Hello and welcome to the November newsletter of morethanhumanworlds! This month, I'm sharing two upcoming online events on academic book publishing and the "plant turn," two new publications in The Conversation and Forest Cover, a two-day online workshop on Interdisciplinarity in a More-Than-Human World, and a series of thought-provoking publications on plastic worlds in Kenya, uncommon futures, and anthropology as a moral science of possibilities. In this month's Morethanhuman Matters interview, I speak with Anne Galloway, an Associate Professor in the School of Design Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington (Aotearoa/New Zealand) whose research interests include multispecies ethnography, livestock agriculture, animal welfare, climate change, public controversies, feminist theory, and creative research methods. If you'd like to share resources, news, or anything else related to morethanhumanworlds, please send them to me for inclusion in the December newsletter. Enjoy and thank you for subscribing to morethanhumanworlds! |
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UPCOMING EVENTS Join us on 10 November for a seminar on the "plant turn" and its implications for decolonizing anthropology. This event is part of the 4A_Lab: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics seminar series, hosted by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut. Contact me for the zoom link! |
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Join us on 24 November for a workshop "From PhD to Book: Recent experiences in the publishing industry," organized by the Asian Studies Association of Australia. This workshop brings together early and established scholars working in academic book publishing to share their personal publishing experience in adapting their PhD thesis into a book and presenting their work to publishing houses. Speakers:
Nathan Hollier (CEO, Melbourne University Publishing)
Kevin Carrico (Monash University)
Sophie Chao (University of Sydney)
Benjamin Hegarty (University of Melbourne) |
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NEW PUBLICATIONS Read an article on Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Indonesia, co-written with Fidelis Satriastanti and published in The Conversation. Read an essay on hunger, ecology, and culture in the West Papuan plantation nexus, co-written with Rachel Smolker and published by The Global Forest Coalition in its latest Forest Cover issue. Listen to a two-day online workshop on Interdisciplinarity in a More-Than-Human World, co-organized with Danielle Celermajer and hosted by the Sydney Environment Institute. | | |
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“I like that flock is a verb and a noun. It reminds me that to come and go together is a choice we make. To be flock is to choose when to lead and when to follow, when to run and when to rest, when to fight for life and when to let die. ” Anne Galloway |
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MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS This week, morethanhuman matters interviews Anne Galloway, Associate Professor in the School of Design Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington (Aotearoa/New Zealand). Anne's research interests include multispecies ethnography, human–animal relations, livestock agriculture, animal welfare, climate change, public controversies, feminist theory, and creative research methods. whose research interests include multispecies ethnography, livestock agriculture, animal welfare, climate change, public controversies, feminist theory, and creative research methods. | | |
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TOP THREE READINGS Meiu, G. P. (2020). Panics over Plastics: A Matter of Belonging in Kenya. American Anthropologist, 122(2), 222–235. On the polysemic valences of plastics in Kenya and its entanglements with changing senses of belonging. Valentine, D., & Hassoun, A. (2019). Uncommon Futures. Annual Review of Anthropology, 48(243–260). On the promise of uncommon futures in, with, and through anthropology. |
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Carrithers, M. (2005). Anthropology as a Moral Science of Possibilities. Current Anthropology, 46(3), 433–456. On rethinking anthropology as a moral science of possibilities and its ethical and political implications for contemporary academic and applied practice. |
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