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OverviewWhile providing a basis for all ecosystems, bugs such as insects and arachnids also destroy crops and indirectly kill humans and other animals by the millions. This book illuminates the many ways in which human lives affect and are affected by bugs as part of a wider network of species. 14 chapters reveal how knowledge, ideas, and emotions related to bugs are historically and culturally formed. With many bug populations in free fall, how can humans and bugs coexist? This book examines this question and offers a new ethics for this coexistence. Contributors are Michaela Fenske, Minna Santaoja, Concepción Cortés Zulueta, Heidi Mikkola, Laura Hollsten, Sophie FitzMaurice, Otto Latva, Marianne Mäkelin, Taina Syrjämaa, Suvi Rytty, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, Emily Webster, Karine Aasgaard Jansen, Heta Lähdesmäki, and Tuomas Räsänen. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura Hollsten , Otto Latva , Sanna Lillbroända-Annala , Suvi RyttyPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 8 Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9789004680609ISBN 10: 9004680608 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 19 December 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsList of Figures Note on Contributors Introduction Laura Hollsten, Suvi Rytty, Otto Latva, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala & Tuomas Räsänen PART I: ETHICS Becoming Aware of Insects: Dangers and Endangerments in the Anthropocene Michaela Fenske Deconstructing Wasp Aggression: Proposing a Critically Anthropomorphic Narrative of Shared Vulnerability Minna Santaoja PART II: INSECTS AND HUMAN GAZE Fly Eyes and Insect Vision at the Turn of the 20th Century: From Scientific Curiosity to Compound Menace Concepción Cortés Zulueta Encounters with the Insect World: Care and Human–Insect Relationships in Wildlife Documentaries Heidi Mikkola PART III: SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE Wild Spiders in Fragile Knowledge Networks: Spiders in Medicine, Natural History, and Silk Production in Eighteenth-Century Europe Laura Hollsten Valuing Birds and Insects in America, c. 1815–1920: A Multispecies Perspective Sophie FitzMaurice From Harmless Nuisance to Frightening Enemy: The Perceptions of Ticks in Finland Before the Beginning of the Tick Hysteria in the 1990s Otto Latva Anopheline Mobilities and More-Than-Mosquito Biopolitics in Making Biotechnology Marianne Mäkelin PART IV: BODIES AT RISK Clandestine Agents in Meadows: Ticks, Cattle and Redwater Fever in Finland, 1860s–1930s Taina Syrjämaa Social Construction of Tick-Borne Diseases from the 1950s to the Twenty-First Century: A View From the History of Medicine Suvi Rytty Tick Smart: Practices and Materializations in Human–Tick Entanglements Sanna Lillbroända-Annala PART V: MULTISPECIES NETWORKS Fleas, Knowledge-Making, and the Epidemiology of Plague in British India: Perspectives from the Bombay Epidemic, 1905–1906 Emily Webster Epidemic Encounters: Mingling with Mosquitoes in Réunion and Mauritius Karine Aasgaard Jansen Humans, Ticks, and the Conflict over the Cervids Heta Lähdesmäki & Tuomas Räsänen IndexReviewsAuthor InformationLaura Hollsten, Ph.D. (2005), Åbo Akademi University, Finland, is a researcher specialised in environmental history at that university. Her research interests include human-animal studies, early modern environmental history, the history of knowledge and science, and global history. Otto Latva, Ph.D. (2019), University of Turku, Finland, is a historian focusing on human-animal and human-plant studies as well as environmental history. Latva is the author of the monograph The Giant Squid in Transatlantic Culture: The Monsterization of Molluscs (2023). Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, Ph.D. (2010), Åbo Akademi University, Finland, is an ethnologist and senior lecturer at that university. She has conducted research in urban environments from the perspective of gentrification and cultural heritage, lately with special interest towards non-humans in urban settings. Suvi Rytty, Ph.D. (2021), University of Turku, Finland, is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in the history of medicine and health. Her research interests include the history of the natural way of life, alternative medicine, vegetarianism and anti-vaccinationism. Tuomas Räsänen, Ph.D. (2015), University of Turku, Finland, is a Professor of environmental history at the University of Eastern Finland. He has studied the history of human-wildlife relationships and marine environmental history. He has been leading the research project Humans and Ticks in the Anthropocene. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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