Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-l7hp2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-24T07:52:30.643Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Chapter 10 - Multispecies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2021

Jeffrey Cohen
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Stephanie Foote
Affiliation:
West Virginia University
Get access

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.

Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Further Reading

Derrida, Jacques, “The Animal that Therefore I Am (More to Follow),” Critical Inquiry 28.2 (2002), 369418.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Despret, Vinciane, What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kirksey, Eben, Emergent Ecologies (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015).Google Scholar
Haraway, Donna J., Companion Species Manifesto (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003).Google Scholar
Tsing, Anna, Lowenhaupt, Heather, Swanson, Anne, Gan, Elaine, and Bubandt, Nils (eds.), Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017).Google Scholar
Turner, Lynn, Sellbach, Undine, and Broglio, Ron (eds.), Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019).Google Scholar
van Dooren, Thom Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016).Google Scholar
Yates, Julian, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017).Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

  • Multispecies
  • Edited by Jeffrey Cohen, Arizona State University, Stephanie Foote, West Virginia University
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
  • Online publication: 12 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039369.011
Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

  • Multispecies
  • Edited by Jeffrey Cohen, Arizona State University, Stephanie Foote, West Virginia University
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
  • Online publication: 12 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039369.011
Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

  • Multispecies
  • Edited by Jeffrey Cohen, Arizona State University, Stephanie Foote, West Virginia University
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
  • Online publication: 12 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039369.011
Available formats
×