Full Description
This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline. With attention to the intellectual history of the field, its developments and extensions, its applications and its significance to contemporary society, it presents empirical studies and theoretical work covering long-established disciplines, as well as new writing on art, history, politics, planning, architecture, research methodology and ethics. An elaboration of the various dimensions of more-than-human studies, The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies constitutes essential reading for anyone studying or researching in this field.
Contents
1 The Separation? Part 1 Foundations 2 In the Thick of Things and the Politics of Becoming 3 When Species Meet 4 A Circumpolar Night's Dream 5 Planetary Multiplicity and the Much More-than-Human Earth 6 A Multispecies Ontological Turn? 7 Politics, Space and the More-than-Human Condition 8 The 'Shuffle of Things' and the Distribution of Agency 9 The Technical and the Political 10 The More-than-Human City Part 2 Elaboration 11 Airports, Affect and Arctic Futures - More-than-Human Thinking of Connectivity and Dwelling12 Meeting and Mingling with Microbes: A More-than-Human Georgraphy of Hygiene, Holobionts and Hospitality 13 More-than-Human Reflections on Anthropause 14 The Virtual Animal in the Digital Anthropocene: Empowered or Subjugated? 15. Living with Unruly Waste Matter: On More-than-Human Relations 16. We Have Never Built Back Better: Using STS to Account for the Many Failures of Disaster Recovery 17. The More-than-Human Home 18. Wrapping Things Up: Making Plastic into a Political Material 19. Histories in, of and for More-than-Human Worlds 20. Making Time for, and with Honeybees 21. The Long Horizon: Temporal Imaginaries in the More-than-Human Arts 22. The Cosmopolitics of Urban Planning in a More-than-Human World Part 3 Methods 23. Nine Methodological Principles for the Posthumanities 24. Knives, the More-than-Human and Speculative Fabrication with/for the Cthulucene 25. The More-Than-Human Micropolitics of the Research Assemblage 26. Towards a More-than-Human Participatory Research 27. More-than-Human Ethics Part 4 Tracks 28. Walking into the Sunset...
