Search Results for interspecies relationships

...Susan Ballard Abstract At the turn of the previous century Henri Bergson suggested that sympathy offered a way to understand interspecies relationships. Samuel Butler took Bergson’s ideas to an absurd extent by mixing them with readings of Charles Darwin and claiming a vital impulse for machines...

... of interspecies relationships, which in turn shape the location of disease risks in space. I develop the term risky zoographies to signal the emergence of competing descriptions of animals and their habitats in zoonotic disease contexts. This concept suggests that as wild animals, livestock products...

...Anna Tsing Abstract Human nature is an interspecies relationship. In this essay, Haraway's concept of companion species takes us beyond familiar companions to the rich ecological diversity without which humans cannot survive. Following fungi, we forage in the last ten thousand years of human...

... on a particular distinction of public and private: at once stimulating affectionate interspecies bonds between dogs and their handlers and sequestering those relationships from the image of rational, scientifically objective interspecies communication. This reduction of human-dog relations to those criteria...

.... Protocol takes this practice one step further, focusing on repeated encounters and the establishment of interspecies relationships. Politeness creates an opening: a potential for mutual learning and response-ability, if one follows an ethical standpoint in meeting animals, as Warkentin demands. 7...

... the conceptual proposals of feminist scholars such as Deborah Bird Rose and Anna Tsing. The former demands attention to the “situated connectivities that bind us into multi-species communities.” 10 The latter suggests that “human nature is an interspecies relationship.” 11 Decentering the anthropos...

... time, the life of seeds is governed by “regimes of violent care,” a term developed by Thom van Dooren to describe the entanglement of care with coercion in interspecies relationships. 37 Subjected to the brutal logic of utilitarian pragmatism and experimental optimization, every step in the seed’s...

.... Microbial existence in general is decentered, mutable, and an emphatically social affair; these organisms incessantly exchange DNA, metabolites, and other chemical messengers in complex interspecies relationships. Collaboration between humans and microbes, then, is never going to unfold as relationships...

... environment. Unlike interspecies relationships in military operations where dogs and humans share everyday spaces, eat next to each other, sleep in the same tent, and have uninterrupted moments of affection, dogs and humans were kept in separate, clearly delineated spaces in the Pilot Project. 37 Dogs only...

... and expressive. While the intensely visual nature of these interspecies relationships is a form of anthropomorphism, as for many animals, other senses such as smell and touch are more significant than sight, it is still an effective mode of portraying multiple, decentralized connections between agentive beings...

..., which we provocatively conceptualize as interspecies resistance. Roundup Ready (RR) soy is genetically engineered to be resistant to the herbicide Roundup, which is intended to eliminate all unwanted plants except for the main crop. In response to the repeated applications of Roundup, however, weeds...

...Franziska Strack Abstract This article engages with French filmmaker Jean Painlevé’s experimental shorts on the physiognomy and behavior of marine animals. The article argues that Painlevé’s films establish a corporeal and nonlinguistic mode of interspecies communication that draws upon...

... echoed by Andreas Malm in his consideration of the relationship between wild places and liberation, explored through the cases of maroon societies and anti-fascist partisans. 78 Attempts to escape the grasp of binaries, without becoming ignorant of materiality, have been forwarded by anthropologists...

... scale to delineate the geological relationship between soil and earth while intimating the delicate and capacious interface between the geos and bios of soil. Skin also opens up Harada’s journey, in which he travels from the deep time—planetary temporality—of soil to interspecies lifetimes and sets foot...

... Matei Candea proposed that in theorizing intra- or interspecies relations it is crucial to consider not only “interaction” but “interpatience,” forms of relationship marked by a distant tolerance that avoids face-to-face encounter. 68 Interpatience is an important form of relationship...

... and affective effects of a diverse set of purification and separation work between the technological and the ecological in the emergence of the modern airport; conceptually it allows us to think through the multilayered and often contradictory forms of interspecies relationality at technological hubs like...

...-based lens that recognizes settler-colonial agrarian legacies, the animals and interspecies relations of Charlotte’s Web offer an invitation into seeing and empathizing with farmed animals, both past and present. This analysis traces theoretical and pedagogical pathways that challenge embedded...

... sources, I detail the history of the bioregenerative life-support system, a system in which simple organisms—most commonly algae—would inhabit the spacecraft and, through a series of interspecies symbioses, maintain cabin conditions and sustain astronaut life. By homing in on the maintenance practices...

.... Beyond-no-till techniques disclose soil integrity as not only a physical property that requires careful movement of machinery but also a property of interspecies relationships between plants, microbes and invertebrates. Plant diversity improves soil structure and therefore, soil functioning. 39 Soil...

... are far too long, diverse, and complex to be stunted by the capitalist modes of relating to the natural world. Positioning interspecies relations as a subject of historical inquiry involves an understanding of the networks, relationships, ecologies lost—as the world increasingly becomes a bordered...