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Book SynopsisThe contributors to
Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives.
Trade Review“Deborah Bird Rose created an expansive scholarly field underpinned by interconnections, the affirmation of life, and love and responsibility as analytics. Invited to such a challenging field, the stories in this book carefully labor across a heterogeneity of forms of life and nonlife to reshuffle biological, political, and historical boundaries and creatively open possibility for a plethora of interconnected differences, pragmatic boundaries without a center. Caring for the Earth as Country, this artfully crafted collection meets Rose’s most urgent demand: becoming a witness of death that asserts life through an ethical practice that is always already ecological.” -- Marisol de la Cadena, author of * Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds *
"Rose’s thought is timely now more than ever. This collection is a testimony to the vitality of their work for the present and challenges ahead that will involve relearning to be one among lifescapes of other beings rather than a social atom." -- Christopher Blakley * Science as Culture *
"I was provoked and challenged by the diversity of this collection. . . ." -- David Moore * Indigenous Religious Traditions *
Table of ContentsWorlds of Kin: An Introduction / Thom Van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew 1
1. The Sociality of Birds: Reflections on Ontological Edge Effects / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 15
2. Loving the Difficult: Scotch Broom / Catriona Sandilands 33
3. Awakening to the Call of Others: What I Learned from Existential Ecology / Isabelle Stengers 53
4. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture’s Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway 70
5. The Disappearing Snails of Hawaiʻi: Storytelling for a Time of Extinctions / Thom Van Dooren 94
6. Roadkill: Multispecies Mobility and Everyday Ecocide / Kate Rigby and Owain Jones 112
7. After Nature: Totemism Revisited / Stephen Muecke 135
8. Telling One’s Own Story in the Hearing of Buffalo: Liturgical Interventions from Beyond the Year Zero / James Hatley 149
9. Ending with the Wind, Crying the Dawn / Bawaka Country, including Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Sarah Wright, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, and Djawundil Maymuru 174
10. Animality and the Life of the Spirit / Colin Dayan 187
11. Life Is a Woven Basket of Relations / Kate Wright 196
12. Afterword: Memories with Deborah Rose / Linda Payi Ford 218
Contributors 225
Index 229
