1st Edition

The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies

Edited By Adrian Franklin Copyright 2024
486 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

486 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

486 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.