1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies
This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline. With attention to the intellectual history of the field, its developments and extensions, its applications and its significance to contemporary society, it presents empirical studies and theoretical work covering long-established disciplines, as well as new writing on art, history, politics, planning, architecture, research methodology and ethics. An elaboration of the various dimensions of more-than-human studies, The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies constitutes essential reading for anyone studying or researching in this field.
Contents
1 The Separation?
Adrian Franklin
Part 1 Foundations
2 In the Thick of Things and the Politics of Becoming
Andrew Pickering
3 When Species Meet
Donna Haraway
4 A Circumpolar Night’s Dream
Tim Ingold
5 Planetary Multiplicity and the Much More-than-Human Earth
Nigel Clark and Bronislaw Szerszynski
6 A Multispecies Ontological Turn?
Anna Tsing
7 Politics, Space and the More-than-Human Condition
Steve Hinchliffe
8 The 'Shuffle of Things' and the Distribution of Agency
Tony Bennett
9 The Technical and the Political
Andrew Barry
10 The More-than-Human City
Adrian Franklin
Part 2 Elaboration
11 Airports, Affect and Arctic Futures - More-than-Human Thinking of Connectivity and Dwelling
Carina Ren
12 Meeting and Mingling with Microbes: A More-than-Human Georgraphy of Hygiene, Holobionts and Hospitality
Beth Greenhough
13 More-than-Human Reflections on Anthropause
Adam Searle and Jonathan Turnball
14 The Virtual Animal in the Digital Anthropocene: Empowered or Subjugated?
Erica von Essen
15. Living with Unruly Waste Matter: On More-than-Human Relations
Olli Pyyhtinen
16. We Have Never Built Back Better: Using STS to Account for the Many Failures of Disaster Recovery
Steve Matthewman
17. The More-than-Human Home
Emma R. Power
18. Wrapping Things Up: Making Plastic into a Political Material
Gay Hawkins
19. Histories in, of and for More-than-Human Worlds
Emily O’Gorman and Andrea Gaynor
20. Making Time for, and with Honeybees
Catherine Phillips
21. The Long Horizon: Temporal Imaginaries in the More-than-Human Arts
Chris Salter
22. The Cosmopolitics of Urban Planning in a More-than-Human World
Jonathan Metzger
Part 3 Methods
23. Nine Methodological Principles for the Posthumanities
Stephen Muecke, Alessandro Antonello, Tully Barnett, Amy T. Matthews, and Stephen Zagala
24. Knives, the More-than-Human and Speculative Fabrication with/for the Cthulucene
Mike Michael
25. The More-Than-Human Micropolitics of the Research Assemblage
Nick J. Fox and Pam Alldred
26. Towards a More-than-Human Participatory Research
Michelle Bastian
27. More-than-Human Ethics
Franklin Ginn
Part 4 Towards a Habitable World
28. Walking into the Future with Bruno Latour
Adrian Franklin
Biography
Adrian Franklin, Creative Industries, University of South Australia. He trained as a social anthropologist and sociologist in the UK and has held professorial positions in the UK, Europe and Australia. He has longstanding research and teaching interests in human-animal studies, posthumanism, new materialism, city life, creativity, art, mobilities, collecting, museum studies, festivals and arts ecologies. He has contributed to the opening up of several new fields within more-than-human studies, including the city, tourism, social and cultural bonds, place, the home, bush fires, the beach/sea, companion animals and human loneliness.
