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The World Multiple, as a collection, is an ambitious ethnographic
experiment in understanding how the world is experienced and
generated in multiple ways through people's everyday practices.
Against the dominant assumption that the world is a single
universal reality that can only be known by modern expert science,
this book argues that worlds are worlded-they are socially and
materially crafted in multiple forms in everyday practices
involving humans, landscapes, animals, plants, fungi, rocks, and
other beings. These practices do not converge to a singular
knowledge of the world, but generate a world multiple-a world that
is more than one integrated whole, yet less than many fragmented
parts. The book brings together authors from Europe, Japan, and
North America, in conversation with ethnographic material from
Africa, the Americas, and Asia, in order to explore the
possibilities of the world multiple to reveal new ways to intervene
in the legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism that
inflict damage on humans and nonhumans. The contributors show how
the world is formed through interactions among techno-scientific,
vernacular, local, and indigenous practices, and examine the new
forms of politics that emerge out of them. Engaged with recent
anthropological discussions of ontologies, the Anthropocene, and
multi-species ethnography, the book addresses the multidimensional
realities of people's lives and the quotidian politics they entail.
Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald
alternative futures through their incorporation of digital
technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the
promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with
increasing concerns about climate change and the anthropocene,
there is further an urgency around contemporary infrastructural
provision: a concern about its fragility, and an awareness that
these connective, relational systems significantly shape both local
and planetary futures in ways that we need to understand more
clearly. Offering a rich set of empirically detailed and
conceptually sophisticated studies of infrastructural systems and
experiments, present and past, contributors to this volume address
both the transformative potential of infrastructural systems and
their stasis. Covering infrastructural figures; their ontologies,
epistemologies, classifications and politics, and spanning
development, urban, energy, environmental and information
infrastructures, the chapters explore both the promises and
failures of infrastructure. Tracing the experimental histories of a
wide range of infrastructures and documenting their variable
outcomes, the volume offers a unique set of analytical perspectives
on contemporary infrastructural complications. These studies bring
a systematic empirical and analytical attention to human worlds as
they intersect with more-than-human worlds, whether technological
or biological.
Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from
being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being
viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human
and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature
offers important insight into the relationships between diverse
anthropological traditions. By highlighting natural-cultural worlds
alongside these traditions, Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse
Anthropologies explores the potential for creating more
sophisticated conjunctions of anthropological knowledge and
practice.
Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from
being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being
viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human
and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature
offers important insight into the relationships between diverse
anthropological traditions. By highlighting natural-cultural worlds
alongside these traditions, Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse
Anthropologies explores the potential for creating more
sophisticated conjunctions of anthropological knowledge and
practice.
The World Multiple, as a collection, is an ambitious ethnographic
experiment in understanding how the world is experienced and
generated in multiple ways through people's everyday practices.
Against the dominant assumption that the world is a single
universal reality that can only be known by modern expert science,
this book argues that worlds are worlded-they are socially and
materially crafted in multiple forms in everyday practices
involving humans, landscapes, animals, plants, fungi, rocks, and
other beings. These practices do not converge to a singular
knowledge of the world, but generate a world multiple-a world that
is more than one integrated whole, yet less than many fragmented
parts. The book brings together authors from Europe, Japan, and
North America, in conversation with ethnographic material from
Africa, the Americas, and Asia, in order to explore the
possibilities of the world multiple to reveal new ways to intervene
in the legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism that
inflict damage on humans and nonhumans. The contributors show how
the world is formed through interactions among techno-scientific,
vernacular, local, and indigenous practices, and examine the new
forms of politics that emerge out of them. Engaged with recent
anthropological discussions of ontologies, the Anthropocene, and
multi-species ethnography, the book addresses the multidimensional
realities of people's lives and the quotidian politics they entail.
Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald
alternative futures through their incorporation of digital
technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the
promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with
increasing concerns about climate change and the anthropocene,
there is further an urgency around contemporary infrastructural
provision: a concern about its fragility, and an awareness that
these connective, relational systems significantly shape both local
and planetary futures in ways that we need to understand more
clearly. Offering a rich set of empirically detailed and
conceptually sophisticated studies of infrastructural systems and
experiments, present and past, contributors to this volume address
both the transformative potential of infrastructural systems and
their stasis. Covering infrastructural figures; their ontologies,
epistemologies, classifications and politics, and spanning
development, urban, energy, environmental and information
infrastructures, the chapters explore both the promises and
failures of infrastructure. Tracing the experimental histories of a
wide range of infrastructures and documenting their variable
outcomes, the volume offers a unique set of analytical perspectives
on contemporary infrastructural complications. These studies bring
a systematic empirical and analytical attention to human worlds as
they intersect with more-than-human worlds, whether technological
or biological.
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