Overview

The 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. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose's work explored possibilities for entangled forms of social and environmental justice. She sought to bring the insights of her Indigenous teachers into dialogue with the humanities and the natural sciences to describe and passionately advocate for a world of kin grounded in a profound sense of the connectivities and relationships that hold us together. Kin's contributors take up Rose's conceptual frameworks, often pushing academic fields beyond their traditional objects and methods of study. Together, the essays do more than pay tribute to Rose's scholarship; they extend her ideas and underscore her ongoing critical and ethical relevance for a world still enduring and resisting ecocide and genocide. Contributors. The Bawaka Collective, Matthew Chrulew, Colin Dayan, Linda Payi Ford, Donna Haraway, James Hatley, Owain Jones, Stephen Muecke, Kate Rigby, Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, Isabelle Stengers, Anna Tsing, Thom van Dooren, Kate Wright

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Author:   Thom van Dooren ,  Matthew Chrulew
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781478018056

ISBN 10:   1478018054
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   01 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Worlds 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

Reviews

“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 *

Deborah Bird Rose created an expansive scholarly field underpinned by interconnections, the affirmation of life, and love and responsibility as analytics. Invited to such 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 *

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 *

Author Information

Thom van Dooren is a field philosopher and writer at the University of Sydney and author of The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds. Matthew Chrulew is a writer and researcher at Curtin University and coeditor of Field Philosophy and Other Experiments.

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