Research Catalog

Title

Exploring interstitiality with mangroves : semiotic materialism and the environmental humanities / Kate Judith.

Author

Judith, Kate

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xiii, 212 pages : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Routledge environmental humanities

Uniform Title

Routledge environmental humanities.

Subject

• Human ecology and the humanities
• Science and the humanities
• Environmental sciences
• Mangrove ecology

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Part 1. Strange reflexivities: Folding in communicative tidal materialities. The proposals of tides and the responses of oysters -- Folding and filter-feeding semiotics -- Ecological meaningfulness and the negotiation of criteria -- Part 2. Monstrous relations: Exploring a hermeneutic account of relationality. Lines of desire and knots of obligation -- Transgression and attunement -- It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories -- Part 3. Impossible differences: A muddy journey across more-than-human walls and hospitalities -- Why build a wall? -- Walls and human exceptionalism -- Mangrove walls, mangrove hosts: More-than-human hospitalities -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 23-841

ISBN

• 9781032260914
• 1032260912
• 9781032260945
• 1032260947

LCCN

2022029214

OCLC

1349460887

Author

Judith, Kate, author.

Title

Exploring interstitiality with mangroves : semiotic materialism and the environmental humanities / Kate Judith.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge environmental humanities

Routledge environmental humanities.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Judith, Kate. Exploring interstitiality with mangroves. First Edition Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2023 9781003286493 (DLC) 2022029215

Research Call Number

JFE 23-841