ABSTRACT

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline. With attention to the intellectual history of the field, its developments and extensions, its applications and its significance to contemporary society, it presents empirical studies and theoretical work covering long-established disciplines, as well as new writing on art, history, politics, planning, architecture, research methodology and ethics. An elaboration of the various dimensions of more-than-human studies, The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies constitutes essential reading for anyone studying or researching in this field.

chapter 1|28 pages

The Separation?

part 2|156 pages

Elaborations

chapter 12|13 pages

Meeting and Mingling with Microbes

A More-than-Human Geography of Hygiene, Holobionts and Hospitality

chapter 14|12 pages

The Virtual Animal in the Digital Anthropocene

Empowered or Subjugated?

chapter 15|12 pages

Living with Unruly Waste Matter

On More-than-Human Relations

chapter 16|13 pages

We Have Never Built Back Better

Using STS to Account for the Many Failures of Disaster Recovery

chapter 17|13 pages

The More-than-Human Home

chapter 18|13 pages

Wrapping Things Up

Making Plastic into a Political Material 1

chapter 21|14 pages

The Long Horizon

Temporal Imaginaries in the More-than-Human Arts

part 4|26 pages

Towards A Common World