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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