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More-than-human care in uncertain times 
Convenors:
Áki Guðni Karlsson (University of Iceland)
Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (University of Iceland)
Veera Kinnunen (University of Lapland)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
Posthumanism
Location:
G24
Sessions:
Friday 9 June, -, -
Time zone: Europe/Prague

Short Abstract:

Human existence unfolds in relationships that connect us to other animals, plants, microbes and the environment. This relational understanding of the agency of humans and more-than-humans raises questions about how people and other species and life forms mutually shape life and death.

Long Abstract:

Human existence unfolds in relationships that connect us to other animals, plants, microbes and the environment. This relational understanding of the agency of humans and more-than-humans raises questions about how people and other species and life forms mutually shape life and death on a day-to-day basis. Fermentation, composting, and sustainable agricultural practices are examples of interspecies communication conveying care and a sense of purpose and belonging.

One Health is a transdisciplinary and collaborative paradigm that recognizes the shared environment and interconnection between people, animals, plants and microbes. The approach promotes health and wellbeing for humans, animals and the environment, emphasizing coordination, communication, and joint efforts across disciplines. The approach has facilitated new ways of handling contemporary challenges such as food security and safety, emerging and endemic zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial and drug resistance, climate change as well as different types of environmental pollutants. The One Health paradigm has broad appeal in the natural and health sciences, but this panel invites ethnologists and folklorists to engage with interspecies relations and mutualistic care in everyday life.

The panel invites us to ask: How do we care for bodies, materials, and co-species? How do people care for themselves, others, and the earth through everyday activities such as cooking/fermenting/composting/gardening/shopping/recycling/etc? How can these interspecies practices encourage diverse ways of knowing, feeling, and sensing in our current times of uncertainty? How do more-than-human relationships generate practices, consciousness, imaginaries, narratives, emotions, and social bonds? What kind of futures could this lead us to?

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 9 June, 2023, -
Session 2 Friday 9 June, 2023, -