Narrating the Multispecies World : Stories in Times of Crises, Loss, and Hope.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fenske, Michaela, author.

Contributor:

Carper, Pearl-Sue.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biodiversity conservation.

Extinction (Psychology).

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In present times, we are increasingly witnessing a loss of life, especially among animals and plants. Some species are becoming extinct, while others struggle to adjust to new habitats. Human beings are looking for strategies to overcome the effects of climate change and mass extinction. The contributors to this volume reflect on how the current problems affect the living world. Artists and scholars from around the world share their views on the changes and challenges produced by the effects of the ecological crises in a variety of regions. While some of their stories concern loss, others offer hope by suggesting new ideas for living together in sustainable harmony within a multispecies world.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Opening

Narrating the Multispecies World in Times of Crises

Narrating in Times of Crises

Narrating as a World Building Practice

Narrating the Transformation - Transformation through Narrating

Narrating the World as a Better Place

Bibliography

Communicating

The Sofa as a Habitat: Daisy

Conversations with a Spider

Like Shivers: The Interspecies Promise of Vibrational Language

Spider Jam Sessions: Feeling, Not Knowing

Vibrational Communion: Resonant Sympathy

Arachnomancy: From Partial to Strange Affinities

Beginners in an Unknown Language

Listen to the Birds

Introduction

Asking the Parrots

Interspecies Artist Collective

The Encounter with Karl

Living with Humans

Historical Beings

Wild One and his Fellows

Intuition and Animal Communicators

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Caring

Greening Our Thumbs

Thinking and Feeling through Stories from the Garden

Putting down Roots in the Garden

Zine‐making: A Brief and Situated History

The Garden as Zine, the Zine as Garden

Working in the Field

Maybe the Mustard Will Save Us: Meeting at the Table, in the Garden and across Generations

A Seat at the Table

Planting Plants, Plants Planning

Sharing Intergenerational Wisdom for Equitable and Just Futures

Nurturing, Inspiring and Strengthening Love among Plants and People

Growing down, Growing up, Growing forward

The Art of Narrating and Practicing Grassland Restoration for Tibetan Pastoralism's Cultural Survival and Revival

The Tibetan Plateau as an Ecological Security Barrier and Grazing Land

Sowing Grass to Reunite the Community: A Day of Planting Grass

Narrating with Photos and Documentary Films.

A Global and Narratable Pastoralism: Aligning with Conservation Science and Charismatic Animals

Breeding Apples: Stories of Loss and Hope in Times of Crises

The Shared History of Humans and Apple Trees

Becoming with Apples

The Beginnings of Systematic Fruit Breeding - Collecting and Sharing Apple Genes

Opening the Apples' Miracle Box

Finding the Perfect Apple

Food Storytelling - The Making of a New Variety

Broadening the Gene Pool - Old Varieties for New Problems?

Apple Breeding in Times of Climate Change - Technical Fix and Plant Ethics

Plants as Allies? - A Future Narrating of Humans and Apples

Storying Multispecies Worlds

Looking for the Western Monarch

Storying the Monarch Butterfly

La Reserva de la Biosfera Mariposa Monarca

The Spectacle of Extinction

Placing Milkweed

The Everyday of Extinction

Connecting

Of Roots Here and There

Onurşah: Growing Roots

Zeliha: Connecting Roots

Işıl: Rooting in the Air

By Way of Conclusion

Honorific Ecology

While the Sitter's Story Unfolds

Lures of Multispecies Portraiture

Narrating With Nature

Adorno and Benjamin's Eloquent Nature

Approaching Nature's Expression through Shanshui Image‐making

Shifting Relations of Narrative Production

Learning to Notice and Love in a More‑than‑human World

Three Short Stories

Being Stream

Commenting…

Becoming with a Lemon Tree

Noticing the Other‐than‐human Life in the Playground

Epilogue

Remembering

Flowing Narratives

Rivers, the Bloodstreams of the Earth

Floods in the Making

Crayfish Encounter

Remembering, Imaging, Flowing.

Unleashed Water in the Anthropocene

Green Powerhouses in Road Construction

Hidden Actors (exposition and rising action)

The Sticking Point (rising action)

The Bathtub (climax)

Pressure Pads (falling action)

Paved Unpaved (epilogue)

The Trees' Various Activity on the Street

The Case of the Construction Site

Ethnodrama as a Multispecies Ethnography Method

Reflecting Ethnodrama "Green Powerhouses in Road Construction"

Positioning Multispecies through Timing

The Multispecies Paradigm in Traditional (Gaelic) Folklore

Patchy Anthropocene

Folklore and Local Patches (Places)

The Multispecies Paradigm

An Ecological Reading

Silver Branch Perception

Folklore and Ecological Diversity

Representations of Nature in the South Indian Oral Narrative of Maṇṭēsvāmi

Introduction: "Ecosocial Ideals," a Need for "Dalit Ecologies" and Vīraśaiva Worldview

The Creation Myth: A Representation of Vīraśaiva Cosmology

The Kalinga Cave Episode: Illustrating a Vīraśaiva's Spiritual Journey

Conclusion: Śaktiviśiṣṭādvaita Philosophy as a Model for Overcoming the "Otherness" of Nature and an Inspiration for Ecosocial Ideals

Speculating

From Ancestrality to Possible Futures

Dear Reader, Here Is a Warning: Get Ready!

And Deep Down, What Is There?

Multispecies Cyclic Assemblage: Art as Political Imagination

Decolonizing Collective Imagination about Possible Futures

Becoming‐with Plants: A Process of Enchantment with Multispecies

Who Does the Bromeliad Think She Is?

Ancestral Future: Dreaming Is a Political Action

Playing the Plant, and Other Stories

Embodied Mimesis

Becoming Sensor

Training Transhumanism

Mimetic Magic

Sand‐writings of Woodiana Mussels.

Esteemed President and Members of the Therolinguistics Association!

So Let Us Speak (about) Mussels!

The Chinese Swan Mussel

The Practice of Reading Mussels

Sand‐writings and Other Weeping Notes

Live, Think and Die with Mussels

Concluding

Tracing, Expressing, and Asserting Multivocality in the Multispecies World

Communication and (Shared) Sociality as a Foundation of Narration

Voice, Form, Medium: How to Narrate the Multispecies World

Appendix

About the Contributors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-8394-7056-0

OCLC:

1522806628