Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks

doi:10.1163/9789004715448

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Hollsten, Laura (editor)

Latva, Otto (editor)

Lillbroända-Annala, Sanna (editor)

Rytty, Suvi (editor)

Räsänen, Tuomas (editor)

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English

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Abstract

While providing a basis for all ecosystems, bugs such as insects and arachnids also destroy crops and indirectly kill humans and other animals by the millions. This book illuminates the many ways in which human lives affect and are affected by bugs as part of a wider network of species. 14 chapters reveal how knowledge, ideas, and emotions related to bugs are historically and culturally formed. With many bug populations in free fall, how can humans and bugs coexist? This book examines this question and offers a new ethics for this coexistence. Contributors are Michaela Fenske, Minna Santaoja, Concepción Cortés Zulueta, Heidi Mikkola, Laura Hollsten, Sophie FitzMaurice, Otto Latva, Marianne Mäkelin, Taina Syrjämaa, Suvi Rytty, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, Emily Webster, Karine Aasgaard Jansen, Heta Lähdesmäki, and Tuomas Räsänen.

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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/99036

Keywords

Insects; animal history; anthropocene; arachnids; arboviral diseases; biodiversity; biopolitics; care; emotions; environmental history; environmental humanities; epidemiology; folk healing; health; history of knowledge; history of medicine and health; history of science; human-animal relations; human-animal studies; introduced species; invasive species; mass extinction; multispecies ethnography; multispecies history; multispecies studies; new ethics; nonhuman agency; veterinary science