Animals, Plants, People, and Things: A Review of Multispecies Ethnography
Environment and Society
Short Title:
Animals, Plants, People, and Things
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2013/09/01/
Pages:
5 - 24
Sources ID:
80046
Collection:
Anthropocene and the Environmental Future
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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This article defines multispecies ethnography and links this scholarship to broader currents within academia, including in the biosciences, philosophy, political ecology, and animal welfare activism. The article is organized around a set of productive tensions identified in the review of the literature. It ends with a discussion of the “ethnographic” in multispecies ethnography, urging ethnographers to bring a “speculative wonder” to their mode of inquiry and writing.