In Emergent Ecologies Eben Kirksey insists that we should turn our attention toward small-scale ecologies and search for hope in the efforts of individuals who are building new ecologies, and in the plants, animals, and fungi that are flourishing in unexpected places.
In Emergent Ecologies Eben Kirksey insists that we should turn our attention toward small-scale ecologies and search for hope in the efforts of individuals who are building new ecologies, and in the plants, animals, and fungi that are flourishing in unexpected places.
Eben Kirksey is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He is the editor of The Multispecies Salon and the author of Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power, both also published by Duke University Press.
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Introduction 1 1. Parallax 8 2. Ontological Amphibians 17 3. Hope in the Reverted Zone 36 4. Happiness and Glass 52 5. Bubbles 72 6. Xenoecologies 86 7. Becoming Wild 105 8. Multispecies Families 134 9. Parasites of Capitalism 163 10. Possible Futures 190 Conclusion 217 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 227 Bibliography 269 Index 291
