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“With politically sharp […] scholarship and the author’s personal passion, Wetland Cultures recalibrates our understanding of these watery environments, and at a time of ecological crisis, it provides essential reading for enthusiasts and policymakers alike.” —Dave Pritchard, Coordinator, Ramsar Culture Network, UK “This beautifully composed and curated work takes the reader on a wonderous immersion into the cultural practices and affiliations of a myriad of continuing planetary paludal encounters between humans and wetlands. Encompassing bodily and spiritual entanglements with these complex and dynamic ecosystems, this book is a delicate and joyous watery, marshy sojourn into ways of knowing, seeing and being.” —Mary Gearey, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Applied Sciences, University of Brighton, UK “From an exploration of wetland representations in art and literature, to their environmental, spiritual and agricultural values that often reflect the colonial gaze, this book offers critical insight into this rich cultural heritage – the implications of which continue to be overlooked in the mainstream global wetlands discourse.” —Alan Dixon, Professor of Sustainable Development, , University of Worcester, UK Traditional cultures have a long and vital association with wetlands as sacred places imbued with spiritual and ceremonial significance that provide physical sustenance and sources of materials in paludiculture. Ancient Greek and Roman cultures denigrated wetlands as places of disease, terror, horror, the hellish and the monstrous. Judeo-Christian theology was syncretized with them into the mainstream denigration of wetlands. Wetlands are a marginalized community, an oppressed minority and non-binary, queer bodies of water. Rod Giblett is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Writing and Literature Program at Deakin University, Australia. He has a rich publication history and research focuses on wetland cultural studies, psychoanalytic ecology, conservation counter-theology and Thoreau and Benjamin studies.

Ecocriticism. --- Literature. --- Human ecology. --- World Literature. --- Environmental Anthropology.

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“Underwater Worlds takes readers on a deep dive into the entanglements of care, technology, and contamination in contemporary water-worlds. Richly granular narratives and innovative more-than-human methodologies undergird the work's innovative articulation of 'aquabiopolitics' as a conceptual lens into the relationship of waste, pollution, and marine life, enriching and informing fields including environmental anthropology, political ecology, STS, and the environmental humanities.” —Sophie Chao, Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sydney “With great sensitivity and scholarship, Rodineliussen shows us how, more than a sink or a bath, our waters have long been treated as a toilet in which we dump our shit, from industrial effluents, to plastics and old car batteries. This (sea) bottom-up ethnography of renegade citizen-scientists offers a compelling vision of a new water politics that moves us from bare life to thriving ecosystems.” —Patrick O’Hare, Senior Researcher, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews This book introduces the concept of Aquabiopolitics to understand how humans govern life in water to enrich human life on land. The study focuses on the Baltic Sea and Lake Mälaren, using Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, as the connection point. The author explores how human practices over time have had devastating effects on marine life and continue to have so today. The book engages with the marine world through underwater ethnography, providing a perspective on water from below the surface. It joins marine scientists and trash scuba divers who are jointly invested in tracking human maltreatment of water and finding solutions for treating water differently. One of the key parts is to analyze how, and if, this relationship can be created: via social media, images, installations, or other means. Rasmus Rodineliussen, PhD, is the co-editor of the award-winning journal Anthropology Book Forum.

Human ecology. --- Ethnology. --- Freshwater ecology. --- Marine ecology. --- Environmental Anthropology. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Freshwater and Marine Ecology.

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This open access book presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene. Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. They counter distancing, exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by staying proximate with mundane places and beings of the north. The volume engages and plays with familiar tourism concepts, such as hospitality, visiting, difference, care, openness, and distance, while expanding the focus from binary and human-centric approaches of hosts and guests to questions of wellbeing among multispecies communities. The transdisciplinary group of contributors share a curiosity about how staying proximate may provide theoretical depth and epistemological openings to attend to current tensions and to diversify the ways we do and enact research. Thus, each chapter provides a methodological experiment with proximity, developing diverse ways of envisioning and storying more-than-human worlds.  Outi Rantala is professor of responsible Arctic tourism at the University of Lapland, and adjunct professor of environmental humanities, at University of Turku. Her research has focused on human nature relations and engaged in creating critical, reflective, and alternative narratives on northern tourism. Veera Kinnunen is a sociologist working on a threshold of more-than-human sociology, environmental humanities, and feminist ethics. She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu. Her research interests cover dwelling with unruly more-than-human others such as microbes and waste. Emily Höckert is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lapland. Her research explores the multiple ways in which more-than-human hosts and guests welcome and take care of each other in tourism settings. She approaches questions of hospitality, ethics, care, and storytelling at the crossroads of hermeneutic phenomenology, postcolonial philosophy, and new materialism.

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“[This book’s] chapters document and analyse a wide variety of ritualized practices in which privileged connections with more-than-human entities pertaining to the natural environment – plants, animals, minerals, the essential solvent for life on Earth, the Earth itself, and Nature as a whole – are put into effect. In doing so, they emphasize the growing importance of such entities in contemporary ceremonial. In complementary fashion, and to my mind more significantly, they also bear witness to the key role ritual plays in bringing these beings to body and mind.” — Michael Houseman, Anthropologist and Professor Emeritus, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université PSL, France Within the social sciences, other-than-human being’s agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed. However, many indigenous worldviews and Western contemporary spiritual practices are shaping a very different reality, with various attempts to share the world with non-human beings, animate or inanimate, creating forms of relationships to “the living”. This edited volume documents how humans deal with non-human entities in a large variety of cultural contexts. It focuses on ritual processes and how ritual creativity is mobilised to invent new ways of relating with more-than-humans. Comprising nine case studies, the volume is divided into three main sections that address successively daily interactions, political implications, and spiritual engagements. Cooperative interactions, kinship relations, senses of belonging, traditional healing techniques, non-human beings’ legal personality attribution, transformative experiences, and phenomenological relationalities are examined in various locations: West Africa, Buryatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Mexico, Nepalese Himalayas, Sweden and Wales. Jean Chamel is Senior SNSF Researcher in the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. Yael Dansac is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Chapters "Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality and Spiritual Practices in a Living World—An Introduction" and "Ritual Animism: Indigenous Performances, Interbeings Ceremonies and Alternative Spiritualities in the Global Rights of Nature Networks" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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