Witnessing from within

Dębińska, Maria Salomea

doi:10.1086/716035

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Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality and Spiritual Practices in a Living World—An Introduction

Chamel¹,

Dansac²

2022

Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability

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Over the last twenty years, the rejection of singular or unique concepts of nature has given rise to a multiplicity of notions which are not limited to the “living” or “the visible”. Better than “non-humans” or “other-than-humans”, which characterize by opposition to the humans, that remain at the centre, the expression “more-than-humans” provides a framework that accommodates a broader definition of animated being by recognizing the possibility of liveliness, or at least agency or personality, to any entities with whom humans interact. Rituality can be seen as an important component of relationships between humans and more-than-humans in different cultural contexts across the globe. Three main issues related to ritual relationships with more-than-humans are discussed: how relationships are constructed and maintained through rituality; how ritual creativity and innovation transform and produce values, behaviours, and practices concerning more-than-humans; and how ritualized interactions with more-than-humans shape our day-to-day life.

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Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality and Spiritual Practices in a Living World—An Introduction

Chamel¹,

Dansac²

2022

Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability

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Antropologia więcej niż ludzka jako praktyka badawcza i propozycja etyczna

Kowalska

2022

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Wild Border of Politics

Blavascunas

Cope

2022

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The challenge of the politics of the Anthropocene is how to respond to the protests of nature: how to elaborate modes of thought, collective action and social institutions through which non-human agents can be integrated into political communities, even as non-humans exceed our understanding and remain a subject of difference. This paper looks at how the contested borderland forest, Białowieża, at the Polish-Belarusian border helps us think across protest culture during post-socialism. We examine the Białowieża forest as a site of, participant in and provoker of a series of protests: those against national park expansion, against logging, in support of bark beetle rewilding, of far right radical movements and for or against Middle Eastern and African asylum seekers crossing through the forest since EU sanctions were imposed on Belarus in 2021. We do so in order to suggest that these protests should be read as a continuum that enables reflection into why this forest is a key site of protest; that exploring them as a continuum reveals something about an emergent ecology of protest; and that this exploration offers an insight into what is at stake if we see the forest itself as protesting.

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Witnessing from within

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality and Spiritual Practices in a Living World—An Introduction

Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality and Spiritual Practices in a Living World—An Introduction

Antropologia więcej niż ludzka jako praktyka badawcza i propozycja etyczna

Wild Border of Politics

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