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SESSIONS

first monday of the month, 9:30 - 11:00 am Sydney time
ZOOM: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86350820386
MEETING ID: 86350820386

5 FEBRUARY 2024 (NOTE: CHANGED TIME TO 3:00 - 4:30 PM)

Du Plessis, P. (2022). "Tracking Meat of the Sand: Noticing Multispecies Landscapes in the Kalahari." Environmental Humanities 14(1): 49-70. ACCESS HERE.

Chao, S. (2022). In the Shadow of the Palms: More-than-human Becomings in West Papua. (Chapter 2, Living Maps, 51-73). ACCESS HERE.

Tsing, A. L. (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World, Princeton University Press. (Chapter 11, The Life of the Forest, 151-163). ACCESS HERE.

4 MARCH 2024

Mathews A (2018) “Landscapes and Throughscapes in Italian Forest Worlds: Thinking Dramatically about the Anthropocene.” Cultural Anthropology 33 (3): 386–414. ACCESS HERE.

Keck F (2015) "Sentinels for the Environment: Birdwatchers in Taiwan and Hong Kong." China Perspectives 2 (102):43-52. ACCESS HERE.

1 APRIL 2024

"Multispecies Landscapes: An Introduction,” (draft paper by Thom, Sophie, Zac Caple, Pierre du Plessis, and Ursula Munster). LINK SENT INDIVIDUALLY.

McCormack B (2019) “Narrative, Meaning, and Multispecies Ethical Ontologies”. Humanimalia 11 (1):64-88. ACCESS HERE.

5 AUGUST 2024

Stevenson L (2014) "Facts and Images" in Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic. Oakland: University of California Press. ACCESS HERE.

Chao S (2022) “Multispecies Mourning: Grieving as Resistance on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier.” Cultural Studies, 1–27. ACCESS HERE.

2 SEPTEMBER 2024

Wellmann J (2024) Biological Motion: A History of Life. Berkeley: University of Princeton Press. (Introduction and Chapter 5 ('Performing Organisms').

Mitchell T (2002) "Can the Mosquito Speak?" in Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press. ACCESS HERE.

7 OCTOBER 2024

TBC

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4 OCTOBER 2023

Stengers I (2005) The cosmopolitical proposal. In: Latour B,Weibel P (eds) Making things public. MIT Press, Cambridge, pp 994–1003. Available here.

Murphy M (2006) “Building ecologies, tobacco, and the politics of multiplicity” in Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty. Duke University Press, Durham, pp. 131–150. Available here.

6 SEPTEMBER 2023

 

Reinert, Hugo. 2015."Chapter 4. The Landscape Concept as Rupture—Extinction and Perspective in a Norwegian Fjord." In H. Sooväli-Sepping et al. (eds.), Ruptured Landscapes: Landscape, Identity and Social Change. New York: Springer. Available here.

7 AUGUST 2023

Povinelli, Elizabeth. 2022. Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Introduction, C1, 4, and 5.

4 MAY 2023

Work-in-progress discussion - Sam Widin.

3 APRIL 2023

Work-in-progress discussion - Myles Oakey.

6 MARCH 2023

Tsing, Anna. forthcoming. Feral Biologies and More-than-Human Histories: A Trilogy. Introduction.

5 FEBRUARY 2023

Work-in-progress discussion - Sophie Chao.

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7 NOVEMBER 2022

Ogden, Laura. 2021. “Introduction.” In Loss and Wonder at the World’s End. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Ogden, Laura. 2021. “Chapter 5: Dreamworlds of Beavers.” In Loss and Wonder at the World’s End. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

3 OCTOBER 2022

Povinelli, Elizabeth. 2016. “Chapter 1: The Three Figures of Geontology.” In Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Povinelli, Elizabeth. 2016. “Chapter 2: Can Rocks Die?” In Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Povinelli, Elizabeth. 2016. “Chapter 7: Late Liberal Geontopower.” In Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

5 SEPTEMBER 2022

Buchanan, Brett. 2008. “Introduction.” In Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze. New York: State University of New York Press.

Buchanan, Brett. 2008. “Chapter 1: Jakob von Uexküll’s Theories of Life.” In Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze. New York: State University of New York Press.

Buchanan, Brett. 2008. “Chapter 4: The Theme of the Animal Melody.” In Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze. New York: State University of New York Press.

1 AUGUST 2022

Escobar, Arturo. 2019. “Chapter 1: Theory and the Un/real.” In Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

2 MAY 2022

Barad, Karen. “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28 (2003): 801–31.

 

de Pina-Cabral, João. 2017. “Chapter 1: World” in World: An Anthropological Examination. HAU Books: Chicago University Press.

4 APRIL 2022

Mol, Annemarie. “Ontological Politics: A Word and Some Questions.” The Sociological Review 47, no. 1 (1999): 74–89.

3 MARCH 2022

 

de la Cadena, Marisol, and Mario Blaser. 2018. “Introduction. ” in A World of Many Worlds, edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

 

Stengers, Isabelle. “Chapter 3: The Challenge of Ontological Politics.” in A World of Many Worlds, edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

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