Hello and welcome to the February newsletter of morethanhumanworlds! This month, I'm sharing two upcoming talks, a selection of thought-provoking articles and essays, and a Morethanhuman Matters interview with Timothy Neale, a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute whose research addresses questions of how knowledge practices – Indigenous, settler, and otherwise – are mobilized and transformed in relation to environments.. If you'd like to share resources, news, or anything else related to morethanhumanworlds, please send them to me for inclusion in the March newsletter. Enjoy and thank you for subscribing to morethanhumanworlds! |
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UPCOMING EVENTS Join us in February for two talks hosted by the National University of Singapore. “Invasives or Allies? The Multispecies Biopolitics of Oil Palm Ecologies in West Papua, Indonesia.” When Species Travel: On the Rise and Consequence of Invasive Ecologies in Asia and the West Pacific. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 18 February 2020. “Contested Natures: The Power and Politics of Indigenous Cartography in West Papua’s Agribusiness Nexus.” National University of Singapore. 19 February 2020. | | |
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NEW PUBLICATIONS Read an opinion piece on living with ashes in the aftermath of the Australian forest fires, published by the Sydney Environment Institute. Listen to an interview on changing foodways in rural West Papua, featured on Sydney-based community radio 2SER. Listen to a talk on deforestation, dispossession, and development in West Papua, presented on a panel organized by the Australian National University's Pacific Institute and featuring Veronika Koman, Jacob Rumbiak, Reverend James Bhagwan, Hipolitus Y.R Wangge, and Chris Ballard. | | |
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"Chasing more-than-human assemblages and entanglements you meet all kinds of people who have all kinds of views about what the most important thing in the world might be." Timothy Neale |
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MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS This week, morethanhuman matters interviews Timothy Neale, a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute whose research addresses questions of how knowledge practices – Indigenous, settler, and otherwise – are mobilized and transformed in relation to environments. Tim's present research focuses on settler-indigenous politics, the anthropology of natural hazards and environmental governance, and environmentalism. | | |
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TOP THREE READINGS Harley, Alexis. 2019. “Haraway’s Material-Semiotic Knot: A Learning-Teaching Response for Creative-Critical Times.” Auto/Biography Studies 34 (3): 539–53. On teaching Donna Haraway through an exploration of how personal lived material experience is already knotted with how we read and make theory. Gillespie, Kathryn A. 2019. “For a Politicized Multispecies Ethnography: Reflections on a Feminist Geographic Pedagogical Experiment.” Politics and Animals 5: 1–16. On the process of designing and teaching an undergraduate course on politicized multispecies ethnography as methodology. García, María E. 2019. “Death of a Guinea Pig: Grief and the Limits of Multispecies Ethnography in Peru.” Environmental Humanities 11 (2): 351–72. On how writing about the ethnographic encounter as one of tragedy and loss might open up the productive possibilities of mourning and grief in connecting human and nonhuman worlds. | | |
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