affective materiality
Amazon
An Teine Mor
ancestral presence
animacy
Australia
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Black Summer
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Claude Levi-Strauss
climate change
Colonialism
corazonar
cosmopolitics
Denmark
ecological death
Ecuador
embodiment
environmental justice
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extractivism
forest guardianship
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geological humanism
Hugh Raffles
Indigenous cosmologies
Indigenous epistemologies
Indigenous resistance
Indonesia
justice theory
Kawsak Sacha
material culture
Materiality
militarism
Mongolia
more-than-human
multispecies justice
multispecies relations
ontology
Pacific Northwest
palm oil
pastoralism
permaculture
planetary justice
posthumanism
queer ecology
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Scotland
sentience
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Singapore Nature Society
sustainable materialism
Sydney
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urban ecology
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Product details
- ISBN 9781478033998
- Weight: 572g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Worlds Beyond Bios builds on recent theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the more-than-human, exploring how entities not traditionally recognized as “alive” play active roles in shaping multispecies worlds. Drawing from Indigenous and Global South epistemologies as well as anthropology, the environmental humanities, and political theory, the contributors develop philosophies and practices of engagement with matter that are agentive and affective. Taken together, they offer ways of theorizing relations, justice, and materiality in an age of planetary unmaking and colonial capitalist logics, grounded in an ethics of responsibility and repair. From the political agency of mountains and the liveliness of sand to the spectral futures of coal and the opaque aesthetics of dust, Worlds Beyond Bios reveals how assumed borders between bios and non-bios are not only porous but politically consequential.
Sophie Chao is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney.
Christine J. Winter is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Otago.
David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Helsinki.
Christine J. Winter is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Otago.
David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Helsinki.
