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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
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
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
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.
“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.”
*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."
*Science as Culture*
"I was provoked and challenged by the diversity of this collection.
. . ."
*Indigenous Religious Traditions*
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