Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
- The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Climate Change/Changing Climates
- Chapter 2 The Commons
- Chapter 3 Rights
- Chapter 4 Time as Kinship
- Chapter 5 The Nature of Gender
- Chapter 6 Race, Health, and Environment
- Chapter 7 Narrative and Environmental Innovation
- Chapter 8 Climate Fictions: Future-Making Technologies
- Chapter 9 Apocalypse/Extinction
- Chapter 10 Multispecies
- Chapter 11 Food
- Chapter 12 Plants
- Chapter 13 Extraction
- Chapter 14 Ice/Water/Vapor
- Chapter 15 Rocks
- Chapter 16 Coal/Oil
- Chapter 17 Waste
- Chapter 18 Ecomedia
- Chapter 19 New Materialism and the Nonhuman Story
- Chapter 20 Risk
- Chapter 21 Coda: Virus
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
- References
Chapter 10 - Multispecies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 August 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
- The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Climate Change/Changing Climates
- Chapter 2 The Commons
- Chapter 3 Rights
- Chapter 4 Time as Kinship
- Chapter 5 The Nature of Gender
- Chapter 6 Race, Health, and Environment
- Chapter 7 Narrative and Environmental Innovation
- Chapter 8 Climate Fictions: Future-Making Technologies
- Chapter 9 Apocalypse/Extinction
- Chapter 10 Multispecies
- Chapter 11 Food
- Chapter 12 Plants
- Chapter 13 Extraction
- Chapter 14 Ice/Water/Vapor
- Chapter 15 Rocks
- Chapter 16 Coal/Oil
- Chapter 17 Waste
- Chapter 18 Ecomedia
- Chapter 19 New Materialism and the Nonhuman Story
- Chapter 20 Risk
- Chapter 21 Coda: Virus
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
- References
Summary
Busy with our own world, we often think that animals are just a part of it, minor players in the large, smart, progressive lives of humans. But if we flip the point of view, things change. What are the animals’ worlds that remain inaccessible to us? Be they wild or domestic, animals hold for themselves seething multitudes of points of view that work below the surface of our own ways of understanding them. An encounter with an animal is a moment in which we come to recognize that animals have lives beyond us. In this look from myriad nonhumans, we realize there are more points of view than our own, and that there are other ways of dwelling on earth that are just as important to these animals as ours are to us. This allows us to better consider the ecosystems of which they and we are a part and to change the narrative about how we live with other animals on this shared earth.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities , pp. 128 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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