As more and more species fall under the threat of extinction,
humans are not only taking action to protect critical habitats but
are also engaging more directly with species to help mitigate their
decline. Through innovative infrastructure design and by changing
how we live, humans are becoming more attuned to nonhuman animals
and are making efforts to live alongside them. Examining sites of
loss, temporal orientations, and infrastructural mitigations,
Nestwork blends rhetorical and posthuman sensibilities in service
of ecological care. In this innovative ethnographic study,
rhetorician Jennifer Clary-Lemon examines human-nonhuman animal
interactions, identifying forms of communication between species
and within their material world. Looking in particular at nonhuman
species that depend on human development for their habitat,
Clary-Lemon examines the cases of the barn swallow, chimney swift,
and bobolink. She studies their habitats along with the unique
mitigation efforts taken by humans to maintain those habitats,
including building “barn swallow gazebos” and artificial
chimneys and altering farming practices to allow for nesting and
breeding. What she reveals are fascinating forms of rhetoric not
expressed through language but circulating between species and
materials objects. Nestwork explores what are in essence
nonlinguistic and decidedly nonhuman arguments within these local
environments. Drawing on new materialist and Indigenous ontologies,
the book helps attune our senses to the tragedy of species decline
and to a new understanding of home and homemaking.
General
| Imprint: |
Pennsylvania State University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Jennifer Clary-Lemon
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
190 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-271-09543-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-271-09543-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780271095431 |
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