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THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, 2010
Anthropologists have been committed, at least since Franz Boas, to investigating relationships between nature and culture. At the dawn of the 21st century, this enduring interest was inflected with some new twists. An emergent cohort of “multispecies ethnographers” began to place a fresh emphasis on the subjectivity and agency of organisms whose lives ...
Kirksey, S. Eben, Helmreich, Stefan
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We Are One: Multispecies Metabolism of a Biofilm Consortium and Their Treatment Strategies

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2021
The ecological and medical significance of bacterial biofilms have been well recognized. Biofilms are harder to control than their planktonic free-living counterparts and quite recently, the focus of the study has shifted to the multispecies consortia ...
Cindy Gunawan, Riti Mann
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(Self-)caring with companion animals: a qualitative exploration of how companion animals shape everyday practices of rest and relaxation [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being
Purpose This paper aims to extend and enrich the concept of self-care, through demonstrating how self-care can manifest as both a relational and multispecies endeavour.
Renelle McGlacken, Vanessa Ashall
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Multispecies homescapes

open access: yesProgress in Human Geography
This paper proposes a change in the conceptualisation of home, as part of a wider paradigmatic transformation in the understandings of the boundaries between humans and animals, and nature and culture. A new concept of multispecies homescapes is suggested, building on recent work on human–animal relationships as well as writings on the home in human ...
Nora Schuurman
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Multispecies sustainability [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Sustainability, 2020
Non-technical summary The sustainability concept seeks to balance how present and future generations of humans meet their needs. But because nature is viewed only as a resource, sustainability fails to recognize that humans and other living beings depend on each other for their well-being.
Christoph D. D. Rupprecht   +18 more
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Staying in Touch: case study of artistic research during the COVID-19 lock-down

open access: yesArtnodes, 2021
In April 2020, artists Robertina Šebjanič, Louise Mackenzie, Karolina Żyniewicz and Isabel Burr Raty were invited by Dalila Honorato to develop research on the theme of “Staying in Touch: post-coronavirus art curating” as part of the collaborative ...
Louise Mackenzie   +4 more
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Enhancing the Sustainability of Temperate Pasture Systems through More Diverse Swards

open access: yesAgronomy, 2021
Temperate grasslands can be highly productive. However, those that are productive are generally heavily dependent on high inputs of nitrogen (N) fertilizer.
David M. Jaramillo   +3 more
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Development of a Multispecies Double-Antigen Sandwich ELISA Using N and RBD Proteins to Detect Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
SARS-CoV-2 infects humans and a broad spectrum of animal species, such as pets, zoo animals, and nondomestic animals. Monitoring infection in animals is important in terms of the risk of interspecies transmission and the emergence of new viral variants ...
Maritza Cordero-Ortiz   +7 more
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Ecologies of Embodiment: Co-Editing With the More-Than-Human

open access: yesJournal of Embodied Research, 2023
Looking for ways to address and attune to the urgent ecological crises of our age, this special issue problematizes the notion of the “more-than-human” and explores the nexus between ecology and embodiment across different artistic disciplines and ...
Doerte Weig, Raffaele Rufo
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The Aquatic Turn in Afrofuturism: Women and Other Critters in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014) and Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi

open access: yesLe Simplegadi, 2021
The recent efflorescence of fictional writings and artistic works examined under the rubrics of Blue Humanities (Mentz 2009), Critical Ocean Studies (DeLoughrey 2019), Hydro-Criticism (Winkiel 2019), or New Thalassology (Horden and Purcell 2006), testify
Daniela Fargione
doaj   +1 more source

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