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urn:uuid:91917b2d-ac8c-4a33-bb29-305f97241c4d 03 01 01 urn:uuid:91917b2d-ac8c-4a33-bb29-305f97241c4d 15 9781912729159 06 10.28938/9781912729142 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Environmental Alterities 1 B01 21 0000-0001-8109-0789 Cristóbal Bonelli 2 B01 Antonia Walford First edition. 01 eng 00 248 03 10 SOC026000 10 SOC002000 10 POL000000 10 PSY000000 01 06 03 00 <p>In the context of accelerating environmental crises and exhausted intellectual paradigms, this book asks what comes after ‘after nature’. Instead of demanding new models and approaches, it invites its readers to look to the endpoints and failures of what is already known, in order to generate alternative forms of ethical engagement with worlds both on this planet, and beyond it. Drawing together scholarship from across science and technology studies, philosophy, and anthropology and bringing it into conversation with rich ethnographic and empirical material, the book asks how we might potentialise the contradictions and oppositions of critical social scientific thinking in order to develop a mode of paradoxical engagement that is in constant movement between knowledge and its edges, practices and their limits, and which allows us to relate to that which is excessive to relations and relationality.</p><p>The chapters in the book range across very different empirical settings and communities of people, from fishermen in the Scottish seas, the sea folk of Indonesian archipelagos, indigenous peoples in forests in Lowland Ecuador, primatologists in the jungle of DR Congo, the personal and domestic space of living with dogs and the cosmological scale of planetary interactions. Each chapter explores different modes of environmental relationality and alterity by grappling with the spaces in-between – the contradictions, uncertainties, limits, excesses and liminalities which make up people’s everyday relations with their environments. The chapters are accompanied by in-depth conversations between scholars who frankly discuss the proposals of the book and the arguments of each chapter, with a view to inviting further reflection and discussion amongst the book’s readers. As the chapters and conversations in this book show, admitting that we still do not know what the environment is, even in times of crisis, can be a form of hopeful, humble environmental politics.</p> 04 00 List of Figures 7 Contributors 8 Acknowledgements 12 Introduction: Environmental alterities. Cristóbal Bonelli and Antonia Walford, 13 SECTION 1: SEAS The woman who shed her skin: Towards a humble anthropocentrism in the Outer Hebrides. Magnus Course, 45 Visits from octopus and crocodile kin: rethinking human-sea relations through amphibious twinship in Indonesia. Annet Pauwelussen, 69 Environmental infrastructural alterities and communicative possibilities. A conversation between Penny Harvey and Stefan Helmreich, 95 SECTION 2: FORESTS The non-relational forest: Trees, oil palms and the limits to relational ontology in lowland Ecuador. Stine Krøijer, 117 Thinking in forests. Lys Alcayna-Stevens, 138 Easy gesturing or inventing politics? A conversation between Marisol de la Cadena and Casper Bruun Jensen, 161 SECTION 3: COLLECTIVITIES To live and learn. Notes on alterity and togetherness, or: On living with dogs. Marianne de Laet, 185 Planetary alterity, solar cosmopolitics and the Parliament of Planets. Bronislaw Szerszynski, 204 Relating to resistances, curating antagonisms. A conversation between Dehlia Hannah and Manuel Tironi, 227 20 00 Open Access Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 01 20211006 2021 06 15 9781912729142 06 15 9781912729159 06 15 9781912729173 06 15 9781912729166 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/environmental-alterities-ePDF-v2.pdf 99 01 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/environmental-alterities 99 01