Exploring Interstitiality with Mangroves: Semiotic Materialism and the Environmental Humanities
Authored book
Book Title | Exploring Interstitiality with Mangroves: Semiotic Materialism and the Environmental Humanities |
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Book Category | Authored book |
ERA Publisher ID | 3137 |
Authors | Judith, Kate |
Number of Pages | 226 |
Series | Routledge Environmental Humanities |
Year | 2023 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
New York | |
ISBN | 9781000805932 |
9781032260945 | |
9781032260914 | |
9781003286493 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003286493 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003286493/exploring-interstitiality-mangroves-kate-judith |
Abstract | Mangroves thrive in intertidal zones, where they gather organisms and objects from land, river, and ocean. They develop into complex ecologies in these dynamic in-between spaces. Mobilising resources drawn from semiotic materialism and the environmental humanities, this book seeks a form of social theory from the mangroves; that is to think interstitiality from the perspective of mangroves themselves, exploring the crafty and tenacious world-making they are engaged in. Three sections weave together theory, science and close observation, responding to calls within the environmental humanities for detailed attention to interactions in marginal spaces and those of interpretative tension. It examines interstitiality by considering theories of difference, relationality, and reflexivity in the context of mangrove socioecological materialities, drawing on influential writers such as Michel Serres, Jacques Derrida, Deborah Bird Rose, Donna Haraway, Brian Massumi and Maurice Merleau-Ponty as theoretical touchstones. Exploring Interstitiality with Mangroves is a lyrically crafted philosophical analysis that will appeal to scholars, researchers and students interested in the developing frontiers of more-than-human post-anthropocentric writing, theory and methodologies. It will be of interest to readers in ecocriticism, environmental humanities, cultural geography, place studies and nature writing. |
Keywords | interstitiality; relationality; difference; semiotic materiality; environmental humanities; mangroves; phenomenology |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 500304. Environmental philosophy |
500321. Social and political philosophy | |
440604. Environmental geography | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/v0946/exploring-interstitiality-with-mangroves-semiotic-materialism-and-the-environmental-humanities
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