The Origins of Sociable Life: Evolution After Science Studies

Hird, Myra J.

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“…Notably the IUCN Red List is currently, in its own words, 'biased' towards animals rather than plants or fungi-not to mention single celled organisms like bacteria and protists-and, within the animal kingdom, towards terrestrial animals living in forest ecosystems (IUCN Red List n.d.). This speaks both to the way in which some organisms are more easily encountered by researchers, as well as to the persistence of non-rational, affective attachments to animals that are 'big like us' (Hird 2009) to the exclusion of 'unloved others' (Rose and van Dooren 2011).…”

Section: Ordering Devices and Non-market Valuations In Biodiversity Cmentioning

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Valuing Species: The Continuities between Non-Market and Market Valuations in Biodiversity Conservation

Fredriksen

2017

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This article explores how the rise of new markets for biodiversity has been facilitated by existing, non-market-based valuation practices within the field of biodiversity conservation. Where others have considered biodiversity markets in terms of capitalist and/or neoliberal expansion, I argue that the abstraction of the value of living things in markets is made easier by the existing valuation practices of species-based biodiversity conservation. After briefly contextualising the terms 'species' and 'biodiversity' within the history of Western conservation, the article shows how biodiversity conservation-as science, policy and practice-subordinates the value of individual living organisms and emplaced ecologies to the abstract categories of species and habitat types. This conceptual move performs a condition of ethical commensurability between individual organisms and places, thereby prefiguring the equivalence of value between units of the same category needed to establish new markets for biodiversity. The article considers this link between the valuation practices of species-based biodiversity conservation and new markets for biodiversity as an instance of performative continuity. The article concludes by reflecting on the critical use of attending to the links between existing valuation practices in biodiversity conservation and new biodiversity markets.

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Valuing Species: The Continuities between Non-Market and Market Valuations in Biodiversity Conservation

Fredriksen

2017

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“…One is the question about relations between the natural sciences and what Hemmings (2011) calls 'interdisciplinary humanities', and the natural science-inspired feminist arguments where feminists are encouraged to take into account the activity of 'matter' (e.g. Barad 2003;Birke 2003;Hird 2009aHird , 2009bKirby 2011;Wilson 2010). The other question concerns accounting for varieties of what is called 'sexual behaviour' in nonhuman animals.…”

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Fluid Reading Practice: On the Queer Potential of Studying Nonhuman Animals

Irni

2017

Feminist Encounters

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This paper contributes to recent discussions about the relevance of the natural sciences and nonhuman animals in feminist theory by drawing from feminist debates on the queer potential of studying nonhuman animals. The paper discusses readings on the intertwining of scientific accounts of nonhuman animals and politics; how different nonhuman animal bodies have enabled various conceptualisations of sex and physical intimacy and have been enmeshed in the politics of sex; and how to read the relevance of accounts of the diversity of nonhuman animal sex(es) for feminist endeavours. These discussions contribute to an exploration of 'fluid reading', a feminist reading practice which draws inspiration from and moves with both new materialisms and poststructuralisms. The paper proposes that not only mood is important in feminist reading practices but also movements and flows.

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“…One is the question about relations between the natural sciences and what calls 'interdisciplinary humanities', and the natural science-inspired feminist arguments where feminists are encouraged to take into account the activity of 'matter' (e.g. Barad 2003;Birke 2003;Hird 2009aHird , 2009bWilson 2010). The other question concerns accounting for varieties of what is called 'sexual behaviour' in nonhuman animals.…”

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Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture a

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Founded in 2017, Feminist Encounters is a journal committed to argument and debate, in the tradition of historical feminist movements.In the wake of the growing rise of the Right across the world, openly neo-fascist national sentiments, and rising conservative populism, we feminists all over the world are needing to remobilise our energies to protect and advance gender rights.Feminist Encounters provides a forum for feminist theorists, scholars, and activists to communicate with each other, to better educate ourselves on international issues and thus promote more global understanding, and to enhance our critical tools for fighting for human rights.Feminism is an intellectual apparatus, a political agenda, and a programme for social change. Critical analysis of how gender discourses produce cultural identities and social practices within diverse lived realities is key to this change. We need to think more sharply in order to strategise well: as the discourses of conservatism renew and invigorate themselves, so we as feminist scholars need to be refining our amazonic swords in order not just to respond effectively but also to innovate our own ideas for equality and social justice.We are, of course, committed to intersectionality, a vital lens through which to see the contours of race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, age/ability, and explore how gendered scripts get lived, and filtered through these specificities of cultural organisation. Lived experience is never codified in terms of gender alone, and so our research will always be sensitive to the nexus of lived oppressions.The journal has a large editorial board and journal team, consisting of over forty scholars in twenty countries. This is deliberately inclusive in order that we can promote diversity and engage with different concerns from across the world. Our aim is not to simply talk to ourselves, reconfirming our localised assumptions, but to generate feminist encounters across regions, even if this is sometimes uncomfortable. Globalisation has been a triumph of neoliberalism, but digital technologies have also flattened and reduced the distance between us in dramatic ways, so that now we can talk to each other with unanticipated ease.This new access to each others' voices has also brought challenges to the way we think and do things, so that being a feminist today might be quite a different prospect to a person living in China, Iran, Norway, South Africa or the UK. Second Wave Feminism used the idea of 'sisterhood' to invoke solidarity between women. I've always rather liked Andrea Dworkin's claim, though, that: "Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy in behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who used to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with anymore." The notion of sisterhood was challenged by Black feminists in the 1980s as being too conceptually white, thus bell hooks' trenchant critique that: "the idea of 'co...

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The Origins of Sociable Life: Evolution After Science Studies

Cited by 283 publications

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Valuing Species: The Continuities between Non-Market and Market Valuations in Biodiversity Conservation

Valuing Species: The Continuities between Non-Market and Market Valuations in Biodiversity Conservation

Fluid Reading Practice: On the Queer Potential of Studying Nonhuman Animals

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