Narrating the Multispecies World : Stories in Times of Crises, Loss, and Hope

• Autore: Fenske Michaela
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Disciplina: 333.9516
• Soggetto topico: Biodiversity conservation; Extinction (Psychology); Human ecology
• Altri autori: CarperPearl-Sue
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Opening -- Narrating the Multispecies World in Times of Crises -- Narrating in Times of Crises -- Narrating as a World Building Practice -- Narrating the Transformation - Transformation through Narrating -- Narrating the World as a Better Place -- Bibliography -- Communicating -- The Sofa as a Habitat: Daisy -- Bibliography -- Conversations with a Spider -- Like Shivers: The Interspecies Promise of Vibrational Language -- Spider Jam Sessions: Feeling, Not Knowing -- Vibrational Communion: Resonant Sympathy -- Arachnomancy: From Partial to Strange Affinities -- Beginners in an Unknown Language -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Listen to the Birds -- Introduction -- Asking the Parrots -- Interspecies Artist Collective -- The Encounter with Karl -- Living with Humans -- Historical Beings -- Wild One and his Fellows -- Intuition and Animal Communicators -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Caring -- Greening Our Thumbs -- Thinking and Feeling through Stories from the Garden -- Putting down Roots in the Garden -- Zine‐making: A Brief and Situated History -- The Garden as Zine, the Zine as Garden -- Working in the Field -- Maybe the Mustard Will Save Us: Meeting at the Table, in the Garden and across Generations -- A Seat at the Table -- Planting Plants, Plants Planning -- Sharing Intergenerational Wisdom for Equitable and Just Futures -- Nurturing, Inspiring and Strengthening Love among Plants and People -- Growing down, Growing up, Growing forward -- Bibliography -- The Art of Narrating and Practicing Grassland Restoration for Tibetan Pastoralism's Cultural Survival and Revival -- Introduction -- The Tibetan Plateau as an Ecological Security Barrier and Grazing Land -- Sowing Grass to Reunite the Community: A Day of Planting Grass -- Narrating with Photos and Documentary Films. ; A Global and Narratable Pastoralism: Aligning with Conservation Science and Charismatic Animals -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Breeding Apples: Stories of Loss and Hope in Times of Crises -- The Shared History of Humans and Apple Trees -- Becoming with Apples -- The Beginnings of Systematic Fruit Breeding - Collecting and Sharing Apple Genes -- Opening the Apples' Miracle Box -- Finding the Perfect Apple -- Food Storytelling - The Making of a New Variety -- Broadening the Gene Pool - Old Varieties for New Problems? -- Apple Breeding in Times of Climate Change - Technical Fix and Plant Ethics -- Plants as Allies? - A Future Narrating of Humans and Apples -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Storying Multispecies Worlds -- Looking for the Western Monarch -- Storying the Monarch Butterfly -- La Reserva de la Biosfera Mariposa Monarca -- The Spectacle of Extinction -- Placing Milkweed -- The Everyday of Extinction -- Bibliography -- Connecting -- Of Roots Here and There -- Onurşah: Growing Roots -- Zeliha: Connecting Roots -- Işıl: Rooting in the Air -- By Way of Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Honorific Ecology -- While the Sitter's Story Unfolds -- Lures of Multispecies Portraiture -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Narrating With Nature -- Adorno and Benjamin's Eloquent Nature -- Approaching Nature's Expression through Shanshui Image‐making -- Shifting Relations of Narrative Production -- Bibliography -- Learning to Notice and Love in a More‑than‑human World -- Introduction -- Three Short Stories -- Being Stream -- Commenting… -- Becoming with a Lemon Tree -- Commenting… -- Noticing the Other‐than‐human Life in the Playground -- Commenting… -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Remembering -- Flowing Narratives -- Rivers, the Bloodstreams of the Earth -- Floods in the Making -- Crayfish Encounter -- Remembering, Imaging, Flowing. ; Unleashed Water in the Anthropocene -- Bibliography -- Green Powerhouses in Road Construction -- Hidden Actors (exposition and rising action) -- The Sticking Point (rising action) -- The Bathtub (climax) -- Pressure Pads (falling action) -- Paved Unpaved (epilogue) -- The Trees' Various Activity on the Street -- The Case of the Construction Site -- Ethnodrama as a Multispecies Ethnography Method -- Reflecting Ethnodrama "Green Powerhouses in Road Construction" -- Positioning Multispecies through Timing -- Bibliography -- The Multispecies Paradigm in Traditional (Gaelic) Folklore -- Patchy Anthropocene -- Folklore and Local Patches (Places) -- The Multispecies Paradigm -- An Ecological Reading -- Silver Branch Perception -- Folklore and Ecological Diversity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Representations of Nature in the South Indian Oral Narrative of Maṇṭēsvāmi -- Introduction: "Ecosocial Ideals," a Need for "Dalit Ecologies" and Vīraśaiva Worldview -- The Creation Myth: A Representation of Vīraśaiva Cosmology -- The Kalinga Cave Episode: Illustrating a Vīraśaiva's Spiritual Journey -- Conclusion: Śaktiviśiṣṭādvaita Philosophy as a Model for Overcoming the "Otherness" of Nature and an Inspiration for Ecosocial Ideals -- Bibliography -- Speculating -- From Ancestrality to Possible Futures -- Dear Reader, Here Is a Warning: Get Ready! -- And Deep Down, What Is There? -- Multispecies Cyclic Assemblage: Art as Political Imagination -- Decolonizing Collective Imagination about Possible Futures -- Becoming‐with Plants: A Process of Enchantment with Multispecies -- Who Does the Bromeliad Think She Is? -- Ancestral Future: Dreaming Is a Political Action -- Bibliography -- Playing the Plant, and Other Stories -- Embodied Mimesis -- Becoming Sensor -- Training Transhumanism -- Mimetic Magic -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sand‐writings of Woodiana Mussels. ; Esteemed President and Members of the Therolinguistics Association! -- So Let Us Speak (about) Mussels! -- The Chinese Swan Mussel -- The Practice of Reading Mussels -- Sand‐writings and Other Weeping Notes -- Live, Think and Die with Mussels -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Concluding -- Tracing, Expressing, and Asserting Multivocality in the Multispecies World -- Communication and (Shared) Sociality as a Foundation of Narration -- Voice, Form, Medium: How to Narrate the Multispecies World -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- About the Contributors.
• Sommario/riassunto: In present times, we are increasingly witnessing a loss of life, especially among animals and plants. Some species are becoming extinct, while others struggle to adjust to new habitats. Human beings are looking for strategies to overcome the effects of climate change and mass extinction. The contributors to this volume reflect on how the current problems affect the living world. Artists and scholars from around the world share their views on the changes and challenges produced by the effects of the ecological crises in a variety of regions. While some of their stories concern loss, others offer hope by suggesting new ideas for living together in sustainable harmony within a multispecies world.
• Titolo autorizzato: Narrating the Multispecies World
• ISBN: 3-8394-7056-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911000361403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II