β Scribed by Jamie Lorimer, Timothy Hodgetts
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This text offers the first book-length introduction to more-than-human geography, exploring its key ideas, main debates, and future prospects.
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Boxes
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
I.1 Are Humans Exceptional?
I.2 Five Beginnings
I.3 More-than-human Geography
I.4 Multinaturalism
I.5 Why βMore-thanβ Human?
I.6 The Structure of the Book
1 Humanism and its Problems: Situating the Emergence of more-than-human Geography
1.1 Humanism
1.2 Humanismβs Dualist Ontology: Putting the Human on a Pedestal
1.3 Challenges to Humanismβs Dualist Ontology: Scientific Revelations
1.4 Humanismβs Rationalist Epistemology: The mind in a vat
1.5 Challenges to Humanismβs Epistemology
1.6 Humanismβs Politics: Human rights, freedom, and Progress
1.7 Challenges to the Politics of Humanism
1.8 Summary: Humanism in Binaries
2 More-than-human Materialisms
2.1 Human Bodies
2.2 Animals, Plants, and other Organisms
2.3 Biological Processes
2.4 Technologies and Infrastructure
2.5 The Elements: Earth, fire, air, and Water
2.6 Key Characteristics of more-than-human Materialisms
2.7 Conclusions
3 More-than-human knowledge Practices
3.1 Learn to be Affected
3.2 Follow the Things
3.3 Experiment
3.4 Engage Publics to Redistribute Expertise
3.5 Make an Alliance with Science
3.6 Conclusions
4 More-than-human Politics and Ethics
4.1 The (Anti-)politics of Nature: A case Study
4.2 A Politics of Materials: Technologies, Elements, and Organisms
4.3 A Politics of Multiple Knowledges
4.4 A Politics of Relations and Processes
4.5 The Normative Commitments of More-than-humanism
4.6 Conclusions
5 The Tensions within and Prospects for more-than-humanism
5.1 With Marxist Political Ecology: Dithering while the Planet Burns!
5.2 With black and Indigenous Studies: Provincialising and Decolonising more-than-humanism
5.3 With Critical Animal Studies
5.4 With Advocates for Science and Progress
5.5 Conclusions
Epilogue
Cooling down
Nature. Animal. Human. Science.
Appendix: Interview with Professor Dame Sarah Whatmore
Index
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