ABSTRACT
Mangroves thrive in intertidal zones, where they gather organisms and objects from land, river, and ocean. They develop into complex ecologies in these dynamic in-between spaces. Mobilising resources drawn from semiotic materialism and the environmental humanities, this book seeks a form of social theory from the mangroves; that is to think interstitiality from the perspective of mangroves themselves, exploring the crafty and tenacious world-making they are engaged in.
Three sections weave together theory, science and close observation, responding to calls within the environmental humanities for detailed attention to interactions in marginal spaces and those of interpretative tension. It examines interstitiality by considering theories of difference, relationality, and reflexivity in the context of mangrove socioecological materialities, drawing on influential writers such as Michel Serres, Jacques Derrida, Deborah Bird Rose, Donna Haraway, Brian Massumi and Maurice Merleau-Ponty as theoretical touchstones.
Exploring Interstitiality with Mangroves is a lyrically crafted philosophical analysis that will appeal to scholars, researchers and students interested in the developing frontiers of more-than-human post-anthropocentric writing, theory and methodologies. It will be of interest to readers in ecocriticism, environmental humanities, cultural geography, place studies and nature writing.
The Open Access version of the Introduction, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003286493, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. The funder for this chapter is the Australian Academy of the Humanities via the Australian Academy of the Humanities Publication Subsidy Scheme
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |19 pages
Introduction
part 1|1 pages
Strange reflexivities
chapter 1|23 pages
The proposals of tides and the responses of oysters
chapter 2|18 pages
Folding and filter-feeding semiotics
chapter 3|17 pages
Ecological meaningfulness and the negotiation of criteria
part 2|1 pages
Monstrous relations
chapter 4|23 pages
Lines of desire and knots of obligation
chapter 5|15 pages
Transgression and attunement
chapter 6|21 pages
It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories 1
part 3|64 pages
Impossible differences