ABSTRACT
In his book Being Salmon, Being Human, ecological philosopher Martin Lee Mueller theorizes a relational constitution of human identity. He writes, “Our sense of who we are as humans is mirrored in our lived relationships with other creatures.” 1 In contrast to anthropocentric paradigms that separate “us” from “them,” Mueller casts salmon and humans as “not alone, but participants, shareholders, accomplices.” 2 The reciprocal relations he describes are opportunities for us to better know ourselves and others we perceive to be unlike ourselves. In these more-than-human dialogues our identities are neither fixed or predetermined; we are becoming. And, as Donna Haraway reminds us, “becoming is always becoming with.” 3 Entangled fish and humans produce “unpredictable kinds of ‘we.’” 4
