... acoustemology relational ontology anthropology of sound intervocality interspecies relationality ...

..., acoustemology derives from the concept of “relational ontology,” the position that substantive existence never operates anterior to relationality. In terms of ethnographic research, acoustemology is grounded in twenty-five years of research on the anthropology of sound, and particularly vocality, interspecies...

... relational geography feminist thinking vitalist ontologies bordering immanence ...

... The chapter presents a relational and critical reading of the notion of home. It does so by relying on geographical and feminist literatures, which are intersected with a processual and vitalist ontology of the social. The notion of bordering is presented as a methodological tool to unpack...

... In this essay I consider the relation between ontological starting points, harm reduction, and responsibilization. I begin with a brief discussion of the dominant “modern form of ontology” and its relation to familiar notions of morality and biopolitics. I then consider what I call the typical...

... Lecture 26, “Deleuze,” offers an overview of the ontology of Gilles Deleuze, the most influential figure of the ontological turn. It does so largely by considering his intentional misreading of Spinoza, but it also discusses his readings of Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson. monism...

... Thinking blackness alongside the example of Black Switzerland reveals the way in which black requires a continual exceeding of already given (and policed) categories, terms, discourses, and ways of making relations. Black life and its corollary in the Germanophone world, Schwarz-Sein...

.... It is ethnographically organized around various frames on, or local figurings of, the relation between women and chickens, the relation between chickens and other species, and the relation between Q’eqchi’-speaking women and other identities. It analyzes such frames in terms of three key themes: ontology (what kinds...

... posthumanist or dualist ontologies and explains the relation between poiesis as a stance in the world and poetic technologies. It reviews reasons to be interested in poiesis; the role of science, especially in enframing, and of cybernetics and Indigenous knowledges in poiesis; poiesis as picking up threads...

...Part I The chapter presents a relational and critical reading of the notion of home. It does so by relying on geographical and feminist literatures, which are intersected with a processual and vitalist ontology of the social. The notion of bordering is presented as a methodological tool...

... How did the “glass ceiling” and related characteristics of female labor force experience become recognized as a proper object for social scientific study? Exploring interactions between the contexts of discovery and justification reveals how this phenomenon was recognized and established...

...Routes into the Post Lecture 24, “Heidegger, Again,” offers an overview of the so-called later Martin Heidegger, after what he described as “the turn” in his work in which he abandons his inquiry into Dasein and returns to the ontological question of Being in the context of what he thought...

...-than-human ethnography and historical analysis given in this book offer a different account of questions of agency, relation, politics, and ontology than that salient in political ecology, posthumanism, and the environmental humanities. The chapter concludes by outlining what is at stake for future...

... politics. ethic of responsibility technologies of citizenship self-governance insecurity resilience In this essay I consider the relation between ontological starting points, harm reduction, and responsibilization. I begin with a brief discussion of the dominant “modern form of ontology...

... The conclusion draws on Meryem Jazouli’s modern dance workshop in the SOCICA housing project in Casablanca and Oussama Tabti’s installation Sweethome! to articulate art’s repair work as a gesture toward what Ariella Azoulay describes as an “unlearning” and ontological “undoing” of colonial-era...

... ontological lenses related to climate change, pulling Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous environmental practices into the contemporary fight against climate change. geoengineering climate change Indigenous environmental practices sovereignty capitalism ...

... This chapter represents the culmination of Anzaldúa’s intellectual-ontological-political journey; illustrates her theory of autohistoria-teoría and her aesthetics; and extends her previous work in feminist theory. Building on her earlier theories of “el mundo zurdo” (1970s), “the new mestiza...

... This chapter uses the institution of replacement (as it plays out in the context of labor pooling and house building) as a lens to examine long-term transformations in social relations brought on by the NGO’s ecotourism project. It analyzes what happens to local values when there are pressures...

... of thinking/feeling affect in antagonism with worldly creation and its corollary terms—relation, becoming, and so forth. In identifying blackness as the figure that affirmationist theory constructs itself against, this chapter considers what might be gleaned from a fidelity to the negativity that blackness...

...States, Companies, and Communities In this essay I consider the relation between ontological starting points, harm reduction, and responsibilization. I begin with a brief discussion of the dominant “modern form of ontology” and its relation to familiar notions of morality and biopolitics. I...