gagliano, Patricia Vieira, and John Ryan). In this symposium, contributors to The Mind of Plants volume will share their insights into vegetal-human relations, politics, and affects. Join us for a talk by Prof. Danielle Celermajer on "Writing the Multispecies Climate Catastrophe," part of The Promise of Multispecies Justice online event series. In this talk, Danielle will reflect as a scholar on some of the challenges of ‘representing’ a climate-changing world in ways that do not locate it as an object of analysis, but as the living midst that is our shared home. To register for other upcoming Promise of Multispecies Justice talks, visit our website at www.multispeciesjustice.space. |
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"I'm interested in what the ocean itself offers as a medium to think with, to imagine justice through; and how we might work with it to conceive relations with the ocean that are less world-emptying" Sue Reid |
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MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS This week, morethanhuman matters interviews Sue Reid, a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Sue’s transdisciplinary research explores ocean governance imaginaries and the possibilities for ocean justice by drawing on posthumanist and feminist theory, multibeing justice approaches, ocean law, creative writing practice, and the ocean itself as a source of knowing. | | |
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FOR THE READING LIST Ashlee, Cunsolo, and Karen Landman, eds. 2017. Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief. Montreal: McGill - Queen’s University Press. On the need for new lexicons that recognize and and express emotions of loss, anxiety and grief prompted by environmental degradation. Enari, Dion, and Aiono M. Fa’aea. 2020. “E Tumau Le Fa’avae Ae Fesuia’i Faiga: Pasifika Resilience During COVID-19.” Oceania 90 (S1): 75–80. On Pasifika forms of resilience in the coronavirus pandemic, including family and kin-based solidarity networks anchored in Pacific philosophies, cosmologies, and relational protocols. |
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Dave, Naisargi. 2014. “Witness: Humans, Animals, and the Politics of Becoming.” Cultural Anthropology 29 (3): 433–56. On "witnessing" as an intimate event that tethers humans to nonhumans and expands ordinary understandings of the social self while also exacerbating the species divide and the alterity of the animal other who cannot speak. |
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