Gazing into the Eyes of Elephants: Unsettling Recognition in Multispecies Relations

23/05/2024

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Episode Synopsis


This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rebecca Winkler can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/05/gazing-into-the-elephants-eyes-unsettling-recognition-in-multispecies-relations/. About the post: In my fieldwork, I bring together my background in conservation biology, ethology, and ongoing doctoral research in cultural anthropology to attend to concerns of environmental justice and multispecies relations. In this essay, I explore concepts of recognition in human-elephant relations as an invitation to expand our methodological inquiries in multispecies anthropology.

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