Exploring Interstitiality with Mangroves: Semiotic Materialism and the Environmental Humanities [Paperback]

Introduction  Part 1: Strange reflexivities: Folding in communicative tidal materialities  1. The proposals of tides and the responses of oysters  2. Folding and filter-feeding semiotics  3. Ecological meaningfulness and the negotiation of criteria  Part 2: Monstrous relations: Exploring a hermeneutic account of relationality  4. Lines of desire and knots of obligation  5. Transgression and attunement  6. It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories  Part 3: Impossible differences: A muddy journey across more-than-human walls and hospitalities  7. Why build a wall?  8. Walls and human exceptionalism  9. Mangrove walls, mangrove hosts: More-than-human hospitalities 10. Conclusion

 

Kate Judith is an environmental humanities scholar interested in non-anthropocentric practices of meaning, making, relating, and deciding. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland and has a PhD in environmental humanities from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Mobilising resources drawn from semiotic materialism and the environmental humanities, this book seeks a form of social theory from the mangroves; that is to think interstitiality from the perspective of mangroves themselves, exploring the crafty and tenacious world-making they are engaged in.

Mangroves thrive in intertidal zones, where they gather organisms and objects from land, river, and ocean. They develop into complex ecologies in these dynamic in-between spaces. Mobilising resources drawn from semiotic materialism and the environmental humanities, this book seeks a fl…