Experiencing the More-than-Human World

The contributions are based on a variety of methods, including ethnographic research and oral-history interviews, as well as qualitative analysis of popular art and culture, photos, narratives, and folktales in different media, temporal domains, and social contexts. [...]familiar concepts of nature and culture, civilization and wilderness, humans and nonhumans are changing. [...]of the intensity of human relationships with animals called "pets,"3 veterinarians and their clinics have become important sites in Western societies for negotiating human-nonhuman relationships. In a 2017 exhibition at the Musée Rodin, Anselm Kiefer portrays a dystopian future in which single, unnaturally tall and partially withered flowers rise from burned and abandoned books.4 Wang Zhibo's dystopian landscapes evoke the unreality of deserted urban landscape as a computer program, and Agnieszka Polska's I Am the Mouth disembodies and abstracts body, voice, and nature as a large, red human mouth speaks while partially submerged in lapping blue waters.5 Can humans reimagine themselves as one living part among many other-than-humans?