Exploring Interstitiality with Mangroves

Semiotic Materialism and the Environmental Humanities
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-26091-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

Mangroves thrive in intertidal zones, where they gather organisms and objects from land, river, and ocean. They develop into complex ecologies in these dynamic in-between spaces. Mobilising resources drawn from semiotic materialism and the environmental humanities, this book seeks a form of social theory from the mangroves; that is to think interstitiality from the perspective of mangroves themselves, exploring the crafty and tenacious world-making they are engaged in.

Three sections weave together theory, science and close observation, responding to calls within the environmental humanities for detailed attention to interactions in marginal spaces and those of interpretative tension. It examines interstitiality by considering theories of difference, relationality, and reflexivity in the context of mangrove socioecological materialities, drawing on influential writers such as Michel Serres, Jacques Derrida, Deborah Bird Rose, Donna Haraway, Brian Massumi and Maurice Merleau-Ponty as theoretical touchstones.

Exploring Interstitiality with Mangroves is a lyrically crafted philosophical analysis that will appeal to scholars, researchers and students interested in the developing frontiers of more-than-human post-anthropocentric writing, theory and methodologies. It will be of interest to readers in ecocriticism, environmental humanities, cultural geography, place studies and nature writing.

The Open Access version of the Introduction, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003286493, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. The funder for this chapter is the Australian Academy of the Humanities via the Australian Academy of the Humanities Publication Subsidy Scheme

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Judith, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Limnologie (Süßwasser)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part 1: Strange reflexivities: Folding in communicative tidal materialities 1. The proposals of tides and the responses of oysters 2. Folding and filter-feeding semiotics 3. Ecological meaningfulness and the negotiation of criteria Part 2: Monstrous relations: Exploring a hermeneutic account of relationality 4. Lines of desire and knots of obligation 5. Transgression and attunement 6. It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories Part 3: Impossible differences: A muddy journey across more-than-human walls and hospitalities 7. Why build a wall? 8. Walls and human exceptionalism 9. Mangrove walls, mangrove hosts: More-than-human hospitalities 10. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Kate Judith is an environmental humanities scholar interested in non-anthropocentric practices of meaning, making, relating, and deciding. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland and has a PhD in environmental humanities from the University of New South Wales, Australia.