Nationalism & Nature Workshop – references

Foraging: Belonging Through Relations, Not Blood

Michaels, Lucy & Puig De La Bellacasa, María. Forthcoming. ‘It’s only really when I put my hands in the soil that I feel at home”.
Soil care and ecological belonging in urban growing practices’. Environmental Humanities, Vol 18, issue 1 (2026)

Solnick, Rachel. 2024. ‘Cultivating Diasporist Ontologies: Identity-Based Agrarianism and the Practices of Anti-Colonial Place-Making’. Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory 1 (1). https://doi.org/10.18573/agoriad.12.

Lindemann, Justine. 2023. ‘“A Little Portion of Our 40 Acres”: A Black Agrarian Imaginary in the City’. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 6 (3): 1804–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221129408.

Ives, Sarah. 2014. ‘Uprooting “Indigeneity” in South Africa’s Western Cape: The Plant That Moves’. American Anthropologist 116 (2): 310–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12096.

Poe, Melissa R., LeCompte ,Joyce, McLain ,Rebecca, and Patrick and Hurley. 2014. ‘Urban Foraging and the Relational Ecologies of Belonging’. Social & Cultural Geography 15 (8): 901–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2014.908232.

Classifying Species: Can Birds Invade Nations?

Barua, Maan. 2022. ‘Feral Ecologies: The Making of Postcolonial Nature in London’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 28 (3): 896–919. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13653.

Stoetzer, Bettina. 2018. ‘Ruderal Ecologies: Rethinking Nature, Migration, and the Urban Landscape in Berlin’. Cultural Anthropology (Washington) 33 (2): 295–323. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca33.2.09.

Suzuki, Yuka. 2017. The Nature of Whiteness: Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe. Edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan. University of Washington Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvct026x.

Animacy: Who Is Allowed To Be Sentient?

Chao, Sophie, and Dion Enari. 2021. ‘Decolonising Climate Change: A Call for Beyond-Human Imaginaries and Knowledge Generation’. eTropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics 20 (2): 32–54. https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3796.

Arregui, Aníbal G. 2023. ‘Reversible Pigs: An Infraspecies Ethnography of Wild Boars in Barcelona’. American Ethnologist 50 (1): 115–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13114.

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. 2017. ‘Learning the Grammar of Animacy’. Anthropology of Consciousness 28 (2): 128–34. https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.12081.

Degnen, Cathrine. 2009. ‘On Vegetable Love: Gardening, Plants, and People in the North of England’. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15 (1): 151–67.

Bird‐David, Nurit. 1999. ‘“Animism” Revisited: Personhood, Environment, and Relational Epistemology’. Current Anthropology 40 (S1): S67–91. https://doi.org/10.1086/200061.

Thomas, Keith. 1983. Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800. Penguin. United Kingdom.

Multi-Species Ethnographic Research Methods

Hartigan Jr, John. 2019. ‘Plants as Ethnographic Subjects’. Anthropology Today 35 (2): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12491.

Chamovitz, David. 2017. What A Plant Knows. Scientific American Publishers.

Miller, Theresa L. Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil. University of Texas Press, 2019. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.7560/317396. Accessed 13 Feb. 2023.

Wels, Harry. 2020. ‘Multi-Species Ethnography: Methodological Training in the Field in South Africa’. Journal of Organizational Ethnography 9 (3): 343–63. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-05-2020-0020.