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Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks

Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-68060-9 (ISBN)
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This is a book about the many ways human lives interact with bugs. Bugs evoke fear, but they are also indispensable for human well-being. This book provides knowledge about human-bug interactions and guidelines for a new ethics involving bugs.
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.

Laura Hollsten, Ph.D. (2005), Åbo Akademi University, Finland, is a researcher specialised in environmental history at that university. Her research interests include human-animal studies, early modern environmental history, the history of knowledge and science, and global history. Otto Latva, Ph.D. (2019), University of Turku, Finland, is a historian focusing on human-animal and human-plant studies as well as environmental history. Latva is the author of the monograph The Giant Squid in Transatlantic Culture: The Monsterization of Molluscs (2023). Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, Ph.D. (2010), Åbo Akademi University, Finland, is an ethnologist and senior lecturer at that university. She has conducted research in urban environments from the perspective of gentrification and cultural heritage, lately with special interest towards non-humans in urban settings. Suvi Rytty, Ph.D. (2021), University of Turku, Finland, is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in the history of medicine and health. Her research interests include the history of the natural way of life, alternative medicine, vegetarianism and anti-vaccinationism. Tuomas Räsänen, Ph.D. (2015), University of Turku, Finland, is a Professor of environmental history at the University of Eastern Finland. He has studied the history of human-wildlife relationships and marine environmental history. He has been leading the research project Humans and Ticks in the Anthropocene.

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Laura Hollsten, Suvi Rytty, Otto Latva, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala and Tuomas Räsänen



Part 1: Ethics



1 Becoming Aware of Insects: Dangers and Endangerments in the Anthropocene

 Michaela Fenske

2 Deconstructing Wasp Aggression: Proposing a Critically Anthropomorphic Narrative of Shared Vulnerability

 Minna Santaoja



Part 2: Insects and Human Gaze



3 Fly Eyes and Insect Vision at the Turn of the 20th Century: from Scientific Curiosity to Compound Menace

 Concepción Cortés Zulueta

4 Encounters with the Insect World: Care and Human – Insect Relationships in Wildlife Documentaries

 Heidi Mikkola



Part 3: Science and Knowledge



5 Wild Spiders in Fragile Knowledge Networks: Spiders in Medicine, Natural History, and Silk Production in Eighteenth-Century Europe

 Laura Hollsten

6 Valuing Birds and Insects in America, c. 1815–1920: a Multispecies Perspective

 Sophie FitzMaurice

7 From Harmless Nuisance to Frightening Enemy: the Perceptions of Ticks in Finland before the Beginning of the Tick Hysteria in the 1990s

 Otto Latva

8 Anopheline Mobilities and More-Than-Mosquito Biopolitics in Making Biotechnology

 Marianne Mäkelin



PART 4: Bodies at Risk



9 Clandestine Agents in Meadows: Ticks, Cattle and Redwater Fever in Finland, 1860s–1930s

 Taina Syrjämaa

10 Social Construction of Tick-Borne Diseases from the 1950s to the Twenty-First Century: a View From the History of Medicine

 Suvi Rytty

11 Tick Smart: Practices and Materializations in Human – Tick Entanglements

 Sanna Lillbroända-Annala



PART 5: Multispecies Networks



12 Fleas, Knowledge-Making, and the Epidemiology of Plague in British India: Perspectives from the Bombay Epidemic, 1905–1906

 Emily Webster

13 Epidemic Encounters: Mingling with Mosquitoes in Réunion and Mauritius

 Karine Aasgaard Jansen

14 Humans, Ticks, and the Conflict over the Cervids

 Heta Lähdesmäki and Tuomas Räsänen



Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.12.2024
Reihe/Serie Brill's Series in the History of the Environment ; 8
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1 g
Themenwelt Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Naturwissenschaften Biologie
ISBN-10 90-04-68060-8 / 9004680608
ISBN-13 978-90-04-68060-9 / 9789004680609
Zustand Neuware
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