[Sci-tech-public] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, FRIDAY, 4-23-2010

[Margo Collett]

MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History

Donna Haraway

University of California, Santa Cruz



Staying with the Trouble: Becoming Worldly with Companion Species

Most of my work these days asks what it could possibly mean to inherit the histories of the companion species on a blasted earth.  Companion species “break bread together” at table; who is on the menu at this table is a question of ethical, political, and ecological urgency. “Staying with the Trouble” aims to work through ontological, ethical, and ecological knots tying together three companion species:  1) 21st century urban chickens and the women and families who depend on them in Greater Gabarone, Botswana, and also Missoula, Montana;  2) park managers (Aboriginal and AngloAustralian), ecologists and tourist experts, Bininj/Mungguy Aboriginal traditional owners of the land, and Asian water buffalo in an Australian World Heritage site, Kakadu National Park; and  3) the people and other critters of the Navajo Sheep Project who bring the Iberian Churro into unexpected worlds of alliance and conflict.
Friday April 23, 2010

2:30 to 4:30 pm

Building E51 Room 095

Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge
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