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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"multispecies ethnography"”.
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From care inside the laboratory to the world beyond it: a multispecies ethnography of TB science towards growing a decolonised science in South Africa
This anthropological research began with curiosity about human relationships with microbes. Inside the contained environment of a Biosafety Level 3 laboratory at a South African university-based tuberculosis research division, the fieldwork focused on the relationships between scientists and …
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Humanizing autonomy : social scientists' and engineers' futures for robotic cars
… implications. Supported by a framework from multispecies ethnography and the practices of robot developers, I argue that robots do not see like humans or experience the world as humans do. But they must be explicitly made to think -- to represent the world and act in it --
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From gee to haw (and everything in between): Deconstructing the transspecies pidgin of mushing in northern Saskatchewan
This multispecies ethnography deconstructs the Gee Haw transspecies pidgin of settler origin mushing in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Through a focus on multisensory methodological inquiry, I describe interspecies communication and human perceptions around nonhuman knowledge in the context of sled …
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Ritual ceremonial life: song text and spirit manifestation among the Zezuru People of Hwedza, Zimbabwe
… guide the research, these are historicism, multispecies ethnography, and communication models. Guided by the three theories, and employing ethnographic methods of participant observation, face-to-face interviews and video recordings, the following are interrogated: the Zezuru religious life, …
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Canis Obscura: The Social Construction of New Guinea Singing Dogs at the Intersection of Wild and Domestic
… that underpins classification systems and shapes multispecies lives. This study incorporates a multimodal interpretive and qualitative approach, combining hermeneutics, discourse analysis, multispecies ethnography, digital ethnography, and autoethnography. Across these approaches, this study …
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A posthuman analysis of wildlife security
… methods, and reflects the movement towards multispecies ethnography when engaging with the politics of the interspecies encounter. It includes extensive field work in the region of South Africa whereby I engaged with many people and places that constituted what I came to understand as the …
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A Companion Object: Materialising a multispecies sensibility through creative practice in an ecological crisis
How may multispecies fieldwork expand creative practice to promote a decentred human relationship with nature? A case-study using citizen-science moth recording in the UK. This practice-based research develops concepts and methods for decentring the human in relationships with the natural world …
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A Posthumanist Study of Health and the Food System: Vegetal Politics in Toronto Urban Gardens in the Anthropocene
… during the growing season of 2018 as part of a multispecies ethnography where plants were considered as participants of equal importance to humans. Part One explores the theoretical underpinnings and the methodology I developed to identify plant agency in gardens. Part Two presents the empirical …
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Walking with wolves : an ethnographic investigation into the relationship between socialised wolves and humans.
… for interview. Utilising the theory of multispecies ethnography; within the enclosures when completely free of human restraint, the wolves took the role of participant observers of the human volunteers, deciding whom they would allow into an extended pack circle by challenging them …
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Pollinator People: an ethnography of bees, bee advocates and possibilities for multispecies commoning in Toronto and London, ON
… gardening. This dissertation employs a multispecies ethnography in two cities in Ontario, London and Toronto, to explore how the knowledges and experiences of urban bee advocates – who I call ‘pollinator people’ – shape the ways in which urban spaces are created, used, and managed. My …
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Wolves, Farmers, & Capitalism: A More-Than-Human Political Ecology of Human-Wolf Relations in Italy
… of human-wildlife relations. Through a multispecies ethnography and other mixed methods, including a historical literature analysis, this work investigates the following research questions, in the context of human-wolf coexistence in Tuscany and Italy: (Q1) how are wolves affected by and …
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A return to the ground: movement, land, and modes of existence in Nkambeni, South Africa
… and even violent reciprocity. Anna Tsing's ‘multispecies attunement' is central to this approach, evoking a sensitivity to human and more-than-human entanglements through that which lay just beyond perceptibility in this ever-shifting landscape. It unsettles hegemonic framings of space and …
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Being with Bees: An Anthropological Study on Human-Animal Relations in Southern Beekeeping
<p>This thesis investigates the complex and dynamic communicative relationship between beekeepers and their managed honey bee colonies, providing insight into the relationship between bees, their stewards, and the interface between nature and culture. It also helps unravel the ways in which this …
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Multispecies Entanglements and Rural Mental Wellbeing: An Ethnographic Situational Analysis
… discursive interrogation, analytic mapping, and multispecies ethnographic storytelling, this project reimagines rural mental health not as a singular, clinical problem to be solved, but as a complex and plural field of relational and more-than-human entanglements. The resulting work offers both …
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Worldly ecologies: Landscape, history, and environmental politics on Jeju Island
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Wastelands of difference? Urban nature and more-than-human difference in Berlin and Gothenburg
… Haraway notes, the “mud” of the world of actual multispecies living never truly seems to reach, nor to be included in, the “sublime” of philosophical thought. Another one is the lack of overarching empirical accounts tracing the implications of recognising everyday urbanities as contingent, yet …
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THE WISDOM OF THE FLIES. SOCIETY, ENVIRONMENT, AND METABOLIC JUSTICE IN RURAL SARDINIA.
This PhD thesis in Environmental Anthropology explores the mutually reinforcing effects of industrialised food production on humans, nonhumans, and their environments. To do so, it employs the ethnographic data collected over the course of a 12-month fieldwork in Barbagia, rural Sardinia, by living …
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A sea of contested evidence: Disputes over coastal pollution in Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
The City of Cape Town's (CoCT) wastewater management system discharges effluent from households, industries and other sources into the Atlantic Ocean through deep-water marine outfalls in Green Point, Camps Bay and Hout Bay. At total capacity, these three outfalls discharge 55.3 megalitres (Ml) …