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Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to 'nurture alternative futures'.
List of contents
Introduction: Storying Cultural and Biological Diversity
Muhammad A. Kavesh and Natasha Fijn1. Blood Ties: Kinning and Killing on Australian Heritage Breed Farms
Catie Gressier 2. Demystifying the Promise of Sustainability through the China-Pakistan Donkey Trade
Muhammad A. Kavesh3. Of People and Peccaries: Perception and Politics in the Texas Hill Country
Adam P. Johnson 4. Mongolia's Biocultural Landscape: The Importance of Domestic and Wild Multispecies Diversity
Natasha Fijn 5. Cultivating the Ocean: Reflections on Desolate Life and Oyster Restoration in Hiroshima
Mariko Yoshida6. Entangled (After)Lives: Naturalcultural Matricides and Reproduction in Northeastern DR Congo
Catherine Windey 7. Threatened Maize, Threatened Language: Indigenous Engagements with Biocultural Conservation in Yucatan, Mexico
Eriko Yamasaki 8. Ecotones in the Emerald Triangle: Zones of Multispecies Co-Occupation, Coexistence, and Conflict in the California Redwoods
Gordon Ulmer, Dara Adams, Rhiannon Cattaneo and Ricki Mills 9. "Cheese" and "Cheez"? On the Relation between Plant-Based and Dairy-Based Cheeses
Sarah Czerny 10. Microbes and Biocultural Diversity in the Ganges: Antibiotic Modernity and the Revival of Phage Therapy
Victor Secco Afterword: Rethinking "Green" Energy Futures through Avian Landscapes
Sara Asu Schroer
About the author
Muhammad A. Kavesh is an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow, affiliated with the Australian National University's School of Culture, History, and Language.
Natasha Fijn is Director of the Australian National University's Mongolia Institute. An ethnographic researcher and observational filmmaker, she is recipient of a mid-career Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.
