Kin

Thom van Dooren is a field philosopher and writer at the University of Sydney and author of The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds.Matthew Chrulew is a writer and researcher at Curtin University and coeditor of Field Philosophy and Other Experiments.

• Worlds of Kin: An Introduction / Thom Van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew  11. The Sociality of Birds: Reflections on Ontological Edge Effects / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing  152. Loving the Difficult: Scotch Broom / Catriona Sandilands  333. Awakening to the Call of Others: What I Learned from Existential Ecology / Isabelle Stengers  534. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture’s Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway  705. The Disappearing Snails of Hawaiʻi: Storytelling for a Time of Extinctions / Thom Van Dooren  946. Roadkill: Multispecies Mobility and Everyday Ecocide / Kate Rigby and Owain Jones   1127. After Nature: Totemism Revisited / Stephen Muecke  1358. Telling One’s Own Story in the Hearing of Buffalo: Liturgical Interventions from Beyond the Year Zero / James Hatley  1499. Ending with the Wind, Crying the Dawn / Bawaka Country, including Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Sarah Wright, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, and Djawundil Maymuru  17410. Animality and the Life of the Spirit / Colin Dayan  18711. Life Is a Woven Basket of Relations / Kate Wright  19612. Afterword: Memories with Deborah Rose / Linda Payi Ford  218Contributors  225Index  229

“Deborah Bird Rose created an expansive scholarly field underpinned by interconnections, the affirmation of life, and love and responsibility as analytics. Invited to such a challenging field, the stories in this book carefully labor across a heterogeneity of forms of life and nonlife to reshuffle biological, political, and historical boundaries and creatively open possibility for a plethora of interconnected differences, pragmatic boundaries without a center. Caring for the Earth as Country, this artfully crafted collection meets Rose’s most urgent demand: becoming a witness of death that asserts life through an ethical practice that is always already ecological.” - Marisol de la Cadena, author of (Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds) "Rose’s thought is timely now more than ever. This collection is a testimony to the vitality of their work for the present and challenges ahead that will involve relearning to be one among lifescapes of other beings rather than a social atom." - Christopher Blakley (Science as Culture) "I was provoked and challenged by the diversity of this collection. . . ." - David Moore (Indigenous Religious Traditions)