Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose

by Thom van Dooren (Editor), Matthew Chrulew (Editor)

Overview

The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose’s work explored possibilities for entangled forms of social and environmental justice. She sought to bring the insights of her Indigenous teachers into dialogue with the humanities and the natural sciences to describe and passionately advocate for a world of kin grounded in a profound sense of the connectivities and relationships that hold us together. Kin’s contributors take up Rose’s conceptual frameworks, often pushing academic fields beyond their traditional objects and methods of study. Together, the essays do more than pay tribute to Rose’s scholarship; they extend her ideas and underscore her ongoing critical and ethical relevance for a world still enduring and resisting ecocide and genocide.

Contributors. The Bawaka Collective, Matthew Chrulew, Colin Dayan, Linda Payi Ford, Donna Haraway, James Hatley, Owain Jones, Stephen Muecke, Kate Rigby, Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, Isabelle Stengers, Anna Tsing, Thom van Dooren, Kate Wright

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781478022664
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Publication date:	02/07/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	50 MB
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About the Author

Thom van Dooren is a field philosopher and writer at the University of Sydney and author of The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds.

Matthew Chrulew is a writer and researcher at Curtin University and coeditor of Field Philosophy and Other Experiments.

Table of Contents

Worlds of Kin: An Introduction / Thom Van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew  1
1. The Sociality of Birds: Reflections on Ontological Edge Effects / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing  15
2. Loving the Difficult: Scotch Broom / Catriona Sandilands  33
3. Awakening to the Call of Others: What I Learned from Existential Ecology / Isabelle Stengers  53
4. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture’s Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway  70
5. The Disappearing Snails of Hawaiʻi: Storytelling for a Time of Extinctions / Thom Van Dooren  94
6. Roadkill: Multispecies Mobility and Everyday Ecocide / Kate Rigby and Owain Jones   112
7. After Nature: Totemism Revisited / Stephen Muecke  135
8. Telling One’s Own Story in the Hearing of Buffalo: Liturgical Interventions from Beyond the Year Zero / James Hatley  149
9. Ending with the Wind, Crying the Dawn / Bawaka Country, including Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Sarah Wright, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, and Djawundil Maymuru  174
10. Animality and the Life of the Spirit / Colin Dayan  187
11. Life Is a Woven Basket of Relations / Kate Wright  196
12. Afterword: Memories with Deborah Rose / Linda Payi Ford  218
Contributors  225
Index  229

What People are Saying About This

Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism - Elizabeth A. Povinelli

“Thom van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew have gathered in Kin some of the deepest and most creative posthumanist scholars of our times. A remarkable body of scholarship, the essays are at once odes to Deborah Bird Rose’s profound ethical approach to thought and exemplary works of thought in their own right.”

Editorial Reviews

"I was provoked and challenged by the diversity of this collection. . . ."

Indigenous Religious Traditions - David Moore

"Rose’s thought is timely now more than ever. This collection is a testimony to the vitality of their work for the present and challenges ahead that will involve relearning to be one among lifescapes of other beings rather than a social atom."

Science as Culture - Christopher Blakley

Deborah Bird Rose created an expansive scholarly field underpinned by interconnections, the affirmation of life, and love and responsibility as analytics. Invited to such a challenging field, the stories in this book carefully labor across a heterogeneity of forms of life and nonlife to reshuffle biological, political, and historical boundaries and creatively open possibility for a plethora of interconnected differences, pragmatic boundaries without a center. Caring for the Earth as Country, this artfully crafted collection meets Rose’s most urgent demand: becoming a witness of death that asserts life through an ethical practice that is always already ecological.

Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds - Marisol de la Cadena

"I was provoked and challenged by the diversity of this collection. . . ."--David Moore "Indigenous Religious Traditions" (8/3/2023 12:00:00 AM)

"Rose's thought is timely now more than ever. This collection is a testimony to the vitality of their work for the present and challenges ahead that will involve relearning to be one among lifescapes of other beings rather than a social atom."--Christopher Blakley "Science as Culture" (12/9/2022 12:00:00 AM)

"Deborah Bird Rose created an expansive scholarly field underpinned by interconnections, the affirmation of life, and love and responsibility as analytics. Invited to such a challenging field, the stories in this book carefully labor across a heterogeneity of forms of life and nonlife to reshuffle biological, political, and historical boundaries and creatively open possibility for a plethora of interconnected differences, pragmatic boundaries without a center. Caring for the Earth as Country, this artfully crafted collection meets Rose's most urgent demand: becoming a witness of death that asserts life through an ethical practice that is always already ecological."--Marisol de la Cadena, author of "Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds"

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