What Comes after Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion, by Eva Haifa Giraud (Duke University Press, 2019)

Ihar, Zsuzsanna

doi:10.28968/cftt.v8i1.37278

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“…More recently, in her book What comes after entanglement?, Giraud (2019) revisits the theoretical foundations of the multispecies ethnographers highlighted above, including an exploration of whether more-than-human studies have been able to overcome the anthropocentric tendencies of much social science work to date. Giraud (2019) carefully questions how scholars identify entanglements as well as the practical consequences of considering the world as a culmination of irreducibly complex relations. Although largely agreeing with the co-constitutive premise of entanglements adopted by earlier multispecies ethnographers, Giraud (2019) asserts that a relational portrayal of reality-namely, relations of entanglement-necessarily excludes some entities and agencies in their description, complicating the ethical positions that entanglement research has sought to uphold and confusing the ideological propulsion of political interventions through activism.…”

Section: Economically Integrated Communesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam

Garber

Turner

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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In the rural rice fields of upland northern Vietnam, Hmong and Yao ethnic minority farmers have been relationally “entangled” with a number of domesticated animal species to secure semi-subsistence livelihoods. Among these different inter-species entanglements, the relationships between farmers and water buffalo are the most profound. However, in recent years, the broader, contextual factors that shape the entanglements between farmers and water buffalo have been changing rapidly, provoked primarily by increasing extreme weather events, government-supported market integration, and rising land constraints. As these environmental, political, and socioeconomic factors have intensified, the complexity and persistence of long-standing entanglements between farmers and water buffalo appear to be diminishing. We offer a new conceptual perspective to the entanglement literature in this regard, suggesting that “unraveling” might best represent these processes. Nonetheless, we present the idea of “resistant” entanglements to indicate how many farmers have halted unraveling processes, while we posit a future of “reconfigured” entanglements, increasingly based on market forces. Drawing from in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with ethnic minority farmers, we analyze the changing characteristics of these farmer–buffalo entanglements, as well as a range of related socioeconomic and cultural consequences.

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Section: Economically Integrated Communesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam

Garber

Turner

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…In the first section, we situate the Royal Bengal Tiger within the mangrove habitat of the Sundarbans and wildlife conservation programs. In the second section, we develop a conceptual understanding of tiger atmospheres that make a modest contribution to calls for justice that centre animal cognition, sentience, exclusion, intrinsic value and wellbeing (Despret, 2016;Garner, 2013;Giraud, 2019;Nussbaum, 2018). Centering the tiger in the Sundarbans, we acknowledge the difficulties in answering philosopher Vinciane Despret (2016) who asks 'What would animals say if we asked the right questions?'.…”

Section: Situating Subaltern Animal Storiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this article we decentre western scientific frameworks that focuses on tiger habitat, tiger mobilities and tiger-human conflict through a 'conceptual orientation' (Giraud, 2019: 2) as well as methods that focus on tiger atmospheres, co-belonging and intersectional multispecies justice. Our analysis of photographs and stories of encounters is more-than-representational and centres the tiger as a feeling, seeing, thinking body.…”

Section: Situating Tiger Worlds In the Sundarbansmentioning

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Tiger atmospheres and co-belonging in mangrove worlds

Lobo

Alam

Bandyopadhyay

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This article adopts a place-based approach to explore tiger atmospheres in the Sundarbans, a transboundary environmental commons and major climatic hotspot in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta of India and Bangladesh. We argue that affective intensities of greed ( lobh), fear ( bhaya), respect ( srodhya), trust ( biswas) and empathy ( karuna) sensed by the tiger subject contribute to novel theoretical as well as empirical insights into co-belonging and intersectional multispecies justice. We explore these animal atmospheres through multi-sited ethnographic research that include embodied observations, photographs, 31 in-depth interviews and focus groups with impoverished as well as racialised low-caste Hindus (Dalits/Scheduled Castes), Adivasis (Indigenous peoples) and Muslim forest-dwellers in India and Bangladesh. This attention to more-than-human geographies, animal atmospheres and subaltern stories situated in the Bengal delta unsettles macro-narratives of forest conservation and wildlife management that reduce animals to passive subjects or alternatively make them killable.

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“…The entangled composition of everyday life has been a commonplace theme in social sciences during the last decades, pushing forward the notion that it is impossible to think about humans as entirely autonomous beings. Rather, thinking in terms of entanglements underscores how it is through relations and by becoming bound with others that different individuals-but also other phenomena-manage to temporarily come into existence (Giraud, 2019). This implies a processual, relational and dynamic notion of how life and things unfold.…”

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Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools

Navarro

Alarcón-Arcos

Tabilo‐Prieto

2022

Sociology Health & Illness

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This article draws upon findings from fieldwork conducted with Chilean mental health practitioners and school staff to explore how children's mental health diagnoses can be used in the school setting as a particular rationale to mobilise and convey new forms of care practices (Mol, The logic of care: Health and the problem of patient choice, 2008). Inspired by the framing of care as an interrelational, interdependent and more-thanhuman affair promoted by Science and Technology Studies, and drawing from conceptual tools offered by post-humanist approaches, we focus our examination on the diagnosis of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Following the diagnosis since its formulation by clinicians in the public sector to its enactment in an urban school in Santiago, Chile, we explore how certain caring/uncaring practices are enacted in relation to the diagnosis, reconfiguring the classroom by incorporating (non)human actors to care for the diagnosed child. However, care is ambivalent, and the diagnosis can be put into action for other purposes as it interweaves with educational policies and other agendas. Thus, to produce policies that truly foster inclusion, attention must be given to the micropolitical level where disabilities and disorders are enacted, developing

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What Comes after Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion, by Eva Haifa Giraud (Duke University Press, 2019)

Cited by 17 publications

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Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam

Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam

Tiger atmospheres and co-belonging in mangrove worlds

Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools

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