Growling ontologies

Watts, Vanessa

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“…Bird-David, 1999Ingold, 2000;Kohn, 2007Kohn, , 2013Strang, 2004Strang, , 2014bStrang, , 2015Viveiros De Castro, 1998), including those with family and other heritage ties to such ways of life (e.g. Borrows, 2016;Donald, 2009;Kopenawa & Albert, 2013;Little Bear, 2012;Salmón, 2000Salmón, , 2015Watts, 2013Watts, , 2020, argue that for many hunters and gatherers and subsistence farmers, living through a world they depend on but cannot control to any significant degree, 'nature' often figures as differing forms of personhood to be engaged with in mutualistic terms. Because in such ontologies, personhood-as a relational phenomenon that speaks of agency and intention-is not limited to the human, neither are various kinds of relation which might be preserved for human beings in a typified 'Western' context.…”

Section: From Kin To Thingmentioning

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Riverkin: seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the UK and beyond

Cohen¹,

Dannreuther²,

Fraundorfer³

et al. 2023

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1.We show how the dire state of the Earth's rivers entangles intimately with ‘thingifying’ processes at the heart of colonial modernity. Known in many precolonial and Indigenous contexts as person-like kin, we describe how rivers the world over have been re-done primarily as thing – amoral, controllable, a potential commodity like anything else. 2.We develop and work with a provisory concept of kin as those constituents of environments that reciprocally nurture, and contribute to the substance of, one another’s life and well-being. 3.We show how kinship with rivers figures centrally in primarily Indigenous-led struggles in various regions of the globe for the recognition and enforcement of river personhood and rights. This is partly because people are motivated to fight passionately for their kin. 4.With some careful caveats, we argue that associating river kinship exclusively with Indigenous worlds undermines its potential for global impact. Thus, as an apposite case study, the latter part of the paper focuses on some of the social-ecological trends which we suggest are opening up the possibility for the re-establishment of ‘riverkinship’ in the United Kingdom. 5.We reflect on the potential for riverkinship to help cultivate political constellations fitting to the challenges of the Anthropocene

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Section: From Kin To Thingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Riverkin: seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the UK and beyond

Cohen¹,

Dannreuther²,

Fraundorfer³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Bird‐David, 1999, 2020; Ingold, 2000; Kohn, 2007, 2013; Strang, 2004, 2014b, 2015; Viveiros De Castro, 1998), including those with family and other heritage ties to such ways of life (e.g. Borrows, 2016; Donald, 2009; Kopenawa & Albert, 2013; Little Bear, 2012; Salmón, 2000, 2015; Watts, 2013, 2020), argue that for many hunters and gatherers and subsistence farmers, living through a world they depend on but cannot control to any significant degree, ‘nature’ often figures as differing forms of personhood to be engaged with in mutualistic terms. Because in such ontologies, personhood—as a relational phenomenon that speaks of agency and intention—is not limited to the human, neither are various kinds of relation which might be preserved for human beings in a typified ‘Western’ context.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Riverkin: Seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the United Kingdom and beyond

Cohen,

Dannreuther,

Fraundorfer

et al. 2023

People and Nature

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We show how the dire state of the Earth's rivers entangles intimately with ‘thingifying’ processes at the heart of colonial modernity. Known in many precolonial and Indigenous contexts as person‐like kin, we describe how rivers the world over have been re‐done primarily as thing—amoral, controllable, a potential commodity like anything else. We develop and work with a provisory concept of kin as those constituents of environments that reciprocally nurture, and contribute to the substance of, one another's life and wellbeing. We show how kinship with rivers figures centrally in primarily Indigenous‐led struggles in various regions of the globe for the recognition and enforcement of river personhood and rights. This is partly because people are motivated to fight passionately for their kin. With some careful caveats, we argue that associating river kinship exclusively with Indigenous worlds undermines its potential for global impact. Thus, as an apposite case study, the latter part of the paper focuses on some of the social–ecological trends which we suggest are opening up the possibility for the re‐establishment of ‘riverkinship’ in the United Kingdom. We reflect on the potential for riverkinship to help cultivate political constellations fitting to the challenges of the Anthropocene. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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On Wolves and Predation: Toward a Multispecies Archaeology of Settler Colonialism

Fowles,

Morris

2024

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Growling ontologies

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Riverkin: seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the UK and beyond

Riverkin: seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the UK and beyond

Riverkin: Seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the United Kingdom and beyond

On Wolves and Predation: Toward a Multispecies Archaeology of Settler Colonialism

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