Alterhumanism

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani is an associate professor in anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is the author of Sentient Lands: Indigeneity, Property, and Political Imagination in Neoliberal Chile.

"In this fascinating account, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani examines the diverse ways 'being human' emerges in a conservation frontier in southern Chile. Based on years of fieldwork with Indigenous settlers, forest lovers, timber harvesters, and avian ecologists, among others, Alterhumanism helps us see humanity as a kind of ongoing experiment, full of possibility and contradictions - an important reminder to all of us." - Laura A. Ogden, author of Loss and Wonder at the World's End "Piergiorgio Di Giminiani provides an ethnographically rich and intellectually provocative study of the Anthropocene within the conservation frontier of southern Chile. Plural renderings of 'the human' emerge within the entangled, multispecies worlds of Indigenous farmers, national settlers, ecotourists, conservation scientists, birds, and forests. Di Giminiani develops an innovative theoretical approach termed 'alterhumanism' that will reward engaged readers within the fields of environmental anthropology, multispecies ethnography, posthumanism, and Latin American studies." - Marcos Mendoza, author of The Patagonian Sublime: The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics