Introduction
I.1 Are humans exceptional?
I.2 Five beginnings
I.3 More-than-human geography
I.4 Multinaturalism
I.5 Why ‘more-than’ human?
I.6 The structure of the book
1. Humanism and its problems: Situating the emergence of more-than-human geography
1.1 Humanism
1.2 Humanism’s dualist ontology: putting the Human on a pedestal
1.3 Challenges to humanism’s dualist ontology: Scientific revelations
1.4 Humanism’s rationalist epistemology: the mind in a vat
1.5 Challenges to humanism’s epistemology
1.6 Humanism’s politics: human rights, freedom, and progress
1.7 Challenges to the politics of humanism
1.8 Summary: Humanism in binaries
2. More-than-human materialisms
2.1 Human bodies
2.2 Animals, plants, and other organisms
2.3 Biological processes
2.4 Technologies and infrastructure
2.5 The elements: Earth, Fire, Air and Water
2.6 Key characteristics of more-than-human materialisms
2.7 Conclusions
3. More-than-human knowledge practices
3.1 Learn to be affected
3.2 Follow the things
3.3 Experiment
3.4 Engage publics to redistribute expertise
3.5 Make an alliance with science
3.6 Conclusions
4. More-than-human politics and ethics
4.1 The (anti-)Politics of Nature: a case study
4.2 A politics of materials: technologies, elements and organisms
4.3 A politics of multiple knowledges
4.4 A politics of relations and processes
4.5 The normative commitments of more-than-humanism
4.6 Conclusions
5. The tensions within and prospects for more-than-humanism
5.1 With Marxist political ecology: Dithering while the planet burns!
5.2 With black and indigenous studies: Provincialising and decolonising more-than-humanism
5.3 With critical animal studies
5.4 With advocates for Science and Progress
5.5 Conclusions
Epilogue
Appendix: Interview with Professor Dame Sarah Whatmore
Biography
Jamie Lorimer is Professor of Environmental Geography in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He completed a PhD at the University of Bristol in 2005 and has since lectured at Kings College London, before moving to Oxford in 2012.
Timothy Hodgetts is Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, where he is the Course Director of the MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance.
