I am delighted to report that I have just finished work on the full first draft of a new book: Making Worlds with Crows: A Multispecies Ethics, forthcoming with Columbia University Press in 2018 or 2019. The book is comprised of five chapters, each focused on human/crow relationships in a particular part of the world.…
Last month we held a workshop at UNSW on the Participatory Environmental Humanities. The workshop explored some of the many public faces of the Environmental Humanities with a particular focus on the participatory possibilities emerging out of new forms of public scholarship and practice. The website from the event is now available, archiving the programme,…
I’m delighted to announce that our new book is now out: Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations. This collection was co-edited by Deborah Bird Rose, Matthew Chrulew and myself, and published by Columbia University Press. There’s more information, including the table of contents for the book, on the edited collections page of my…
We have now finalised the manuscript for our forthcoming edited collection, Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death and Generations (to be published by Columbia University Press, available in May 2017). More information on the collection is available on the Edited Collections page of my website. The collection has already received glowing endorsements from several fantastic…
This week our new special issue on “Multispecies Studies” appeared in Environmental Humanities. The issue was co-edited by six of us: Thom van Dooren, Ursula Münster, Eben Kirksey, Deborah Bird Rose, Matthew Chrulew and Anna Tsing. The full table of contents is below.
I’m very happy to announce two recent French translations of my writing. The first was published a month or so ago in Jef Klak and is an abridged version of Chapter Four of my book Flight Ways. This is the chapter focused on the whooping cranes and the violent-care of conservation. “Le blues des grues…
In May and June of 2016 I travelled to Guam and Rota in the Mariana Islands on a research trip. My focus was the critically endangered aga or Mariana Crow (Corus kubaryi). During the trip I took photos of a range of related things. A few of them are included below. High resolution copies of…
As my time in Munich is coming to an end I thought I’d share a few photos and an audio clip of the fantastic corvid activity in the courtyard behind the apartment we’ve been staying in. Almost every night a group of Carrion Crows roosts in the courtyard. The group can range from a handful…
