Description
Book SynopsisStaying Together: Natureculture in a Changing World is about staying together, living together, and the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, nonhuman studies, and nature culture and cohabitative readings, a commitment to interconnectedness. The contributors speak of co-habitation, a kind of co-presence that happens for the good of all and has been happening before we realized its prevalence. They argue co-beingness is deeply founded in difference, differentiation, and dispersion. They explore and investigate this fraught and profound “weness” at a variety of levels, and look at forms of biocentrism and bioegalitarianism where there are opportunities for the affirmation of difference as much as declaration of complexities in co-specicism, co-occurrence, and co-being. The book answers the following questions: How can the complexity of sustainability and survivality lead us to re-planetize the planet? Are we unworlding an Earth where the meaning and ethos “being together” demand reinvention and rearticulation?
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
1. Staying Together
Kaushani Mondal
2. Dwelling in the Liminal: Intimacy, Enfolding and Openness in More-than-Human Entanglements
Clara Soudan
3. Natureculture, Lifedeath
Dominic Boyer
4. Visualizing Staying Together: Multispecies Kinship, Caretaking, Justice, and Rebellion
Subhankar Banerjee
5. Imagining Species: Humanity and the Senses in Contemporary Literature
Caren Irr
6. Making Kin with Plants: Poetry in the Phytosphere
John C Ryan
7. Beyond Civilisation: How Far are We Prepared to Go in Parochialising ’Progress’?
Alf Hornborg
8. Ecoliteracies: Epistemic Habits and Critical Knowledge Between Arts and Science Research
Giulia Bellinetti, Tamalone van den Eijnden, and Jeff Diamanti
9. Our Classroom: Reflections on Teaching Global Environmental Justice Art in the Venice Lagoon
Jennifer Garcia Peacock
About the Contributors
