Multispecies Studies
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Scholars in the humanities and social sciences are experimenting with novel ways of engaging with worlds around us. Passionate immersion in the lives of fungi, microorganisms, animals, and plants is opening up new understandings, relationships, and accountabilities. This introduction to the special issue offers an overview of the emerging field of multispecies studies. Unsettling given notions of species, it explores a broad terrain of possible modes of classifying, categorizing, and paying attention to the diverse ways of life that constitute worlds. From detailed attention to particular entities, a multiplicity of possible connection and understanding opens up: species are always multiple, multiplying their…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 151.26
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 207
Authors
3- TVThom van DoorenCorresponding
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- EKEben Kirksey
UNSW Sydney, Princeton University, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- UMUrsula Münster
UNSW Sydney, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Princeton University
Topics & keywords
- Indigenous
- Ethnography
- Sociology
- Epistemology
- Social worlds
- Contingency
- Aesthetics
- Environmental ethics